Lesson 12 Site Analysis & Codes/Regulations
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| Small Scale | May displays a large land area with very little detail
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| Large Scale | Map shows a limited land area in great detail
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| Common scale for US Geologic Survey | 1: 24,000 scale
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| Contour Lines | Lines of elevation
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| Contour Interval | The distance between contour lines
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| Slope | Calculated by the change in elevation divided by the horizontal distance
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| Floor Area Ratio | Ratio of the amount of the floor area on a parcel to the amount of land area of the parcel
Calculations are used to determine floor space in relation to given lot size
Primarily to determine building density on a site
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| Site Planning | Landscape architecture plan and engineering drawing of proposed improvements to a given lot
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| Code | Composed of rules and regulations
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| Ordinance | Refers to specifically to municipal law
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| Law | Is more general and occurs at any scale of government
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| Building Code | Based on health and safety standards and control design, construction, and materials used in construction
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| Subdivision Regulations | Control the manner in which blocks of land over a certain size many be converted into building lots
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| Critique of FAR | How the building is acting on the lot (e.g. setbacks)
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| FAR Question: If a 2.5-acre lot has has FAR of 6, how many stories can be built, if 60% of the site will be required for onsite storm water treatment, parking, sidewalks and landscaping? | 6 X 2.5 = 15
Note: the 60% doesn't matter
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| Variance | Granted because of the specific physical characteristics of a particular property
May alter the allowable use of the parcel
Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) deals with site-specific modifications
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| Conditional Use Permit | Allows land uses in zone where the use isn't currently allowed
"Special use permit"
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| Overlay Zone | Allows a community's functional concerns to out across existing zoning designations
Establishes additional standards for properties, in addition to underlying zoning districts
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| Floating Zone | Districts that are described in a zoning ordinance but have no necessarily been including on the zoning map
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| Planning Unit Development (PUD) | Floating zone intended to create a mix of uses, density, and infrastructure standards, to allow flexibility in the development standards for specific uses on the subject site
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| Performance Zoning | Performance standards regulate development by setting desired goals
Provides flexibility
Tend NOT to include restricting specific uses on a property, but permits that meet a specific set of standards
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| Nonconforming Use | Is a use of property that was allowed under the zoning regulations at the time the use was established but which, because of subsequent changes in those regulations, is no longer a permitted use
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| Form-Based Code | Design-based regulations; not guidelines
Composed of building form standards and public space standards mapped to a regulating plan
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| Transect-Based Planning | Subcategory of form based code
Zoning document based on environmental analysis
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| Rural to Urban Transect | Based on density
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| Zone of the Transect | Natural Zone
Rural Zone
Sub-Urban Zone
General Urban Zone
Urban Center Zone
Urban Code Zone
Special District
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