AICP Glossary of Planning Terms
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| show | Acre
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| A tax on property that is calculated based on a percent of value of the property taxed. | show 🗑
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| Housing developed through some combination of zoning incentives, cost-effective construction techniques, and governmental subsidies that can be rented or purchased by low income households. | show 🗑
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| Any law, regulation, board, or process that has as its objective the preservation of farming on land dedicated to agricultural use. Examples include agricultural zoning, farmland preservation boards, property tax relief for farmers, & anti-nuisance laws. | show 🗑
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| show | Applellate Jursidiction
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| Districts usually to provide a single service such as schools, water, sewerage treatment, toll roads, or parks. Maybe financed through revenue bonds retired by user charges. Some have taxation powers. | show 🗑
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| show | Base Map
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| An Interest bearing certificate issued by a government or business, promising to pay the holder a specified sum on a specified date; it is a common means of raising capital funds. | show 🗑
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| show | Board of Adjustment
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| A local body, created by ordinance, whose responsiblity is to hear appeals from decisions of the local zoning administrative official and to consider requests for variances and exceptions (special use permits, conditional use permits) | show 🗑
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| show | Brainstorming
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| An intensive, interactive problem solving process with meetings convened around the development of specific plans. | show 🗑
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| Citizens groups presumed to represent the ideas and attitudes of local groups; the purpose to advise the planning agency. | show 🗑
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| A document or series of documents prepared by a planning commission or department setting forth policies for the future of a community. | show 🗑
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| show | Contour Lines
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| A right given by the owner of land to another party for specific limited use of that land. | show 🗑
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| Legislation passed by the state legislature authorizing cities, towns, and villages to carry out functions in the public interest. | show 🗑
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| show | Eminent Domain
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| show | Euclidean Zoning
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| A contribution or payment required as an authorized precondition for receiving a development permit. | show 🗑
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| show | Floating Zone
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| show | GIS
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| show | Gravity Model
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| Broad statements of ideal future conditions that are desired by the communtiy and contained in the comprehensive plan. | show 🗑
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| show | Home Occupation
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| The effective taking or reduction in value of a property as a result of public action, in contrast to a direct taking through eminent domain. | show 🗑
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| A system of describing & identifying land by measures and direction from and identifiable point of reference. | show 🗑
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| An in-depth study that attempts to discover all the underlying economic factors that affect a community's growth or decline. | show 🗑
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| show | Confidence Interval
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| show | Input-Output Modeling
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| show | ITS - Intelligent Transportation Systems
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| show | Land Use Element
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| show | Location Quotient
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| Relatively free flow of traffic with little or no limitation on movement. | show 🗑
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| Steady flow of traffic with only slight delays in travel. Some limitations on speed and movement. All vehicles clear light in a single cycle. | show 🗑
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| Reasonable steady, high volume flow of traffic with some limitations on movement and speed, and occasional backups. | show 🗑
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| Traffic nears an unstable flow. Intersections still functional, but short queues develop and cars may have to wait through one cycles during short peaks. | show 🗑
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| Characterized by slow movement and frequent stoppages. Congestion is considered severe, but not uncommon at peak traffic hours, with frequent stopping, long standing queues and blocked intersections. | show 🗑
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| Unsatisfactory stop and go traffic characterized by traffic jams and stoppages of long duration. Cars usually have to wait through one or more signal cycles. | show 🗑
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| The process where one sets lower bounds for the various objectives that, if attained, will be "good enough" and then seeks a solution that will exceed these bounds. | show 🗑
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| New development designed with the pedestrian in mind. | show 🗑
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| show | PP or Pedestrian Pockets
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| A process in which general agreement is reached over a period of time people with divergent interests. | show 🗑
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| Effort of a third party, usually a single person to persuade disputants to come to an agreement. | show 🗑
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| Method of assessing project alternatives by wseighting alternatives according to citizen group goals. | show 🗑
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| Put planning related issue on ballot - challenges existing i.e. adopted plan | show 🗑
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| Used to facilitate meaningful discussions through a moderator - developed by Rand Corporation | show 🗑
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| show | Advocacy Planning
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| Planning approach for comprehensive plans, census in community,4 elements: goal setting;ID policy alternatives;eval means against ends; implement preferred alternative | show 🗑
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| Use change one aspect of plan; known as "science of muddling through", short-term problems with little time and little money. | show 🗑
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| show | Transactive Planning
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| Planning that does not work, i.e. allow neighborhood to take over planning functions. | show 🗑
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| show | Utopianism
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| show | Methodism
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