Urban Planning and Municipal Services MCQs 2026

Environmental impact assessment for large urban project

1. A Never required always wrong ✓
2. B Only for small room always wrong reversed ✓
3. C Required under Pakistan EPA regulations ✓
4. D Only foreign countries always wrong ✓

Urban heat island effect reduced by

1. A Paving all surfaces dark asphalt always worsens always wrong ✓
2. B Trees green roofs reflective surfaces ventilation corridors ✓
3. C Removing all parks always wrong ✓
4. D Only increasing car traffic always wrong ✓

Affordable housing policy tools include

1. A Inclusionary zoning subsidies serviced land ✓
2. B Only luxury high rise only always wrong sole tool ✓
3. C Ban all construction always wrong ✓
4. D Only foreign ownership always wrong ✓

Development control regulations DCR specify

1. A Only roof colour always wrong sole item ✓
2. B Only staff dress always wrong ✓
3. C Only vehicle brand always wrong ✓
4. D Coverage height uses parking setbacks combined ✓

Central business district CBD characterized by

1. A Only agricultural fields always wrong ✓
2. B Only forest reserve always wrong ✓
3. C Highest density commercial and employment core ✓
4. D Only airport runway always wrong ✓

Urban mobility plan integrates

1. A Walking cycling transit and road management ✓
2. B Only single occupancy car always wrong sole mode ✓
3. C Ignore pedestrians always wrong ✓
4. D Only freight rail long haul only always incomplete ✓

Stormwater master plan prevents

1. A Flooding intentionally always wrong goal ✓
2. B Urban flooding through drainage retention ✓
3. C Only dam spillway design only always wrong scope city storm ✓
4. D Only ignore monsoon always wrong ✓

Sanitary landfill requires

1. A No lining always wrong ✓
2. B Direct river discharge always wrong illegal ✓
3. C Only open fire always wrong ✓
4. D Liner leachate control and daily cover ✓

Composting plant in SWM processes

1. A Organic fraction to soil amendment ✓
2. B Only plastic to fuel always wrong feedstock ✓
3. C Only steel scrap always ✓
4. D Only medical waste without treatment always wrong ✓

Incineration with energy recovery in waste

1. A Always banned without exception always wrong ✓
2. B Only used for clean water always wrong ✓
3. C Only for highway asphalt always wrong ✓
4. D Reduces volume generates power where feasible ✓

Informal settlement regularization provides

1. A Only eviction without plan always only wrong policy ✓
2. B Only ignore always ✓
3. C Legal tenure and service upgrades ✓
4. D Only build wall around without services ✓

Development permit process requires

1. A Start building without any document always wrong ✓
2. B Approved plans fees and NOCs ✓
3. C Only verbal OK always ✓
4. D Only social media post ✓

Capital Development Authority CDA plans

1. A Islamabad capital territory ✓
2. B Karachi port only always wrong ✓
3. C Indus delta only always wrong ✓
4. D K2 mountain only always wrong ✓

Lahore Development Authority LDA governs

1. A Only Gwadar port always wrong ✓
2. B Only railway only always wrong ✓
3. C Building control in Lahore division ✓
4. D Only aviation only always wrong ✓

Karachi Metropolitan area planning challenges include

1. A Zero population always wrong ✓
2. B Informal growth infrastructure backlog transport ✓
3. C No water demand always wrong ✓
4. D No port always wrong ✓

Mass transit for Pakistani cities includes

1. A Only horse carts policy always wrong ✓
2. B No public transport ever always wrong ✓
3. C Only private jets only always wrong ✓
4. D Metro bus orange line BRT proposals ✓

Urban regeneration redevelops

1. A Declining areas with infrastructure and investment ✓
2. B Abandon city core always wrong ✓
3. C Only sprawl fringe always only wrong focus ✓
4. D Only demolish heritage without plan always wrong ✓

Heritage conservation in master plan protects

1. A Demolish all old structures always wrong policy ✓
2. B Historic buildings and districts ✓
3. C Only allow glass tower without review always wrong ✓
4. D Ignore culture always ✓

