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1785   Ordinance of 1785. Provided for rectangular land survey of west  
1855   First Model Tenement built in Manhattan  
1862   Homestead Act. opened the lands of the Public Domain to settlers for nominal fee and 5 years residence  
1864   NY Council of Hygiene of Citizens Association raises housing and sanitary standards  
1867-NY   1st Tenement Housing Law in NY for physical conditions.  
1867-SF   Beginning of Zoning. SF prohibits specific obnoxious uses in certain districts.  
1879   Dumbbell Tenement. Multifamily housing type with insufficient light and air. Banned in 1901  
1880   Pullman Illinois. Model industrial town, now part of South Chicago  
1890   How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis) published. Neighborhood reform.  
1892   US Federal Government recognition of slums and cities  
1893   World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Source of City Beautiful  
1898   Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform Published by Ebenezer Howard. Beginning of Garden City Movement. Reissued 1902 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow.  
1899   1st State Court support of laws restricting heights of buildings  
1901   NY State Tenement Law. Outlaws tenement houses and dumbbell tenement.  
Lawrence Veiller   Reforming behind Tenement Law  
1903 - England   Letchworth. 1st Garden City, England.  
1903 - US   Cleveland Civic Center. Daniel H. Burnham  
1906   Burnham Plan for San Francisco. City Beautiful principles.  
1907   1st Comprehensive City Survey Pittsburgh.  
1907   1st permanent planning board Hartford Connecticut  
1909   1st National Conference on City Planning, D.C.  
1909   1st American use of zoning to restrict development. LA  
1909   1st State Enabling Act, Wisconsin  
1909   Plan of Chicago, Burnham  
1910   1st American test of Neighborhood idea. Forest Hill Gardens, Long Island  
1913   1st American Planning Textbook. Flavel Shurtleff, "Carrying out the City Plan"  
1913   Ford & Goodrich. 1st planning firm.  
1914   1st Municipally employed planner. Harland Bartholomew, Newark NJ  
1915   1st State to institute extraterritorial mandatory referral of subdivision plats. California  
1915   "Cities in Evolution" Patrick Geddes. Regional Planning Theory  
1916   National Park Service Established. 1st Federal Aid Highway Act  
1916   "Planning of the Modern City" Nelson Lewis.  
Father of Zoning   Edward Bassett. Worked with George McAneny on NYC Board of Estimates and 1st comprehensive zoning resolution.  
1916   1st Regional functional authority plan. Miami Ohio  
1917   Fred Law Olmstead Jr. 1st president of American City Planning Institute. ACPI.  
1919   Boston. Sewer, Water and Park Commissions  
1919   Bronx River Parkway, NY  
1919   Ohio Planning Conference. Citizen Planning Organization  
1921   New Orleans Vieux Carre Commission, 1st historic preservation commission in US  
1921   1st Bi-State Authority. Port Authority NY  
1922   Inaugeration of Regional Plan of NY. Thomas Adams  
1922   LA County Regional Planning Commission.  
1922   County Club Plaza, KC Car oriented shopping center.  
1924   Standard State Zoning Enabling Act. Department of Commerce under Hoover.  
1925   Cincinnati Plan. 1st comprehensive plan. (Alfred Bettman)  
Alfred Bettman   Cincinnati Comprehensive Plan. 1925. Euclid/Ambler. ASPO President.  
Ernest Burgess   Concentric Zone model of urban structure and land use.  
1926   1st Public subsidy for housing, State of NY.  
1928   US Department of Commerce under Hoover Standard City Planning Enabling Act  
1928   1st "New Town" Radburn, NJ  
1929   Clarence Perry monograph on Neighborhood Unit  
Neighborhood Unit   Clarence Perry  
1929   Stock Market crash.  
1931   National Land Utilization Conference in Chicago  
1933   FDR Inaugurated. New Deal begins  
1933   Tennessee Valley Authority. Senator George Norris. Regional program in economic, social, physical development by federal government  
1933   US National Planning Board  
1934   National Housing Act. Birth of FHA (mortgage insurance  
1934   ASPO American Society of Planning Officials (Alfred Bettman, 1st president)  
1934   1st federally built housing.  
