Practice Exam 4

Question 1

First city to pass a zoning ordinance

Answer 1

San Francisco
1867
Location of obnoxious uses

Question 2

Saul Alinsky

Answer 2

Community organizing

Question 3

Risk assessment

Answer 3

Looks at value of an asset, threats against it, and vulnerabilities

Question 4

Average vehicle trips per unit

Answer 4

Single family home 9.5
Apartments 6.6
Townhomes 5.8
Mobile home 4.99

Question 5

Functional classification system of highways in 1930s

Answer 5

Primary secondary local

Question 6

Economic base analysis developed when

Answer 6

1928 regional plan for New York and it’s environs

Question 7

Confounded regional planning association of America

Answer 7

Clarence Stein

Question 8

Colonia

Answer 8

Within 150 miles of border
Informal housing
Substandard
Lacks basic infrastructure

Question 9

Lexus lanes

Answer 9

Allowing a solo driver to use a hott lane for a few

Question 10

Hubbert peak

Answer 10

How finite resources are consumed: a peak and then decline from which it cannot recover

Question 11

James rouse

Answer 11

Columbia Maryland

Question 12

Three elements of a just city by Susan Fainstein

Answer 12

Democracy, equity, diversity

Question 13

Third places

Answer 13

Social spaces between where people live and work

Question 14

Agriculture facts

Answer 14

1/5 for crops; 1/3 for livestock
Small family farms account for 90% of all farms
Trend towards larger farm operations

Question 15

Future search

Answer 15

2.5 day event for common vision of the future. Five tasks of a few hours each.

Group mind map
Highly differentiated points of view
Identify common futures

Question 16

Map that identifies all soil types

Answer 16

Natural resources conservation soil survey

Question 17

Under fair housing act under what circumstances can owner turn away family with children

Answer 17

Qualifies as senior housing

Question 18

Trip distribution

Answer 18

Number of trips originating and ending at place to place

Question 19

South dale center Minnesota

Answer 19

Designed by victor gruen first indoor climate controlled regional mall

Question 20

Radburn

Answer 20

Mix of uses 
Designed by Clarence stein and Henry wright 
Based on garden city 
1929
Designed for 30,000 people

Question 21

1949 housing act

Answer 21

Federal financing for slum clearance and increased authorization for FHA mortgage insurance

Question 22

Sewage treatment processes

Answer 22

First phase removes suspended solids

Second phase allows bacteria to consume organic waste

Third removes impurities

Question 23

Enterprise fund

Answer 23

Account to manage the revenues and expenditures of a self sufficient activity

Question 24

Least likely to support food system

Answer 24

Subdivision regulations

Question 25

Krumholz

Answer 25

Advocacy planning

Question 26

First president of aspo

Answer 26

Alfred Bettman
Comprehensive plan
Cincinnati plan
Capital improvement budgeting

Question 27

Social accounting matrix

Answer 27

Framework for organizing statistical data about the economy

Analyze likely effects of policy proposals

Question 28

Prescriptive easement

Answer 28

Obtained under principles of adverse possession.

Ongoing and regular use of property

Question 29

Easement appurtenant

Answer 29

Allows access to your property (like using a neighbors driveway)

Question 30

Easement in gross

Answer 30

Public utility easement

Question 31

In sector theory where is housing located

Answer 31

Away from industry

Question 32

First metropolitan plan in the us

Answer 32

Chicago

Question 33

Six topics of the standard city planning enabling act

Answer 33

Organization and power of the planning commission (master plan)

Content of master plan for physical development

Master street plan

Approval of all public improvements by the planning commission

Control of private subdivision of land

Provision of establishing of regional planning commission and regional plan