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| NAFTA | show 🗑
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| Trade Bloc | show 🗑
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| Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) | show 🗑
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| show | Reduce the loss of life and property due to natural disasters and to enable mitigation measures to be implemented during the immediate recovery from a disaster.
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| e-Government | show 🗑
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| e-Government | show 🗑
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| Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) | show 🗑
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| Green Belt | show 🗑
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| show | A method for protecting land by transferring the "rights to develop" from one area and giving them to another.
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| Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) | show 🗑
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| Dillon's Rule | show 🗑
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| show | Refers to when a developer/property owner has the right to develop a property - if they have a building permit, have relied on a public official, have made a substaintial investment etc.
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| show | Changes the rules regarding the use and development of every property in a specified zoning district
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| Zoning map amendment | show 🗑
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| Variance | show 🗑
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| show | Any change in any street layout, other public improvement; lot line; amount of land reserved for public use or the common use of lot owners; & easements shown on the approved plat.
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| Kelo v. City of New London (2005) | show 🗑
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| Lingle v. Chevron (2005) | show 🗑
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| show | New York has a population density of 10,292 people per kilometer. San Francisco has a density of 6,423 per kilometer.
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| Americans with Disabilities Act | show 🗑
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| Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) | show 🗑
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| show | Required both the private and public sectors to conform to certain environmental standards
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| Enterprise fund | show 🗑
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| show | Urban Growth Boundary is the most effective method for preventing development in specified geographic areas.
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| Christopher Stone's book Should Trees Have Standing | show 🗑
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| Indian Reorganization Act (1934) | show 🗑
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| show | Includes civic design as a primary principle. Cities such as DC and Chicago had large parks, statues, and well-designed public meetings.
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| show | Found that Transfer of Development Rights is an inappropriate method to compensate the landowner for a taking by the City of New York.
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| show | Best used for a single development project to determine the revenues and expenses of the project.
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| show | Peter Calthorpe
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| Advocacy Planning in Cleveland | show 🗑
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| show | Promotes a variety of housing choices to allow people of all income and household types to have a place to live.
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| show | This housing program provides funds to pay a portion of the rent for low-income households. The amount paid depends on the household income
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| show | Ernest Burgess (1925). Cities grow in a series of outward rings. Centered by a business district surrounded by a transition zone filled with low-income, high-crime area, then a working-class residential zone, then a middle-class residential zone, and fina
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| Neotraditional Development | show 🗑
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| show | 1972, San Francisco
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| Plat | show 🗑
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| First shopping center | show 🗑
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| show | Town and Country Shopping Center, 1954
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| show | Relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area, in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community, coined by Joel Garreau (1991)
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| show | the practice of placing windows, or other transparent media, and reflective surfaces so that, during the day, natural light provides effective internal illumination.
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| Transect | show 🗑
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| show | Can refer to almost any housing, but always refers to "affordable housing - Defined by four principal factors: Affordability, Home ownership, Critical workforce & proximity to employment centers
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| show | Agricultural
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| show | An economically depresed area designated for governmental subsidies and tax incentives.
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| 43,560 | show 🗑
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| Advocacy Planner | show 🗑
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| show | First city to adopt a comprehemsive plan
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| show | To assist city or county officials determine if a project will generate sufficient revenue to defray necessary public service costs
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| show | Educational materials for historic building owners, design guidelines for historic building renovations and Tax incentives to encourage renovation
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| LULU | show 🗑
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| Megalopolis | show 🗑
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| Which city was home to the first Council of Government? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following cities experienced the greatest population decrease between 1990 and 2000? | show 🗑
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| show | Responsible for reviewing and coordinating programs affecting the region, certifying that a project to be federally funded will be consistent with regional plans or regional development goals and working w/ municipalities to coordinate roadway plans
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| show | Created by the APA to encourage states to revise their standard state zoning enabling acts?
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| President Clinton did which of the following in 2000? | show 🗑
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| President George H. Bush did which of the following in 1994? | show 🗑
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| show | Was the first Historic Preservation Commission for the French Quarter in New Orleans, formed in the 1930's.
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| Lowering a thermostat by 1 degree Fahrenheit can reduce a heating bill by | show 🗑
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| The amount of goods and serviced produced in the United States during a year | show 🗑
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| How many federally recognized Native American tribes are there in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | Did not organize under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
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| show | Approximately 4.5 lbs. per person, per day.
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| show | The analysis between two or more variables (x) and (y).
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| show | Established 1977 to help distressed communities develop economically. facilitates public-private partnerships,attempts to encourage redevelopment in urban areas and encouraged intergovernmental cooperation for redevelopment projects
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| show | Arizona & Nevada
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| Which city had the first metropolitan plan in the United States? | show 🗑
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| When was the first National Conference on City Planning? | show 🗑
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| show | Individuals unemployed divided by individuals 16 years of age and older in the labor force
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| Concentric Zone Theory | show 🗑
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| Indian Reorganization Act | show 🗑
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| show | The study of (natural and manmade) lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, wetlands and groundwaters.
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| Census Tract | show 🗑
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| show | New York City, 1916
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| show | Congress gave public land to each state to be sold for the establishment of “engineering, agriculture, and military sciences” colleges?
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| Zero Lot Line | show 🗑
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| What year did the Panama Canal open? | show 🗑
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| show | 1954
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| Storm sewers are typically designed to handle up to what year flood? | show 🗑
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| Dezoning | show 🗑
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| show | A cross-sectional survey gathers information about a population at a single point in time. For example, planners might conduct a survey on how parents feel about the quality of recreation facilities as of today.
