Random Questions Flashcards
What is the most suitable anchor for a shopping center that is 75,000 SF?
Grocery Store (approximately 48,000sf)
Restaurant: 5,000 SF or smaller
Department Stores: 150,000SF
Discount Store (Walmart): 175,000SF
A poll was conducted to determine what percentage of the registered voters favored having the current mayor of a large city run for a second term. The results were 52% of the registered voters polled were in favor of the 2nd term with a margin of error of 0.04.
What does this mean?
With 95% confidence, the estimated percentage of 52% is within 4% of the true percentage favoring the mayor’s run for a second term.
95% confidence interval is a standard statistical rule-of-thumb that comes from the assumption of a normal distribution.
Oregon’s Measure 37 has had a significant impact on the ability of local governments to engage in land regulation. What is the best description of the Oregon law?
Oregon’s Measure 37 is a land owner to be compensated if the land regulation results in a devaluation of the property if they are the owner at the time of the regulation was put in place.
You are creating a public participation plan for a major infrastructure planning project. You know there is going to be substantial interest from the public and that you will have large numbers of people attending. Your ant to design the meeting to allow for a small group experience. After considering all of your options for participatory techniques, you believe your best option is:
A Samoan Circle (similar to Fishbowl).
It is designed to permit interaction that occurs in small groups but can be witnessed by a larger group. Th meeting is set up with an inner circle of five to six chairs. The rest of the chairs are set up in concentric outer circles. Once they speak they return to their original seat.
Vieux Carre Commission
First Historic Preservation Commission
AKA French Quarter, the oldest section of the City of New Orleans and is a National Historic Landmark.
What flood zone does FEMA designate as a Special Flood Hazard Area?
100 year flood
Flood hazard areas identified on the Flood Insurance Rate Map are identified as a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA).
SFHA are defined as the area that will be inundated by the flood event having a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
The 1% annual chance flood is also referred to as the base flood or 100 year flood.
Operating and long term maintenance costs should be considered in which of the following budgeting techniques?
PPBS
Performance Budgeting
CIP
ZBB
CIP (Capital Improvement Plan)
You work for a community development corporation and were recently brought on as the new executive director. One of the key things you have heard from the staff of 30 is that people don’t know what is going on and who is doing what. To support enhanced communications you decide to reorganize staff. What organizational structure do you use?
Flat - this places more responsibility amount individual employees, resulting in greater communication among people in the organization.
Since 1950, annual energy consumption in the United States is:
Increasing according to the US Dept. Of Energy
Sample selection bias can occur when:
The availability of data is influenced by the selection process.
The selection process is critical to ensuring a statistically valid sample.
In Supreme Court cases that challenge the regulations on the basis of the Fifth Amendment, the court has called for a balancing of interests approach for reviewing taking claims. What is the purpose of this approach?
Analyzing the nature and extent of the public interest involved and the nature and extent of the loss to the property owner.
What is an analysis of the relationship between on or more variables to determine if the factors impact the dependent variable?
A regression analysis is an analysis of two or more variables (x) and (y).
Which management technique requires the agency to set clear, specific, and realistic objectives that can be prioritized and measured?
MBO - Management by Objectives is a process of agreeing upon objectives within an organization so that management and employees agree to the objectives and understand what they are.
Peter Drucker - 1954 “The Practice of Management”
Which of the following is not a goal of a site plan review?
Improve the aesthetics of projects
Preservation of on-site natural features
Provision for adequate parking and loading facilities
Increase the value of property
Increase the value of property is not a goal.
The general purposes of site plan review are to protect the health, safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants of the community by providing a comprehensive review of land use and development plans on a site by site basis.
Which of the following is NOT usually true when describing the cross section of a street?
- If there is a sidewalk, it is included in the right of way of the street
- The street is sloped so that the high point is in the middle and it drains to the edges
- The traffic lanes are typically 9 to 12 feet in width
- Roads are typically sloped one inch per foot or higher to ensure proper drainage
Roads are typically sloped one inch per foot or higher is INCORRECT
Roads are typically sloped up to a 1/2” per foot in order to provide positive drainage.
What federal program provides rental assistance to low-income households?
Section 8 Certificates
The Section 8 housing program provides funds to pay a portion of the rent for low-income households. The amount paid depends on household income. While the HOME program provides for the possibility of rental assistance - this is only possible where market conditions support such use. Best answer is Section 8 Certificates.
What is the best way to resolve a conflict in the community?
Consensus Building also called Collaborative Problem Solving or Collaboration is essentially mediation of a conflict which involves many parties.
What form of renewable energy is most regulated by local governments?
Wind energy is the most commonly regulated by local governments. This typically includes setback requirements as well as zoning district categories that allow or prohibit wind turbines.
