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Study Guide for PAD 631 Final Exam: September 2016

The Final Exam, worth 40 points (20% of your grade), will consist of 15 Multiple-Choice and true false questions (1 point each, total 15 points) and five essay questions (worth up to 5 points each, total 25 points). You will have one hour and thirty minutes to complete the exam. Even though the exam is open book/open note you are encouraged to spend time in advance of the exam reviewing the concepts to ensure you have a good handle on the definitions and can relate the concepts to current events. You are also required to have reviewed a General Plan from your city or a city that is of interest to you before the exam and have it accessible to you during the exam. Essay responses must be in your own words, not taken verbatim from the textbook, on-line lectures or outside sources and must be a minimum of eight (complete and meaningful) sentences in length. Similar to the midterm, the essay questions will be multifaceted and each section will require a separate analysis (not combined all together as they will be about distinct issue).

Definitions and concepts from the following list will be covered in the multiple-choice and true/false questions:

· Definition, history and who is involved in planning (including planning commissions, professional planners, property owners and citizens)

· Activities involved in planning

· Roles of counties vs. cities in land use planning

· Roles of Planning Commissions vs. Planning Departments

· Roles of citizens in the planning process

· General Plans, Comprehensive Plans and the elements of these plans (i.e. land use, circulation, etc)

· Zoning

· Eminent Domain

· Environmental Impact Reports

· Conditional Use Permits

· Variances

· Sprawl

· Transit oriented development

· Smart Growth

· Economic development

Issues from the following list will be covered in essay questions:

1. Planning (overall discussion based on material from throughout the course)

2. Core functions of a planner

3. General Plans (you will want to have a plan for your community or that of interest to you for reference)

4. How planning and development activities incorporates broad social goals of society

5. Economic Development

6. Smart Growth