Streateries: An on-street outdoor dining establishment, frequently under a tent, umbrella, or awning. Project Based Voucher Program: People who hold a voucher live in specific properties (managed by community partners) with subsidized rent. The voucher is attached to a specific unit whose landlord contracts with the state or local housing authority to rent the unit to families and individuals with low incomes. Housing Choice Voucher Program: A federally funded rent subsidy program which enables low-income families to choose and lease safe, decent, and affordable rental housing. It is the major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market. Displacement: When residents and businesses can no longer afford escalating rents or property taxes. fabric: Describes the physical characteristics of urban areas including streetscapes, buildings, landscaping, signage, lightings, roads, and other infrastructure. rezone: Assign to a different category of restrictions on use and development. Sustainable design standards: Standards that seek to reduce negative impacts on the environment, and the health and comfort of building occupants, and improving building performance. Streetscape: The design quality of the street and its visual effect. Vision Zero: A strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and sever injuries while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all. High injury network: A network of designated corridor-level segments where the highest concentrations of collisions occur. Typically based on a minimum of 3-5 years of dataSuperblocks: A very large commercial or residential block barred to through traffic. Renewable energy: Energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed. Historic preservation: Identifying, protecting, and enhancing buildings, places, landscapes, and objects of historical and cultural significance. Energy efficiency: The use of less energy to perform the same task or produce the same result. Energy efficient homes and buildings use less energy to heat, cool, and run appliances and electronics. Resiliency: The capacity of individuals or communities to withstand or recover quickly from unexpected shocks, typically associated with natural hazards and climate change. adaptive reuse: process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for.greenway: a strip of undeveloped land near an urban area, set aside for recreational use or environmental protection.Green infrastructure: A strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services, while also enhancing biodiversity
Oak Grove Hillside Bellemeade - Draft Plan Strategies
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