Past Lectures
This federal act of 1956 had a massive impact on the development of the suburbs in its attempt to "adapt to the modern transport era."
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This regulation separates land into sections, or zones, with different rules governing the activity on that land.
What is zoning?
A lack of support for these planners is a challenge when planning for a racially-just city.
Who are minority planners?
This term describes land uses that are allowed outright in a particular zoning district. For example, Residential in an R-1 zone.
What is a permitted use?
Oregon state law requires each city and county to adopt this document; through it statewide goals are achieved at the local level.
What is a comprehensive plan?
A planner more interested in a long-term vision for a community would typically focus on this type of planning.
What is long range planning?
These five elements--Exposure, Health, Risk, Quality of Life, and Aesthetics--are part of three characteristics that are protected by police powers and are still applied by communities today.
What are health, safety and welfare?
Identifying and addressing the distribution of this will help reduce social inequity in planning.
What is the distribution of power?
This type of zoning is applied to a single piece of property, usually unjustly because it singles out that property for preferential treatment.
What is spot zoning?
This line around a city separates urban and rural uses; lands inside this line must accommodate 20 years of growth.
What is an Urban Growth Boundary?
This type of housing highlights the need for diverse, affordable housing choices in, sustainable walkable places, and could include duplexes, fourplexes, cottage clusters or live-work units.
What is missing middle housing?
Herbert Hoover created this federal best seller in 1924. By 1926, 43 of 46 had adopted its contents.
What is the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act?
This tool directed public and private capital away from African Americans so they couldn’t access financing and become homeowners.
What is Redlining?
This term describes land uses that are permitted under certain conditions in a particular zoning district. For example, neighborhood commercial in an R-2 zone.
What is a conditional use?
This new Oregon Administrative Rule will be used metropolitan planning organizations initially to reduce GHGs and improve equity.
What is the Climate Friendly and Equitable Communities rule?
Eugene’s first trolley line, in 1983, was mule-powered and driven by this pioneering Black resident.
Who was Wiley Griffon?
Euclidean zoning was named after this 1926 court case in which the US Supreme Court decided that the location of a particular residential zoning was not arbitrary and capricious.
What is Euclid vs. Ambler Realty?
The author Goetz contends that an understanding of this will help planners better understand the impact of interventions.
What is white affluence and why Whiteness should be centered within urban planning study and practice?
This term describes a special overlay on top of an existing zone, usually in response to something unique about a certain place.
What is an overlay zone?
Lane County, Oregon unincorporated communities and lands are subject to this planning document.
What is the Lane County Rural Comprehensive Plan?
This constitutional amendment has to do with due process, both substantive and procedural.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This profession deals with societal issues and problems that are complex, ambiguous, and "wicked." Yet their collaboration approach to problem solving, inclusivity and optimism for the future makes them successful in improving the world.
Who are planners?
These aspects of a person matter because the first thing people categorize is skin color and without this identity, there is the danger of no identity.
Why do ethnic and racial identity mater?
This term describes private legal restrictions on the use of land; usually contained in the property deed; racially restrictive components have been declared unconstitutional.
What is a convenant?
This 1994 Oregon court case established limits on cities’ ability to use zoning and land use regulations to compel property owners to make unrelated public improvements as a condition of zoning approval.
What is Dollan vs Tigard?