PLAN103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Smart Growth, Multiple Choice
23 Mar 2016
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Based on readings and lectures: multiple choice and short answer, half hour test, with only two of three test count for grade. Municipal finance: affects development of democratic governance and economic development through its impact on quality of local services and infrastructure: affects quality of natural of natural environment through impact on municipal services. Why we plan: avoid land use conflicts ensure orderly and effective development. Provide and protect public goods (benefit a community without profit, examples include efficient road network) Levels of government: federal, provincial, municipal: each level has its own division of activities. Federal concerns with international affairs, policy, money, banking, defence, citizenship, some roads. Provincial: municipal affairs, education, natural resource issues, health care, social assistance. Municipal: division of responsibilities can be between local or regional. Who plans: federal, provincial, municipal: federal: provides funding, ownership of lands, provincial: provides framework for planning administration, provincial policy, municipal: carries out planning authorized under provincial planning acts.
