Exam 5 Missed Qs

Question 1

US Bureau of Reclamation

Answer 1

Federal agency that oversees irrigation, water supply, and hydroelectric power

Question 2

Silt Fence

Answer 2

Decreases sedimentation in runoff by retaining soil. Common in construction

Question 3

Streambank Stabilization

Answer 3

Protects streams and channels to reduce erosion. Can be bioengineered or structural

Question 4

Oil/Particle Separators

Answer 4

Designed to remove trash and debris from runoff

Question 5

Difference between COG and Regional Council

Answer 5

None. They are functionally the same

Question 6

New Regionalism

Answer 6

• focuses on specific territories and spatial planning;
• tries to address problems created by the growth
and fragmentation of postmodern metropolitan
regions;
• takes a more holistic approach to planning that
often integrates planning specialties such as
transportation and land use as well as environmental, economic, and equity goals;
• emphasizes physical planning, urban design, and
sense of place as well as social and economic
planning; and
• often adopts a normative or activist stance

Question 7

Morrill Act of 1862

Answer 7

Authorized proceeds from sale of land to be used for colleges

Question 8

National Education Act of 1867

Answer 8

Created Department of Education to improve school effectiveness

Question 9

Smith-Lerer Act of 1914

Answer 9

Extended services to land-grant universities

Question 10

Percent of owner-occupied homes in USA

Answer 10

65%

Question 11

Program Monitoring System

Answer 11

Documents progress, collects feedback, and allows for plan revisions as needed

Question 12

Town Hall Meeting

Answer 12

Useful to identify key issues to start a project

Question 13

Public Hearing

Answer 13

Useful at end of the project

Question 14

Open House

Answer 14

Useful to do partway through a project to show progress and gain feedback

Question 15

FOIA exemptions

Answer 15

Personal privacy, national security, importance in ongoing law enforcement case, trade secrets, internal personnel rules, supervision of financial institutions, and geological info on wells

Question 16

Is an unrelated roommate subject to ethics rules on conflicts of interest?

Answer 16

Yes. Written permission to work on their projects is still required

Question 17

Adequate Sample Size for Interviews

Answer 17

1%. Interviews are time consuming and can have a smaller sample size

Question 18

Estimated number of homeless people in USA

Answer 18

580,466 (anything in mid 500k is plausible)

Question 19

When do owners receive compensation in condemnation proceedings

Answer 19

After they pay taxing authorities their back taxes (note: this doesn’t happen with land banks)

Question 20

Incremental Planning

Answer 20

Charles Lindblom and Harvey Perloff - Argues planners should work incrementally, one at a time, “muddling through”

Question 21

Radiant City

Answer 21

Le Corbusier - Linear design in abstract shape of human body, high rise housing blocks in lines, and significant green space

Question 22

Nuisance Law

Answer 22

Activity or use is considered a nuisance if intentional and unreasonable, causes interference in neighboring property brining down its value, and continuing in nature

Question 23

Assessors Office

Answer 23

Estimates property values but DOES NOT collect taxes

Question 24

Ethics Code on Sexual Harrassment

Answer 24

Does not site this specifically, however it is definitely prohibited based on other items such as deliberately wrongful acts and reflecting poorly on the profession

Question 25

Chi-Square

Answer 25

Used to compare two contingency tables (crosstabs)

Question 26

ANOVA

Answer 26

Used for 3 categorial and one quantitative variable, comparing 3 or more means

Question 27

Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949

Answer 27

Created General Services Administration

Question 28

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 28

Largest act of planning in US history. Rectangular survey for everything west of the Appalachians

Question 29

New Markets Tax Credit

Answer 29

Spurs business development by providing tax incentives to investors for equity investments in community development entities in low-income communities

Question 30

Garden Cities and finance

Answer 30

Farmland is purchased at an agricultural rate, a limited-dividend company was established, and the community owns land so the land values increase and pass the gains back to the community

Question 31

Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis

Answer 31

Allows for weighting across series of values' dimensions so decision makers can value things that they deem are more important

Question 32

Setback

Answer 32

Minimum distance of a building from the road, water, etc. Note that this is not equivalent to a yard but can be a yard

Question 33

State Preemption

Answer 33

Law that local government is limited by state laws

Question 34

Qualified Allocation Plan

Answer 34

Technical name for LIHTC applications and awards

Question 35

Legitimate concerns to limit signage based on Metromedia

Answer 35

Aesthetics and safety

Question 36

Normative Theory of Planning

Answer 36

Andreas Faludi - Focuses on procedure of planning and the manner in which decisions are arrived at.

Question 37

How often are block level census estimates made

Answer 37

Every 10 years

Question 38

Strongest basis for controlling signage

Answer 38

Historical district

Question 39

Hoshin Kanri

Answer 39

Method for ensuring that the strategic goals of a company drive progress and action at every level within that company

Question 40

Ethical Firewall

Answer 40

Creates a wall between elected officials and line of staff who are charged with administering the regulations of an organization

Question 41

Pedestrian Pocket

Answer 41

Idea from Calthorpe of mixed use development of less than 110 acres with a park in the center

Question 42

MAP-21

Answer 42

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act. Funding surface transportation programs at over $105 billion for fiscal years (FY) 2013 and 2014, MAP-21 is the first long-term highway authorization enacted since 2005.

Question 43

Lesser Known Awful Things done by Robert Moses

Answer 43

Bridges were constructed to be too low for city buses to keep poor people out of the City

Question 44

Citizen Participation Starting Point

Answer 44

If the project has not developed its goals yet, the broadest citizen participation strategy is always best

Question 45

Radioconcentric Net

Answer 45

Ring road

Question 46

Relationship between 5th and 14th amendment cases

Answer 46

5th Amendment cases are for takings and are often 14th Amendment cases for due process too. This does not work vice versa

Question 47

4 types of measurement data

Answer 47

Nominal - Named, no order Ordinal - Named, ordered, but not mathematical (ex.: satisfaction survey) Interval - Ordinal with a calculation between answers. 0 is arbitrary. (ex.: temperature) Ratio - Numeric, zero is not arbitrary

Question 48

Planning Cell

Answer 48

Developed by Dr. Dienel. Allows citizens to learn about and assess multiple alternatives

Question 49

Can Ordinal data have a median?

Answer 49

Yes, but not a necessarily a mean

Question 50

Two types of local governments

Answer 50

General-Purpose and Single-Purpose, where Single-Purpose is a school district or fire district

Question 51

Impact Fee Basis

Answer 51

A rational nexus for how development impacts things proportionally. For example, based on the projected number of trips if it's related to traffic.

Question 52

How to Avoid Introducing Bias as a Facilitator

Answer 52

Have attendees introduce all problem and solution ideas

Question 53

ADA Revisions

Answer 53

2008 & 2010 to include Standards for Accessible Design