Addtional AICP Facts
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| NAFTA | show 🗑
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| show | A large free trade area formed by one or more tax, tariff and trade agreements. Typically trade pacts that define such a bloc specify formal adjudication bodies, e.g. NAFTA trade panels. This may include even a more democratic and particip
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| show | Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides grants to States, and States to eligible applicants, to implement long-term hazard mitigation measures after a major disaster.
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| Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Purpose | show 🗑
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| e-Government | show 🗑
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| show | Includes internet, telephone, fax, PDA, SMS text messaging, MMS, and 3G, GPRS, WiFi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, etc..
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| show | A regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urbanization by designating the area inside the boundary for higher density urban development and the area outside the boundary for lower density rural development.
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| show | A policy or land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas.
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| show | A method for protecting land by transferring the "rights to develop" from one area and giving them to another.
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| show | A method for protecting land, where a landowner voluntarily sells his development rights to a governmental agency or a land trust. The land owner is paid the difference between the current value of the land and the land’s potential development value.
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| show | Municipal governments only have the powers that are expressly granted to them by the state legislature, those that are necessarily implied from that grant of power, and those that are essential and indispensable to the municipality's existence
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| show | Refers to when a developer/property owner has the right to develop a property - if they have a building permit, have relied on a public official, have made a substaintial investment etc.
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| show | Changes the rules regarding the use and development of every property in a specified zoning district
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| show | Change the zoning from residential to commercial on the property
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| show | an administrative exception to land use regulations, generally in order to compensate for a deficiency in a real property which would prevent the property from complying with the zoning regulation.
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| show | Any change in any street layout, other public improvement; lot line; amount of land reserved for public use or the common use of lot owners; & easements shown on the approved plat.
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| show | Affirmed the use of eminent domain for economic development
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| Lingle v. Chevron (2005) | show 🗑
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| Highest population density according to the 2000 | show 🗑
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| Americans with Disabilities Act | show 🗑
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| show | Was adopted in 1972 to provides funding for coastal state programs designed to coordinate and regulate specific activities within defined coastal zones
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| show | Required both the private and public sectors to conform to certain environmental standards
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| show | Established to manage the revenues and expenditures of a golf course
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| show | Urban Growth Boundary is the most effective method for preventing development in specified geographic areas.
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| show | The Sierra Club v. Morton, Secretary of the Interior (1972) case where the Sierra Club attempted to block the development of a ski resort in the Mineral King Valley in the Sequoia National Forest.
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| Indian Reorganization Act (1934) | show 🗑
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| City Beautiful Movement | show 🗑
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| show | Found that Transfer of Development Rights is an inappropriate method to compensate the landowner for a taking by the City of New York.
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| Fiscal impact analysis | show 🗑
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| New Urbanism | show 🗑
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| show | Krumholz
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| show | Promotes a variety of housing choices to allow people of all income and household types to have a place to live.
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| Section 8 | show 🗑
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| Concentric Circle Theory | show 🗑
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| Neotraditional Development | show 🗑
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| BART | show 🗑
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| show | Consists of a map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.
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| show | Northgate Shopping Center, Seatle Washington, 1950
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| First modern, enclosed regional shopping mall | show 🗑
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| Edge City | show 🗑
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| Daylighting | show 🗑
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| show | A term used by New Urbanist town planners to refer to the varieties of land use from an urban core to a rural boundary.
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| show | Can refer to almost any housing, but always refers to "affordable housing - Defined by four principal factors: Affordability, Home ownership, Critical workforce & proximity to employment centers
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| What type of land accounts for about 2/3 of the privately held lands in the US? | show 🗑
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| show | An economically depresed area designated for governmental subsidies and tax incentives.
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| Advocacy Planner | show 🗑
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| show | First city to adopt a comprehemsive plan
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| Primary purpose of a fiscal impact analysis | show 🗑
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| Important elements of a Historic Preservation Program | show 🗑
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| LULU | show 🗑
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| Megalopolis | show 🗑
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| Which city was home to the first Council of Government? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following cities experienced the greatest population decrease between 1990 and 2000? | show 🗑
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| Metropolitan Planning Organizations | show 🗑
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| The Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook | show 🗑
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| show | Created eight new national monuments.
