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Factors that impact site inventory and analysis are.. |
Project program Building permit requirements cost of data collection existing site vegetation |
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What are 4 types of a nuisances that can affect a potential site's development? |
Lots of Billboards A local airport power lines water towers |
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What are 3 examples of non renewable resources? |
Oil wind Tropical Rain Forest |
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What are 2 examples of urban infill |
Cleaning up an abandoned and contaminated site preserve and enhance neighborhood character |
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Urban sprawl typically has this type of road network |
Linear |
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A conservation easement would have what kind of effect on a property? |
Development Potential Property Value |
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What type of plan defines the goals and objectives of future growth of a community? |
Land use plan (zoning map) |
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Inventory maps should include |
Site features Odors traffic volume wind landforms |
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What is the optimal size of a transit oriented development. |
5 Min walk from edge to major road |
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Fed by groundwater, dominated by peat moss, rich in mineral salts and is acidic. |
Bog |
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Marshes/Salt Marshes |
Dominated by herbaceous plant material |
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Fed by groundwater, dominated by peat moss, rich in mineral salts and is alkaline. |
Fen |
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A connection of lines that enclose an area and whose coordinates are predetermined. |
Closed Traverse |
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Preliminary Roads and train line boundaries |
Open traverse |
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A division of a cartesian plane |
Quadrant |
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Aliquot part |
a quarter or half of a section of land |
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What are five different categories of wetlands |
Marine Wetlands -Oceans -Coastlines Estuarine Wetlands -Tidal Waters -Salty title marshes Riverine Wetlands -Rivers -Streams Palustrine Wetlands -Marshes -Bogs -Swamps Lacustrine Wetlands -Lakes and Reservoirs |
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LIDAR |
Light detection and ranging Fastest way to get topo maps |
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Made up of a stream channel, a floodplain, upland areas and groundwater. |
Watershed |
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Riverine Wetlands |
Dominated by plant material |
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Lacustrine Wetlands |
found in a depression , has a low salinity level and has a plant cover of less than 30% |
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Estuatrines |
Semi enclosed with plant material |
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Palustrines |
Has a salinity level greater than 0.5% |
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Angle of incidence |
the angle at which the suns rays strike the earth |
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Angle of repose |
angle wich th slop of soil will remain intact |
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Azimuth |
the angle of the sin north-south of an wast-west line. |
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Albedo |
Objects ability to reflect the suns rays |
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Ideal riser to tread relationship |
between 24"-26" allows for a continuous rhythm to take place when a person is walking up the stairs |
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90 degree parking |
Allows the most parking spaces |
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Base lines |
set of lines that run east to west and serve as the basis for the US survey System. (They are the orimary parallels, which follow the lines of latitude of the earth. |
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Military Crest |
The point on a hill in which the entire slope can be seen. |
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When referring to the biology of a site, what term would apply? |
Natural Cooridor |
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Fastigiate |
An upright form of plant in which the plant is generally the same width from the top to the bottom |
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Composite Wetlands |
Wetland that is fed by local lakes and streams |
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Riparian Wetland |
Wetland that is fed mainly by streams |
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Ground water Wetlands |
Wetland that is fed by high water tables |
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Surface Wetlands |
Wetland that is fed by runoff |
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Sedimentary Rocks |
Formed when sediments are deposited by the wind, water, gravity, etc. and the pressure forces them together into rock layers. Most common rocks used in outdoor living spaces |
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What type of survey is needed to obtain a building permit. |
boundary survey |
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The study of land forms and the way they are created by such things as erosion. |
Geomorphology |