1935   Resettlement Administration. Rexford Tugwell. Greenbelt Maryland, Greenhills, Ohio.  
Greenbelt Towns   1st Federally built new towns.  
1937   US Housing Act  
1939   Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities. Homer Hoyt.  
Homer Hoyt   Sector Theory of urban structure.  
1939   ACPI becomes AIP American Institute of Planners  
1944   GI Bill. Serviceman's Readjustment Act. Loans to veterans.  
1945   1st State redevelopment act. Pennsylvania  
1947   Park Forest, IL and Levittown, NY.  
1948   1st post-WWII Comprehensive Plan. Cincinnati.  
1949   Housing Act. 800,000 new units planned.  
1949   National Trust for Historic Preservation  
1949   1st Urban redevelopment clearance program  
1954   Berman v. Parker. Aesthetics subject to eminent domain.  
1960   Image of the City. Kevin Lynch.  
Image of the City   Paths, Nodes, Edges, Landmarks, Districts. Kevin Lynch.  
1961   Hawaii, statewide zoning.  
1961   The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs  
1961   1st Federal Housing Subsidy Program. 221-d  
1961   First flexible control zoning ordinance. FAR  
1964   Civil Rights Act. Outlaws discrimination  
1964   The Urban General Plan. TJ Kent  
1965   HUD Formed Robert C. Weaver, 1st Secretary  
1966   National Historic Preservation Act.  
The Federal Bulldozer   Martin Anderson, 1964  
1965   Water Resources Management Act, Multi-State River basin comissions  
The Making of Urban America   John Reps, 1965, 1st history of American planning.  
1966   National Historic Preservation Act establishes the National Register of Historic Places. Section 106 protects sites and properties.  
Section 4(f)   Department of Transportation Act provides protection to parkland, wildlife refuge in road building.  
1967   50th anniversary of planning profession.  
Wetmore Amendment   1967. Includes social planners, not just physical planning.  
Design Within Nature   Ian McHarg, 1969.  
National Environmental Policy Act.   1969. Requires environmental impact statements for federal and state funded projects.  
American City Planning since 1890   Mel Scott. 1969.  
1970   1st Earth Day  
1970   EPA created under Clean Air Act.  
1971   AIP Code of Ethics  
1972   Coastal Zone Management Act  
1972. Golden v. Ramapo   performance criteria used to control growth.  
1972   Demo of Pruitt-Igoe.  
1973   Endangered Species Act.  
1977   First AIP membership exams.  
Penn Central v. City of NY   1978. Barring of air rights not a taking, as interior of project had value.  
1978   AIP and ASPO merge to form APA.  
1980   Creation of environmental Superfund.  
ACSP   Associated Collegiate SChools of Planning. 1980.  
Mount Laurel I (NAACP v. Mount Laurel)   Communities in growing area must take fair share of affordable housing in regional growth.  
Mount Laurel II (NAACP v. Mount Laurel)    
1984   Seaside Florida. 1st New Urbanist development.  
First English Evangelical Lutheran v. County of Los Angeles   1987, temporary takings require compensation.  
Dolan v. City of Tigard   1994. Rough proportionality must be shown between adverse impacts and exactions imposed on developer  
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission   1987. "essential nexus". land use restrictions must be tied to specific purpose.  
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council   1992. Limits government ability to restrict private property without compensation.  
1994   NAFTA  
Munn v. Illinois   1876. Implied public interest on private land.  
Cochran v. Preston   1903. Baltimore Building height limitations upheld under police power.  
Welch v. Swasey   1909. Boston. Building heights for districts upheld  
Eubank. v. City of Richmond   1912. Constitutionality of Setback lines.  
Hadacheck v. Sebastian   1915. Implies that land use zoning is constitutional. Brickmaking prohibited in city limits.  
Cusack v. City of Chicago   1917. Advertisements prohibited in residential area for health and welfare concerns  
Windsor v. Whitney   1920. Upheld duties of planning commission to set street widths and layouts.  
Romar Realty v. Board of Commissioners   1921. New Jersey. Minimum Building height restriction rejected as indulgent aesthetic consideration.  
