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B - ✔️✔️Zoning based on the right of a city to protect the public's health safety and general
welfare is known as
a) Code of ordinances
b) Police Power
c) Urban Planning
d) Lis Pendens
B - ✔️✔️Before the city council of a home rule city may adopt a general zoning scheme the city
must
a) Vote
b) Plan
c) hold Public hearing
d) appoint a planning and zoning commission
A - ✔️✔️The standard zoning enabling act of the U.S. department of commerce was published
what year.
a) 1926
b) 1933
c) 1946
d) 1951
C - ✔️✔️The body empowered to grant a variance from a certain provisions in the zoning
ordinance when literal enforcement would result in unnecessary hardship, the variance is not
contrary to public interest and the spirit of the ordinance is maintained is known as the
a) City Council
b) Planning and zoning commission
c) Board of adjustments
d) Code enforcement office
A - ✔️✔️What is associated with zoning changes of small tract of land within an area of
otherwise similar land use
a) Changes in land use classification
b) Land use plan
c) Variances
d) All of the above
C - ✔️✔️what land use areas are typically listed in a zoning ordinance?
a) residential commercial
b) residential, commercial and industrial
c) residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural
d) residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural and recreational
,B - ✔️✔️Name two type of zoning
a) Performing zoning and residential zoning
b) Performing zoning and standard or Euclidean
c) Commercial zoning and standard or Euclidean
d) Residential zoning and commercial zoning
D - ✔️✔️Zoning regulations as outlined in local government code 211.003 includes what type of
regulations
a) height, number and stories, size of buildings, location and use of buildings and other
structures
b) Population density, percentage of lot that may be occupied, and size of yards, courts and
other open spaces
c) Land use of businesses, industrial, residential and other purposes
d) All of the above
A - ✔️✔️A city's comprehensive plan typically is made up of the following four plan sections
a) Land use plan, Transportation plan, Community Facilities plan, and the policy document
b) Land use plan, residential plan, business development plan and policy document
c) Residential development plan, Business development plan, industrial development plan, and
agricultural development plan
d) Policy document, planning and zoning plan, Code of ordinances, and the public utilities plan
D - ✔️✔️Zoning regulates what
a) Community development
B) Residential and industrial development
c) Neighborhood use
d) Land use
C - ✔️✔️A system for the public control of land use for the community good is called
a) Neighborhood Planning
b) Urban Planning
c) Zoning
d) Code of ordinance
B - ✔️✔️Land use that predates the current zoning ordinance and violates the current zoning
ordinance is known as
a) amortization zones
b) Non conforming use
c) a zoning violation
d) grandfathered use
A - ✔️✔️what is the process of terminating non conformance on the basis of a time schedule
that's has been prescribed by the zoning board of adjustments
a)Amortization
, b) Enforcment
c) Grandfathering
d) Dillions rule
D - ✔️✔️Basically, subdivision regulations are
a) Planned development restrictions
b) Subdivision ordinances
c) Non conforming uses
d) a) and b)
D - ✔️✔️How may a potential juror be excused from serving
a) Venire has no transportation
b) Venire does not vote in local elections
c) Venire is unemployed
d) Venire cannot speak, read, or write the English language
C - ✔️✔️The definition of Venire is
a) Citizen of a city or municipality
b) Registered voter
c) Potential juror
d) Non resident alien
C - ✔️✔️The procedure that a fire marshall, code officer or health official may use to obtain a
search warrant is known as
a) An Affidavit
b) A Deposition
c) Probable Cause
d) A sworn statement
D - ✔️✔️What is considered the least desirable forms of persuasiveness for a code enforcement
officer
a)Written Notice
b) Writing a Citation
c) Legal Action
d) b) and c)
A - ✔️✔️A person aggrieved by a decision, tax payer, and officer, department, board or bureau
of a municipality may all present to a court of record a verified petition stating that the decision
of the board of adjustments is illegal in the whole or in a part and specifying the grounds of
illegality
a) True
b) False
Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers
B - ✔️✔️Zoning based on the right of a city to protect the public's health safety and general
welfare is known as
a) Code of ordinances
b) Police Power
c) Urban Planning
d) Lis Pendens
B - ✔️✔️Before the city council of a home rule city may adopt a general zoning scheme the city
must
a) Vote
b) Plan
c) hold Public hearing
d) appoint a planning and zoning commission
A - ✔️✔️The standard zoning enabling act of the U.S. department of commerce was published
what year.