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| President George H. Bush did which of the following in 1994? | show 🗑
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| show | Was the first Historic Preservation Commission for the French Quarter in New Orleans, formed in the 1930's.
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| Lowering a thermostat by 1 degree Fahrenheit can reduce a heating bill by | show 🗑
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| The amount of goods and serviced produced in the United States during a year | show 🗑
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| show | 562
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| show | Did not organize under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
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| show | Approximately 4.5 lbs. per person, per day.
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| show | The analysis between two or more variables (x) and (y).
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| show | Established 1977 to help distressed communities develop economically. facilitates public-private partnerships,attempts to encourage redevelopment in urban areas and encouraged intergovernmental cooperation for redevelopment projects
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| Hoover Dam is located on the border of which states? | show 🗑
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| show | Chicago
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| When was the first National Conference on City Planning? | show 🗑
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| show | Individuals unemployed divided by individuals 16 years of age and older in the labor force
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| show | The use of “invasion-succession” in describing dynamics, finds that growth happens by land uses expanding outward from one area to another.
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| show | 1934 - organization of Native Americans and allowed Native Americans to adopt a constitution and organize for their common welfare.
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| show | The study of (natural and manmade) lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, wetlands and groundwaters.
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| Census Tract | show 🗑
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| show | New York City, 1916
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| The Morrill Act (1862) | show 🗑
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| show | A form of development where the the building is sited on one or more lot lines with no yard, the intent of which is to allow a more flexible site design and to increase the amount of usable open space.
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| What year did the Panama Canal open? | show 🗑
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| show | 1954
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| Storm sewers are typically designed to handle up to what year flood? | show 🗑
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| show | Reducing the intensity of zoning on a site.
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| show | A cross-sectional survey gathers information about a population at a single point in time. For example, planners might conduct a survey on how parents feel about the quality of recreation facilities as of today.
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| longitudinal survey | show 🗑
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| show | divides the population into groups, known as classes, from which a sample is drawn.
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| show | determine characteristics of a population based on observations made on a sample from that population. We infer things about the population based on what is observed in the sample.
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| show | classified into mutually exclusive groups that lack intrinsic order. Race, social security number, and sex are examples of nominal data. Mode is the only measure of central tendency that can be used for nominal data.
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| show | values that are ranked so that inferences can be made regarding the magnitude. no fixed interval between values. letter grade on a test, for example. Mode and median are the only measures of central tendency that can be used for ordinal data.
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| Interval data | show 🗑
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| Ratio data | show 🗑
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| Qualitative Variables | show 🗑
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| Quantitative Variables | show 🗑
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| show | can have an infinite number of values
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| Dichotomous Variables | show 🗑
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| Hypothesis Test | show 🗑
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| show | shown as H0 is a statement that there are no differences. For example, a Null Hypothesis could be that Traffic Calming has no impact on traffic speed.
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| show | designated as H1, proposes the relationship - Traffic Calming reduces traffic speed.
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| show | average squared difference of scores from the mean score of a distribution.Variance is a descriptor of a probability distribution, how far the numbers lie from the mean.
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| Standard Deviation | show 🗑
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| Coefficient of Variation | show 🗑
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| Standard Error | show 🗑
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| Confidence Interval | show 🗑
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| Chi Square | show 🗑
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| show | a measure of the distance, in standard deviation units, from the mean. This allows one to determine the likelihood, or probability that something would happen.
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| show | allows the comparisons of the means of two groups to determine how likely the difference between the two means occurred by chance. needs the number of subjects in each group, difference btwn means of each group, and the standard deviation for each group.
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| ANOVA | show 🗑
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| show | indicates the type and strength of the relationship between variables, ranging from -1 to 1. The closer to 1 the stronger the relationship between the variables. Squaring the correlation coefficient results in an r2
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| Regression | show 🗑
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| Sampling Error | show 🗑
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| show | cannot be explained by the representativeness of the sample. A nonsampling error can occur as a result of respondents misunderstanding a question or misreporting their answer and can also including missing values.
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| show | Pop Estimate. Uses the rate of growth (or decline) in population over a period of time to estimate the current or future population.
