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Test 2 Flashcards

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Business center revitalization plan

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Small area plan for mixed use business area or main st

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Community Development Corporation

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Non-profit organization that engages in development that benefits the community

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Community wide land use design

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More specific arrangement of land use patterns that focus on human values in urban districts

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Concurrency

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Land use regulations that local gov’t are required to adopt to ensure that development does not outstrip the gov’t’s ability to handle it

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Conservation easement

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Restriction on part of land to protect its natural resources

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Densification

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Process of area becoming more populated and it’s land becoming more tightly packed

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Density needed to support mass transit

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Need large population base in small radius to justify construction

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Design based zoning

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Regulating land development to achieve a specific urban form

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Development of regional impact

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Any development which, because of its character, magnitude, or location would have a substantial effect upon the health, safety or welfare of citizens of more than one county

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Euclidean zoning

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Single use zoning

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Exactions

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Condition imposed where developers are required to mitigate anticipated negative impacts

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Farm land preservation

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Lise use policy’s to preserve farm land such as a purchase of development rights by the municipality

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Floor-area ratio

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Useable floor space vs area of lot on which building stands

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Form-based code

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Fosters predictable built results and high quality public realm by using physical form

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Form districts

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Area that has been planned using form based code

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Gentrification

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Process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of influx of more affluent residents

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Green infrastructure

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Approach to water mgmt that protects restores or mimics natural water cycle

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Green print plans

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Plan to protect natural beauty and resources of an area that shapes the character of the community

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Growth boundaries

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Regional boundary set in order to control urban sprawl

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Growth machines

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Anchors lawyers, real estate agents and developers who work in covert to promote their development agenda

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Growth moratoriums

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Land use policy designed to halt development for a certain period in order to maintain the status quo

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Historic district plan

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Focused on a neighborhood or commercial district of historic or architectural significance

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Horizontal mixed use

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Combining single use buildings within one block

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Accessibility vs mobility

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Mobility is movement of people in a population from place to place while accessibility addresses the ease of using these systems

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HUB urban village

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Concentration of housing and employment at strategic location along transit network, with a strong core of commercial employment and housing at densities that support walkability

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Incentive zoning

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Granting provisions that developers want in exchange for desired public improvements

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Infill development

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Developing vacant or under used parcels within existing urban areas that are already largely developed

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Land conservancy

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Land trust

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Land trust

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Works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement

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Leap frog development

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Development so far from services and infrastructure that local gov’t has a hard time supporting it

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Level of service

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Measures how well traffic moves along a roadway

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Natural resource area plan

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Plan for area that is of critical environmental concern

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Neighborhood unit model

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Early diagrammatic planning model for residential development in metropolitan areas

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Non traditional neighborhood developments

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Proposes a human scale pedestrian friendly physical environment with public spaces and institutions to encourage social interactions and a sense of community

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New urbanism

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Movement which promotes environmentally friendly and sustainable urban developments

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New urbanism models

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Celebration FL

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NGO

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Non profit organization task irritated driven by common interest

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Pedestrian pocket neighborhood

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Cluster of apartments gathered around shared open space

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Performance zoning

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Regulates design and location of use based on characteristics of a particular site to support development

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Plan for Radburn

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Planned housing estate, backyards of homes facing streets , fronts facing eachother

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Planned unit development

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Subdivision with more than just houses multi house

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Quiet revolution

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State and regional gov’t needs to be involved in land use planning as well as local

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Redevelopment area plan

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Plan to revitalize a distressed area, either from loss of activity or deterioration

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Redlining

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Denying services to areas based on wealth or ethnic stigma

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Schematic land use design

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Focuses on finding suitable locations for each potential center, and within proper relationship with each other

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Small area plan

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Focus on specific strategy with important geographic areas within planning districts

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Specific development plan

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Designed to have the status of development regulation for the district defined in the plan

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Suburban master planned community model

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Low density homogenous neighborhood of mostly single family detached homes, big lawns curling streets

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Teaser parking

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Parking in front of buildings to attract people there

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Transit oriented development

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Walkable urban community within .5 miles of transit

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Transportation corridor plan

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Type of small area plan that plans a transportation system

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Transit station area plan

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Focuses on about .25 radius around existing or planned transit station

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Urban densification

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Increasing city density more people inhabiting cities

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Village model

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Consumer driven approach for aging in place

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