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Question: Can a plan be used to plan a city? Answer: No, Strategic planning is term in focus and is specific in accomplishing certain objectives.
Question: What is ? Answer: Process whereby citizens attend a of meetings that provide the opportunity for them to offer input on how the community could be in the future.
Question: What are in Plan Making Implementation? Answer: Direct the toward the future.
Question: What are in Plan Making Implementation? Answer: More specific and attainable .
Question: What is a sample in Plan Implementation? Answer: is a subset of the . For example, 25 candidates out of the total number of planners preparing for the 2011 AICP exam.
Question: Statistics describe what? Answer: Characteristics of a .
Question: Inferential determine characteristics of what? Answer: population on observations made on a sample from that population.
Question: What is the mean? Answer: of a distribution.The mean of [2, 3, 4, 5] is 3.5.
Question: What is a ?Answer: is the middle number of a ranked distribution. The median of [2, 3, 4, 6, 7] is
Question: What is the mode? Answer: The most frequent number in a distribution. The mode of [1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 7, 7] are 3 and 7. can be more than one mode for a data set.
Question: What is the linear method in population ? Answer: rate of (or decline) in population over a period of time to estimate the current or future population.
Question: What is the Method? Answer: available data to estimate the current population. For instance, the average size is 2.5 according to Census. If 100 new single-family building permits are issued this year, approximately 250 new people will be added to the community.
Question: Step down method?Answer: uses the ratio of the population in a city and a county at known point in time. i.e.Plannersville is 20% of the county population in 2000. If we know that the population is 20,000 in 2005, we can then est pop of Plannersville as 4,000 (20%).
Question: What is area? Answer: an area consisting of a central place and adjacent territory with a general population density of at least 1,000 people per mile of land area. This land area has a minimum residential population of at least 50,000 people.
Question: What is a Urban ? Answer: densely settled territory that has at least 2,500 people but less than 50,000 and this is new for 2000
Question: What is a Metropolitan Area?Answer: (MSA) 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 of at least 100,000.
Question: What is a ? Answer: Many centered, multi-city, urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants, dominated by low-density settlement and complex networks of economic specialization."
Question: What is a tract?Answer: typically has a population between 2,000 and 8,000 . It is the smallest area where all information is released.
Question: What is a block? Answer: is the smallest level at which the data is collected. There are typically 400 housing units per block.
Question: People born between 1946 and 1964 are as what per the US census? Answer: Baby
Question: who are generation X are born from what years? Answer: 1965 to
Question: Generation Y are from _____? Answer: 1977-2000
Question: What is the Per Capita Method: Answer: It divides the local budget by the existing population in a city to determine the average per-capita cost for the jurisdiction
Question: What is the Adjusted Per Capita : Answer: The Adjusted Per Capita Method uses the adjusted per capita method and adjusts this on expectations about the new development. This relies on subjective judgment.
Question: What is Disaggregated Per Method?Answer: The Disaggregated Method estimates the costs and revenues based on major land uses; for example, the cost of servicing a shopping center versus an complex.
Question: What is Dynamic ? Answer: Applies statistical analysis to time-series data from a jurisdiction. This determines i.e. how much sales tax revenue is generated per capita from a grocery store and applies this to new development.
Question: What 4 sections does an Environmental Analysis has?Answer: 1 Statement of the Purpose & Need of the Proposed Action 2 Dcrpt of Affected Environment 3 Rnge of Alternatives to the proposed action. Alternatives are considered the "heart" of the EIS 4.Analysis of the impact of each possible alternatives
Question: What is a Cost-benefit ?Answer: Estimates the total monetary value of the benefits and costs to the community of a project(s) to determine whether they should be undertaken. Typically, this is used for public projects such as highways and other public .
Question: When created the cost-benefit ?Answer: This analysis was by the French engineer Jules Dupuit in 1848
Question: What US act first utilized the cost benefit ?Answer: Federal Navigation Act of 1936. This act required that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers undertake system projects when the total benefits exceed the cost of the project.
Question: What is a Cost-effectiveness ?Answer: method for selecting among competing projects when resources are limited, was developed by the military. i.e. if a community has 50g to spend on park improvements then different projects can be prepared, such as adding playground equipment or purc
Question: What is the cost anaylysis equation?Answer: CE Ratio = (cost new strategy - cost practice)/(effect new strategy – effect current practice).
