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What does the first section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - CORRECT ANSWERS--Principles to which we aspire What does the second section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - CORRECT ANSWERS--Our rules of conduct What does the third section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - CORRECT ANSWERS--Our code procedures What does the fourth section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - CORRECT ANSWERS--Planners convicted of serious crimes - automatic suspension of certification How many sections does the AICP Code of Ethics have? - CORRECT ANSWERS--4 How many aspirational principles are there in the AICP Code? - CORRECT ANSWERS--3 How many rules of conduct are there in the AICP Code? - CORRECT ANSWERS-- 26 How many code procedures are there? - CORRECT ANSWERS--17 How many points are there under part 4 of the code? - CORRECT ANSWERS--4 What do the code's aspirational statement address? - CORRECT ANSWERS--1. responsibility to the public 2. responsibility to clients and employers 3. responsibility to profession and colleagues What is a Metes and Bounds survey - CORRECT ANSWERS--A system or method of describing land from English Common Law that uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of land. The boundaries are described in a running prose style, working around the parcel in sequence, from a point of beginning, returning back to the same point. (The term "metes" refers to a boundary defined by the measurement of each straight run, specified by a distance between the terminal points, and an orientation or direction. A direction may be a simple compass bearing, or a precise orientation determined by accurate survey methods. The term "bounds" refers to a more general boundary description, such as along a certain watercourse, a stone wall, an adjoining public road way, or an existing building.) What is 'satisficing'? - CORRECT ANSWERS--A decision-making strategy that attempts to meet criteria for adequacy, rather than to identify an optimal solution. Satisficing occurs in consensus building when the group looks towards a solution everyone can agree on even if it may not be the best. Housing Act of 1934 - CORRECT ANSWERS--Created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Part of the New Deal, designed to stop the tide of bank foreclosures on family homes. (Also known as the Capehart Act) Housing Act of 1937 - CORRECT ANSWERS--Tied slum clearance to public housing. Povided for subsidies to be paid from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHA's) to improve living conditions for low-income families. (Also known as the Wagner-Steagall Act). Housing Act of 1949 - CORRECT ANSWERS--Created the Urban Redevelopment Agency and gave it the authority to subsidize three fourths of the cost of local slum clearance and urban renewal. -Provided federal financing for slum clearance programs associated with urban renewal projects in American cities (Title I), -Increased authorization for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance (Title II), -Extending federal money to build more than 800,000 public housing units (Title III) -Fund research into housing and housing techniques -Permitting the FHA to provide financing for rural homeowners. Housing Act of 1954 - CORRECT ANSWERS--Modified urban redevelopment and renewal by requiring communities engaged in such activities to adopt code enforcement, relocation, and other measures that would prevent the further spread of urban blight. Popularized the phrase "urban renewal"; made these projects more enticing to developers, by among other things, providing FHA-backed mortgages. Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 - CORRECT ANSWERS--Established the Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development. Hoshin planning - CORRECT ANSWERS--Strategic planning/strategic management methodology, used at Toyota, HP, etc. Who designed Columbia, MD? - CORRECT ANSWERS--James Rouse, 1967; planned community that consists of ten self-contained villages US Population in 2000 - CORRECT ANSWERS--281,421,906 The Council of Government movement started... - CORRECT ANSWERS--In Detroit in 1954 Oligotrophic lakes - CORRECT ANSWERS--Deep lakes with low supply of nutrients and thus little organic matter Dissimilarity Index - CORRECT ANSWERS--measures the intensity of segregation of two groups of people across space (typically for a city or metro area suing census tracts or block groups). Value between 0 and 1 (or 100), "the percent of people from Coastal Zone Management Act - CORRECT ANSWERS--1972 - encouraged coastal states to develop and implement coastal zone management plan. Established national policy to preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, restore or enhance, the resources of the Nation's coastal zone for this and succeeding generations Clean Water Act - CORRECT ANSWERS--1972 - the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. Established the goals of eliminating releases of high amounts of toxic substances into water, eliminating additional water pollution by 1985, and ensuring that surface waters would meet standards necessary for human sports and recreation by 1983. The principal body of law currently in effect is based on the Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972 and was significantly expanded from the Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1984. Major amendments were enacted in the Clean Water Act of 1977 and the Water Quality Act of 1987. Clean Air Act - CORRECT ANSWERS--1963 - requires the EPA to develop and enforce regulations to protect the general public from exposure to airborne contaminants that are known to be hazardous to human health. The Act was passed in 1963 and significantly amended in 1970, 1977 and 1990. 1963: created a regulatory program in the U.S. Public Health Service 1970: required comprehensive federal and state regulations for both industrial and mobile sources. 4 new regulatory programs: -National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)[7] -State Implementation Plans (SIPs) -New Source Performance Standards (NSPS); and -National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs). 