Planning Basics
The people or groups who are affected by or interested in a planning decision are called this.
What are Stakeholders?
This refers to the spread of low-density development outward from cities.
What is Urban Sprawl?
This area of land drains water into a common river, lake, or other body of water.
What is a Watershed?
GIS stands for this three-word expression.
What is Geographic Information System?
These are the two professors for Conservation and Community Planning. We will be hearing them speak later this semester!
Who are Austin Holland and Justice Tuffour?
A planning board holds a meeting where residents can comment on a proposed development before a decision is made. This is an example of this planning principle.
What is Public Participation?
This type of planning determines what activities can take place on different parcels of land.
What is Zoning?
When development breaks a large habitat into smaller, isolated areas, this occurs.
What is Habitat Fragmentation?
These are the three types of vector data.
What are points, lines, and polygons?
UWSP CNR features this many unique disciplines. (Earn an extra 100 points by naming them all!)
What is 7 (Environment & Society, Fisheries & Water Resources, Forestry, Paper Science & Chemical Engineering, Soil & Waste Resources, and Wildlife Ecology & Management)?
This concept refers to whether the benefits and burdens of a planning decision are distributed fairly among different groups and areas.
What is Equity?
This historically discriminatory practice was used by planners to withhold services from neighborhoods with racial and ethnic minorities.
What is Redlining?
This type of community-based, nonprofit organizations works with property owners to permanently conserve land.
What is a Land Trust?
A transportation planner wants to identify everything within a ΒΌ-mile walking distance of a bus stop. What tool could they use?
What is a Buffer?
This UW-Extension program is based at UWSP and provides environmental and urban planning resources and research to communities across Wisconsin. They also hire on student researchers!
What is the Center for Land Use Education (CLUE)?
This long-term document guides a community's decisions about land use, transportation, housing, and future growth.
What is a Comprehensive Plan?
This type of development combines uses such as housing, businesses, restaurants, and offices in the same area.
What is Mixed Use Development (MUD)?
This national forest covers more than 1.5 million acres of Wisconsin's Northwoods.
What is the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest?
This technology uses reflected laser pulses to create detailed three-dimensional information about Earth's surface.
What is LiDAR?
The UWSP College of Natural Resources was established this year. It's first dean was Daniel Trainer!
What is 1970?
This systematic process is used by businesses and governments for identifying the factors of an action or policy to determine if it is a viable investment.
What is a Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)?
A planner proposes several possible locations for a new library and evaluates factors such as population, accessibility, existing services, and cost before choosing a site. This is an example of this planning method.
What is a Site Suitability Analysis?
This famous, GPS-collared male mountain lion became an urban icon after miraculously surviving crossings of the 101 and 405 freeways to make his home in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. His fame helped fund the massive Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over the 101 Freeway.
Who is P-22?
A GIS user wants to find all parcels where LAND_USE = "RESIDENTIAL" AND ACRES > 5. This type of data retrieval query is used.
What is an SQL query?
The TNR building mural was built in 1975 and contains this many individual pieces.
What is 286,200?