Utility corridor reservation in plan sets aside

1. A Only random building footprints without services always wrong ✓
2. B Only parks only always without pipes wrong ✓
3. C Only advertising billboards only ✓
4. D Right of way for power telecom water mains ✓

Population projection drives

1. A Only paint colour demand always wrong ✓
2. B Only cricket stadium only always wrong metric ✓
3. C Demand for housing water sewer roads schools ✓
4. D Only ignore demographics always wrong ✓

Per capita water supply standard in urban areas order of

1. A 50 to 100 gallons per capita per day design range typical ✓
2. B 1 litre total always wrong ✓
3. C 1000 cubic metres person always absurd ✓
4. D Zero water always wrong ✓

Per capita solid waste generation Pakistan urban about

1. A 50 kg always absurd ✓
2. B Zero always wrong ✓
3. C 100 tonnes person always absurd ✓
4. D 0.5 to 0.8 kg per day order of magnitude ✓

Land use compatibility matrix prevents

1. A School next to heavy chemical without buffer always wrong placement ✓
2. B Random mixing without analysis always wrong ✓
3. C Noisy polluting uses adjacent to sensitive uses ✓
4. D Only height without use always insufficient ✓

Public participation in master plan may use

1. A Secret plan without disclosure always wrong process ✓
2. B Only one person decides always wrong ✓
3. C Ignore residents always wrong ✓
4. D Hearings surveys stakeholder workshops ✓

Inclusive public space design ensures

1. A Exclude groups intentionally always wrong ✓
2. B Access for women elderly and disabled ✓
3. C Only private gated always wrong sole model ✓
4. D Only vehicle parking always wrong sole use ✓

Regional plan coordinates

1. A Single room interior only always wrong scope ✓
2. B Only one plot always wrong ✓
3. C Land use and infrastructure across multiple municipalities ✓
4. D Only harbour berth only always wrong scope ✓

Housing scheme approval requires

1. A Only hand sketch without drainage always wrong ✓
2. B Layout plan services and environmental clearance ✓
3. C Only sell without roads always wrong ✓
4. D Only oral promise always wrong ✓

Plot subdivision regulations control

1. A Minimum plot size access widths ✓
2. B Infinite fragmentation without roads always wrong ✓
3. C Zero access always wrong ✓
4. D Only circular plots always wrong joke ✓

Master plan for city defines

1. A Long term land use transportation and infrastructure framework ✓
2. B Only interior paint schedule ✓
3. C Only staff roster ✓
4. D Only vehicle purchase ✓

Zoning ordinance regulates

1. A Only cricket rules ✓
2. B Only airline routes ✓
3. C Only dam spillway ✓
4. D Permitted uses density and setbacks by district ✓

Land use categories include

1. A Only asphalt only ✓
2. B Only steel only ✓
3. C Residential commercial industrial institutional ✓
4. D Only water only without categories ✓

FAR floor area ratio controls

1. A Road width only ✓
2. B Built floor area relative to plot size ✓
3. C River discharge only ✓
4. D Wind speed only ✓

FSI floor space index same as FAR limits

1. A Highway ESAL only ✓
2. B Dam storage only ✓
3. C Total construction on land parcel ✓
4. D Rail gauge only ✓

Road hierarchy in urban network includes

1. A Only footpaths only always ✓
2. B Only railway tracks only in hierarchy always wrong context ✓
3. C Only runways ✓
4. D Arterials collectors and local streets ✓

Neighbourhood unit concept emphasizes

1. A Infinite sprawl without services ✓
2. B Self contained community within walking distance ✓
3. C Only industrial zone only ✓
4. D Only airport noise zone ✓

Transit oriented development TOD concentrates

1. A Higher density near public transport nodes ✓
2. B Only parking at suburbs far from transit always opposite ✓
3. C Only warehouse sprawl ✓
4. D Only farm land only ✓

Smart city initiatives may include

1. A Only removing all internet ✓
2. B Only unpaved roads goal ✓
3. C Only random construction without data ✓
4. D Digital governance sensors and efficient utilities ✓

