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Site Inventory: Cultural Attributes Flashcards

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The ASTM Phase One Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) is an assessment that requires…

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Services of legal, environmental, and engineering professionals with expertise in regulatory compliance and project permitting to summarize site’s ownership, land use history, soil/ groundwater conditions, and maps other buildings/ structures on site

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When assessing a site’s land use, keep in mind the content it’s in by documenting the surrounding two things

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  1. Land use types
  2. Land use intensities
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3
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Land ownership is also called

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Tenure

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In terms of mapping, what term is used to describe the register of property showing extent, value, and ownership of land for taxation?

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Cadastre

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What are the 5 source categories of nonpoint pollution?

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  1. Agricultural runoff
  2. Urban runoff
  3. Forestry runoff
  4. Marinas
  5. Hydromodification
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What is a comprehensive plan?

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Community level “vision” statement about how a community intends to grow (typically 20-30 years)

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Zoning codes are regulations for

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Land use

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T or F: Conventional or “Euclidean” zoning contributes to urban sprawl by rigidly separating residential uses from non-residential uses and by fostering land consumptive development patterns that make transportation by walking or public transit virtually impractical

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True

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Local zoning codes that allow variances from code requirements under certain conditions are called

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Planned unit development (PUD) or planned development district (PDD)

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T or F: subdivision ordinances and typically do not set minimum requirements for parcel size

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False

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What are the 12 issues investigated by site inventory?

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  1. Zoning classification
  2. Easements, covenants, other deed restrictions
  3. Gov agencies with jurisdiction over properties
  4. Building placement requirements (building setbacks)
  5. Allowable building area
  6. Building height, bulk, floor-area ratio, footprint restrictions
  7. Parking and driveway requirements
  8. Open space
  9. On-site recreation/ environmental requirements
  10. Storm water management/ erosion control
  11. Landscaping requirements
  12. Special permits, regulations, and planning procedures
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What are three things property appraisers consider?

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  1. The site itself
  2. Improvements that were made on the site
  3. Context of the site
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What are the three models of economic behavior in appraisal theory?

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  1. Cost approach
  2. Sales approach
  3. Income approach
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Development regulations are limited to the ________, __________. & ________.

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Health, safety, and welfare

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Regulations that exceed health, safety, and welfare are called…

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Takings

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Takings require just compensation to landowner by who?

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Government

17
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What are 5 common types of easements?

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  1. Access
  2. Utility
  3. Conservation
  4. Scenic
  5. Solar
18
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This term is a legal strategy for redirecting potential development from conservation areas to more suitable locations

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Transfer of development rights (TDR)

19
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What are desire lines?

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Where people want to go (circulation)

20
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Site utilities map commonly includes these 6 things:

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  1. Potable water
  2. Electricity
  3. Natural gas
  4. Telecommunications
  5. Storm water sewage
  6. Sanitary sewerage
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5 functional elements people use to form mental images/ cognitive maps are:

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  1. Edges (shorelines, roads, hedges…)
  2. Paths (streets and walkways…)
  3. Districts (neighborhoods)
  4. Nodes (entrances, plazas, streets/ walkways)
  5. Landmarks (unique buildings, structures, and natural features…)
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These are 3 common residential building types

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  1. Single family and multi family houses (small footprint, pitched roofs, two story)
  2. Multi family residential towers (5-12 stories, subdivided living units, retail use on first floor)
  3. Mixed use residential/ commercial development (ground floor retail or office use, upper flower residential, 3-5 stores, typically rectangular and linear footprints)
23
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T or F: parks are open space are integral community elements that origine visual amenities, outdoor recreational opportunities, and storm water management

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True

24
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What does figure ground mapping do?

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Visual assessment of the texture of development near a site by mapping building footprints and spaces between buildings (pattern of solids and voids)

25
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This assessment documents the location, quality, and historic significance of buildings and other human-made elements & prior land uses

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Cultural resource assessment

26
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What does the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) do?

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Gives legal protection to buildings, walls, signs, and other significant structures registered on the list of nationally significant historic resources

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Historic significance of a structure or neighborhood is based in these criteria

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Age, quality, rarity, and representatives

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Historic districts may be mapped by local planning agencies as zoning _________________ with special local land use controls

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Overlay districts

29
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Human perceptions of land based amenities primarily involves three senses

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Hearing, sight (primary), and smell

30
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Good visibility of a site is a form of marketing and results in increased ______

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Prices

31
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This map graphically shows the locations that can be seen from an individual viewing point

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Visibility (or view shed) map

32
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There are two approaches to visual quality

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1.Objective - assumes visual quality is an inherent landscape attribute (relies on experts in landscape aesthetics)
2. Subjective - assumes visual quality is in the eyes of the beholder (relies on representative/ group of individuals who provide their assessment of scenic quality)

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T of F: prominent views to natural and cultural features are site amenities with social as well as economic value

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True

34
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T or F: the visibility of unsightly on/ off features are not as important

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False

35
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What are the 4 ordinal classes that are used to rate visual quality?

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  1. Very unique
  2. Unique
  3. Frequent
  4. Common
36
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What is sound intensity measured by?

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Sound pressure level (SPL) on a logarithmic decible scale (dB)

37
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What is the noise standard the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set for the workplace?

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Anything louder than 90 decibels for more than 8 hours require earplugs

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