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AICP
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is a non tidal wetland marsh? | Palustrine |
| Extent of the public interest and loss to the property owner in ______________ , the Court articulate the "balancing of interests" approach for reviewing taking claims. | Extent of the public interest and loss to the property owner in Pennsylvania Coal, the Court articulate the "balancing of interests" approach for reviewing taking claims. |
| How many acres of tribal land are in Alaska? | 40 million |
| Should Trees Have Standing wby Christopheer Stone 1972 was about what? | The book discussed the Sierra Club v Morton, where the Sierra Club attempted to block development of a ski resort. Authority to file suite. |
| Is rational planning effective when conduction an environmental impact statement? | No |
| What is the total acreage of national forestland un the US? | 191 million |
| What president in the US was responsible for founding the first national wildlife refuge? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| What is the largest tribal land holding in acres? | 16 million |
| What is the total acreage of tribal land in the US? | 52 million |
| How much energy reduction can closing air conditioning vents can save? | Up to 10% |
| A variable that is fixed is also known as? | Discrete |
| Who wrote Edgeless City in 2002? | Robert Lang |
| This is a fund that is an account established to manage the revenues and expidentures of a self sufficcient activity. Such as a gold course, zoo, parking, garage, minor league baseball park. | A Enterprise Fund |
| How many acres are in a hectacre? | 2.47 acres |
| Substantive advancemnt test was for what case? | Lingle v. Chevron |
| Nectow v. City of Cambridge was in regards to what amendment? | Nectow v. City of Cambridge |
| This participation technique allows people to propose topics to discuss and those who are interested choose to participate in that dialogue. The groups prepare summaries of their discussion to share with the entire group. | Open Space |
| This evaluation technique allows for weighting of a series of values dimensions. For example, participants are given a number of points that can be allocated between the value dimensions or participants can be asked which of two values is more important. | Multiattribute Utility Analysi |
| Was Euclid's zoning ordinance became a standard used by many other communities? | No |
| A regulation is a taking if it deprives the property of all economic value and does not advance a governmental interest. | Agins v. City of Tiburon |
| a federally designated distressed area in need of sustainable community development | Empowerment Zone |
| The Supreme Court dealt with what issues in Nectow v. City of Cambridge | Zoning |
| The state establishes basic _______ limits for all facilities to protect surface water quality and air quality standards | effluent |
| In 1928, construction of ___________, began. Planned community inspired by Howard's Garden City concept and designed by Stein and Wright. A forerunner of the New Deal's Greenbelt towns. | Radburn, New Jersey |
| Which type of legal survey is done in two main steps, first a large parcel is described by possibly a rectangular survey, and second part has this surveyed property broken down into smaller parcels? | Recorded Plat System |
| How many acres is Riverside, Illinois? | 1,600 acres |
| Which of the following is an alternative to optimization for cases where there are multiple and competing objectives in which one gives up the idea of obtaining a "best" solution? | Satisficing |
| serving longer trips, carrying the highest traffic volumes, and a large percentage of the VMT on a minimum amount of mileage while providing minimal land access. | Principal Arterials |
| The plaintiff built a gas station on his property the day before the City of Ypsilanti enacted its zoning ordinance that placed the area as Residential. Denied permit ten years later? | Austin v. Older |
| While living in the "garden suburb" of Forest Hills Gardens, New York, he worked on his scheme for the "neighborhood unit"--a self-contained residential area that would be bounded by major streets, with shops at the intersections and a school in the middl | Clarence Perry (1872-1944) |
| launched the "model cities" program, an interdisciplinary attack on urban blight and poverty. A centerpiece of President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" program | 1966 the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act |
| The Court held that if a regulation deprives a property of all economically viable use and fails to advance a legitimate governmental interest it constitutes a taking. | Agins v. City of Tiburon |
| was responsible for the development of two garden cities in England. | Garden Cities. Howard wrote Garden Cities of To-morrow |
| in 2009, what was the percent of the population that lived in multi-generational households? | %16.7 |
| Plural Planning is associtated with what? | Advocacy Planning |
| Lowering the thermostate can reduce a heating bill how much? | 3% |
| Was Village of Bell Terre v. Boraas heard by the State of New York court system? | No |
