16-Civ-B6 Urban and Regional Planning, December 2019: worked solutions

Paper format. 16-Civ-B6 Urban and Regional Planning, National Examinations, December 2019. Three hours, closed book, an approved calculator permitted although the paper sets no calculation. Part A: Questions 1 and 2, both compulsory, 25 marks each, four sub-parts each with the marks printed in the left margin. Part B: Questions 3–10, all of equal value at 10 marks, of which five are to be answered. A complete paper is therefore 100 marks. Front-page Note 6 states that most questions require an answer in essay format and that “clarity and organization of the answer are important” — structure and argument carry the marks here, not arithmetic.

Check — scope and assumptions. All ten questions are answered in full below because this document is a study resource rather than a submitted script; in the examination itself a candidate answers Questions 1 and 2 plus any five of Questions 3–10. The Part B header on this paper reads simply “ANSWER FIVE (5) OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS” without naming a count of the questions that follow, so it does not contradict front-page Note 4 — the instructions on this sitting are internally consistent. Where a question asks for a fixed number of items (five plan aspects in Q1(b), ten pieces of information in Q2(c), two of six issues in Q9), the answer below deliberately supplies more than the number asked so that the document covers the ground; in the examination, supply exactly the number requested and no more. Questions 1 and 2 give a scenario but no engineering data, so where a quantity is introduced to make an argument concrete it is stated as an explicit assumption — permitted, and indeed invited, by front-page Note 1. The paper uses the Ontario vocabulary (“Official Plan”, “plan of subdivision”) alongside the British Columbia term “Official Community Plan”, so both statutes are cited; the answers stay in the Canadian frame throughout.

Reference texts for 16-Civ-B6.

Hodge, G., Gordon, D.L.A. & Shaw, P., Planning Canadian Communities: An Introduction to the Principles, Practice and Participants, 7th ed., Nelson Education — the core Canadian text for this examination code, and the text named by name in Question 5.
Levy, J.M., Contemporary Urban Planning, 11th ed., Routledge — planning history, theory, tools, population projection technique, and the North American regulatory framework.
Hodge, G. & Robinson, I.M., Planning Canadian Regions, UBC Press — regional planning, growth management, agricultural land protection and metropolitan governance.
Grant, J.L. (ed.), A Reader in Canadian Planning: Linking Theory and Practice, Nelson — Canadian case material on participation, suburban retrofit and sustainability.
Provincial statutes: British Columbia Local Government Act, R.S.B.C. 2015, c. 1 (Parts 14–15) and Land Title Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 250, Part 7; Ontario Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13 (ss. 17, 24, 26, 34, 41, 45, 51); British Columbia Agricultural Land Commission Act, S.B.C. 2002, c. 36.
Transportation Association of Canada, Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads and Canadian Guide to Neighbourhood Traffic Calming; International Association for Public Participation (IAP2), Spectrum of Public Participation; Statistics Canada, Census of Population and Census of Agriculture.

16-Civ-B6 Urban and Regional Planning: December 2019