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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN I GLOSSARY manner for the cost of constructing and maintaining Land Trusts: A land trust is an organization created III the facility. to own and steward land for the purpose of sustaining long term affordability (or other preservation goals, Intermodal Connection: Point at which different such as historical significance or agricultural value). modes, or methods, of transportation meet, allowing The land trust organization leases development rights transfer to occur. to individual or non-profit organizations who agree to reasonable limitations on resale profits while main- Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act taining basic owner equity and tenure rights. (ISTEA): Federal legislation of 1991 authorizing up to $150 Billion for transportation programs over 6 Land Use Assumptions: The proposed and existing years, providing greater funding flexibility for state land use intensities and densities, i.e., retail, various and local transportation projects, and emphasizing residential densities, officer, manufacturing, etc. used improved coordination of land use and transportation in developing travel forecasts. These land uses are planning, intermodal connectivity, congestion mitiga- represented by population and employment numbers in tion, and development of new technologies, among the travel forecasting processing. other things. Land Use Based Travel Models: Land use based a Intermodal: Linkage of more than one transportation travel models are used to forecast future travel on the mode or type of service. transportation system. The forecast is linked to the land use assumption. This travel forecast is used to ISTEA: See Intermodal Surface Transportation identify future deficiencies in the transportation system Efficiency Act. and to determine concurrency. Inverse Condemnation: The effective "taking" or Land Use Code (as known as Zoning Code): Regu- reduction in value of a property as a result of public lating body of language that implements the city's action, in contrast to a taking through eminent policy goals. The regulations define locations and domain. There is much debate about how far govern- building characteristics of development in the City. 41111 ment can go in using police power regulations which diminish property values before compensation must be Land Use Strategies: Actions to address relation- paid(the"taking"issue) ships between land uses to reduce number of vehicular trips generated and/or reduce the length of trips. Jetty: An artificial barrier used to change the natural littoral drift to protect inlet entrances from clogging by Land Use Zoning: Traditionally, a technical or excessive sediment. (SMP) physical approach to the segregation of incompatible land uses, such as housing and industrial, through Jobs/Housing Balance: A term representing the systems of land use and development controls. More relationship between jobs and housing within a speci- recently, the techniques have emphasized reinforcing fled area. It can influence housing costs, pedestrian- positive relationships between compatible land uses oriented environment, and transportation demand. such as residential and neighborhood commercial. The contemporary approach also emphasizes the close Land Banks: Acquisition of land for the purpose of relationship between transportation and land use to reserving it for specified future development types. more effectively respond to accessibility, reduction of The land bank concept can include management of infrastructure costs,urban design,air,noise, and water existing publicly owned lands, with designated pollution, energy conservation. and conservation of reservations or restrictions for future uses. resource lands. Landfill: A disposal site employing an engineering Land Use: A term used to indicate the utilization of method of disposing of solid waste in a manner that any piece of land. The way in which land is being minimizes environmental hazards by spreading, used is the land use. compact to the smallest volume, and applying cover material over exposed waste at the end of each Lease-Purchase Ownership: Allows a tenant to operating day or period. obtain an ownership option by having lease payments credited toward a future down payment. Lease- I G-12 I