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18-Geom-B6 Land Use Planning and Environmental Management

Worked solutions to 7 past sittings (2013–2016), 49 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.

Topics across the sittings

Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.

Questions by sitting

December 2016

  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

May 2016

  1. Question 1: The Garden City Concept and Howard’s “Three Magnets”
  2. Question 2: Zoning, its Basis, and Overlay Zoning
  3. Question 3: Growth Management and the Municipal Control Options
  4. Question 4: The Normative Process and the Technical Process in Community Planning
  5. Question 5: The Four Forms of Metropolitan Development (Canadian Examples)
  6. Question 6: Characteristics of Small-Town Development and its Land-Use Patterns
  7. Question 7: Smart Growth and the Keys to Planning Success

December 2015

  1. Question 1: The Garden City Concept and Howard’s “Three Magnets”
  2. Question 2: Zoning, its Basis, and Overlay Zoning
  3. Question 3: Growth Management and the Municipal Control Options
  4. Question 4: The Normative Process and the Technical Process in Community Planning
  5. Question 5: The Four Forms of Metropolitan Development (Canadian Examples)
  6. Question 6: Characteristics of Small-Town Development and its Land-Use Patterns
  7. Question 7: Smart Growth and the Keys to Planning Success

May 2015

  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

May 2014

  1. Question 1: Methods for Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans
  2. Question 2: Key Considerations for Planning Success with Smart Growth
  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: Four Key Factors in Environmental Planning for Future Water Supply
  7. Question 7: Objectives, Purposes and Nature of Land-Use Zoning

December 2013

  1. Question 1: Definitions of Ten Land-Development Terms
  2. Question 2: The Four Stages of Comprehensive Community Planning
  3. Question 3: The Planners’ Principles of Community Land Use
  4. Question 4: How and When to Engage Community Members in Land-Use Planning
  5. Question 5: The Zoning By-law Process (with Flowchart) and How By-laws Are Evaluated
  6. Question 6: Withdrawing Land Through a Land-Use Plan vs. the Protected Areas Strategy
  7. Question 7: Is an Environmental Site Assessment the Same as an Environmental Assessment?

May 2013

  1. Question 1: Definitions of Ten Land-Development Terms
  2. Question 2: The Main Steps in Land-Use Planning
  3. Question 3: The Planners’ Principles of Community Land Use
  4. Question 4: The Normative and Technical Planning Processes
  5. Question 5: The Four Forms of Metropolitan Development (Canadian Examples)
  6. Question 6: Characteristics of Small-Town Development and Land-Use Patterns
  7. Question 7: Key Participants in the Three Phases of Community Planning