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

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shotgun valley n. Shotgun valley. See “ragtown.” [English Architecture Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (May. 13, 2005)

shovel-ready site n. With that in mind, the city of Temple and the Reinvestment Zone No. 1 hope to provide tools for businesses looking for a place to locate in the industrial parks without making them wait. Shovel-ready sites, as they are called, are key to the success of attracting industry to the city, according to city officials, who have said that opportunities have been missed for lack of them. [English Construction & Buildings Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Apr. 11, 2007)

skatedot n. The facilities, just a planner’s dream now, are from what are known in bureaucratese as “skatedots” which are described as “small skateable elements along paths as part of streetscapes or in parks,” to full scale regional skate facilities “similar in size to Little League or football field, more than 30,000 square feet.” [English Sports & Recreation Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Oct. 5, 2006)

skatespot n. The facilities, just a planner’s dream now, are from what are known in bureaucratese as “skatedots” which are described as “small skateable elements along paths as part of streetscapes or in parks,” to full scale regional skate facilities “similar in size to Little League or football field, more than 30,000 square feet.” In between is a “skatespot, similar in size to a tennis court and a “district” facility the size of two tennis courts. [English Sports & Recreation Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Oct. 5, 2006)

slurb n. “Long Island developed, because of him, into this massive slurb,” Caro said. That resonant neologism is a combination of “suburb” and “slum.” [English Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Mar. 12, 2007)

snout house n. Bored with mere breezeways that connected detached garages to houses, homeowners sought to bridge the distance with direct access to kitchens, laundry centers and dens. Garages doubled, even tripled in size to accommodate second pantries, wood shops and sports lockers. Often these structures jutted toward the street, creating what is euphemistically called a “snout house” and throwing off any respectable sense of symmetry—unless you bought out the neighbors and added on a wing. [English Architecture Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2006)

SPUI n. SPUI uses only 2 traffic signals where 4 were previously needed. North and southbound vehicles enter simultaneously. Vehicles also exit to cross street together. [English Urban Planning & Zoning Jargon Acronym] [full cite] (Apr. 28, 2004)

SPUI n. To increase capacity and avoid such problems, engineers have created a variation on the diamond design known as a single-point urban interchange, or SPUI (pronounced spew-ee). [English Urban Planning & Zoning Jargon Acronym] [full cite] (Apr. 28, 2004)

stub v. When their streets reach the edge of the new development, construction is halted (or stubbed, in the parlance of the trade), awaiting further extension to occur when the adjacent property is developed. [English Construction & Buildings Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Aug. 27, 2006)

superblock n. “Superblocks” is the term for developments (whether a housing project or the World Trade Center) where city streets are demapped so that the development stands as a world unto itself without reference to surrounding streets and sidewalks. Amsterdam Houses is a superblock, but its buildings line up on an axis and the pedestrian pathways don’t lose their reference to the surrounding grid. [English Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Oct. 9, 2006)

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