LARE Master Planning and Design Flashcards

During the programming phase of a master plan, which tool best captures stakeholder priorities across multiple user groups?

Answer: Charrette workshop

A charrette workshop brings diverse stakeholders together to collaboratively define priorities, conflicts, and shared goals during the programming phase.

A master plan's 'carrying capacity' analysis primarily determines:

Answer: The level of use a site can sustain without significant degradation

Carrying capacity defines the maximum intensity of use a landscape can accommodate before ecological or experiential quality declines.

Which GIS layer would be MOST critical when siting a new community park within a flood-prone municipality?

Answer: FEMA 100-year floodplain maps

FEMA 100-year floodplain maps identify regulated flood hazard areas that directly constrain building placement, grading, and infrastructure.

In land use planning, a 'buffer zone' between industrial and residential districts primarily serves to:

Answer: Mitigate noise, odor, and visual impacts through transitional land uses or vegetation

Buffer zones use transitional uses, berms, or dense planting to absorb and mitigate impacts before they reach sensitive adjacent land uses.

Which master planning concept organizes uses along a linear corridor that intensifies toward a central node?

Answer: Linear hierarchy

A linear hierarchy places highest-intensity uses at a central point along a corridor and transitions to lower-intensity uses toward the periphery.

A 'transect' in master planning refers to:

Answer: A gradient from rural to urban land use intensities organized into zones

The rural-to-urban transect, popularized by New Urbanism, organizes land use intensity from natural zones through suburban to urban core zones.

When preparing a master plan phasing strategy, which factor should take HIGHEST priority in sequencing construction phases?

Answer: Infrastructure installation before dependent amenities

Infrastructure (utilities, grading, stormwater) must precede dependent amenities to avoid costly retrofitting and ensure systems function correctly.