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| show | Over a period of time. Some cities conduct a citizen survey of service satisfaction every couple of years. This data can be combined to compare the differences in satisfaction between 1995 and 2005.
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| show | divides the population into groups, known as classes, from which a sample is drawn.
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| show | determine characteristics of a population based on observations made on a sample from that population. We infer things about the population based on what is observed in the sample.
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| show | classified into mutually exclusive groups that lack intrinsic order. Race, social security number, and sex are examples of nominal data. Mode is the only measure of central tendency that can be used for nominal data.
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| show | values that are ranked so that inferences can be made regarding the magnitude. no fixed interval between values. letter grade on a test, for example. Mode and median are the only measures of central tendency that can be used for ordinal data.
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| Interval data | show 🗑
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| Ratio data | show 🗑
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| Qualitative Variables | show 🗑
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| show | can be interval or ratio
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| Continuous Variables | show 🗑
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| show | only have two possible values, such as unemployed or employed which are symbolized as 0 and 1
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| Hypothesis Test | show 🗑
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| Null Hypothesis, | show 🗑
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| An Alternate Hypothesis, | show 🗑
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| Variance | show 🗑
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| show | square root of the variance.
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| Coefficient of Variation | show 🗑
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| show | standard deviation of a sampling distribution. Standard errors indicate the degree of sampling fluctuation. The larger the sample size the smaller the standard error.
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| show | gives an estimated range of values which is likely to include an unknown population parameter. The width of the confidence interval gives us an idea of how uncertain we are about the unknown parameter.
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| show | non-parametric test statistic that provides a measure of the amount of difference between two frequency distributions. Chi Square is commonly used for probability distributions in inferential statistics.
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| z-score | show 🗑
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| t-test | show 🗑
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| show | It studies the relationship between two variables, the first variable must be nominal and the second is interval.
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| Correlation Coefficient | show 🗑
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| Regression | show 🗑
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| show | occurs when one has taken a sample from a larger population. The sample is not representative of the population as a whole, creating a sampling error.
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| show | cannot be explained by the representativeness of the sample. A nonsampling error can occur as a result of respondents misunderstanding a question or misreporting their answer and can also including missing values.
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| show | Pop Estimate. Uses the rate of growth (or decline) in population over a period of time to estimate the current or future population.
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| Exponential Method | show 🗑
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| show | Pop Estimate. Uses available data to estimate the current population.
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| Modified Exponential | show 🗑
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| Step-Down Ratio Method | show 🗑
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| Distributed Housing Unit Method | show 🗑
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| Cohort Survival Method | show 🗑
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| show | looks at basic and non-basic economic activities. Basic activities are those that can be exported, while non-basic activities are those that are locally oriented. The exporting industries make up the economic base of a region. Uses location quotients.
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| Location Quotient | show 🗑
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| Shift-share analysis | show 🗑
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| show | used to determine the employment effect that a particular project has on a local economy.
links suppliers and purchasers to determine the economic output of a region. Input-output analysis is similar to economic base analysis.
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| North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) | show 🗑
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| show | an accounting method of allocating the cost of a tangible asset over its useful life.
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| show | An urban nucleus of 50,000 or more people. In general, they must have a core with a population density of 1,000 persons per square mile and may contain adjoining territory with at least 500 persons per square mile.
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| show | At least 2,500 but less than 50,000 persons and a population density of 1,000 persons per square mile. New for the 2000 Census. In 2000, 11% of the U.S. population lived in 3,158 urban clusters.
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| show | 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 population of at least 100,000.
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| Micropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) | show 🗑
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| show | The equivalent of an incorporated place for data purposes. This is for settled concentrations of population that are not incorporated.
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| show | Made up of several PMSA's. An example is the Dallas-Fort Worth Consolidated Metropolitan Area. Dallas and Fort Worth are each primary metropolitan statistical areas.
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| Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) | show 🗑
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| show | 1961, Jean Gottman coined Megalopolis, referring to 300-mile-long urban area between Boston and Washington D.C. Generally dominated by low-density settlement and complex networks of economic specialization. megacity refers megalopolis > 10 million people.
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| show | Typically has a population between 2,000 and 8,000 people. It is the smallest area where all information is released.
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| Census Block | show 🗑
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| Census Block Group | show 🗑
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| Minor Civil Division (MCD) | show 🗑
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| Tribal Designated Statistical Area | show 🗑
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| show | Use by many programs to determine eligibility. For example the Threshold Population to qualify to receive Community Development Block Grant Funds.
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| Fastest growing states | show 🗑
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| Top ten fastest growing metropolitan areas between 2000 and 2010 | show 🗑
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| Percent of the US population living in urban areas. | show 🗑
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| Only state between 2000 and 2010 that lost population. | show 🗑
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| show | average household size went down from 3.1 in 1970 to 2.59 in 2010.
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| Median age | show 🗑
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| American Community Survey (ACS) | show 🗑
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| TIGER | show 🗑
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| Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) | show 🗑
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| Design Charrette | show 🗑
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| Delphi Method | show 🗑
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| Nominal Group Technique | show 🗑
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| Facilitation | show 🗑
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| Mediation | show 🗑
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| show | PI. Typically associated with Planning Commission, City Council, etc. Allow formal citizen input at the end of a planning process. Typically mandated by law. Hearings are typically ineffective at building public participation and consensus.
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| show | Assists citizens in evaluating physical images of natural/built environments. View and evaluate variety of pictures depicting building styles, streetscapes, etc.
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