PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING

1. Who utilizes the country’s land and water resources?

a. Farmer
b. Food security
c. Worker

2. What is the meaning of HLURB?

a. Housing and Land Use Regulation Board
b. Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board
c. Housing and Land User Regulatory Board

3. What is the meaning of RLUC?

a. Regional Land Use Council
b. Regional Land User Committee
c. Regional Land Use Committee

4. Who will appraise the comprehensive land use plans of cities, provinces, etc.?
a. HLURB
b. Regional land use committee
c. Appraiser

5. A private commodity which can be owned, used, bought or sold?

a. Land
b. Property
c. Real estate

6. Refers to the rational and judicious approach of allocating available land resources to different
land using activities.
a. Land Planning
b. Land Use Planning
c. Land using plan

7. Key to orderly and rational land development in any local government unit.
a. Analyzing
b. Planning
c. Implementing

8. How many percent of the total land can be reclassified in the urbanized independent cities?
a. 30%
b. 20%
c. 15%

9. The acronym ADSDP means Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development Plan.

a. True
b. False
c. Maybe
10. It is mandated to promulgate zoning and other land use control standards and guidelines.
a. HMDF
b. NHA
c. Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board

11. Refers to a document embodying specific proposal for guiding, regulating growth and
development of a city or municipality
a. Comprehensive Land Use Plan
b. Land plan
c. Growth plan

12. All local plans shall be reliable with the existing national agency plans.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe

13. Who shall regulate the right to use property among other rights?
a. Philippines
b. Government
c. State

14. Refers to an accumulation of sand ridges of the beach formed by natural processes and usually
parallel to the shoreline
a. Dike
b. Shoreline
c. Dunes

15. Central concern of sustainable development.

a. Sustainability
b. Poverty
c. Effeciency

16. Refers to the allocation of resources on the bases of efficiency and equity to achieve balance
development.
a. Social Equity
b. Efficiency
c. Balance

17. These may be mud flats /sand flats

a. Shoreline
b. Tidal flats
c. Mud sand

18. Refers to the precondition of informal choices.

a. Reason
b. Motivation
c. Empowerment
19. It refers to the necessary precondition of empowerment.
a. Efficient service
b. Good Service
c. Effective service

20. Refers to establishing pragmatic appropriate flexible and dynamic structures that involves
participation of stakeholders.
a. Stakeholders empowerment
b. People Empowerment
c. Community empowerment

21. The path towards enhancing the integrity of the country’s ecological domain.
a. Country integrity
b. Domain integrity
c. Ecological Integrity

22. What is the meaning of PHIVOLCS?

a. Philippine Institute of Volcanist and Seismologist
b. Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
c. Philippine Incorporated of Volcanology and Seismology

23. It ensures the proper selection of site to minimize the damage both to the environment and
human health
a. Environmental stability and Ecological integrity
b. Stability and ecological integrity
c. Environmental stability and integrity

24. Refers to the linking of the consumption and production areas through appropriate
infrastructure system.
a. Infrastructure integration
b. Spatial Integration
c. Production integration

25. Providing equal opportunities to all Filipino in the use and acquisition of land and other
resources.
a. Equitable acquisition of land
b. Equitable land use
c. Equitable access to physical and natural resources

26. It focused on the economic production from extractive to modern service sector.
a. Modern land use
b. Extractive land use
c. Production land use

27. Refers to the improvement or restoration of identified blighted areas.

a. Rehabilitation
b. Restoring
c. Improvising
28. It deals with capital investment that supports spatial integration, production efficiency and
social service delivery.
a. Infrastructure development
b. Social integrity
c. Production integrity

29. What does NPFP mean?

a. National Physical Frame Plan
b. National Physical Framework Plan
c. National Physics Framework Plan

30. This allows collaborative partnership among the local government, business and society.
a. Local implementation
b. Local execution
c. Local Governance

31. How many years would the CLUP covers a planning period?
a. Minimum of 10 yrs
b. 5 years
c. 3 years

32. Refers to the graphic presentation of the zone classification and designation
a. Zone graphic
b. Classification man
c. Zoning Map

33. A comprised detailed documents of the sectoral studies conducted that provide the bases for
the preparation of the CLUP.
a. Documental studies
b. Category studies
c. Sectoral studies