Lowell v. Stoklosa   1924. Massachusetts. Upheld Zoning.  
Zahn v. Public Works of Los Angeles   1925. California. Upheld Zoning of undeveloped land.  
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty   1926. Upheld reasonable comprehensive zoning as constitutional.  
Washington Ex.Rel Seattle Trust v. Roberge   1928. Discrimination against group homes repugnant to Due Process.  
NY Housing Authority v. Muller   1936. Slum clearance acceptable benefit of public domain.  
Touhy v. City of Chicago   1946. Slum clearance, lease of city property still public use.  
NEPA   1969. National Environmental Policy Act. Requires environmental impact statement for federal projects.  
NEPA - EIS Requirements   1) probable impact of proposed action. 2) adverse effects which cannot be avoided. 3) Alternatives to proposed action. 4) The relationship between local short term uses and long term productivity. 5) Any irreversible and irretrievable commitments  
Clean Water Act. NPDES   National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. Permit system for water pollution discharge.  
Clean Air Act. ACQR.   Air Quality Control Region  
Point Source Pollutant   Come out of a pipe.  
Non-Point Pollutant   Runoff and Drainage Pollution.  
Ladder of Citizen Participation   Sherry Arnstein. a. Non participation (no control). 1. Manipulation 2. Therapy b. Degrees of tokenism. 1. Informing 2. Consultation 3. Placation c. Degrees of citizen power. 1. Partnership 2. Delegated power 3. Citizen control  
Acre   43,560 SF  
Ad Valorem Tax   Tax on Property calculated based upon a percent of the value of the property  
Affordable Housing   Housing developed through zoning incentives, cost effective construction and government subsidy.  
Amortization   process by which non-conforming uses and structures must be discontinued or made to conform to ordinance at the end of a specified period of time.  
Variance   A limited waiver from the requirements of a zoning ordinance.  
As-of-right   use of land permitted a principal use in a zoning district.  
Capital Improvement Plan   (CIP) Strategy for acquisition, planning, design or construction of land, buildings, infrastructure, equipment. Etc.  
Tax Increment Financing   Leverages future tax gains to fund current improvements.  
Census Tract   typically 2,500 to 8,000 people, do not cross county lines  
CES   Current Employment Statistics. BLS collects data on employment, hours and earnings from non-farm establishments  
BLS   Bureau of Labor Statisics  
CNEL   Community Noise Equivalent Level.  
Progressive Tax   Tax rate increases as income increases  
Proportional Tax   All pay same rate per dollar  
Regressive Tax   Persons of lower income pay higher percentage of income in tax, i.e. Sales Tax, Social Security tax  
Property Tax   Assessing, Setting Tax Rate, Collection. Tends to be regressive  
Serrano v. Priest   1971. Property Tax and School Finance can lead to discriminatory, unequal treatment under law.  
Step Down Method   Population Summary method. Multiply state, metro area estimates provided by Census bureau or others times percentage of study area population in previous census  
MSA   Metropolitan Statistical Area. MSAs are defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget only, and used by the U.S. Census Bureau and other U.S. government agencies for statistical purposes only  
Exaction   condition for development is imposed on a parcel of land that requires part of the land to be dedicated to public use.  
PPBS   Planning, Programming Budgetary System. Spending viewed by programs not objects, clarifying purpose of expenditures and priorities.  
Classifications of Revenue   Tax, User Charge, Administrative Fee, License, Debt Service, Grant-In-Aid  
Grant-in-aid   Government grant for specific person, with strings attached (drinking age/highway funds)  
ISTEA   1991. Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act  
Neighborhood Unit Principle   Clarence Perry. 1923. Walkable neighborhood superblocks. "Plan for the Mechanic Age"  
Stein and Wright   Radburn. US version of Garden City. Cul-de-Sac early use.  
Standard Deviation   Square Root of the Variance  
Variance   Average of Sum of Squared distances from mean.  
PERT   Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Scheduling technique that depicts interrelationships of tasks in project. Allows focus on key elements and problems  
Shift Share   Shift in Share of particular industry  
Location Quotient   Ratio - % of local employment within a sector divided by % of overall employment in a sector.  
