AICP Exam Prep - review wrong answers
III Questions And Answers
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.
III Questions And Answers
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.