1977: required Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) of air quality for areas attaining the NAAQS, and added requirements for non-attainment areas. 1990: added regulatory programs for control of acid deposition (acid rain) and stationary source operating permits. The NESHAPs program was expanded to control additional toxic air pollutants, and the NAAQS program was also expanded. Other new provisions covered stratospheric ozone protection, increased enforcement authority, and expanded research programs Also: 1st major environmental law in the United States to include a provision for citizen suits. Endangered Species Act - CORRECT ANSWERS--1973 - protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." Administered by Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Prior law in 1966 - authorized the Secretary of the Interior to list endangered domestic fish and wildlife and allowed the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to spend up to $15 million per year to buy habitat for listed species Flood Control Act - CORRECT ANSWERS--multiple years starting in 1917 - granted authority to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the designing and building of flood control projects. Impacted emergency management. Initial laws responded to several major floods between 1849 and 1936; 1917 law was the first aimed exclusively at controlling floods Safe Drinking Water Act - CORRECT ANSWERS--1974 - EPA is required to set standards for drinking water quality and oversee all states, localities, and water suppliers who implement these standards. EPA establishes National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs) for contaminants that may cause adverse public health effects - includes both mandatory levels (Maximum Contaminant Levels, or MCLs) and nonenforceable health goals (Maximum Contaminant Level Goals, or MCLGs) for each included contaminant. Note that MCLs make a site eligible for Superfund Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) - CORRECT ANSWERS--1980 - "Superfund," clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances. Authorized the EPA to identify parties responsible for contamination of sites and compel the parties to clean up the sites. Where responsible parties cannot be found, the Agency is authorized to clean up sites itself, using a special trust fund. Eligible sites for Superfund-financed cleanup are listed on the National Priorities List Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), made several important changes and additions to CERCLA including increasing the funding of Superfund to $8.5 billion and providing for studies and the use of new technologies National Priorities List - CORRECT ANSWERS--The list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action (cleanup) financed under the federal Superfund program; intended primarily to guide EPA in determining which sites warrant further investigation Hazard Ranking System - CORRECT ANSWERS--Scoring system used to evaluate potential relative risks to public health and the environment from releases or threatened releases of hazardous wastes at uncontrolled waste sites. Under the Superfund program, the EPA and state agencies use the HRS to calculate a site score (ranging from 0 to 100) based on the actual or potential release of hazardous substances from a site through air, surface water or groundwater. A score of 28.5 places the site on the National Priorities List, making the site eligible for long-term remedial action (i.e., cleanup) under the Superfund program. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) - CORRECT ANSWERS--1970 - Created the Council on Environmental Quality which oversaw the environmental impact of federal actions. Set up procedural requirements for all federal government agencies to prepare Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) of the environmental effects of proposed federal agency actions Categorical Exclusion - CORRECT ANSWERS--a category of actions that the agency has determined does not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment Environmental Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS--a screening document used to determine if an agency will need to prepare either an EIS or construct a FONSI; determine the significance of the environmental effects and to look at alternative means to achieve the agency's objectives Finding of No Significant Impact - CORRECT ANSWERS--If after investigation and drafting of the environmental assessment no substantial effects on the environment are found the agency may produce a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). A FONSI presents the reasons why an action will not have a significant effect on the human environment. Environmental Impact Statement - CORRECT ANSWERS--A more detailed evaluation of the environmental impacts when compared to the content of the environmental assessment. An EIS is required to describe: • The environmental impacts of the proposed action; • Any adverse environmental impacts that cannot be avoided should the proposal be implemented; • The reasonable alternatives to the proposed action; • The relationship between local short-term uses of man's environment and the maintenance and enhancement of long-term productivity; and • Any irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources that would be involved in the proposed action should it be implemented. HOPE VI - CORRECT ANSWERS--1992, 1998 (begun in 1992, formal law in 1998) Eliminate distressed public housing - New Urbanist and Defensible Space ideas influence Standard Zoning Enabling Act - CORRECT ANSWERS--1926, US Dept of Commerce - issued in draft from in 1922, adopted by 43 states by 1926. -Tied zoning to the health, safety, morals or general welfare of the community -Regulations uniformly applied within a district -Not effective until there is a public hearing -Calls for a zoning commission to develop the zoning, hold a public hearing, then recommend to the legislative body -Board of Adjustment makes special exceptions to the zoning and grants variances (hardship relief) Standard City Planning Enabling Act - CORRECT ANSWERS--1928, US Dept of Commerce Defines a master plan and directs its development Planning commission has 9 members typically Plan will discuss general location and extent of public facilities, improvements, and utilities Plan addresses future needs Public hearing before adoption Approves subdivision plans, which have street plans and create new plat Sprawl (define) - CORRECT ANSWERS--1. Widely dispersed population in low- density residential development 2. Rigid separation of uses 3. Lack of distinct, thriving centers 4. Road network with large block sizes and poor access LOS C - CORRECT ANSWERS--Stable flow with delays, less freedom to maneuver. Ability to pass or change lanes is not assured. Most experienced drivers are comfortable, and posted speed is maintained, but roads are close to capacity. This is often the target LOS for urban highways. (V/C = 0.71 - .80) LOS D - CORRECT ANSWERS--High Density but stable flow. Typical of an urban highway during commuting hours. Speeds are somewhat reduced, motorists are hemmed in by other cars and trucks. (V/C = .81 - .90) LOS E - CORRECT ANSWERS--Operating conditions at or near capacity; unstable flow, speed varies rapidly, but rarely reaches the posted limit. On highways this is consistent with a road over its designed capacity. (V/C = .91 - 1.0) LOS F - CORRECT ANSWERS--Flow is forced; every vehicle moves in lockstep with the vehicle in front of it, with frequent drops in speed to nearly zero mph. A road for which the travel time cannot be predicted. (V/C > 1.0) Local roads - CORRECT ANSWERS--The local street system comprises all facilities not on one of the higher systems. It serves primarily to provide direct access to abutting land and access to the higher order systems. It offers the lowest level of mobility and usually contains no bus routes. Service to through, traffic movement usually is deliberately discouraged. Collector roads - CORRECT ANSWERS--Provides both land access service and traffic circulation within residential neighborhoods, commercial and industrial areas. It differs from the arterial system in that facilities on the collector system may penetrate residential neighborhoods, distributing trips from the arterials through the area to the ultimate destination. Conversely, the collector street also collects traffic from local streets in residential neighborhoods and channels it into the arterial system. Minor arterials / secondary roads - CORRECT ANSWERS--The minor arterial street system should interconnect with and augment the urban principal arterial system and provide service to trips of moderate length at a somewhat lower level of travel mobility than principal arterials. This system also distributes travel to geographic areas smaller than those identified with the higher system. The minor arterial street system includes all arterials not classified as a principal and contains facilities that place more emphasis on land access than the higher system, and offer a lower level of traffic mobility. Such facilities may carry local bus routes and provide intra-community continuity, but ideally should not penetrate identifiable neighborhoods. This system should include urban connections to rural collector roads where such connections have not been classified as urban principal arterials. Principal arterials / major roads - CORRECT ANSWERS--The principal arterial system should carry the major portion of trips entering and leaving the urban area, as well as the majority of through movements desiring to bypass the central city. In addition, significant intra-area travel, such as between central business districts and outlying residential areas between major inner city communities, or between major suburban centers should be served by this system. Frequently the principal arterial system will carry important intraurban as well as intercity bus routes. Finally, this system in small urban and urbanized areas should provide continuity for all rural arterials which intercept the urban boundary. The principal arterial system is stratified as follows: (1) Interstate, (2) other freeways and expressways, and (3) other principal arterials (with no control of access) Expressway/Freeway - CORRECT ANSWERS--No land access and metropolitan and city traffic movement Drainage basin - CORRECT ANSWERS--A geographic areas whose outer boundaries consist of ridgelines that define the highest points in the area, so that all the rain that falls inside those ridge lines drains into the same creek, stream, or river Telecommunications Act of 1996 - CORRECT ANSWERS--Prohibits local government from adopting regulations that will interfere with wireless service (cell, dish TV) and from discriminating among service providers First comprehensive zoning law - CORRECT ANSWERS--New York City, 1916 Permissive zoning - CORRECT ANSWERS--Anything not explicitly permitted is prohibited Overlays zones - CORRECT ANSWERS--Height and area standards "overlay" the various use districts. The City of Euclid had this type of zoning Performance zoning - CORRECT ANSWERS--Also known as impact zoning. Establishes criteria to measure a land use's spillover effects onto neighbors (e.e.g for an industrial area, no dust shall be allowed to escape the property limits, a maximum of 70 decibels at the property line is permitted) Legislative actions - CORRECT ANSWERS--Ordinances laying down general policies without regard to a specific piece of property are usually an exercise of legislative authority. Afforded presumption of validity. Quasi-judicial/administrative actions - CORRECT ANSWERS--Some discretion involved. Subject to greater scrutiny than legislative acts, not afforded presumption of validity Ministerial actions - CORRECT ANSWERS--No discretion involved - just apply the regulations. The quiet revolution - CORRECT ANSWERS--Attempt by states and metros to take back some of the land use power granted to localities under Euclid. Didn't really succeed - HI, OR, FL, NJ, and MD are about the only states where it did. Locals don't want to give the power back after the states delegated it, voters won't support passing back up.