a) 1926
b) 1933
c) 1946
d) 1951
C - ✔️✔️The body empowered to grant a variance from a certain provisions in the zoning
ordinance when literal enforcement would result in unnecessary hardship, the variance is not
contrary to public interest and the spirit of the ordinance is maintained is known as the
a) City Council
b) Planning and zoning commission
c) Board of adjustments
d) Code enforcement office
A - ✔️✔️What is associated with zoning changes of small tract of land within an area of
otherwise similar land use
a) Changes in land use classification
b) Land use plan
c) Variances
d) All of the above
C - ✔️✔️what land use areas are typically listed in a zoning ordinance?
a) residential commercial
b) residential, commercial and industrial
c) residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural
d) residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural and recreational
,B - ✔️✔️Name two type of zoning
a) Performing zoning and residential zoning
b) Performing zoning and standard or Euclidean
c) Commercial zoning and standard or Euclidean
d) Residential zoning and commercial zoning
D - ✔️✔️Zoning regulations as outlined in local government code 211.003 includes what type of
regulations
a) height, number and stories, size of buildings, location and use of buildings and other
structures
b) Population density, percentage of lot that may be occupied, and size of yards, courts and
other open spaces
c) Land use of businesses, industrial, residential and other purposes
d) All of the above
A - ✔️✔️A city's comprehensive plan typically is made up of the following four plan sections
a) Land use plan, Transportation plan, Community Facilities plan, and the policy document
b) Land use plan, residential plan, business development plan and policy document
c) Residential development plan, Business development plan, industrial development plan, and
agricultural development plan
d) Policy document, planning and zoning plan, Code of ordinances, and the public utilities plan
D - ✔️✔️Zoning regulates what
a) Community development
B) Residential and industrial development
c) Neighborhood use
d) Land use
C - ✔️✔️A system for the public control of land use for the community good is called
a) Neighborhood Planning
b) Urban Planning
c) Zoning
d) Code of ordinance
B - ✔️✔️Land use that predates the current zoning ordinance and violates the current zoning
ordinance is known as
a) amortization zones
b) Non conforming use
c) a zoning violation
d) grandfathered use
A - ✔️✔️what is the process of terminating non conformance on the basis of a time schedule
that's has been prescribed by the zoning board of adjustments
a)Amortization
, b) Enforcment
c) Grandfathering
d) Dillions rule
D - ✔️✔️Basically, subdivision regulations are
a) Planned development restrictions
b) Subdivision ordinances
c) Non conforming uses
d) a) and b)
D - ✔️✔️How may a potential juror be excused from serving
a) Venire has no transportation
b) Venire does not vote in local elections
c) Venire is unemployed
d) Venire cannot speak, read, or write the English language
C - ✔️✔️The definition of Venire is
a) Citizen of a city or municipality
b) Registered voter
c) Potential juror
d) Non resident alien
C - ✔️✔️The procedure that a fire marshall, code officer or health official may use to obtain a
search warrant is known as
a) An Affidavit
b) A Deposition
c) Probable Cause
d) A sworn statement
D - ✔️✔️What is considered the least desirable forms of persuasiveness for a code enforcement
officer
a)Written Notice
b) Writing a Citation
c) Legal Action
d) b) and c)
A - ✔️✔️A person aggrieved by a decision, tax payer, and officer, department, board or bureau
of a municipality may all present to a court of record a verified petition stating that the decision
of the board of adjustments is illegal in the whole or in a part and specifying the grounds of
illegality
a) True
b) False
