Spatial Areas of Practice (Day 3)

Question 1

_____________ was the first intercontinental road that ran from NYC to San Francisco.

Answer 1

Lincoln Highway

Question 2

“To deliver vital engineering solutions, in collaboration with
our partners, to secure our Nation, energize our economy,
and reduce disaster risk” is the mission to ____________?

Answer 2

Army Corp of Engineers

Question 3

Challenges such as maintaining character, access to infrastructure, health, and social services, economic opportunities and limited tax base, loss of farmland, gentrification, and the right to farm are associated with what kind of towns?

Answer 3

Small towns

Question 4

The first historic district is located in ____________?

Answer 4

Charleston, SC

Question 5

Challenges such as annexation, zoning, urban sprawl, edgeless cities, demographic shifts, zombie subdivisions, are associated with what kinds of areas?

Answer 5

Suburban areas

Question 6

States are required to conduct statewide transportation planning that is ___________________?

Answer 6

Continuing, comprehensive, and collaborative

Question 7

_____________ programs are one viable approach that the federal, state, and local government are using to preserve farmland and open space

Answer 7

Purchase of development rights

Question 8

PDR programs provide a way to financially compensate willing landowners for not developing their land. When buying development rights, the community obtains a legal ___________ that usually permanently restricts development on the land

Answer 8

Conservation easement

Question 9

The goal of ______ is to preserve sensitive natural areas, farmlands, ranchlands, etc. but typically ran by a private agency who purchases land for those purposes.

Answer 9

Land Trusts

Question 10

TDR programs are usually only effective under three circumstances; which are __________?

Answer 10

1.Private buyer wants what a developer can build
2. Private developer wants to buy TDRs and transfer them to receiving areas
3. Landowners are willing to sell TDR while permanently restricting their land

Question 11

A __________ is a regional boundary set in an attempt to control sprawl by mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for urban development and the area outside be preserved in its natural state or used for agriculture.

Answer 11

Urban Growth Boundary (UGB)

Question 12

____________ allocates annual grants to larger cities and urban counties to develop viable communities by providing decent housing, suitable living environment, and opportunities to expand economic opportunities

Answer 12

Entitlement communities

Question 13

______________ allows states to award grants to smaller units of general local government that carry out community development activities.

Answer 13

Small Cities CDBG Program

Question 14

______________ means improving the quality of people’s lives while living within the capacities of supporting natural and human systems.

Answer 14

Sustainability

Question 15

Key issues of concern in waterfront planning include:

I. Gentrification
II. Industrial development
III. Sprawl
IV. Heavy metals

Answer 15

I, II, and IV

Question 16

The Telecommunications Act of 1996:

I. Preempts local regulation of cell tower radio frequency emission effects
II. Requires zoning decisions be in writing and supported by substantial evidence
III. Preempts the state regulation of cell towers
IV. Requires local decisions be based on expert testimony

Answer 16

I, II

Question 17

Right-to-farm laws are typically about:

(A) Governmental takings
(B) Coming to the nuisance
(C) Combating urban sprawl
(D) Agricultural inverse condemnation

Answer 17

B

Question 18

Orange County is quickly losing its prime agricultural lands to new suburban development. Among the planning tools your Planning Director wishes to utilize to help protect agricultural lands is a TDR program. The potential use of this tool for agricultural protection will likely involve you in a discussion of the legal principles established in (select all that apply):

I. Penn Central Transportation Co. v. The City of New York (1978)
II. Spur Industries v. Del Webb Development Co. (1972)
III. Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty (1926)
IV. Fred F. French Investing Co. v. City of New York (1976)

Answer 18

I, IV

Question 19

The Mayor established a citizen’s advisory group to provide recommendations to the Town Council on the siting of new religious institutions within the rural community that includes an agricultural reserve area. The planning staff has been asked to help support the advisory group on the requirements and restrictions allowed under the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). Which of the following draft recommendations would you identify to discuss with the citizen’s advisory group as potentially being problematic under RLUIPA (Select one):

I. Exclude all religious institutions from the central business district
II. Establish a minimum 1,000-foot buffer requirement between nonagricultural, nonresidential uses in an agricultural district “to protect, preserve, and enhance the rural character and lifestyle of existing low-density areas and agricultural use”
III. Establish a conditional use approval process for certain religious institutions
IV. Require religious homeless shelters to comply with the town’s building code

Answer 19

III

Question 20

The development of edge cities are influenced by which of the following factors?

I. Freeways.
II. Less expensive land.
III. Urban renewal programs.
IV. Economic development programs.

Answer 20

I and II

Question 21

For many years, a dispute has ensued between leaders of a federally recognized American Indian Tribe and the Governor’s office and state legislature regarding activities on Tribal property. The Governor and members of the legislature seek to regulate land uses occurring on the reservation, particularly those relating to minimum lot sizes. The Tribe maintains that the state has no jurisdiction. In an action to enforce zoning regulations on Tribal property, the state will:

A) Likely win if it can prove a link between health, safety, and welfare and zoning enactments
B) Likely win regardless of the linkage under a state supremacy argument
C) Likely lose under a federal supremacy argument
D) Likely lose unless the state can prove all Tribes are similarly treated under the state’s mandated provisions

Answer 21

C.

Question 22

What is a result of large lot subdivision:
(A) Sprawl decreases
(B) Property values decrease
(C) Median age of first time homeowners increases
(D) Jobs/Housing Ratio increases

Answer 22

C