Question: What is the method? Answer: USes historical death and birth rates and migration .
Question: What birth rate do you need to population? Answer: 2.1
Question: What questions should a strategic plan address?Answer: • What is the current situation and how is that situation likely to change in the foreseeable future? • Where are we going as an organization? • How will we get ?
Question: What are the 8 elements to a plan? Answer: 1. Analyze the needs.
Question: 8 to a strategic plan #2?Answer: 2. • identify results; determine what long-term the city is going to pursue.
Question: 8 elements to a plan #3?Answer: 3. • Admit uncertainties - analyze the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) to the objectives.
Question: 8 to a strategic plan #4?Answer: 4. • strategic stakeholders.
Question: 8 elements to a plan #5?Answer: 5. and evaluate alternatives.
Question: 8 elements to a plan #6?Answer: 6. the role of the city.
Question: 8 to a strategic plan #7?Answer: 7. a funding policy.
Question: 8 to a strategic plan #8?Answer: 8. performance.
Question: What are the basis of the economic analysis methods? Answer: Economic Base Analysis, Shift Share , and input output analysis
Question: What are activities?Answer: Are those that can be .
Question: What are non activities?Answer: Are those that are locally oriented.
Question: What is quotient used for?Answer: to identify economic base
Question: HOW do you location quotient?Answer: industry’s share of local employment by its share of the nation (or other level of government)
Question: What is the method of theThis method uses employment information by sector for two points in time. For , one may wish to compare employment by industry between 1990 and 2000. The total employment change in an industry between 1990 and 2000 is equalAnswer: uses employment information by sector for two in time.
Question: What is input and output ?Answer: is a quantitative method that suppliers and purchasers to determine the economic output of a region
Question: What is the Cost equation. Answer: Value – Actual Cost = CV
Question: What is a in statistics?Answer: is the 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.
Question: What is a bond? Answer: A revenue bond is a special type of municipal bond distinguished by its guarantee of repayment solely from revenues by a specified revenue-generating entity associated
Question: What is the benefits of a fiscal impact ? Answer: To assist city or county officials determine if a will generate sufficient revenue to defray necessary public service costs
Question: What is the of the Multiplyer Analysis? Answer: Typically multiplier analysis is used to project the number of jobs created, but can also be used to job loss.
Question: What is a Planning, Programming, and System (PPBS) Answer: is in effect an integration of a number of techniques in a planning and budgeting process for , costing and assigning a complexity of resources for establishing priorities and strategies in a major program and for forecasting costs
Question: What is a line item ? Answer: A budget in which the individual financial statement items are grouped by cost or departments.
Question: What is a growth boundary? Answer: is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for higher density urban development and the area outside be used for density development.
Question: When was PPBS ? Answer: was in the 1960's.
Question: What are the 3 main in PPBS? Answer: The first, it is organized by program instead of functional objects. The second, programs out into the future to look at the spending implications. third, all of the programs are put through quantitative analysis.
Question: What is key point to remember PPBS?Answer: A key point to remember, PPBS is on planning, not budgeting.
Question: What does a share analysis do?Answer: evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of a specific region's .
Question: What is a fringe? Answer: The Capillary Fringe is the saturated zone immediately above the water table where saturation is maintained by tension.
Question: What is a Bond? Answer: Revenue Bonds are often sold for projects that produce revenue such as sewer systems. They are financed through service charges or fees over the long run. Therefore they are not back by the local jurisdiction by full and credit.
Question: Can a tree be used in and bounds surveys? Answer: Yes, It relies on a property’s physical features to determine the boundaries and of the parcel.
Question: What does PERT for? Answer: PERT - Program Evaluation and Technique
Question: What is the of PERT? Answer: It graphically depicts the interrelationships of the tasks that make up the project. It is used to help control the cost and time of a .
