Sample ALE Questions: Planning Part 2

sample board exam questions for ALE Day 1 AM session on Planning (Site Planning, Urban Design and Community Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning)


1. An urban design control that is used to limit height and building bulk, creates setbacks and open space, and ultimately generate a relatively uniform urban fabric, computed as the ratio of the total floor area and the lot area.
2. The salient provision of this law requires developers of proposed subdivision project at least 20% of the total subdivision area or total subdivision project cost for socialized housing.
3. The wet and dry market is its main feature with quasi-residential commercial or mixed-use development.
4. Refers to the acquisition of land at values based on existing use in advance of actual need to promote planned development and socialized housing programs.
5. Refers to the process of land acquisition by exchanging land for another piece of land of equal value, or for shares of stock in a government or quasi-government corporation.
6. Refers to the acquisition of lots of varying ownership through purchase or expropriation for the purpose of planned and rational development and socialized housing programs without individual boundary restrictions.
7. Refers to those areas declared as such under existing statutes and pertinent executive issuances.
8. Refers to the areas where the structures are dilapidated, obsolete and unsanitary, tending to depreciate the value of the land and prevent normal development and use of the area.
9. Constructed and financed by the private sector as a business venture and sold at prevailing market prices and interest.
10. Housing project for moderately low-income families with lower interest rates and longer amortization periods
11. As per NSO, what structure is 3 or more units, intended for residential use only, usually consisting of 3 or more housing units?
12. Which is not included in the elements of human settlements?
13. These are centrally located parks with a service radius from 0.8 to 3.0 kilometers designed for both active and passive recreation.
14. Recommended maximum distance of commercial center to residential zones as per HLURB planning standards.
15. What type of street has high velocity and higher volume of traffic flow?
16. What would result in overload storm water when an urban area experiences severe storms?
17. A street pattern used in highly mountainous sites following the contours of the topography
18. It mandates the protection of selected areas under the direction of the PAMB that is locally constituted and chaired by the DENR.
19. Promotes the creation and restoration of diverse, walkable, compact, vibrant, mixed-use communities of the same components as conventional development, but assembled in a more integrated fashion, in the form of complete communities.
20. A map that shows the spatial allocation of built-up areas categorized as residential, commercial, institutional, parks and open spaces, industrial and others.
21. A map that shows the overall allocation of land within a city or municipality, covering both urban and non-urban uses such as residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, forest, protected areas, and other land uses.
22. The maximum distance a consumer is willing to travel to avail of a good service beyond which people will look to another center.
23. Major and minor routes of circulation which people use to move about.
24. The larger the population of a city, the more likely its economy allows for.
25. The sole regulatory body for housing and land use development. It is charged with encouraging greater private sector participation in low-cost housing through liberalization of development standards, simplification of regulations and decentralization of approvals for permits and licenses.
26. An in-design land use evaluation method for planning areas that retain important natural environmental features. The outcome of the valuation depends to a large extent on expert judgment based on scientific knowledge.
27. Parking lots should be located in an area where slope is below ___, otherwise grading is to be done.
28. A variable of urban decoration where the environment is to have an understandable simple pattern of signs and clues.
29. Where can we find the highest-level policy statements on environmental protection?
30. It is best for linear construction such as roads, paths, and utility trenching.

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1. General Principles of Site and Physical Planning a. Hierarchy of site and physical plans, definitions and classifications; b. History and scope of site and physical planning; and c. General planning process. 2. Urban and Regional Planning a. History of the urban and regional planning; b. Theories of urban and regional planning; c. Comprehensive land and water use planning (CLWUPs); d. Zoning ordinances (ZOs); and e. Urbanization and urban social relationships. 3. Housing and Human Settlements Planning a. Definitions and classifications; b. State housing policies, programs and agencies; c. State housing finance, production and practices; 4. The Art and Science of Site and Physical Planning a. Map and plan typology, identification and reading/ appreciation; b. Site appreciation, analyses and programming; c. Primary considerations in site and physical planning e.g. physical, aesthetic, ecologi¬cal, socio-psychological, management, maintenance, etc.; d. Subdivision Planning, Deed of Restriction and Development Guidelines; e. Master Development Planning (MDP); and f. Site Development Planning (SDP) for areas immediately surrounding buildings/ structures.

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