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AICP Exam Prep - review wrong answersIII
Which of the following is true of Harland Bartholomew? - answer (all of the following)
I. First full-time planner for a city
II. Wrote the comprehensive plan for St. Louis
III. Owned a planning consulting firm
You recently read about a community in Colorado that used a meeting in a box
technique where the public was provided with a box filled with discussion questions,
popcorn, and paper and pencils to take note. The idea was to have people get together
with neighbors and then mail back their boxes. You want to undertake a similar
approach that will allow you to interact in small informal discussions with neighborhood
residents to discuss traffic calming approaches. Which of the following techniques best
meets your needs: - answer Coffee Klatch
(A coffee klatch is a small, informal discussion with a group of people in a private home
with light refreshments. The planner typically has a short presentation followed by
questions and discussion.)
Shift-Share analysis involves which of the following? - answer (all of the following)
I. Evaluating the performance of an individual industry
II. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of an industry
III. Evaluating the region's mix of industries
The City has just put in place a new floor area ratio of 0.5. A developer is interested in
developing an office building on a 1/2-acre site. What is the maximum size this office
building could be? - answer 10,890 square feet
(The lot size is 1/2 an acre which is half of 43,560 and equals 21,780 square feet.
An FAR of .5 allows you to build 50% of the lot area. 50% of 21,780 equals 10,890
square feet.)
You live in a riverfront community and in the last ten years, there has been a
proliferation of docks and boats on waterfront properties. Water quality has been
declining. As part of your comprehensive planning for the community, you want to
engage with regulatory authorities about ways to improve water quality on the river.
Who should you engage? - answer US Environmental Protection Agency AND Army
Corp of Engineers
, (The Clean Water Act of 1972 exercised its power to regulate interstate commerce by
prohibiting discharges into the nation's navigable waters. If the body of water can be
used to transport goods from one state to another it is covered by the Clean Water Act.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corp of Engineers have the
regulatory power to prepare rules for navigable waters.)
As the senior planner, you are leading a university master planning process. You have a
senior leadership group, made up of administrators in the University, that is guiding the
work on campus. You are the staff representative to the committee meetings. The
committee has worked for the last six months, making solid progress on issues as wide-
ranging as modernization of residence halls, enhancement of parkland along the river,
connectivity between the campus and an outlying research park. Your biggest challenge
is that the committee does not want to talk about campus crime. You believe that the
campus would benefit from a campus-wide discussion on Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design and the ways it could be used to enhance the safety of the entire
campus community. The steering group doesn't want to open this conversation over
concern about talking about incidences of crime on campus. They believe this is a -
answer You should advise the Trustees that you are reaching out to all key
stakeholder groups. With campus safety being just one element of the overall master
plan.
"No government shall impose or implement a land use regulation in a manner that
imposes a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person, including a religious
assembly or institution, unless the government demonstrates that imposition of the
burden on that person, assembly, or institution" is part of which of the following acts? -
answer The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act offers protection
against land use regulations that impose a burden on religious exercise.
Open Meetings Laws require that... - answer Open Meetings Laws require that
Planning Commission meetings be open to the public.
As the county's economic development director you are looking for creative solutions to
promote economic development in this largely agricultural county. You have convened a
group of farmers to promote agritourism. Which of the following would be most
effective? - answer Encourage farmers along a key accessible corridor to collaborate
on adding complementary agritourism activities to create a day trip to attract families
from the adjacent metropolitan area.
You are working at the customer service counter completing paperwork. A developer
stops in to discuss a preliminary plat that is being heard by the planning commission at
its next meeting. You are responsible for the staff report for this agenda item. It's 11:55
and the developer invites you to join him for lunch. Based on the AICP Code of Ethics
what should you do? - answer Use professional judgment.
If a 100,000 square foot shopping center is proposed and the zoning code requires 1
parking space for every 200 square feet of building and the average size of a parking
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