AICP Practice Test 11

Pine Hollow Planning Department

The city of Pine Hollow (population 110,000) has a 22-person planning department led by an AICP-certified director. The department is preparing a citywide rezoning to allow more housing near a planned bus rapid transit line, and the council expects a recommendation within 60 days. Several situations have come up at once.

In a closed session, the council discussed buying land near one future station for a park-and-ride lot; the location has not been announced. Marcus Lee, AICP, a senior planner who attended the session, is writing the rezoning's background report, which goes to the planning commission next week. A summer intern has told a coworker, also an AICP member, that a division manager repeatedly makes unwelcome comments about her appearance; the coworker has not yet acted. Meanwhile, a resident who opposes the rezoning, and who is not an APA member, says she will file an ethics complaint against the director over the department's outreach.