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