Practice Exam 2

Question 1

Flood protection occurs at what level of government

Answer 1

National

Question 2

Multiplier analysis

Answer 2

Can project number of jobs created or jobs lost

Question 3

Council on environmental quality

Answer 3

Coordinates federal environmental efforts and works with federal agencies on the development of environmental policies and initiatives

Question 4

Board of zoning adjustments responsibility

Answer 4

Quasi judicial like variances

Not rezoning
Not final plat review

Question 5

Delphi technique

Answer 5

Does not need group of appointed citizens to participate w

Develop consensus
Input from those with different types of knowledge
Successive rounds of questions

Question 6

Gross national product

Answer 6

Market value of all profits and services produced in a year by labor and property supplied by the citizens of a country

Question 7

Hunter v Pittsburg

Answer 7

1907 states right to be exempt from local zoning

Upheld Dillion’s rule

Question 8

Describe growth management

Answer 8

The regulation of the character location and timing of development

Question 9

What is an advisory plebiscite ?

Answer 9

A direct vote on an issue

Question 10

Civil rights act

Answer 10

Passed in 1964 banned discrimination and segregation on the basis of race, religion, national origin, and gender in the workplace

1968 title VIII also known as fair housing act

Question 11

What is the growing smart legislative guidebook?

Answer 11

Part of apá’s growing smart project an effort to draft the next generation of model planning and zoning legislation for the US

Question 12

What is an urban service limit line

Answer 12

A boundary sometimes a parcel specific located to mark the outer limit beyond which urban development will not be allowed.

Containing urban sprawl.

Question 13

When was city humane movement

Answer 13

1930s. Focus on jobs and housing as a part of social policy.

Then city functional

Question 14

Largest concrete structure In the us

Answer 14

Grand coulee dam 1941

Question 15

First urban growth boundary

Answer 15

Lexington Kentucky 1958

Question 16

First state to institute statewide zoning

Answer 16

Hawaii 1961

Question 17

Transcontinental railroad

Answer 17

Union and pacific central joined at promontory point Utah In 1869

Question 18

Zip code stands for

Answer 18

Zone improvement plan code

Question 19

First historic preservation ordinance

Answer 19

Charleston SC

Question 20

First department store

Answer 20

Salt Lake City Utah

Question 21

Acip and AsPO joined in 1978 to form

Answer 21

Apa

Question 22

First public water system

Answer 22

Philadelphia

Question 23

Planning commission

Answer 23

Hartford 1907

Question 24

First regional planning Commision

Answer 24

Los Angeles

Question 25

First national wildlife refuge

Answer 25

Florida 1903

Question 26

First off street parking regulation in

Answer 26

Columbus Ohio 1923

Question 27

First limited access highway

Answer 27

Bronx ricer parkway 1926

Question 28

Robert Lang

Answer 28

Sun corridor
Boomburgs
Edge less cities

Megapolitan Areas book

Question 29

Father of modern housing code is

Answer 29

Lawrence veiller

Question 30

1956 federal highway act

Answer 30

Created highway system that links state capitals and most large cities and

created the highway trust fund which include funds from sale of automobiles

Question 31

Steps in strategic planning process

Answer 31

Needs assessment 
Core values 
Mission statement 
Fundamental tenents
Swot 
Assign strategic priorities

Question 32

Auger test

Answer 32

Retrieves soil samples and examined for soil profiles

Question 33

Translational research

Answer 33

Make findings from basic science useful for practical applications that enhance health and well being.

Question 34

Neighborhood parks serve a — mile radius

Answer 34

Half mile radius

Question 35

John Friedman’s

Answer 35

Transactive planning

Mutual learning
Planner gets more info on community
Community gets more info on planning issues

Question 36

What is a wellhead protection ordinance

Answer 36

Established under safe drinking water act

Protects primary secondary and tertiary recharge areas

Question 37

Levels of service

Answer 37

A - free flow
B - stable flow with some influence of others
C - restricted flow that is stable but with significant interactions
D - high density flow, severely restricted
E - unstable flow
F - stop and go, standstill

Question 38

Manufactured homes in2010 census

Answer 38

75% of new located on private property

25% of new located in manufactured housing communities

Question 39

Quasi judicial hearings best practices

Answer 39

Fasano vs board of county commissioners

1. Opportunity to be heard
2. Opportunity to present and rebut evidence
3. A tribunal which is fair and impartial
4. A record made and adequate findings executed