AICP Glossary of Planning Terms
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| show | Acre
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| show | Ad Valorem Tax
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| show | Affordable Housing
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| show | Agricultural Land Protection
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| show | Applellate Jursidiction
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| show | Authorities and Special Disticts
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| show | Base Map
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| show | Bond
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| A local body, created by ordinance, whose responsiblity is to hear appeals from decisions of the local zoning administrative official and to consider requests for variances and exceptions (special use permits, conditional use permits) | show 🗑
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| show | Zoning Board of Appeals
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| show | Brainstorming
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| show | Charrette
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| show | Citizen Advisory Groups
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| show | Comprehensive Plan
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| Lines on a topographical map that indicate slope. | show 🗑
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| show | Easement
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| Legislation passed by the state legislature authorizing cities, towns, and villages to carry out functions in the public interest. | show 🗑
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| show | Eminent Domain
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| show | Euclidean Zoning
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| show | Exaction
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| show | Floating Zone
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| Computer mapping system that produces multiple "layers" of graphic information about a community or region. | show 🗑
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| Analysis used in transportation planning that eveluates the relationship between the force of attraction and the generation of vehicular trips. | show 🗑
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| Broad statements of ideal future conditions that are desired by the communtiy and contained in the comprehensive plan. | show 🗑
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| A business conducted in a residential dwelling unit that is incidental and subordinate to the primary residential use. | show 🗑
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| show | Inverse Condemnation
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| show | Base and meridian
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| An in-depth study that attempts to discover all the underlying economic factors that affect a community's growth or decline. | show 🗑
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| A range of values that includes a certain populations parameter with a given probability. | show 🗑
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| show | Input-Output Modeling
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| show | ITS - Intelligent Transportation Systems
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| show | Land Use Element
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| A region's percentage share of a particular activity with its percentage share of the local versus National Market. | show 🗑
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| show | Level of Service A
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| Steady flow of traffic with only slight delays in travel. Some limitations on speed and movement. All vehicles clear light in a single cycle. | show 🗑
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| show | Level of Service C
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| Traffic nears an unstable flow. Intersections still functional, but short queues develop and cars may have to wait through one cycles during short peaks. | show 🗑
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| Characterized by slow movement and frequent stoppages. Congestion is considered severe, but not uncommon at peak traffic hours, with frequent stopping, long standing queues and blocked intersections. | show 🗑
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| Unsatisfactory stop and go traffic characterized by traffic jams and stoppages of long duration. Cars usually have to wait through one or more signal cycles. | show 🗑
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| The process where one sets lower bounds for the various objectives that, if attained, will be "good enough" and then seeks a solution that will exceed these bounds. | show 🗑
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| New development designed with the pedestrian in mind. | show 🗑
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| Retrofitting of existing suburbs with new growth areas along pedestrian areas around public transportation hubs. | show 🗑
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| A process in which general agreement is reached over a period of time people with divergent interests. | show 🗑
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| Effort of a third party, usually a single person to persuade disputants to come to an agreement. | show 🗑
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| Method of assessing project alternatives by wseighting alternatives according to citizen group goals. | show 🗑
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| Put planning related issue on ballot - challenges existing i.e. adopted plan | show 🗑
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| Used to facilitate meaningful discussions through a moderator - developed by Rand Corporation | show 🗑
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| To represent disadvantaged segments of population | show 🗑
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| Planning approach for comprehensive plans, census in community,4 elements: goal setting;ID policy alternatives;eval means against ends; implement preferred alternative | show 🗑
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| show | Incremental Planning
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| show | Transactive Planning
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| Planning that does not work, i.e. allow neighborhood to take over planning functions. | show 🗑
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| Solve Societys ills through physical planning, "Visionary", ie. Corbusiers "Contemporary City", Howards "Garden City", Burnhams "White City", Wrights "Broadacre City". | show 🗑
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| show | Methodism
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