PAD3330 Final (Important Terms)

CDBG (Community Development Block Grant)

Federal funding program that gives flexible grants to cities and counties for community development, based on population, poverty level, and age of housing.

HAP (Housing Assistance Plan)

A required local plan that identifies housing needs, inventories local housing conditions, and outlines strategies to meet low- and moderate-income housing needs.

Urban Homesteading

A program that transfers vacant or abandoned homes to residents who agree to rehabilitate and live in them, promoting neighborhood stabilization.

Gravity Model

A transportation model that predicts trip distribution by assuming that attraction increases with the size of a destination and decreases with distance.

Induced Demand

The phenomenon where increasing roadway capacity encourages more driving, ultimately leading to congestion returning or increasing.

Protected Intersection

An intersection design that physically separates cyclists and pedestrians from vehicles, improving safety using setbacks, islands, and separate signal phases.

Smart Growth

Planning strategies that promote compact, walkable development, efficient infrastructure use, and reduced urban sprawl.

UGB (Urban Growth Boundary)

A boundary set by a city or region to limit outward expansion, protect rural land, and encourage denser, infill development inside the boundary.

CoG (Council of Governments)

A regional planning body made up of local governments that coordinates land use, transportation, and environmental planning.

MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization)

A federally required regional agency that manages long-range transportation planning and distribution of federal transportation funds.

Brownfields

Abandoned or underused industrial properties where redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived contamination.

Berman v Parker

1954, justified urban renewal, allowed eminent domain for redevelopment