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Sufficient buildable area. Able to conform to
<br />current development standards and requirements
<br />from local, state, and federal agencies.
<br />Support. To provide assistance or promotion; see
<br />encourage.
<br />Surface rupture. A break in the ground's surface
<br />and associated deformation resulting from the
<br />movement of a fault.
<br />Sustainable. Able to use a resource or conduct
<br />activity at a desired rate or level without depleting
<br />resources (e.g., financial or natural) to a point
<br />where others cannot rely upon or use them in the
<br />future; in some context the term can refer to the
<br />long-range viability of the environment, economy,
<br />and social equity (referred to as "the three E's of
<br />sustainability').
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<br />Tax Increment Financing. Tax increment financing
<br />works by freezing tax revenues from a tax rate area
<br />in the interim base year and diverting forecasted tax
<br />revenue in future years (known as increment) to pay
<br />for improvements and/or pay back bonds.
<br />Tourism Marketing District. A Tourism Marketing
<br />District (TMD) is a benefit assessment district
<br />proposed to create a revenue source to help
<br />fund marketing and sales promotion efforts for
<br />lodging businesses. A TMD is similar to a Business
<br />Improvement District (BID) where businesses pay an
<br />additional fee in order to fund improvements within
<br />the district's boundaries.
<br />Traffic calming. Changes in street alignment,
<br />installation of barriers, and other physical measures
<br />to reduce traffic speeds and/or cut -through traffic
<br />volumes in the interest of street safety, livability, and
<br />other public purposes.
<br />Traffic control devices. Signs, signals, or pavement
<br />markings (permanent or temporary), placed on or
<br />adjacent to a travelway by authority of a public body
<br />having jurisdiction to regulate, warn, or guide traffic.
<br />Transit -oriented development. A mix of buildings
<br />and land uses, typically within a quarter -mile
<br />walking distance of light rail stops or high frequency
<br />bus stops. Transit oriented developments commonly
<br />contain convenient shopping, office, restaurant,
<br />service commercial, and entertainment uses for
<br />transit riders.
<br />Transportation demand management (TDM).
<br />Strategies that influence long-term travel choices
<br />and behaviors. TDM's goal is to improve mobility
<br />and decrease negative impacts such as traffic
<br />congestion and air pollution. TDM strategies can
<br />include: ridesharing, providing commuter subsidies,
<br />promoting walking and biking, and encouraging
<br />flexible work schedules.
<br />Travelway. A generalized term that refers to any path
<br />of land travel, including roads, freeways, bikeways,
<br />pedestrian routes, railroad, etc.
<br />Truck traffic, truck trips, or trucking -intensive
<br />business. In the context of defining truck traffic or
<br />a trucking -intensive business, a truck is a vehicle
<br />identified by the Federal Highway Administration
<br />vehicle as Class 5 or higher, with the exception of
<br />dually trucks and recreational vehicles. A trucking -
<br />intensive business is a permitted use that includes
<br />the frequent use of trucks as part of its primary
<br />activities.
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<br />Upstream issues. Conditions, such as food
<br />insecurity, that exist prior to and contribute to a
<br />person's undesirable medical, social, financial, or
<br />legal circumstance.
<br />Urban. Development patterns characterized by
<br />higher density residential and/or nonresidential
<br />development served by frequent transit service and
<br />public infrastructure.
<br />Utility hardware. Devices such as poles, crossarms,
<br />transformers, and vaults, gas pressure regulating
<br />assemblies, hydrants, and buffalo boxes that are
<br />used for water, gas, oil, sewer, and electrical services
<br />to a building or a project.
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