Question: What is Organization by ? Answer: organized around the basic functions of urban decision making such as land use, and
Question: What is by Process? Answer: organized around the basic skills in a planning agency such as research, and
Question: What is by Time Frame? Answer: organized around the time it to complete the basic functions such as long range, and current planning
Question: Organized by Area? Answer: organized around the physical areas of responsibility of the
Question: What PERT stand for?Answer: Program and Review Technique
Question: What is the first step in the PERT ? Answer: the specific activities and milestones;
Question: What is the step in the PERT process? Answer: Determine the proper of the activities;
Question: What is the step in the PAnswer: Construct a network ;
Question: What is Functional ? Answer: transportation, land use, CDBG,
Question: What is process ?> Answer: research, demographic
Question: Time ? Answer: current , long range planning
Question: Area Answer: Planning by geographic .
Question: A specific statment that guides decision making. It indicates a clear committment of the local body. What is this?Answer: Policy
Question: A direction an ideal future end condition or state?Answer:
Question: A specific end condition or state that is an intemediate step attaining a goal? Answer:
Question: A specific statemeent that guides decision making, It a lcear commitment of the local legislative body> Answer:
Question: the for choosing a random sample from a large set of data is?Answer: to the characteristics of the large set in less time and with less cost.
Question: A scatter is a ?Answer: regression and correlation
Question: what is a run ?Answer: also known as a run-sequence plot is a graph that displays observed data in a time sequence. Often, the data displayed represent some aspect of the output or performance of a manufacturing or other business .
Question: What is a diagram?Answer: A fish bone diagram is a common tool used for a cause and effect analysis, where you try to identify possible causes for a problem or event.
Question: record of the assessed value of property in a taxing jurisdiction.Answer: Assessment
Question: •1:24,000 .....?Answer: 1 inch 2,000 linear feet
Question: as a to find the optimum design solution for a project. Source:Answer: programming
Question: Single to an area can be described as?Answer: District
Question: a range of values that includes a certain population with a given probability.Answer: Interval
Question: This technique can be as a method of assessing project alternatives by weighing these alternatives according to a group of citizen goals. Answer: Goals-achievement
Question: What does a Development of a purchase of development program do? Answer: would protect agricultural land a purchase program guarantees that land will be in perpetuity.
Question: This type of budget uses decision packages that can be independently decided upon for purposes. Answer: Zero budget.
Question: What is planning? Answer: performs analysis for the governing body.
Question: What is line ? Answer: performs subdivision reviews, zoning amendments and code enforcement.
Question: This type of economic tool is used for both the impact of a change in the economy and predicting future growth. Answer: Base Analysis
Question: This type of economic tool are used to tell us the amount of bases in each industry. Answer: Location
Question: This type of economic tool is a descriptive technique for analyzing sources of change in the regional . Answer: Shift Share
Question: This type of economic tool focuses on intermediate between an economy sectors or the circular flow of the economy. Answer: Input output
Question: used to be a more detailed way to the project in the planning process of the project. Uses a logical structure to define various levels of detail.Answer: Work Structure (WBS)
Question: According to Clark, AICP, which are the key points to writing a WBS?Answer: A. Keep the deliverable in mind B. Use a simple numbering system C. Its size and complexity is determined by the project D. Start general and work to more
Question: This impact analysis is used both to the net monetary value of a project and to weigh the net monetary values. Answer: Cost Analysis
Question: This type of analysis can only address impacts that are quantifiable in terms of money? Answer: Cost Analysis
Question: This type of impact analysis is usually used to compare two competing projects that will provide the same benefits. Answer: Cost Effectiveness
Question: This type of analysis is used to estimate the costs and revenues that a proposed will bring to an areas governments and schools. Answer: Fiscal Analysis
Question: This type of impact analysis is used for estimating the average costs of a proposed residential . Answer: Per Capital Method
Question: Projections of future job , an assessment of current demographics and a current inventory of office and industrial space and occupancy assist what enconomic tool? Answer: Base Anaylysis
Question: Capital Improvement Budget includes those facilities that are planned for for how many years? Answer: 1
Question: The economy is made up of what? Answer: Major employers, conditions, Employment growth
Question: A process of agreeing upon objectives an organization so that management and employees agree to the objectives and understand what they are. Answer: Management by (MBO) by Peter Drucker 1954
Question: An done to find the most cost effective alternative plans. Answer: Cost Analysis
Question: is a federally designated distressed area in need of community development. It is designed to afford communities real opportunities for growth and revitalizationAnswer: An zone.
