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104 Cards in this Set
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Utilizes the concepts of shading, natural ventilation, radiative cooling, evaporative cooling, and ground coupling.
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Passive Solar Cooling
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Uses thermal mass to store heat during the day and release heat to the outside at night.
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Radiative Cooling
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Uses the stable coolness of the earth to cool a building, typically by using a ground-source heat pump.
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Ground Coupling
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The integration of PV technology with other building materials.
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Facade-Integrated PV
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Stormwater which does not seep into the ground.
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Runoff
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Water that drains across a sloping face.
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Sheet Flow
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Uniform standards of construction that regulate the use of land, light, air, and open space while protecting property values and protecting against nuisances, undesireable businesses and dangers.
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Zoning
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Encourages private developers to provide amenities for public use in exchange for opportunity to build larger or taller structures on a site.
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Incentive Zoning
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A building no longer permitted by the zoning ordinance. (typically allowed to remain unless unsafe)
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Non-conforming Use
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A building that is permitted in an area that it is not zoned for, to benefit the public.
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Conditional Use
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A gradual slope for drainage from the center of a roadway to the sides.
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Crown (0.25 in./ft.)
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The portion of radiant energy that is reflected as it falls on a surface.
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Albedo
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A reduction in the price of a property due to the discovery of some problem that tends to decrease the property's value.
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Abatement
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A building whose function is secondary to that of the main structure.
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Accessory Building
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Desirable features of a building or near a building that have the effect of increasing the property's value.
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Amenities
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The payment of a loan over the life of the loan using equal payments at equal intervals.
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Amortization
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A major tenant in a shopping mall, such as a department store, that in theory serves to attract shoppers to the mall to the benefit of other, smaller stores.
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Anchor Tenant
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An estimation of a property's value made by a qualified appraiser.
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Appraisal
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A natural, underground reservoir from which wells draw water.
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Aquifer
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The value given to a piece of property by a local jurisdiction, to be used to assess taxes on the property.
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Assessed Value
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A region or small town that contains mainly housing and offers few employment opportunities.
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Bedroom Community
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An area of a city that has been determined to contain buildings and infrastructure that are in a state of decay and in need of improvement.
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Blighted Area
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A standard portion (generally a paragraph or more) of a written document, such as a contract or architectural specification, that appears in all similar documents.
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Boilerplate
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A piece of land used to separate two incompatible uses.
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Buffer Zone
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An amount of money used to make physical improvements to a property to enhance the property's value over an extended period of time.
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Capital Expenditure
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The amount of money that is net income from the property after expenses are paid.
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Cash Flow
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Abbreviation for "covenants, conditions, and restrictions," which are all the rules that apply to a property owner in a subdivision, condominium, or cooperative housing.
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CC&Rs
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A particular type of housing development in which the houses or apartments are placed close to each other and have access to nearby common spaces.
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Cluster Housing
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A portion of a building or development that is available for the use of all the tenant or unit owners.
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Common Area
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A permit given by a city or other zoning jurisdiction for a proposed use that would otherwise not be allowed in a particular zoning district.
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Conditional Use Permit
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A development in which residents own their own living units but share common areas, which are maintained by the development community.
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Condominium
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The act of transferring an interest in a property to another person, or the document written to formalize such a transfer.
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Conveyance
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A type of land ownership where the residents of individual units own an interest in the corporation that owns the entire property.
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Cooperative (Co-op)
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A dead-end street that has only one way in and often features a large circular turnaround space at the end.
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Cul-de-sac
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The donation of a parcel of land by a developer for public use.
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Dedication
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The shared wall between two leased spaces or between two residential units.
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Demising Wall or Party Wall
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To remove items of value from a site.
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Despoil
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The legal ability of a developer to develop a parcel of land.
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Development Rights
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A change in zoning resulting in a decrease of allowable density.
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Downzoning
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A portion of land of one ownership that another owner of a governmental agency has the right to use for a specific purpose.
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Easement
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The right of a governmental jurisdiction to take ownership of private property for the public good while paying fair market value compensation to the owner.
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Eminent Domain or Inverse Condemnation
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An intrusion onto one property by the improvement to an adjoining property.
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Enchroachment
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The amount of money an owner of a property keeps after selling the property and paying off any mortgages; that is, the difference between the fair market value of a property and the amount of debt on the property.
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Equity
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The value of a piece of property that a buyer would pay a seller in a free transaction for the property.
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Fair Market Value or Market Value
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An item that is attached to a building and is typically included in the sale of the building.
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Fixture
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A long-term lease of a property that allows the tenant to use and improve the land, but that reverts to the owner at the end of the lease.
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Ground Lease
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Restrictions on the heights of buildings and structures established by local laws.
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Height Zoning
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The ratio of the value of improvements on a property to the value of the property alone.
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Improvement Ratio
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A remedy by a court for a private land owner whose land has been taken away by a governmental body.
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Inverse Condemnation or Eminent Domain
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Descriptive of a parcel of land that does not border any public road.
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Landlocked
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A legal arrangement in which the owner of a property sells the property to someone else but then immediately leases it from the purchaser.
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Land Sale Leaseback
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A document that gives up a person's right to claim a lien against property.