34. Refers to areas containing deposits of metallic and non-metallic minerals

a. Mineralized areas
b. Metallic areas
c. Deposits area

35. A body of water where seawater of oceanic origin is diluted by freshwater from land drainage
areas.
a. Seashore
b. River
c. Estuary

36. Economic sector covers health, education and sports.

a. True
b. False
c. Maybe
37. The important first step to take before doing the actual plan preparation activities
a. Setting objective
b. Getting organized
c. Monitoring

38. The planning team must have planning core group assisted by technical working groups.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe

39. Refers to the planning process that ensures the involvement of all stakeholders.
a. Stakeholders participation
b. Identifying stakeholders
c. Stakeholders planning

40. Who plays an important role in decision making and give significant impact to the plan
a. Stakeholders
b. Implementer
c. Planner

41. What is DBM?

a. Department of Budget Manager
b. Department of Budget Management
c. Department of Budget and Management

42. Refers to the clarity of its spatial organizations and ease with which people can read its
structure.
a. Legibility
b. Readability
c. Easiness

43. Legislators, employees local executives are considered stakeholders

a. True
b. False
c. Maybe

44. Refers to a participative process whereby the municipalities and cities define its future that it
wants.
a. Organizing
b. Planning
c. Setting the Vision

45. What method of land survey is done through riding a vehicle?

a. Vehicle survey
b. Car survey
c. Windshield survey
46. What is the best way to perform actual ground survey and ground truthing?
a. Surveying
b. Measuring
c. Global Positioning System (GPS)

47. Refers to a synthetic perceptual measure based on resident ratings of local trends of change
over time.
a. Population
b. Quality of Life
c. Income

48. Refers to an area contains a woodland ecosystem

a. Forest area
b. Woodland zone
c. Forest zone

49. This needs to be formulated in a participatory manner and arrived at in a consensus.

a. Monitoring
b. Organizing
c. Vision

50. Refers to a land usually bounded by streets.

a. Street division
b. Division
c. Block

51. What method where members of the group allow sharing their ideas in a non-confrontational
manner.
a. Open forum
b. Discuss method
c. Brainstorming

52. What is the most extensive flood

a. Maximum probable flood
b. Extensive flood
c. Remote flood

53. Refers to an effective way of building group consensus and moving it to joint resolve and action.
a. Cooperation method
b. Participatory method
c. Workshop method

54. Refers to building of concrete plan and initiate group action

a. Action Planning Method
b. Initiating method
c. Building method
55. Which of the following serves as the transition zone between coral reefs and mangroves
a. Shore
b. Sea grass bed
c. Sandy areas

56. Marginal land is lands subject to flooding, over 15% in slope.

a. True
b. False
c. Maybe

57. Refers to a fourth step of planning process where assessment involves technical and
participatory methods
a. Selecting the situation
b. Processing the situation
c. Analyzing the Situation

58. Data on vacant lands can be presented through maps and statistical tables.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe

59. It is applied to calculate frontage distance for each structure in the block/zone being surveyed.
a. Lot line
b. Landline
c. Pace Factor

60. Refers to lines that form the boundary between the land and water, especially or sea or ocean.
a. Shore
b. Coastline
c. Sand

61. What type of marine lands where we culture fishes/aquatic species?

a. Pure water fish pond
b. Fresh water fishpond
c. Brackish water fishpond

62. An expert who studies the flooding areas.

a. Environmentalist
b. Hydrologist
c. Forestry

63. Its purpose is to identify Indigenous Knowledge Systems and practices.

a. Knowledge of IP
b. Identifying IP
c. Analyzing the situation

64. What method of land use survey done by walking

a. Actual survey
b. Pace survey
c. Foot survey

65. An urban renewal action that refers to rebuilding and clearance of areas.
a. Improvement
b. Renovation
c. Redevelopment

66. Refers to an in-design evaluation method for planning areas that retain important natural
environmental features.
a. Land retainability
b. Land applicability
c. Land Suitability Analysis

67. What process is use to project future land development?

a. Project forecast
b. Market forecast
c. Land forecast

68. What is a process to determine the best location for new site and service scheme?
a. Suitability mapping
b. Location mapping
c. Site mapping

69. Is enacted into zoning ordinance for purposes of enforcement

a. Land use plan
b. Zoning plan
c. CLUP

70. Refers to the division of a community into zones or districts.

a. Zoning
b. Purok
c. Street

71. Refers to an area within a city or municipality intended for cultivation and pastoral activities.
a. Cultivation zone
b. Pastoral zone
c. Agricultural zone