| Transactive planning is associated with who? | John Friedman |
| What percentage of mail surveys is returned? | less than 20% |
| According to the 2010 APA Policy Guide on Surface Transportation the majority of Americans pay in excess of_____ of household income on transportation and housing | 50% |
| How many federally recognized Native American tribes are there in the United States? | 562 |
| This allows for brainstorming allowing for all members of a group to meaningfully participate. There are silent times allowing for idea generation followed by individual sharing of ideas. | Nominal Group Technique |
| A programmable thermostat might saves you as much as what percent on your heating costs? | 20% |
| Who designed Forest Hills Gardens? | Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. |
| What is T-1? | Natural Zone consists of lands approximating or reverting to a wilderness condition, including lands unsuitable for settlement due to topography, hydrology or vegetation. |
| What is T-2? | Rural Zone consists of lands in open or cultivated state or sparsely settled. These include woodland, agricultural land, grassland. |
| What is T-3? | Rural Zone consists of lands in open or cultivated state or sparsely settled. These include woodland, agricultural land, grassland. |
| What is T-4? | General Urban Zone consists of a mixed-use but primarily residential urban fabric. It has a wide range of building types: single, sideyard, and rowhouses. Setbacks and landscaping are variable. Streets define medium-sized blocks. |
| What is T-5? | Urban Center Zone consists of higher density mixed-use building types that accommodate retail, offices, rowhouses and apartments. It has a tight network of streets, with wide sidewalks, steady street tree planting and buildings set close to the frontages. |
| What is T-6? | Urban Core Zone consists of the highest density, with the greatest variety of uses, and civic buildings of regional importance. It may have larger blocks; streets have steady street tree planting and buildings set close to the frontages. |
| What type of roadway can be defined as serving longer trips, carrying the highest traffic volumes, and a large percentage of the VMT on a minimum amount of mileage while providing minimal land access? | Principal Arterials |
| The Court ruled that a per se taking occurs where regulation denies the landowner all economically beneficial use and value of the land. The Court also held that in such a case the government could avoid liability by showing that the challenged restr | Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992) |
| program was seen as a complement to the revised Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. | UDAG |
| These are typically highly visual including creation of maps or picture cards. | Participatory Rural Appraisal |
| a mixed use development of up to 110 acres with a park at the center. | Pocket Park |
| A __________is a direct vote on an issue. | Plebiscite |
| A depressed urban area in which employers receive tax reductions or other incentives for establishing businesses and employing the disadvantages. | Enterprise Zone |
| An urban area defined as depressed and made eligible for special government assistance for economic development in the form of tax breaks and subsidies is | Empowerment Zone |
| you have been asked to manage a public-private redevelopment including the construction phase. Given the complexity of the project you are debating how to most effectively determine the lowest cost solution for this project. Which solution do you choose? | The best solution would be linear programming. |
| Marks: 1/1 What type of map, which is used as the starting point for many planning projects, shows the essential natural or man-determined features of an area? | Base MAp |
| Travel speed still at or near free flow, but ability to maneuver within the traffic stream is noticeably restricted | 0.5-0.75 |
| Travel speeds begin to decline with increasing flows; minor incidents expected to cause queuing | 0.75-0.9 |
| Operation at or near capacity and therefore volatile because there are virtually no usable gaps in traffic stream; maneuverability is extremely limited | 0.90-1.0 |
| _______________ is the downslope movement of earth materials due to the force of gravity. | Mass wasting |
| Which of the following measures is the most commonly used for traffic volume? | Average daily traffic volume is the number of vehicles that travel on a road in a typical day. |
| What technique can be used to find the optimum design solution on a project? | Linear programming |
| natural, rural, sub-urban, general urban, urban center and urban core. | This is Transect Theory |
| What is a plebiscite? | A Plebiscite is a direct vote on an issue. |
| According to the 2010 APA Policy Guide on Surface Transportation the majority of Americans pay in excess of ______of household income on transportation and housing | 50% |
| allows for brainstorming allowing for all members of a group to meaningfully participate. There are silent times allowing for idea generation followed by individual sharing of ideas. | The nominal group technique |
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