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Urban Planning Memes as AICP Study Prep

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Transfer of Development Rights: sending and receiving areas
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1st, 5th, and 14th amendments
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The functional classification system.
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Variances are for special situations.
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A connectivity index is a ratio that determines how many connection points and intersections a subdivision must have. Connectivity provides accessibility to adjacent planner or existing streets and subdivisions as well as circulation options within a subdivision.
Zoning meme
Zoning was upheld as constitutional in Euclid v. Ambler Realty
Clarence Perry
Clarence Perry's "Neighborhood Unit"
Variance meme
Zoning variances require a finding of fact of the existence of a hardship beyond the control of the property owner.
Nolan and Dolan rough proportionality
Nolan = essential nexus. Dolan = roughly proportional
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Zero Based Budgeting is a cost-benefit analysis for all decision-making in an organization.
Urban planning meme
"Planning problems are wicked problems." - Rittel and Webber (1973)
Subdivisions
Connectivity Index refers to links (streets) and nodes (intersections) for subdivisions. Subdivisions should be interconnected within itself and stubbed out to other existing or future subdivisions.
Garden cities
Ebenezer Howard (1898), Garden Cities
Lcbs system
Function is one of five dimensions in LBCS. Land Based Classification Standards (LBCS) color codes standardize color coding for land use and structure types. Each dimension is an attribute that takes the appropriate four-digit code.
Vesting meme
Permit vesting statutes vary by state. Vesting is only valid from the beginning of legal activity.
Complete streets
Complete streets are multi-modal.
Concentric Zone Model
"Concentric Zone Model" - Ernest Burgess (1925)
Open meetings act
Proper notification is not only law, but also an ethical responsibility as a planner.
Daniel burnham
Daniel Burnham, City Beautiful Movement, Plan for Chicago
traffic calming
A chicane is a traffic calming device.
metropolitan planning organizations
MPOs link local control to federal transportation dollars. Working with State DOTs on projects that implement a variety of transportation goals.
dillon's rule
Under Dillon's Rule, a municipal government has authority to act only when : (1) the power is granted in the express words of the statute, private act, or charter creating the municipal corporation; (2) the power is necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident to the powers expressly granted; or (3) the power is one that is neither expressly granted nor fairly implied from the express grants of power, but is otherwise implied as essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation.
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Hawaii was the first state to adopt statewide zoning (1961).

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