Spearman's Rho   non-parametric measure of statistical dependence between two variables. a perfect Spearman correlation of +1 or −1 occurs when each of the variables is a perfect monotone function of the other  
NAICS   North American Industry Classification System. Replaced SIC. Classifies business activities. Pronounced "nakes"  
EUAC or EUAB   equivalent uniform annual cost or equivalent uniform annual benefits. Lifecycle cost method.  
Reserve Fund Financing   Funds accumulated in advance for capital contruction or purchase. Earmarked operational revenues, or sale of capital assets.  
General Obligation Bond   Taxing power of jurisdiction pledged to pay interest upon and retire debt. Voter Approved often  
Revenue Bonds   sold for projects that produce revenue, financed through service charges and fees. Higher rate of return. No voter approval needed.  
Opportunity Cost   Lost upside of alternate choice not selected.  
MBO   Management By Objective. Peter Drucker 1954. Participative Goal setting, measurement of employee performance with standards set.  
ZBB   Zero Based Budget. Breaks budget into decision packages. which are ranked for affordability, all budget requests are built from 0.  
Vertical and Horizontal Equity   V - unequal tax treatment for unequal economic conditions. H - equal tax treatment across similar economic condition.  
Mill Rate   dividing the mills by 10 (moving the decimal point to the left by one) yields the percentage rate – 20 mills = 2.0%.  
Regional Tax Base Sharing   Sharing of tax revenue across multiple jurisdictions.  
Property Tax Abatement   Reduction of property tax for a stipulated time period to encourage growth in an area.  
Line Item Budget   Defines budget on what will be bought, without reference to performance or priorities.  
Performance Budgeting   Budget includes performance goals and objectives, qualitative achievement.  
Goals Achievement Matrix   GAM. A Comprehensive Approach, shows anticipated attainment of project goals and distribution among groups.  
CEA   Cost EFFECTIVENESS Analysis. Analyzes program options with equal benefits for lowest cost solution.  
CBA   Cost BENEFIT Analysis. Compares community gains against costs to achieve it.  
CRA   Cost REVENUE Analysis. Measures amount of payment in from a sector against cost of services provided to that sector.  
Paul Davidoff   Suburban Action Institute. 1969. Mt. Laurel. Advocacy Planning  
Patrick Geddes   Cities in Evolution. Father of Regional Planning.  
Robert Moses   Great Expediter. 1888-1981  
Lewis Mumford   The Culture of Cities 1938. INspired city and regional planning. New York based.  
Fred Law Olmsted Sr.   Riverside Illinois, Central Park 1857, Columbian Exposition 1893 site planner.  
Fred Law Olmsted Jr.   ACPI President. Forest Hills Gardens and Palos Verdes Estates. Shaped Standard City Enabling Act.  
Cincinnati Plan   Ford-Goodrich Plan. First comprehensive plan.  
Country Club Plaza   1922. KC First Suburban Shopping Center  
Cincinnati Plan   Ford-Goodrich Plan. First comprehensive plan.  
Country Club Plaza   1922. KC First Suburban Shopping Center  
Forest Hills Gardens   1911. First Garden Suburb FLO Jr.  
Greenbelt Towns   1930. Rural Resettlement Administration (RRA). Greenbelt, Greenhills, Greendale, Greenbrook. Built and operated by Fed.  
NYC Zoning Code   1916. George Burdett Ford. Comprehensive Zoning Plan  
Oregon Statewide Plan   1973. Statewide Growth Management.  
Petaluma Environmental Design Plan   1971. Mocine & Williams. Phased residential growth limited to 500 units a year. Upheld in Supreme Court.  
Radburn   1928. Stein & Wright. Influential Residential Plan. Superblocks, Cul-De-Sacs  
Vieux Carre Plan   1721. Adrien de Pauger. 1925 first historic preservation ordinance.  
Savannah, GA   1733. James Oglethorpe.  
Synoptic Rationality   Rational Comprehensive Approach. 1 Goal Setting 2. Identify Alternatives. 3. Evaluate Means against ends. 4. Implement preferred alternative.  
Charles Lindblom   Incremental Planning "The Science of Muddling Through"  


   


 

 

 

 
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