Rural & Small Town Planning
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| Agricultural zoning | show 🗑
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| show | allow buildings to be concentrated in specific areas of sites to allow remaining portion of the site to remain as undeveloped open space or used for recreation, forestry, or agriculture
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| Urban Growth Boundary | show 🗑
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| Greenway | show 🗑
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| show | voluntary legal limitation on development that may occur on private property to protect natural, scenic, forested, or open spaces from development
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| show | nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect land from development
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| show | accomplished either by acquisition of the land through fee simple purchase or by acquistion of the rights to develop the land through purchase of a conservation easement or by receiving a donation of a conservation easement from a property owner
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| show | strip of undisturbed native vegetation along a stream, river, pond, lake, or wetland
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| What is a water quality buffer for? | show 🗑
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| show | protecting large core areas of wild habitat is essential to the long-term health of wildlife populations; core areas must be connected which is accomplished by preservation of wildlife corridors
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| What are some standards for manufactured housing? | show 🗑
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| Where are septic sewer systems used? | show 🗑
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| What is a percolation test? | show 🗑
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| Private Sewage Treatment Facilities (PSTF) | show 🗑
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| Where are PSTFs prohibited? | show 🗑
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| Characteristics of a Village | show 🗑
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| show | scale development appropriately,consider the harmony or cohesion of the landscape, the bldgs, & people of community
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| show | yes to help maintain character of villages
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| show | 1.what's administratively feasible 2.What's financially feasible 3.work collaboratively w/regional or st org 4.how to maintain ag economy 5.historic preservation as imp ingredient for economic dev
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| What needs to be considered as part of small town plans just like urban plans? | show 🗑
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| What is meant by coming to the nuisance? | show 🗑
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| Right to Farm Laws | show 🗑
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| show | 1862 permitted settlers to claim 160-acre parcels of land in the western portion of the US on cond that they reside on the land for 5 consecutive yrs; much of land didn't recieve enough rainfall to support ag
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| What happened due to settlement of poeple from the Homestead Act? | show 🗑
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| show | 1981 Dept of Agminimized extent to which fed programs contribute to unnecessary conversion of farmland to nonagricultural uses
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| show | id effects of fed programs on conversion of farmland to non-farm uses
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| show | 1981 rating system developed by Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the US Dept of Ag (USDA) as way for local gov't to assess the suitability of one or more parcels of farmland for continued ag use
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| How is land evaluation done? | show 🗑
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| show | includes economic, social, and geographic features of an area that have potential to influence development pressures on ag areas
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| Federal Forest Legacy Program | show 🗑
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| show | 1996 provided fed grants tos tates, local gov't, and land trusts to preserve farm & ranchland
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| show | less than 2%
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| How many farms are run by people who have another major occupation?? | show 🗑
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| show | 258,899 11.7%
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| show | corn, soybeans, hay, wheat
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| show | rural america
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| show | 7.5 mil people
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| How much rural employment is in manufacturing? | show 🗑
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| What are the feedlot issues? | show 🗑
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| show | decling pop, aging pop, & loss of businesses
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