Land Use Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Focuses on strategies that encourage the development of sustainable, healthy communities
  2. 6. Typically outlines the scope and purpose of the project, describes the environmental context, suggests alternative approaches, and analyzes the environmental impact of each alternative
  3. 7. Mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal $ or permits. (1969)
  4. 10. Dry, open grasslands. Used primarily for cattle grazing, and are susceptible to fires.
  5. 12. These type of lands may be used for recreation, grazing, timber harvesting, mineral extraction, etc...
  6. 13. An increase in the supply of a good causes demand to grow
  7. 17. Similar to suburban but are unconnected to any central city or densely populated area
  8. 19. A fire is deliberately set under controlled conditions to reduce the risk of forest fires.
  9. 21. Areas surrounded by metropolitan centers and have low population densities compared to urban areas
  10. 22. Urban areas move closer into rural areas, reducing the boundary between the two
  11. 23. Cost/Benefit not included in cost of good/service
Down
  1. 1. This form of cutting removes single trees or relatively small #'s of trees from many within a forest.
  2. 2. Degradation of the built and social environments of the city that often accompanies and accelerates migration to the suburbs
  3. 4. Attempts to focus dense residential and retail development around stops for public transportation, giving people alternatives to driving
  4. 5. Type of development can reinvigorate urban neighborhoods that are caught in a vicious cycle of depopulation and blight and can protect rural lands from sprawl.
  5. 8. Removing all or nearly all of the trees in a specific area.
  6. 9. This type of zoning Allows retail and high-density residential development to coexist in the same area.
  7. 11. Feeling that an area has a meaningful character.
  8. 14. Allows a government to acquire property at a fair market value even if the owner doesn't want to sell it.
  9. 15. People with an interest in a particular place or issue
  10. 16. These boundaries Place restrictions on development outside a designated area
  11. 18. Dominated by trees and other woody vegetation
  12. 20. Planning tool developed in the 20's to separate industry and business from residential neighborhoods and create quieter, safer communities