What accurately describes the zero based budget?
The budget is based on decision packages.
Zero Based Budgeting assumes that every unit has $0 and then the governing body decides on a series of decision packages that will advance key goals and objectives of the organization.
What historic planning figure was the first African American to serve in the US Cabinet, as the head of the Dept of Housing and Urban Development?
Robert Weaver
The Supreme Court in Nectow v. City of Cambridge dealt with what issue?
Zoning
The issue in Nectow (1928) was whether the zoning ordinance was constitutional as applied to the Plaintiffs land.
Using an equation that can be rearranged to solve for the missing unknown variable, find the missing unknown variable.
Present Value: ?
Future Value: $50,000,000
Time: 25 years
Interest Rate: 5%
$14,765,139
(1+.05)^25 = 3.38635….
50,000,000/3.38635 = 14,765,138.58
What is the historical relationship between the American Society of Planning Officials, the American Institute of Planners and the American Planning Association?
The APA was formed in the late 1970s when the AIP and ASPO consolidated. The AIP first started in 1917 as the American City Planning Institute until it was renamed in 1939.
ASPO was established in 1934
As you are beginning the comprehensive plan for the county, you are focused on analyzing demographic change. As the next step, you are preparing population projections. You are evaluating alternative methods for projecting populations. Which of the following would be the most appropriate to consider using?
Cohort Survival
Gompertz
Linear
Step Down
Cohort Survival
Gompertz
Linear
There are multiple methods for projecting population.
Step-Down Ration method typically steps down the population at the county level to a community level, therefore this would be a less useful method to use in preparing county population projections.
You are tasked with making a presentation on the state of the housing market in your town. You have data from the past year’s sales. As it happens, the local land bank sold many properties for a token $1 (well below market value) in a neighborhood stabilization effort. What would be the best statistical summary of the central tendency of the sales prices?
Median
Given that many properties were sold below market value, the distribution will be dominated by these low value sales and be skewed towards the left. As a result the mean will be affected by these outliers.
The city’s current high-rise public housing is a mess. It is crime ridden, falling apart, and residents do not want to live there. You have developed a plan to create mixed income townhouse developments near the downtown that would accommodate the residents of the existing public housing. Which federal housing program would provide funds to implement this plan?
HOPE VI provides funds for physical improvements, management improvements and social and community services to address public housing resident needs.
A __________ is a small, informal discussion with a group of people in a private home with light refreshments. The planner typically has a short presentation followed by questions and discussion.
Coffee Klatch
For which of the following could the AICP Ethics Officer revoke a member’s certification, after following procedures outlines in the code of ethics?
- A member knowingly infringed on the copyright of another person
- A member failed to pay a traffic ticket and has a warrant out for their arrest
- A member was involved in a traffic accident that results in the death of a pedestrian
- A member was called before a court to testify in a court case
A member knowingly infringed on the copyright of another person
Section E Discipline of Members in the AICP Code of Ethics states “Conduct covered by this section shall include, but not be limited to, a finding in a civil case that the member has engaged in defamation or similar unlawful action, has knowingly infringed the copyright or other intellectual property of another, or has engaged in perjury.”
What is included in Sherry Arnstein’s ladder of public participation?
Manipulation Therapy Informing Consultation Informing Consulting Placating partnership Delegated Power Citizen Control
What is the purpose of the State Standard Enabling Act?
To provide a basic foundation for zoning in the United States.
US Dept of Commerce 1928, Herbert Hoover
In Transect Theory, what are the 6 transects?
Natural, Rural, Suburban, General Urban, Urban Center, Urban Core
Who introduced the concept of Satisficing?
Herbert Simon
How does Concentric Zone Theory differ from the other theories of urban development?
The use of “Invasion-Succession” in desiring dynamics.
Shift Share Analysis involves what?
- Evaluating the performance of an individual industry
- Evaluating the strengths and weakness of an industry
- Evaluation the region’s mix of industries
Which of the following uses is an example of one that may require a conditional use permit?
Church
Single Family Home
Office
Warehouse
Church
The latest American Community Survey reports that the population of Plannersville has 32,000 people, up from 25,000 a decade ago. Plannerhood is on the east side of Plannersville. Ten years ago 12% of the population lived in Plannerhood. You know that the current population of Plannerhood is 10,000. You want to figure out what portion of the population Plannerhood should have had based on the previous share of the population and how that has changed over the last decade.
Using the step down method, how much bigger is the Plannerhood population than would have been expected over the 10 years?
6,160
The expectation is that Plannerhood should have had 12% of 32,000 (3,840 people). We know Plannerhood has 10,000 people.
10,000-3,840 = 6,160 net population increase over what would be predicted by the step-down method.
