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- Accessory Dwelling Unit
- Accessory Use
- Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance
- Air Quality Element
- Air Rights
- Amortization of Nonconforming Uses
- Annex
- Architectural Review
- Arterial
- Automobile-Intensive Use
- Bedroom Community
- Benefit Assessment District
- Blight
- Blue Carbon
- Board of Supervisors
- Brackish Tidal Marsh
- Brownfield
- Buffer Zone
- Building Envelope
- Buildout
- Built Environment
- Busway
- California Environmental Quality Act
- Caltrans
- Capital Improvements Program
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
- Carbon Sequestration
- Carbon Sink
- Carrying Capacity
- Channelization
- Charrette
- Circulation Element
- Climate Action Plan
- Climate Adaptation
- Climate Justice
- Climate Mitigation
- Climate Resilience
- Community Benefits Agreement
- Community Development Block Grant Program
- Community Facilities District
- Community Plan
- Community Redevelopment Agency
- Commute Shed
- Conditional Use Permit
- Congestion Management Plan
- Conservation Element
- Consistency Requirement
- Council of Governments
- Covenants, Conditions, And Restrictions
- Cross-Acceptance
- Cumulative Impact
- Dedication
- Defensible Space
- Density Bonus
- Density, Control of
- Density, Employment
- Density, Residential
- Density Transfer
- Design Review
- Design Review Board
- Developable Land
- Development Intensity
- Development Rights, Transfer of
- Discretionary Decision
- Discretionary Review
- Downzone
- Dwelling Unit
- Easement
- Easement, Conservation
- Economic Development Commission
- Eminent Domain
- Environmental Impact Report
- Environmental Impact Statement
- Environmental Justice Element
- Exaction
- Extreme Heat
- Exurb
- Final Map Subdivision
- Fiscal Impact Analysis
- Fiscal Impact Report
- Floor Area Ratio
- Frontline Communities
- General Plan
- Geographic Information System
- Gray Infrastructure
- Green Infrastructure
- Greenbelt
- Greenfield
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHGs)
- Greyfield
- Growth Management
- Guideway
- HCD
- Heat Island
- High Fire Hazard Severity Zone
- Home Hardening
- Housing Element
- Impact Fee
- Impacted Areas
- Improved Land
- In Lieu Fee
- Incentive Zoning
- Inclusionary Zoning
- Infill Development
- Infrastructure
- Initial Study
- Interim Zone
- Joint Powers Authority
- Land Banking
- Land Use
- Leapfrog Development
- Level of Service
- Life-Cycle Costing
- Light Industry
- Light Rail Transit
- Linkage
- Living Levee
- Mello-roos
- Mitigation Measure
- Mixed-Use
- Moratorium
- Municipal Underbounding
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Nature-based Solutions
- Negative Declaration
- Neighborhood Resident Association
- New Urbanism
- Nexus
- Nimby
- Noise Element
- Nonconforming Use
- Office of Planning And Research
- Open Space Element
- Open Space Land
- Overlay Zone
- Parcel
- Parcel Map
- Parking Management
- Parking Ratio
- Peak Oil
- Plan Bay Area
- Planned Community
- Planned Unit Development
- Planning Area
- Planning Commission
- Redevelopment
- Regional Housing Needs Plan
- Regulatory Taking
- Right-of-Way
- Road Diet
- Safety Element
- Setback
- Single Family Zoning
- Single-occupancy Vehicle Travel
- Single-Room Occupancy
- Smart Growth
- Specific Plan
- Sphere of Influence
- Spot Zoning
- Sprawl
- State Responsibility Area
- Street Tree Plan
- Sustainable Development
- Tax Increment Financing
- Tentative Map
- Traffic Calming
- Traffic Model
- Traffic Zone
- Transfer of Development Rights
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Transportation Demand Management
- Transportation Systems Management
- Urban Design
- Urban Growth Boundary
- Urban Limit Line
- Urban Planning
- Urban Sprawl
- Use Permit
- Variance
- Vehicle Miles Traveled
- Volume-To-Capacity Ratio
- Wetland Migration
- Wildland-Urban Interface
- YIMBY
- Zoning