Question: This type of analysis to determine if annexation of a 500 acre area makes sense.Answer: Cost Analysis
Question: What is a NGO? Answer: Non-governement
Question: Why do use economic forecastingAnswer: To provide a basis for land use
Question: this redistribute income, creating revenues to government goods and services, When overall demand is large, reduction of income and spending Answer: Taxes serve which of the functions?
Question: The budget is broken up into "decision , budget starts from scratch, "decision packages" are tied to long range plansAnswer: Zero Budget
Question: presides over rezoning proceedings that are treated as -judicial actionsAnswer: Zoning Hearing
Question: What is a CCA? Answer: Community Act
Question: 1)goals are based on what already exists in the community 4)a projection of what the community desires Answer: this visionining
Question: With regard to takings, the U.S. Supreme Court has said that where a regulation is intended merely to prevent ano ____________, it should not be considered a taking.Answer:
Question: Limitations on emissions, glare, noise etc are characteristic of what type of >Answer: Zoning.
Question: A right of the use of a property by those other than the , is a non-possessory interest, may limit the use of land.Answer: Easement
Question: What is the analysis"?Answer: it determines sales capacity of a market area. A push analysis if the introduction of a new business will generate additional customers.
Question: This zone requires the clustering of homes while preserving open space. The subdivisions can be designed to protect well areas by placing septic systems in other areas. Answer: Conservation
Question: is a purpose of subdivision Answer: Regulation of site design, Control division of land into lots, Control placement of
Question: is a process for drafting regulations that brings together parties who would be by a rule.Answer: Negotiated Rulemaking, his was as US federal law in 1990 under the Negotiated Rulemaking Act.
Question: This law authorize home rule jurisdictions the authority to pass regulations without express authorization from the . Answer: Home
Question: found that local are subordinate to the state and are only authorized to perform actions permitted by the state.Answer: in 1872 the Dillons Rules was .
Question: Natural Surveillance, and Natural Access Control are priciples of what type of design. Answer: principles
Question: Individuals unemployed divided by individuals 16 of age and older in the labor forceAnswer: way to the um employment rate
Question: Capital Improvement projects became a basic in 1930, why? Answer: the accomplishment of large public work projects.
Question: what term refers to independent unit of govt created by referandum? Answer: District
Question: type of plan that is used to align people and activities to implement strategic policy.Answer: Planning
Question: can be described as public works projects that benefit a specific group of people can be financed more equitably in this . Examples are the repaving of a neighborhood's street. Answer: Special
Question: A tax whereby real estate owners pay based on the assessed value of property is refered to as? Answer: Ad valorem
Question: involves....Answer: goals are based on what already exists in the and a simple projection of what the community desires
Question: this is policy options short of attaining 100% consensus. Answer:
Question: What implementation an part of?Answer: Process
Question: a means of allocating resources and creating while defining competing interests and making choices between themAnswer: This statment describes a
Question: continuous improvement based on meeting or the customers needs and expectations...Answer: Total Management
Question: A list showing total assessed value of taxable property in a is called? Answer: Roll
Question: regulates the of the use instead of simply just regulating the use itself. Answer: Performance
Question: In and budgeting systems, which can be described as having its focus on evaluating and ranking outputs by program? Answer: Management
Question: for condemned property is...? Answer: and best use.
Question: What is staff positions in a government agency? Answer: Assistant and associate and personal assistant, accountant.
Question: service to the public is what type government position. Answer: Line .
Question: I. A focus on specific territories and spatial planning, A response to the problems of a metropolitan , Integrating environmental, equity and economic goals, Emphasis on urban design, A more activist stance by the planners is what type of Planning? Answer: New
Question: Why are some Communities beginning to combine private foundation money with traditional funding mechanisms to do which of the ? Answer: To achieve smart growth .
Question: General Services, Providing information to the line units, Providing services to the line are what type of function in govertment? Answer: functions
Question: The term Tracking” can be described as? Answer: what occurs when time to be made up on a planning project
Question: the on a limited issue, problem, or project, a process that is not dictatorial and is an open process, the identification of W.O.T.S., the identification of resources that can be used to achieve the identified goals are part of what time of planningAnswer: Strategic .
