Chapter 6 - Quiz

The use of land that is subordinate, incidental to, and customarily found in connection with the principal use allowed on a lot by the zoning law is known as what...?

Accessory Use

When is a certificate of occupancy issued to a homeowner...?

After the construction work has been inspected and approved by the Department of Buildings

Permission to modify or exceed the bulk regulations imposed by local zoning ordinances is known as what...?

Area Variance

Mark would like to gut renovate his condominium apartment. In order to do so, Mark must obtain which of the following...?

Building Permit

Which of the following must be obtained before a homeowner can start substantial work on their home...?

Building Permit

Which of the following is an example of a variance...?

Building a two family house on a lot that is zoned for single family

Which of the following is an example of an accessory apartment use...?

Carriage House

Small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a country or equivalent entity that are updated by local participants prior to each decennial census are known as what...?

Census Tract

Which of the following is issued by the Department of Buildings after final inspections have been completed...?

Certificate of Occupancy

A master plan for a town or city may also be referred to as what...?

Comprehensive Plan

Taking private property for public use, with fair compensation to the owner is known as what...?

Condemnation

A ............may be terminated if the dominant tenement fails to use it?

Easement

A right that may be exercised by the public or individuals on, over or through the lands of others is known as what...?

Easement

Which of the following is NOT an example of the governmental use of police power...?

Easements

What must an owner prove in order to obtain a variance on a proposed project which is not as-of-right...?

Economic hardship

A right of the government to acquire property for necessary public use by condemnation is known as what...?

Eminent Domain

Which of the following is a means by which the government exercises their use of police power...?

Eminent domain

The reversion to the State of property in event the owner thereof abandons it or dies, without leaving a will and has no distributees to whom the property may pass by lawful descent is known as what...?

Escheat

The city would like to build a new highway that would drastically reduce traffic congestion; however, in order to do so, private property must be obtained by the city. How may the city obtain the private property needed for the new highway...?

Exercising Eminent Domain

When using eminent domain, the government must provide what to the owner...?

Fair compensation

A group consisting of parents and children living together in a household is legally known as what...?

Family

A business conducted in a residential dwelling unit that is incidental and subordinate to the primary residential use is referred to as what...?

Home Occupation

If an owner is selling more than 100 vacant lots of land to out-of-state investors, he/she will be regulated by this Act...?

Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act

Which of the following is NOT an example of the governmental use of police power...?

Liens

Subdivision regulations may dictate that a developer build which of the following when subdividing a large plot of land into smaller lots...?

Local road

A long-term planning document that establishes the framework and key elements of a site reflecting a clear vision created and adopted in an open process is known as what...?

Master Plan

A temporary prohibition of an activity is known as what...?

Moratorium

Governments can only exercise eminent domain for which of the following uses...?

Public use

The right to pass over another's land pursuant to an easement or license is known as what...?

Right-of-Way

The distance from the curb or other established line, within which no buildings may be erected is referred to as what...?

Setback

This refers to the application of zoning to a specific parcel of land within a larger zoned area when the rezoning is usually at odds with a city's master plan and current zoning restrictions...?

Spot Zoning

The control of the division of a tract of land into individual lots by requiring development according to specific design standards and procedures adopted by local ordinances is known as what...?

Subdivision Regulations

The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area is known as what...?

Topography

The purchase and use of air rights from adjoining or nearby properties is known as what...?

Transfer of Development Rights

Permission to use or develop land other than that permitted by local zoning ordinances is known as what...?

Use Variance

When the local and state building code overlap on a particular life safety issue, how should the architect or contractor proceed with their work in designing and building a home...?

Use the stricter of the two codes