Saturday Mix - Henry's Class (5) Flashcards
True/False: Garages fronting the lot is a characterization of neotraditional neighborhoods.
False - garages usually are in the back of the home and/or connected by an alley way in neotraditional neighborhoods.
A generalized guide that conducts decisions related to land use is known as a ___________?
Policy
This type of survey is inexpensive, but does not work well with the disabled or the poorly educated _____________?
Mail-in survey
The LEAST predictable type of zoning approach for comprehensive plan implementation is?
Euclidean
A shadow study would be BEST utilized to:
Analyze solar access
The first New Urbanist town in the U.S. is considered to be?
Seaside, FL
The first step in the plan making process is:
A. State Goals, Objectives, and Priorities
B. Collect and Interpret Data
C. Identify Issues and Options
D. Evaluate impact of Plans and Implementation.
C.
Modest, clustered residential developments to mixed-use master planned communities, often approved through the use of overlays, as conditional uses or as a separate zoning category is best described as _________________?
Planned Unit Development
Surveying and interpreting data to identify external opportunities and threats that could influence future decisions describes what process?
Environmental scanning
To manage, develop, and protect water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner in the interest of the American public is the mission statement of ______________?
Bureau of Reclamation
Trip distribution is which step in the traditional four-step transportation forecasting model?
Second step
The American Petroleum Institute’s position on greenhouse gas production and climate change could BEST be described as?
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through industry-led solutions
What type of population projection is generally the best for a slow growing rural area?
Linear
A Health Impact Assessment would BEST be used to:
(A) Record the known results of a clinical trial.
(B) Assess the epidemiological state of a community and project its future health outcomes.
(C) Develop the equitable costs for new medicines.
(D) plan a new regional public hospital in the community.
B
The first step in the planning process typically involves:
(A) Stating goals, objectives and priorities
(B) Preparing plans
(C) Identifying the issues and options
(D) Collecting and interpretating data
C
The first step in the CIP process involves:
(A) Reviewing last year’s budget
(B) Developing the current budget
(C) Creating a schedule of capital improvements needed
(D) Identifying the community’s capital facility needs, timing, costs, and project financing
D
A local gasoline tax is the best example of what type of tax?
regressive tax
Where would you file a charge of misconduct against an AICP member?
The AICP Ethics Officer
A one-time, up-front charge for a new development public facility needs, usually paid at the time of the building permit approval is best described as what type of fee?
Impact Fee
Recent trends in regional planning involve planning for all of the following except:
(A) Downtown redevelopment
(B) Climate change
(C) Changing demographics
(D) Sustainability
A
Which of the following functions is considered to involve line employees?
(A) Strategic planning
(B) Budget development
(C) Comprehensive planning
(D) Zoning application review
D
When did home ownership in the U.S. peak?
(A) 2001
(B) 2005
(C) 2007
(D) 2020
B
_______________ was the focus of the federal housing programs in the 1950s?
Urban Renewal
Who assisted with the L’Enfant plan of Washington, D.C.?
(A) Fredrick Douglass
(B) Booker T. Washington
(C) Absalom Boston
(D) Benjamin Banneker
D.
True/False: The Ethics Committee may terminate or continue with the ethics process if the respondent planner’s certification has expired?
True
Any land area susceptible to being inundated by flood waters from any source is a _____________?
floodplain