Question: What budgeting model can be described as involving capital projects that are linked to a plan? Answer: Capital Improvement
Question: Which type of budget concentrates on the goal and impact of the budget process. Answer: Line Item
Question: Financing of improvements in a specific area with bonds that are secured by increase in taxes is is refered as? Answer:
Question: What legislative body would take final action on a request to land for a new school. Answer: Board
Question: development intent is to preserved as permanent open space for the community. Answer:
Question: Relating to a planning agency, which of the following deals primarily with the provision of general services? Answer: functions
Question: Relating to a public planning , which of the following deals primarily with the provision of general services? Answer:
Question: may the use of land is part of? Answer: Easement
Question: Obligation Bonds are....Answer: are sold to pay city hall.
Question: Floating zones can alos be ? Answer: Spot
Question: Project maps are prepared by? Answer: the army of engineer
Question: This type of tool can be used for the impact of a change in the economy and for predicting furute growth? Answer: Economic Base
Question: This type of approach looks at the cost of a rather than the benefit portion? Answer: Impact Analysis
Question: Identifying the level of employment in a section of a local enconomy against a regional or national economy> Answer: This is a share analysis
Question: What case benched marked police is a proper use of zoning? Answer: of Euclid v. Amber Realty 1926 -
Question: Name two cases? Answer: Lucas v. South Carolina Council 1992.
Question: This economic tool analysis asks how an area shares in growth.Answer: Base Analysis
Question: This economic tool goes on to look at the changing mix of activities and at whether activities are shifting toward or away from the area.Answer: Shift Share
Question: This type of tool can be used for both determining the impact of a change in the economy and for future growth? Answer: Economic Base .
Question: __________ are the most commonly used indirect method of defining the base sector of a study area. Answer: Quotient.
Question: What are the two sources and data behind Base Analysis? Answer: US Census and of Labor
Question: Percent of local employment / percent of national employment is for what ?Answer: Quotient
Question: this tool is a descriptive technique for analyzing sources of change in the regional economy by looking at national share, industry mix and shift? Answer: Share Analysis.
Question: This economic tool is very difficult, costly, and time . Answer: -output analysis.
Question: What are the three in a shift share analysis? Answer: national share, Industry Mix and Shift.
Question: It how well the region's mix of industries are performing, and how well the region's individual industries are performing. Answer: Share
Question: This analysis examines three components of regional employment growth (National growth, Mix, and Competitiveness) between two periods of time. Answer: Part of Share
Question: What techniques is a means of forecasting future ?Answer: Cohurt
Question: This survey gathers information about a population at a point in time.Answer: A -sectional
Question: Is a survey over a period of time. Some cities conduct a citizen survey of satisfaction every couple of years.Answer: longitudinal
Question: f the population of Plannersville has grown an of 2% per year over the last 20 years, this same rate of growth would be applied to the future. What method is thsi? Answer: Rate of .
Question: This analysis looks at the shift, proportional shift, and economic growth. Answer: Shift .
Question: The city wants to determine the cost of providing service to a new development. What cost strategy would be used? Answer: Impact Analysis
Question: 1:24,000 means that 1 inch Answer: 2,000 lineal
Question: 1:62,500 that 1 inch represents Answer: 0.98
Question: 1:500,000 that 1 inch represents Answer: 7.89
Question: 1:2,000,000 means that 1 inch Answer: 31.57
Question: One of the largest changes is the discontinuation of the long form. With the long form eliminated, households only received the form with 10 questions. Answer: 2010 Census of Population
Question: In 2010, ___ of U.S. responded by mail.Answer: 74%
Question: An Environmental Impact Statement typically has ____ sections:Answer:
Question: An Environmental Impact Statement must address each of the following _____topics:Answer:
Question: 1. Introduction Purpose and Need 2. Description of the Affected Environment 3. Range of Alternatives to the proposed action. Alternatives are considered the "heart" of the EIS 4. Analysis of the environmental impacts of each of the alternativeAnswer: EIS 4
Question: 1. Probable impact 2. Adverse environmental effects that cannot be avoided; 3. Alternatives to the proposed action 4. Relationship between local short-term uses of the environment long-term productivity 5. Any irreversible and commitmentAnswer: EIS that must address the 5 topics
 
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