72. Refers to an area within the city for dwelling /housing purposes.
a. Dwelling
b. Residential
c. Housing
73. CLUP and ordinances serves as primary reference documents in land use conversation.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe

74. Where to find particular information needed for analysis purposes?

a. Information map
b. Analysis map
c. Aspect map

75. A tool used for the recording of all sectoral group scores.
a. Recording analysis
b. Sectoral analysis
c. Matrix

76. Goal-achievement analysis refers to approach use to determine goals and objectives
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe

77. Who will prepare a detailed proposal?

a. Government
b. Lgu
c. Office of the city/municipal planning and development coordinator

78. Getting organized ensures needed resources for the activities readily available.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe

79. What is the meaning of CENRO?

a. Community Environment and Natural Resourcing office
b. Community Environment and Natural Resources office
c. Community Environment and Natural Resources officer

80. This base on factual data from the surveys.

a. Survey assessment
b. Data assessment
c. Technical assessment

81. Refers to the area available within the city/municipalities for expansion.
a. Land area
b. Land supply
c. Area availability

82. Refers to a tip of land alternately covered and uncovered by the tidal movements.
a. Dike
b. Sandy areas
c. Foreshore area
83. The purpose of this step is to establish a preferred land use alternative.
a. Establishing the Development and Spatial
b. Establishing the Thrust and Spatial Strategies
c. Establishing the Development Thrust and Spatial Strategies Strategies

84. This is needed in order to address the dependence of communities on forest resources.
a. Community-based Forest management
b. Forest management
c. Forest dependency

85. This analysis mainly concerned with the strategy effects on the welfare of the community rather
than any smaller group.
a. Social cost –benefit analysis
b. Economic analysis
c. Cost benefit analysis

86. Who are the participants in conducting Goal-achievement analysis?

a. Citizen
b. People
c. Stakeholders

87. Deals with determining accurate information about the supply of available lands.
a. Developability analysis
b. Land analysis
c. Land information analysis

88. The important aspects that deals with how an individual’s respond to urban initiatives.
a. Initialibility
b. Responsiveness
c. Attractiveness

89. Refers to the meanings that people attach to various parts of urban area.
a. Symbolism
b. Map
c. Picture

90. What are the basis for projecting demand for urban land
a. Commercial land
b. Agricultural land
c. For industrial, residential ,institutional and commercial use

91. Refers to a statement that indicates guidelines and rules.

A. Laws
B. Policy
C. Rules
92. Its purpose is to develop other development controls to ensure an objective implementation of
the CLUP
a. Ordinance approval
b. Zoning ordinance
c. Drafting the Zoning ordinance

93. What is the meaning of MZO?

a. Model Zoning Ordinance
b. Model Zoning organizing
c. Model zonal ordinance

94. An area within the city intended primarily for integrated farm operations and related product
processing activities
a. Large agriculture
b. Agro- industrial
c. Economic agriculture

95. An area designed for open space recreational facilities and maintenance of ecological balance in
the community
a. Recreation areas
b. Park
c. Park and other recreation

96. A provision stipulating the compliance of environmentally critical projects

a. Environmental certificate
b. Environmental compliance
c. Environmental Compliance Certificate

97. Its purpose is to encourage ownership of the plan and gain support for plan implementation.
a. Forum
b. Final hearing for the CLUP
c. Approving

98. LCE means Local Chief Execution.

a. Yes
b. No ,LOCAL CHIEF EXECUTIVE
c. Maybe

99. Land use planning helps to conserve areas of ecological, aesthetic, historical and cultural
significance
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe

100. Review and approve clup of component cities.

a. DAR
b. DENR
c. HLURB
101. Shall continue to formulate and update their clup.
a. Province
b. Barangay
c. Cities and municipalities

102. Provide technical support services in the preparation of clup.

a. MPDC
b. Municipal engineer
c. Assessor

103. Who shall assess the sanggunian panlalawigan in reviewing clup.

a. Provincial Planning Office
b. Provincial CLUP committee
c. Provincial Land Use Committee

104. Issue guidelines for the implementation of EO 124.

a. DENR and DAR
b. DAR and NEDA
c. DENR and DILG

105. Authorizing Cities/Municipalities to Reclassify Lands into Non-Agricultural Uses.

a. MC 90
b. MC 50
c. MC 54