Zoning
Systems
Around Town
Grab Bag
100

An area or district within a city set aside for a specific use.

What is a city zone?

100

A network of roads, streets, water, or rails that allows the vehicular movement of people and goods.

What is Transportation systems?

100

A site where waste material has been buried.

What is a landfill?

100

The direct links or associations between multiple things. In city design, connectivity refers to the links between different parts of a city that provide accessibility and easy transport from one area to another

What is connectivity?

200

An area of land set aside for housing.

What is a Residential Zone.

200

An organization that maintains the infrastructure that generates, transmits, or distributes electricity, water, or gas from facilities that it owns or operates.

What are Utilities? ex: water, electrical, natural gas 

200

A place of business that sells goods such as groceries, clothing, or furniture.

What is a Retail Establishment?

200

An industry or facility that provides services rather than sells goods (for example, banking or communications).

What is a Service Industry?

300

An area of land set aside for factories and warehouses.

What is the Industrial Zone?

300

A public utility that provides removal of waste water.

What is a Water Sanitation System?

300

A place that houses government services such as a courthouse or government offices.

What is a Government Facility?

300

This math term means the relationship between two or more amounts of a number or between the parts of a whole.

What is a proportion?

400

An area of land set aside for for-profit businesses like office complexes, shopping malls, service stations, and restaurants.

What is the Commercial Zone?

400

A public system of services needed by industry, commercial, and residential zones such as power, water, transportation, communications, and schools

What is infrastructure?

400

A place such as an art museum, theater, or sports arena.

What is a cultural or entertainment facility?

400

A connection or association between multiple things.

What are Inter-relationships?

500

The ratio of building space to open space or a way to describe how crowded an area in the city is.

What is Zoning Density?

500

A town, city, or region that has its own local government.

What is a municipality?

500

An industrial plant that generates power such as electricity from another source like burning coal, nuclear reactions, or flowing water.

What is a Power Plant?

500

An area of land where energy is generated from the heat in the interior of the earth.

What is geothermal energy?