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AICP Exam Prep Study Guide.
Fiscal Impact Analysis - Answers✔A tool that compares the local government revenues
associated with development policies and projects
Collector Road - Answers✔A low-to-moderate capacity road which serves to move traffic from
local streets to arterial roads; they are designed d to provide access to residential properties.
Arterial Road - Answers✔A high-capacity urban road; delivers traffic from collector roads to
freeways or expressways, and between urban centers at the highest level of service possible
Local roads - Answers✔Roads with the lowest speed limits and carries low volumes of traffic
and maybe unpaved in some areas
Cost-effectiveness Analysis - Answers✔Compares the relative costs and outcomes of different
courses of action; it assigns a monetary value to the measure of effect.
Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) - Answers✔A systematic approach to estimate the strengths and
weaknesses of alternatives; it is used to determine options that provide the best approach to
achieve benefits while preserving savings
Development Agreement - Answers✔A voluntary contract between a local jurisdiction and a
person who owns or controls property within the jurisdiction detailing the obligations of both
parties and specifying the standards and conditions that will govern development of the property.
Special Use permit - Answers✔A permit that allows for a specific exemption to zoning
regulations for a particular piece of land in a location that has a particular zoning characteristic.
Impact fee - Answers✔A fee charged by a community and paid by a developer that is
commensurate with the externalities created by a development. Intended to cover the
development's impact on such things as roads, sewer systems, schools, and police and fire
protection.
Subdivision Regulation - Answers✔the standards and procedures that regulate the subdivision of
land for development and sale
City Beautiful Movement - Answers✔A turn-of-the-twentieth-century movement that advocated
landscape beautification, playgrounds, and more and better urban parks.
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City Efficient Movement - Answers✔A major movement in the U.S., Britain and other industrial
nations in the early 20th century that sought to identify and eliminate waste in all areas of the
economy and society, and to develop and implement best practices
Public Health Movement - Answers✔an effort to remedy the high disease and mortality rate that
occurred in cities
Garden City - Answers✔A self-contained planned town combining work, residential,
agricultural, and recreational facilities, and surrounded by a rural belt.
Audience Response System - Answers✔Computer application that enables voting and then
collects and displays the results, simplifying decision-making among event participants.
Visual Preference Survey - Answers✔a technique that can be used to assist citizens in evaluating
physical images of natural and built environments. Citizens are asked to view and evaluate a
wide variety of pictures depicting houses, sites, building styles, streetscapes, etc. Scores are used
to indicate whether a design is what a citizen sees as appropriate for their community.
Dot Voting - Answers✔write ideas on a large board, have people vote by putting a dot by it
Design Charette - Answers✔an intense period of design or planning activity.
random sample - Answers✔a sample in which every element in the population has an equal
chance of being selected
stratified sample - Answers✔a sample drawn in such a way that known subgroups within a
population are represented in proportion to their numbers in the general population
cluster sample - Answers✔obtained by selecting all individuals within a randomly selected
collection or group of individuals
Nominal Group Technique - Answers✔A decision-making technique in which group members
write down ideas and solutions, read their suggestions to the whole group, and discuss and then
rank the alternatives.
Public Hearing - Answers✔hearings held for public comment on proposed action at public
meeting
Tax increment - Answers✔Additional tax revenues that result from increases in property values
within a
redevelopment area.
Consensus Building - Answers✔process of working toward achieving general agreement within
a group
Delphi Technique - Answers✔a decision-making method in which members of a panel of experts
respond to questions and to each other until reaching agreement on an issue
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AICP Exam Prep Study Guide.
Fiscal Impact Analysis - Answers✔A tool that compares the local government revenues
associated with development policies and projects
Collector Road - Answers✔A low-to-moderate capacity road which serves to move traffic from
local streets to arterial roads; they are designed d to provide access to residential properties.
Arterial Road - Answers✔A high-capacity urban road; delivers traffic from collector roads to
freeways or expressways, and between urban centers at the highest level of service possible
Local roads - Answers✔Roads with the lowest speed limits and carries low volumes of traffic
and maybe unpaved in some areas
Cost-effectiveness Analysis - Answers✔Compares the relative costs and outcomes of different
courses of action; it assigns a monetary value to the measure of effect.
Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) - Answers✔A systematic approach to estimate the strengths and
weaknesses of alternatives; it is used to determine options that provide the best approach to
achieve benefits while preserving savings
Development Agreement - Answers✔A voluntary contract between a local jurisdiction and a
person who owns or controls property within the jurisdiction detailing the obligations of both
parties and specifying the standards and conditions that will govern development of the property.
Special Use permit - Answers✔A permit that allows for a specific exemption to zoning
regulations for a particular piece of land in a location that has a particular zoning characteristic.
Impact fee - Answers✔A fee charged by a community and paid by a developer that is
commensurate with the externalities created by a development. Intended to cover the
development's impact on such things as roads, sewer systems, schools, and police and fire
protection.
Subdivision Regulation - Answers✔the standards and procedures that regulate the subdivision of
land for development and sale
City Beautiful Movement - Answers✔A turn-of-the-twentieth-century movement that advocated
landscape beautification, playgrounds, and more and better urban parks.
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
City Efficient Movement - Answers✔A major movement in the U.S., Britain and other industrial
nations in the early 20th century that sought to identify and eliminate waste in all areas of the
economy and society, and to develop and implement best practices
Public Health Movement - Answers✔an effort to remedy the high disease and mortality rate that
occurred in cities
Garden City - Answers✔A self-contained planned town combining work, residential,
agricultural, and recreational facilities, and surrounded by a rural belt.
Audience Response System - Answers✔Computer application that enables voting and then
collects and displays the results, simplifying decision-making among event participants.
Visual Preference Survey - Answers✔a technique that can be used to assist citizens in evaluating
physical images of natural and built environments. Citizens are asked to view and evaluate a
wide variety of pictures depicting houses, sites, building styles, streetscapes, etc. Scores are used
to indicate whether a design is what a citizen sees as appropriate for their community.
Dot Voting - Answers✔write ideas on a large board, have people vote by putting a dot by it
Design Charette - Answers✔an intense period of design or planning activity.
random sample - Answers✔a sample in which every element in the population has an equal
chance of being selected
stratified sample - Answers✔a sample drawn in such a way that known subgroups within a
population are represented in proportion to their numbers in the general population
cluster sample - Answers✔obtained by selecting all individuals within a randomly selected
collection or group of individuals
Nominal Group Technique - Answers✔A decision-making technique in which group members
write down ideas and solutions, read their suggestions to the whole group, and discuss and then
rank the alternatives.
Public Hearing - Answers✔hearings held for public comment on proposed action at public
meeting
Tax increment - Answers✔Additional tax revenues that result from increases in property values
within a
redevelopment area.
Consensus Building - Answers✔process of working toward achieving general agreement within
a group
Delphi Technique - Answers✔a decision-making method in which members of a panel of experts
respond to questions and to each other until reaching agreement on an issue
