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18-Geom-B6 Land Use Planning and Environmental Management: May 2015

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  1. Question 1 Objectives, Purposes and Nature of Land-Use Zoning
  2. Question 2 Four Key Factors in Environmental Planning for Future Water Supply
  3. Question 3 The Site-Analysis Process and the Role of GIS
  4. Question 4 Defining the City, Urbanized Area and Metropolitan Area in Canada
  5. Question 5 The Edge City and Its Characteristics
  6. Question 6 Key Considerations for Planning Success with Smart Growth
  7. Question 7 Methods for Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans

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National Exams, May 2015 — 04-Geom-B6, Land Use, Planning & Environmental Management. Three hours; closed book (any non-communicating calculator permitted). Format: seven questions of equal value (20 marks each); the paper directs that answering any five (5) of the seven constitutes a complete exam (100%), and the first five as they appear in the answer book are marked. All seven questions are solved in full below so the set serves as a complete study resource. Answers are framed in the Canadian planning context (Statistics Canada’s census-geography definitions; the Canadian Institute of Planners; provincial planning legislation, official community plans and regional growth strategies), consistent with the Engineers Canada / EGBC syllabus for this exam.

Reference texts: G. Hodge & D. Gordon, Planning Canadian Communities: An Introduction to the Principles, Practice and Participants (Nelson, current ed.) — the standard Canadian reference for this exam code; I. McHarg, Design with Nature (1969) — the sieve/overlay method underlying GIS site analysis; J. Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (1991); Statistics Canada, Census Dictionary (population centre, census metropolitan area and census agglomeration definitions); Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) materials; World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (Brundtland Report, 1987); provincial planning statutes (e.g., Ontario Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13; British Columbia Local Government Act) and representative official community plans / regional growth strategies (Metro Vancouver, the Greater Golden Horseshoe Growth Plan).

Note on Canadian census terminology

Question 4 uses the exam’s terms “urbanized area” and “metropolitan area.” In current Statistics Canada usage the closest official equivalents are the population centre (which replaced the older term “urban area” in 2011) and the census metropolitan area (CMA). The answer uses the official Canadian terms and notes the correspondence, rather than importing the U.S. Census “urbanized area” definition.