Section 2 Flashcards
Comprehensive Community Master Plan
general guide on how a community would like to develop in the future. (documents are not legally binded)
Zoning Map
Illustrates a city’s various districts by use & used to control population density & growth characteristics.
Typically shows permitted land uses & allowable densities of development.
Zoning Ordinance
The written regulation & laws that explain allowed land use & densities allowed within specific areas of the city.
*may include specific information about uses such as off-street parking & setbacks.
Assessor’s Map
used to locate buildings & land in order to establish their worth.
Regional Land Use Maps
Illustrate existing land uses & types, areas, & types of proposed development.
Boundary Survey
The process of locating property lines by establishing a property corners of a parcel for building permit purposes, or locating easement lines or to resolve property disputes.
*Made by traversing.
Cadastral Survey
are made to resurvey/retrace the boundarries of municipalities & of state, federal jurisdictions & other public lands within public land surveying systems of the United States.
Geodetic Survey
When surveys are such wide extent that the curvature of the earth is a matter of importance they are called geodetic surveys.
*generally make use of a coordinate system to locate points on the earth.
Metes and bounds
The survey describes land by boundary dimensions and shapes.
Record or As-Built Survey
For locating existing structures on a parcel of land a record or as-built survey is conducted.
Existing Topography
mapping of the existing (pre-development) land surface elevations, water bodies, geology, and other features that describe a piece of property.
Flood Plain
area adjacent to a stream of body of water that is susceptible to flooding.
Floodway
the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the 100-year flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation.
Karst
areas where the dissolution of limestone or other soluble rocks has produced cliffs, sinkholes, caves, underground streams, and other similar features.
Ponds
a small, still body of water.
Property Use
evaluating the existing property use is important in understanding the impact from the proposed development or the project site.
Soil Type (or hydrologic soil group)
a term used to estimate the stormwater runoff potential. Defined by “A” “B” “C” or “D”
“A” Lowest Runoff / Highest Infiltration Rate
“D” Highest Runoff / Lowest infiltration Rate
Stream
a body of moving water in a natural channel, such as a creek or river.
Stream Buffer
a natural area boundary between a development and stream that helps protect water quality by filtering pollution and infiltrating stormwater runoff.
Vegetated Cover
vegetation can heavily influence the runoff potential from a site.
Wetland
wetlands occur at the transition zone between land and water / those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
Waters of the State
All rivers, streams, lakes and other bodies of surface and subsurface water lying within or forming a part of the boundaries of the state which are not entirely confined and located completely upon lands owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by a single person or by two or more persons jointly or as tenants in common and includes waters of the United States lying within the state.
Arid Areas
areas with an average annual rainfall of 0 to 10 inches.
Best Management Practices
schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States.
Includes treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practice to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.