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Retail
Land predominately used for the sale of
goods and services, including commercial
strips, malls, big box stores, shopping
centers, gas stations, convenience stores, and
restaurants.
Road Diet
A technique in transportation
planning whereby the number of travel lanes
and/or effective width of the road is reduced
in order to achieve systemic improvements.
Senior Center
A non-residential facility and community
focal point where independent older adults
come together for shared services and
activities.
Single-Family Attached
Residential areas with homes that
share at least one vertical wall with a
neighboring house, including housing types
like rowhomes, twins, townhomes, and
quadruplexes
Single-Family Detached
Residential areas with homes which do not
share party walls and have yards of varying
sizes on all sides.
Single-Family Detached Low Density
Residential areas with the same
characteristics as Single-Family Detached,
but with larger lot sizes (typically an acre or
more) and more rural character, generally
found in areas without public sewer service.
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation
Authority (SEPTA)
A regional transit company that provides
regional rail, subway, trolley and bus service
to Philadelphia and its Pennsylvania suburbs.
Specialty Hospital
A type of hospital that restricts its
admissions to a particular group of persons
or class, such as a children’s hospital, but also
a hospital that specializes in a specific type
of treatment, such as a drug rehabilitation or
mental health facility.
Traditional Neighborhood Development
The development of a complete
neighborhood or town using
traditional town planning principles.TND
may involve infill or adaptive reuse, but
often involves construction on previously
undeveloped land.TND is limited to the
neighborhood or town scale.
Transportation
Areas dedicated to the movement of people
or goods, including public transportation
centers, highways, highway interchanges,
roads, and airports
Transportation Alternatives Program
Authorized under MAP-21, the TAP
provides funding for projects defined as
transportation alternatives, including on- and
off-road pedestrian and bicycle facilities,
infrastructure projects for improving non-
driver access to public transportation and
enhanced mobility, community improvement
activities, and environmental mitigation;
recreational trail program projects; safe
routes to school projects; and projects
for planning, designing, or constructing
boulevards and other roadways largely in
the right-of-way of former Interstate System
routes or other divided highways.
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
The regionally agreed upon list of priority
transportation projects, as required by
federal law (ISTEA,TEA-21, SAFETEA LU).
The TIP document must list all projects
that intend to use federal funds, along with
all non-federally funded projects that are
regionally significant.