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| Exponential Method | show 🗑
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| Symptomatic Method | show 🗑
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| Modified Exponential | show 🗑
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| show | Pop Estimate. Relatively simple way to estimate or project population. This method uses the ratio of the population in a city and a county (or a larger geographical unit) at a known point in time, such as the decennial Census
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| Distributed Housing Unit Method | show 🗑
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| show | Pop Estimate. Uses the current population plus natural increase and net migration to calculate a future population. The population is calculated for men and women in specific age groups. Population pyramids. Most accurate population projection.
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| Economic base analysis | show 🗑
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| Location Quotient | show 🗑
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| show | analyzes a local economy in comparison with a larger economy. This analysis looks at the differential shift, proportional shift, and economic growth. uses employment information by sector for two points in time.
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| Input-output analysis | show 🗑
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| North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) | show 🗑
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| show | an accounting method of allocating the cost of a tangible asset over its useful life.
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| Urbanized Area | show 🗑
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| show | At least 2,500 but less than 50,000 persons and a population density of 1,000 persons per square mile. New for the 2000 Census. In 2000, 11% of the U.S. population lived in 3,158 urban clusters.
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| show | Includes at least one city with 50,000 or more inhabitants, or an urbanized area (of at least 50,000 inhabitants), and a total metropolitan population of at least 100,000.
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| show | Has a population of more than 10,000 people and less than 50,000 people. This includes a central county and adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and economic integration as measured by commuting.
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| Census Designated Places (CDP) | show 🗑
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| show | Made up of several PMSA's. An example is the Dallas-Fort Worth Consolidated Metropolitan Area. Dallas and Fort Worth are each primary metropolitan statistical areas.
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| show | Defined by the US Office and Budget to provide data description for areas where there is a core area with at least 10,000 people that when combined with other adjacent communities is socially and economically integrated.
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| Megalopolis | show 🗑
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| show | Typically has a population between 2,000 and 8,000 people. It is the smallest area where all information is released.
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| Census Block | show 🗑
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| show | Group of Census Blocks
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| show | Unit only used in 29 states and usually corresponds to a municipality. Census County Divisions are used in the 21 states that do not have MCD's.
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| Tribal Designated Statistical Area | show 🗑
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| Threshold Population | show 🗑
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| show | Nevada (35%), Arizona (25%), and Utah (24%).
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| show | 1. Palm Coast, FL
2. St. George, UT
3. Las Vegas-Paradise, NV
4. Raleigh-Cary, NC
5. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
6. Provo-Orem, UT
7. Greeley, CO
8. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
9. Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC
10. Bend, OR
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| Percent of the US population living in urban areas. | show 🗑
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| Only state between 2000 and 2010 that lost population. | show 🗑
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| Average household size | show 🗑
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| Median age | show 🗑
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| show | Began in 2005. Reaches 2.5% of the nation's population each year (1 in 40 addresses, approximately 3 million households). Rotates annually so that no household receives the survey more than once every five years.
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| show | Topographically Integrated Geographical Encoding and Referencing map, used for Census data. Includes streets, railroads, zip codes, and landmarks.
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| show | show digital data about the elevation of the earth's surface as it varies across communities allows planners to analyze and map it. DEMs can be used for storm water management, flood control, land use decisions, and other purposes.
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| show | PI. Intensive collaborative effort that brings together citizens, stakeholders, and staff to develop a detailed design plan for a specific area.
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| show | PI. Structured process to build consensus. Stakeholders do questionnaires. Feedback on responses is presented to group anonymously. Participants encouraged to revise answers based on replies. Answer range decreases and group converges in on solution.
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| show | PI. Group process uses problem identification, solution generation, and decision making that can be used for groups of any size that want to come to a decision by vote. Participants then rank the solutions. The solution with the highest ranking wins.
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| show | PI. Uses a person who with no direct stake in outcome of a meeting to help groups that disagree work together to solve complex problems and come to a consensus. The facilitator is typically a volunteer from the community who is respected by all groups.
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| show | PI. Method in which neutral third party facilitates discussion in structured multi-stage process to help parties reach a satisfactory agreement. The mediator assists parties in identifying priorities. Specifies measurable, achievable, realistic solutions.
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| Public Hearing | show 🗑
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| show | Assists citizens in evaluating physical images of natural/built environments. View and evaluate variety of pictures depicting building styles, streetscapes, etc.
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