CH 30-1: Urban Planning & Community Participation

An intense work effort in which a team of design professionals across multiple disciplines works with community stakeholder participants within a highly focused, compressed time frame to develop a plan.

Charrette

A long-term plan (perhaps spanning 20 or 30 years) prepared by a local planning board that identifies the goals, objectives, principles, guidelines, policies, standards, and strategies for the growth and development of a community, including its housing needs.

Comprehensive Plan || Master Plan

A small but diverse group that is brought together to discuss a specific topic or issue.

Focus Group

An event open to the public during which community members can learn about proposed plans and interact with planners, designers, and public officials.

Open House

A formal event open to the public that may be required under state law before a government entity adopts new statutes, ordinances, or plans.

Public Hearing

A focused plan that addresses a specific issue and/or geographic area that may be incorporated into a comprehensive plan.

Specialized Plan

A person or a group that has a vested interest in a project.

Stakeholder

A temporary workgroup formed to accomplish a specific objective or project.

Task Force

Design that addresses the appearance and the function of buildings, streets, sidewalks, open spaces, and other features.

Urban Design

The process of creating a blueprint to guide the future development of a community.

Urban Planning || Regional Planning

A type of survey in which respondents are asked to evaluate various design options, as depicted in drawings, photographs, or other visual representations.

Visual Preference Survey

TRUE or FALSE: The goal of urban planning is to ensure that communities operate at the highest level of fiscal responsibility and efficiency.

FALSE: While city leaders should ideally be fiscally responsible, the goal of urban planning is to maximize the health, safety, and economic well-being of all residents. This is achieved by creating a blueprint to guide the future development of a community.

Most urban planners today plan new communities.

FALSE: Some urban planners plan new communities, but more often, urban planners create plans to improve existing communities or help existing communities plan for growth.

A long-term plan, often spanning 20 or 30 years, that guides the development of an entire community is known as a(n):

Comprehensive plan

TRUE or FALSE: Urban design addresses both appearance and function.

TRUE: Urban design addresses both the appearance and the function of buildings, streets, sidewalks, open spaces, and other features. Urban design may also focus on sustainability, ensuring that natural resources are preserved.

Someone with a vested interest in a community is referred to as a(n):

Stakeholder

Planner Patty wants to get input from the community on some design plans. She creates a survey that includes drawings of several design options and asks the respondents to evaluate each of them. This type of survey is called a:

Visual preference survey

TRUE or FALSE: Public meetings are more formal than public hearings.

FALSE: Public hearings are more formal than public meetings and must follow procedures imposed by state law.

A temporary workgroup, often made up of individuals representing a broad range of expertise, that is formed to accomplish a specific objective or project is a:

Task force

An intense work effort in which a team of design professionals across multiple disciplines works with community stakeholder participants within a tight time frame to develop a plan is a:

Charrette