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01. A bus line runs along the arterial bordering a district under design. The team wants more of the district's trips to be made on that line and is deciding what to put in the plan.
What is the development's own contribution to that goal?
a) More frequent service on the arterial, running earlier in the morning and later into the evening.
b) A street layout arranged so that the arterial takes the district's through traffic away from the internal streets.
c) Sheltered stops, safe crossings to them, and paths leading directly from the blocks.
d) Parking at each building at the level its tenants would like, so that the line is used by choice rather than by necessity.
 
02. A development will be built over several phases across a number of years. Because the housing sells first, the developer proposes to build the residential blocks in the early phases and to add the retail street, the civic space and the connection into the adjoining street network in the final phase.
What should the team say about that sequence?
a) The sequence is the developer's to schedule, since the plan's final arrangement is what determines how the neighborhood works.
b) The destinations and the connections should come early, not last.
c) The civic space can wait, provided the residential blocks are laid out so it can be inserted where the plan shows it.
d) It is sound, since the retail street needs residents in place rather than the other way round.
 
03. A neighborhood's main street carries a lane of parked cars along each curb. The jurisdiction proposes removing both parking lanes to add a travel lane in each direction, noting that a parking structure a short walk away stands part empty through the day.
What does that proposal cost the street beyond the parking spaces themselves?
a) The revenue the curb spaces bring the jurisdiction, which pays for the upkeep of the street.
b) The parked cars stand between moving traffic and the sidewalk, and they put arriving drivers on foot at the doors of the uses along it.
c) Nothing the street will feel, since the spaces are replaced in the structure nearby and the same customers reach the same shops on foot from it.
d) The width of the sidewalks, since they will be cut back to fit the added lanes.
 
04. A residential street in the district was drawn with narrow travel lanes to hold driving speeds down. It runs between the rear walls of the blocks on either side, and the next cross street is at the far end of it. Speeds measured along it are as high as they were before the lanes were narrowed.
What best explains that?
a) Posted limits, painted markings and enforcement are what set the speeds drivers choose, and a cross-section carries no weight against them.
b) Drivers have not yet adjusted to the new cross-section, and speeds will settle in time.
c) The lanes were not narrowed far enough to change what drivers do.
d) Width sets what a street permits, while the things along it are what persuade a driver to slow.
 
05. A team has finished its site analysis: slopes, drainage, soils and the mapped constraints are all recorded, and the plan is being drawn against them. The site sits in a jurisdiction where a district of this intensity needs a discretionary approval, and the commission that grants it has turned down two comparable proposals in recent years. The team's schedule treats that approval as a step to be worked through once the plan is complete.
What is the flaw in that approach?
a) The commission's past decisions bind it, so a proposal at this intensity has already been refused and the plan should be reduced now.
b) The intensity the commission will approve constrains the site as firmly as slopes and drainage do, so it belongs in the analysis rather than in the schedule that follows it.
c) The site analysis is the wrong document, since a discretionary approval turns on what residents say at the hearing rather than on the site's physical conditions.
d) The approval cannot be pursued until the plan is complete, so the schedule has the analysis, the plan and the approval in the right order, and only the timing wrong.
 
06. A team schedules outreach for a district next to an established residential area. The meetings are held on weekday mornings at the developer's downtown office and are advertised in a subscription newspaper. Attendance is low, and the few who come are not from the adjoining blocks.
What should the team change?
a) The record of the meetings, since a summary sent afterward would tell the households that missed them what was proposed, what was asked, what was objected to and what was decided.
b) The subject matter, because residents turn out when the agenda is about the decisions that affect them most.
c) The volume of the advertising, so that notice of the meetings reaches more people than it does now.
d) The timing, the location and the way notice is given, so that taking part is possible for the households in the adjoining blocks.
 
07. A wide, heavily trafficked arterial maintained by the county runs through the middle of a project boundary. The residential blocks lie on one side of it; the shops and the school the plan provides lie on the other.
The team's first sketch turns the blocks away from the arterial, running garden walls along it and gathering the district's walking routes onto the interior streets.
How should the team handle the arterial instead?
a) Concentrate the district's crossing at a single grade-separated structure, and keep people on foot away from the arterial's edge.
b) Narrow the arterial's lanes, lower its posted limit and plant its verges, so that traffic on it runs at the speed of the district's own streets.
c) Treat the arterial as context the plan does not control, and design each side as a neighborhood in its own right, with its own center.
d) Keep the residential blocks fronting the arterial and cross it at short, regular intervals, so both sides of the development stay one neighborhood for anybody on foot.
 
08. Part of a district sits on a former industrial parcel where the soil is contaminated and the subgrade is heavy clay. Everywhere else the plan puts rainwater into the ground close to where it falls.
What should the strategy be on that parcel?
a) Extend the same approach, as consistency across the district matters.
b) Excavate and replace the subgrade beneath the planted areas so the district's approach can be applied across the parcel as well.
c) Hold the water in the surface system and release it slowly, keeping it out of the ground.
d) Discharge that part directly to the municipal drain, because water that cannot be handled on the parcel is the utility's to carry.
 
09. Residents of an adjoining neighborhood oppose a plan's connected street network, arguing that the connections will bring traffic onto their streets. The plan's designer answers that connectivity is a core objective and cannot be compromised.
How should the team resolve the disagreement?
a) Reduce the connections to the adjoining neighborhood, keeping a limited set for emergency access rather than for daily use.
b) Accept the designer's position, because a connected network is what the objective requires and the traffic that follows from it is a consequence the adjoining streets absorb.
c) Keep the connections and design the streets for low speeds, since connectivity is about route choice rather than the volume any one street carries.
d) Treat the objection as a matter for the approving agency, whose conditions will settle how many connections the plan carries.
 
10. Two of the exam's knowledge domains reach beyond the project boundary: Smart Location and Linkage, and Project Surroundings and Public Outreach. A candidate treats the second as a part of the first, reasoning that both are about what lies outside the development.
What does that treatment lose?
a) The difference between what the surroundings offer a development, meaning where it sits and what it can reach from there, and what a development does with the people, the institutions and the agencies around it, since that is work the team performs and decisions it takes.
b) The rule that location is settled first, before design begins, and that surroundings, outreach, and what lies beyond the boundary are taken up after, so the two headings differ in when they arise, and not in what they ask.
c) Nothing of substance, as both domains deal with conditions the development does not control.
d) The credit categories that sit under each of the two domains in the rating system.

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Question: 01
Answer: c		 Question: 02
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Answer: b
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Answer: c		 Question: 10
Answer: a

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