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18-Geom-B6 Land Use Planning and Environmental Management: December 2016

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  1. Question 1 Characteristics of Small-Town Development and its Land-Use Patterns
  2. Question 2 Zoning, its Basis, and Overlay Zoning
  3. Question 3 The Regional Land-Use Plan — What it is, What it Includes, and Why
  4. Question 4 The Normative Process and the Technical Process in Community Planning
  5. Question 5 Land-Use Planning Tools in Canada, and Using Them to Reduce Climate Risk
  6. Question 6 Road Salts — Environmental Concerns, Mitigation, and How Much We Could Cut Back
  7. Question 7 Smart Growth and the Keys to Planning Success

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National Exams, December 2016 — 04-Geom-B6, Land Use Planning and Environmental Management. Three hours; closed book (any Sharp or Casio approved 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 and environmental context (Statistics Canada census geography; the Canadian Institute of Planners; provincial planning legislation, official community plans and regional growth strategies; Environment Canada / CEPA environmental management), 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; Natural Resources Canada, Land-Use Planning Tools for Local Adaptation to Climate Change (2012) and ICLEI Canada / Building Adaptive & Resilient Communities (BARC) materials; Environment Canada, Priority Substances List Assessment Report: Road Salts (CEPA 1999, 2001) and the Code of Practice for the Environmental Management of Road Salts (2004); Transportation Association of Canada (TAC), Syntheses of Best Practices — Road Salt Management; Statistics Canada, Census Dictionary; provincial planning statutes (e.g., Ontario Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13; British Columbia Local Government Act) and representative regional growth strategies (Metro Vancouver Regional Growth Strategy; the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe).

Answering strategy

This is a pure-essay, closed-book paper: there are no calculations. Each answer is organised by concept rather than by numbered computation steps. Four answers include an explanatory figure (the small-town land-use pattern, Q1; the overlay-zoning structure, Q2; the regional plan structure, Q3; and the road-salt pathways, Q6) because a sketch communicates the spatial idea far more efficiently than prose.

End of solutions — 04-Geom-B6, December 2016. All seven questions solved (the exam requires any five); each answer is framed in the Canadian planning and environmental-management context per the Engineers Canada / EGBC syllabus.