Urban Planning & Zoning Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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brownfield n. The report supports modernization of smokestack industries and urges that those that are relocated be kept in “brownfield” areas where they will do less environmental damage and supply jobs in already industrialized regions. [English Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (May. 7, 2004)

brownfield n. Known as brownfields, these areas are defined by the USEPA as “abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.” [English Construction & Buildings Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (May. 7, 2004)

bump-out n. The streetscape design also calls for an improvement in pedestrian safety. Areas of the sidewalk will protrude into the street, essentially creating pedestrian peninsulas, where walkers can wait to cross the street. The bump-outs, as they are called, will shorten the distance to cross the street and slow down cars that whip around the turns along Main and Franklin. [English Automobiles & Transportation Urban Planning & Zoning Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 26, 2008)

clone town n. [Andrew] Simms could be accused of being glib if his approach hadn’t been so successful. In 2002, he coined the term “clone town” to describe the growing homogenisation of British high streets. The Clone Town report by the New Economics Foundation, the left-field thinktank where Simms has been policy director for eight years, touched a nerve about the alienation of modern life. [English United Kingdom Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Mar. 22, 2007)

daylighting n. Yet until a decade ago the river was buried beneath a busy boulevard filled with cars and trucks. Looking for a way to beautify and enliven their city center, citizens of Aarhus decided to liberate the river from the culverts where it had flowed for many years. This process, known as “daylighting,” is a growing trend, which offers inspiration that we can do more than prevent future problems in our hometowns—we can repair damage done in the past. [English Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Feb. 8, 2008)

flag annexation n. Blair Mayor Jim Realph said the city’s original plan was to annex just a narrow corridor along the highway to get to the subdivision (flag annexation, he termed it—annexing a narrow strip, the “pole,” to get to a larger piece, the “flag”). [English Urban Planning & Zoning Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 11, 2006)

Florida T n. The second alternative is a configuration known as a “Florida T.” A “Florida T” would channel traffic so that northbound through traffic on Capitol Trail would move continuously and would not be controlled by a traffic signal. By doing this, one of the northbound through lanes would be designated as a left-turn lane thereby creating two, left-turn lanes onto Cleveland Avenue. However, this would eliminate left turns and straight through traffic from Woodlawn Avenue. [English Automobiles & Transportation Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Dec. 29, 2006)

green lung n. I will show the state government what can be done to transform the area into a green lung to create a sustainable living environment for Penangites. [English Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Oct. 17, 2008)

greenprint n. The Greenprint is a joint effort of the Trust for Public and the Cornwall-based Housatonic Valley Association, which, according to HVA’s Web site “are working together to initiate a community-based mapping, networking and land conservation process in the Housatonic River watershed in Litchfield County. This process—called greenprinting—seeks to inventory protected open space across the area, and in partnership with local land trusts and government, identify new ways to finance and protect land.” [English Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2007)

greenprint n. Papers already submitted to the Burgess Park Steering Group, a joint subcommittee of councillors from the planning and leisure committees, indicate variations on the former GLC greenprint. Early this year when the new leisure and recreation department came into operation, there was a tussle between it and the planning and development department—which had succeeded in retaining the council’s landscape design section—as to which should have control of park development. [English Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2007)

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