Stuff I Don't Know Yet

Question 1

Statistical Process Control

Answer 1

A collection of problem solving tools useful in achieving process stability and improving capability through the reduction in variability.

Question 2

Urban Area (census)

Answer 2

-An urbanized area (UA) is an urban area with population over 50,000. The Census Bureau’s urban areas represent densely developed territory, and encompass residential, commercial, and other non-residential urban land uses.

Question 3

Census Tract

Answer 3

small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity that are updated by local participants prior to each decennial census as part of the Census Bureau’s Participant Statistical Areas Program. Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people.

Question 4

Census Block

Answer 4

-Smallest Census Unit- are statistical areas bounded by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and by nonvisible boundaries, such as selected property lines and city, township, school district, and county limits and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads.

Question 5

Regression Analysis

Answer 5

-statistical technique which provides an estimate of one
variable based on a linear function of another. The coefficient of determination or varies between 0 and I and indicates the percentage of the variance in the dependent variable explained by the independent variable.

Question 6

Confidence Interval

Answer 6

-a range of values that includes a certain population parameter (e.g., the mean) with a given probability.

Question 7

Test of Hypothesis

Answer 7

-probability test that relates a sample based estimate to a population related hypothesis, and allows for either acceptance or rejection of this hypothesis.

Question 8

principal arterial road

Answer 8

-Principal arterials serve longer trips, carry the highest traffic volumes, and carry a large percentage of the VMT on minimum mileage and provide minimal land access.

Question 9

minor arterial road

Answer 9

-Minor Arterials interconnect the principal arterials, provide less mobility and slightly more land access, and distribute travel to smaller geographic areas than principal arterials.

Question 10

collector road

Answer 10

-Urban Collectors provide both land access and traffic circulation with residential, commercial, and industrial areas by collecting and distributing traffic to these areas.

Question 11

local road

Answer 11

Local Streets provide direct access to adjacent land and access to the higher classified streets.

Question 12

ITE Parking Generation- Industrial

Answer 12

0.67-3.5

Question 13

ITE Parking Gen - office

Answer 13

.5-3.0

Question 14

ITE Parking Gen - shopping center

Answer 14

1.0-5.0

Question 15

ITE Parking Gen- restaurant

Answer 15

5.0-25

Question 16

in 2010, which states grew slowest?

Answer 16

-Rhode Island, Louisiana, and Ohio

Question 17

in 2010, which state grew fastest?

Answer 17

• Texas

Question 18

In 2010, where was the largest population growth -cities?

Answer 18

-NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston

Question 19

In 2010, where was the largest growth of hispanic?

Answer 19

-California, Texas, Florida, New York

Question 20

Revenue Bonds

Answer 20

-Bonds issued by governments for specific projects and backed only by whatever revenues the projects generate

Question 21

Pay as you go - current revenue

Answer 21

-the financing of improvements from current revenues. In the budget Enforcement Act of 1990, the requirement that any tax cut or expansion of an entitlement program must be offset by a tax increase or other savings; use current revenues to pay for capital improvement programs

Question 22

Baker v. City of Milwaukee

Answer 22

-Comprehensive plan overrules Zoning ordinance
Comprehensive plan is a legislative act Ordinance is a executive or administrative

Consistency of zoning to comprehensive plan; court required ordinance to be revised to be consistent with plan

Question 23

Welch v Swasey

Answer 23

-The U.S. Supreme Court upholds municipal regulation of building heights. This validated the use of construction standards to uphold public safety; Welch wanted to build a 125 ft building

Question 24

Nectow v City of Cambridge

Answer 24

-The court used a rational basis test to strike down a zoning ordinance because it had no valid public purpose (e.g. to promote health, safety, morals, or welfare of the public).

Question 25

Agins v City of Tiburon

Answer 25

-The zoning ordinances, on their face, do not take appellants’ property without just compensation; The question in this case is whether municipal zoning ordinances took.appellants’ property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. inverse condemnation, takings, due process; overturned by Lingle in 2005

Question 26

Keystone v DeBenedictis

Answer 26

-government action designed to stop serious harm does not constitute a taking even where it destroys the value of property. (Regulatory taking) Almost exactly same facts as Penn Coal, different outcome; looked at universal property as baseline, not just pillars, resulting in no taking; Ct also balances public benefits of regulations that prevent nuisance-like activities Dissent: advocates divide and conquer conceptual severance; focus on what is left and regulated; this is like inverse condemnation, where payment is required even though there is not a total taking (Subsidence Act)

Question 27

Pumpelly v Green Bay Co.

Answer 27

-Rule: Consequential damages fall within taking, and just compensation is due.

Facts: WI leg to improve navigation of rivers, Board of Public Works arrangements for to complete dam. No provision for compensating P. Overflowed 630 acres of land.

Question 28

Suitum v Tahoe Regional Planning Agency

Answer 28

-the Supreme Court held that this claim was ripe because the value of the person’s land could be determined without a sale of Transferable Development

Question 29

What year did the American Society of Planning Officials and the American Institute of Planners merge to become the American Planning Association?

Answer 29

1978

Question 30

Census Designated Places

Answer 30

incorporated cities and unincorporated communities identified by the Census Bureau, usually with input from local and county planners

Question 31

Census Urban Cluster

Answer 31

Urban clusters are defined based on the same criteria as urbanized areas, but represent areas containing at least 2,500 and less than 50,000 people.

Question 32

Fred French Investing Co. v. City of New York; New York Court of Appeals (1976)

Answer 32

5th Amendment Case. In this case, the city had put in place a regulation that required the placement of a public park on private property, leaving no income producing use of the property. The Court invalidated the regulation, but it was not ruled as a taking that should receive compensation.

Question 33

Spur industries v. Del Webb

Answer 33

• Housing development (Sun City, AZ) came to the nuisance (feedlot). Nevertheless, court wants to protect public that is being harmed. Webb must pay of costs of moving or closing. - talks about “coming to the nuisance.” Usually there are not remedies for these types.

Question 34

FCC v. Florida Power Corporation; US Supreme Court (1987):

Answer 34

FCC v. Florida Power Corporation; US Supreme Court (1987)
The Court found that a taking had not occurred. The public utilities challenged a federal statute that authorized the Federal Communications Commission to regulate rents charged by utilities to cable TV operators for the use of utility poles.