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FREE REAL ESTATE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT REP EXAM
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Question 1: Zoning Ordinances
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Local laws or regulations that implement the comprehensive plan by regulating zoning and land use
Question 2: Area Variance
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Allows owners to develop a property in a way that's not normally allowed by the physical or dimensional requirements of the current zoning.Question 3: Taxation as Government Power Facts: True or False? Paying taxes related to the property is one way to avoid a lien being placed on real estate.
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True
Question 4: Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA)
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Created to "preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance the resources in certain coastal areas"
Question 5: Certificate of Occupancy
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A document issued after satisfactory final inspection allowing a building to inhabited Question 6: Use or Area Variance? This type of variance allows the owner to have an exception to the physical or dimensional requirements of the current zoning.
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Area variance Question 7: Other Types of Zoning Classifications (Other than Commercial and Industrial) Areas designated for hospitals, jails and prisons, courthouses, college campuses, and public schools
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Institutional Question 8: Other Types of Zoning Classifications (Other than Commercial and Industrial) Property that was never built on or that was built on but was brought back to its natural state
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Vacant land Question 9: Variance or Special Use Permit? The property owner must show that the hardship that is being claimed is not self-inflicted.
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Variance
Question 10: Family (Defined by law)
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It can mean one or more persons living as a single housekeeping unit.Question 11: Clean Water Act: True or False? Authorizes the EPA to control all phases of hazardous waste
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False
Question 12: Home Occupation
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An owner of a small business using the owner's residential property to conduct business.
Question 13: Use Variance
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Permission to use the land for a purpose prohibited by current zoning restrictions Question 14: Types of CERCLA Liability: Joint and several liability
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Each of the responsible parties is personally responsible for the total damages.
Question 15: Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
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A document the developer prepares that describes the action that may impact the environment
Question 16: Zoning
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Local rules that divide a city or community into different areas and dictate how the land in each area can be used
Question 17: Special (Conditional) Use Permit
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Allows a property to be used in a way that isn't in accordance with zoning regulations
Question 18: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Oversees navigation and water supply
Question 19: Brownfields
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These are abandoned sites, many of which are suspected of containing hazardous waste or contaminants.
Question 20: Transfer of Development Rights
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Program that encourages a shift in growth away from agricultural or environmentally sensitive regions to more appropriate areas.
Question 21: Inverse Condemnation
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Gov't takes private property but fails to compensate owner; property owners forced to file suit. Taking may be physical (occupation) / regulatory (gov't regulations deprive owner of property's beneficial use & cause property to lose its economic value Question 22: Incentive Zoning: True or False? FAR includes all structures that will be inhabited, plus any parking areas or structures.
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False Question 23: Eminent Domain and Taking: condemnation or inverse condemnation? This occurs when private property is regulated by a government authority to the detriment of the landowner.
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Inverse condemnation
Question 24: Group Home
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A residential facility for five or more adults who have been institutionalized for various reasons and then released.Question 25: Other Types of Zoning Classifications (Other than Commercial and Industrial) Commonly public recreation areas administered and controlled by state and local governments
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Parklands Question 26: Special Use Permits: True or False? A special use permit requires a public hearing.
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True