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Lien Waiver
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A claim placed against a property's deed by someone who provided work materials to improve the property but was not paid for the work.
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Mechanic's Lien, Materialman's Lien, Lien
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Minimum standards for residential building required by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) for construction or for underwritting a mortgage.
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Minimum Property Standards
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The area of a building that is available for rent, which does not include common areas, structure, stairs, and the like.
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Net Leasable Area
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A document, issued by a city's building department, giving permission for a building to be occupied.
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Certificate of Occupancy or Occupancy Permit
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A separate location for development of retail space near (but not in) a shopping center.
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Pad Site
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A financial projection for a development project meant to determine if the project is feasible.
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Pro forma
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A limit on how the owner of a property or building can use or improve a property.
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Restriction or Restrictive Covenant
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Related to a body of water.
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Riparian
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The rights of the landowner to use or control all or a portion of the water in a body of water bordering his or her property.
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Riparian Rights
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A minor or smaller tenant in a shopping center.
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Satellite Tenant
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An exemption from zoning regulations given to a jurisdiction.
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Special Use Permit
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The application of specific zoning regulations to specific properties when nearby land is under different zoning.
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Spot Zoning
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Property that is not producing the maximum income it is capable of producing given its size, zoning, and so on.
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Underimproved Land
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The illegal practice of charging exorbitant interest rates on a loan.
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Usury
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Permission granted by a local jurisdiction to deviate from the literal provisions of a zoning ordinance where strict adherence would cause undue hardship because of conditions or circumstances unique to an individual property.
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Variance
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Land that has development restrictions placed on it because it is commonly flooded and may be environmentally sensitive.
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Wetlands
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Part of a zoning regulation's setback requirements that allows a building to be constructed up to the property line with no setback.
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Zero Lot Line
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The set of zoning regulations established by a local jurisdiction that regulates certain building practices within the jurisdiction.
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Zoning by-law
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A test which measures the amount of time it takes water in a test hole to drop 1 inch.
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Percolation Test
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A test which evaluates drinking water for bacteria, pH, color, odor, turbidity, hardness, and other commonly found elements.
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Potability Test
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A type of perimeter foundation subsurface drainage system.
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French Drain or Subdrain
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A continuous drain placed at ground level and designed to catch runoff and divert it to a storm sewer, retention pond, or some other type of drainage collection system.
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Trench Drain
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A shallow ditch lined with grass or other ground cover, and is designed to slow storm runoff and remove sediments and other contaminants while allowing the water to seep into the ground.
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Bioswale
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Catches stormwater runoff and retains it until it can seep into the ground.
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Infiltration Basin
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A type of paving which allows stormwater to seep through the paving into the soil instead of running into the storm sewers.
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Pervious Pavement
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The tendency for architectural materials and paving to increase the temperature of their immediate environment.
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Heat Island Effect
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The top of the full-width plane of a building facade, which effectively defines the enclosure of public space relative to the distance between it and an opposite facade.
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Recess Line
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The minimum horizontal distance between the property line and the building.
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Setback
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A line running the full width of the facade and that may be expressed as a change of material or limited projection.
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Transition Line
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A test which determines the optimum compaction of site fill based on its density and optimum moisture content.
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Proctor Test
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A pit dug in the soil to allow visual inspection of the soil.
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Pit Test
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A method of extracting a core soil sample.
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Dry Sample Boring
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A test to determine the design load of soil by applying steadily increasing loads on a platform placed on the site.
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Soil Load Test
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A public road that connect freeways or expressways.
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Arterial Street
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A low capacity road that provides direct access to building sites and may be straight, curvilinear, a loop, or a cul-de-sac.
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Local Street
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A road which connects local streets and arterial streets and is used for higher capacities than local streets.
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Collector Street
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The most severe flood that may reasonably be possible for a particular location.
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Probable Maximum Flood (PMF)
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The flood that may be expected from the most severe combination of meterological and hydrological conditions in a particular location.
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Standard Projected Flood (SPF)
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The sloping or recessing of successive courses of stone or masonry to help resist soil thrust and overturning.
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Battering
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Wastewater that contains toilet or urinal waste.
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Blackwater
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A linear element other than a path that forms a boundary between two districts or that breaks some type of continuity.
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Edge
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A linear element that can be traveled on. It may form a boundary between two districts or break some type of continuity.
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Path
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A two-dimensional area.
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District
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A strategic center of interest that people can enter.
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Node
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Undeveloped land that may contain existing vegetation and native ecosystems.
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Greenfield Site
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An allowed deviation from zoning regulations.
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Variance
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A permit given by a city or zoning jurisdiction to allow, if certain conditions are met, an otherwise prohibited use.
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Conditional Use Permit
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The right to use a portion of land owned by another for a specific purpose.
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Easement
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A planning tool for large tracts of land that gives a developer discretion in how the land is developed.
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Planed Unit Development (PUD)
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A diagram used to show approximately how much building site needs to be regraded (cut and fill).
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Earthwork Diagram
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A temporary construction designed to filter water runoff from a construction site and trap sediment before it is washed into drains or nearby bodies of water.
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Silt Fence
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Rocks along a watercourse or drainage area designed to prevent erosion.
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Riprap
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