Water supply zoning in master plan identifies

1. A Only bitumen plants ✓
2. B Only coal yards only ✓
3. C Source protection distribution and storage areas ✓
4. D Only runway extensions only ✓

Sewerage master plan coordinates

1. A Trunk sewers treatment plant locations and reuse ✓
2. B Only highway alignment only ✓
3. C Only airport wind rose only ✓
4. D Only railway gauge only ✓

Solid waste management plan covers

1. A Only river dumping always illegal goal ✓
2. B Collection transfer treatment and disposal sites ✓
3. C Only open burning always goal wrong ✓
4. D Only ignoring waste ✓

Green belt in urban planning provides

1. A Only maximum building coverage always goal wrong ✓
2. B Only industrial chimney zone ✓
3. C Open space buffer and environmental relief ✓
4. D Only paid parking only ✓

Urban sprawl characterized by

1. A Compact walkable TOD always opposite ✓
2. B Low density car dependent peripheral growth ✓
3. C Only vertical mixed use downtown only always opposite ✓
4. D Only green belt only ✓

Slum upgrading program aims to

1. A Improve housing services tenure in informal settlements ✓
2. B Demolish all without replacement always only wrong policy ✓
3. C Ignore water supply always ✓
4. D Only build highways through only without services ✓

Development charges or betterment levy fund

1. A Only private profit without public benefit always ✓
2. B Only foreign debt only without local mechanism ✓
3. C Only toll evasion ✓
4. D Infrastructure from new development impact ✓

Building control bylaws enforce

1. A Structural fire health standards on construction ✓
2. B Only facade colour taste only without safety ✓
3. C No rules ever ✓
4. D Only owner verbal promise ✓

Setback from road required for

1. A Only increase building height always without limit always wrong ✓
2. B Sight lines noise and future road widening ✓
3. C Only block all light always purpose wrong ✓
4. D Only tax evasion ✓

Commercial zone allows

1. A Only heavy steel smelting always without separation always wrong ✓
2. B Only paddy farming in CBD always ✓
3. C Only airport runway always ✓
4. D Shops offices and services with higher traffic ✓

Industrial estate located

1. A Inside school zone always wrong ✓
2. B On flood plain always wrong without mitigation ✓
3. C Away from residential with access to transport utilities ✓
4. D Random without plan ✓

Urban growth boundary limits

1. A Unlimited expansion always goal wrong ✓
2. B Only reduce all agriculture always wrong intent ✓
3. C Only harbour expansion only ✓
4. D Sprawl protecting agricultural and ecological land ✓

Mixed land use development combines

1. A Only single storey warehouse remote always only ✓
2. B Residential commercial within same project ✓
3. C Only dam reservoir only ✓
4. D Only railway yard only ✓

Public open space standard may require

1. A Minimum parks per population or area ✓
2. B Zero parks always ✓
3. C Only rooftops without access always wrong ✓
4. D Only private clubs exclusive ✓

Traffic impact study for new mall assesses

1. A Only interior decoration ✓
2. B Only shop names ✓
3. C Additional trips on adjacent road network ✓
4. D Only staff uniform ✓

Development charge used to fund

1. A Private pocket without service always wrong ✓
2. B Only cricket board always wrong ✓
3. C Only foreign debt repayment only always wrong link ✓
4. D Off site infrastructure impacted by growth ✓

Urban carrying capacity concept limits

1. A Population or activity level environment can sustain ✓
2. B Unlimited growth always without constraint always wrong ✓
3. C Only building paint production always wrong ✓
4. D Only cricket team size always wrong ✓

Parking standards in bylaws specify

1. A Minimum off street spaces by land use ✓
2. B Zero parking mandatory always wrong ✓
3. C Only on street blocking traffic always goal wrong ✓
4. D Only bicycle always without any cars ever unrealistic always ✓

Height restriction near airport protects

1. A Only harbour navigation only wrong context ✓
2. B Obstacle limitation surfaces for aviation ✓
3. C Only dam spillway only ✓
4. D Only railway electrification only ✓

Flood plain zoning restricts

1. A Unlimited high rise in river bed always wrong ✓
2. B Only encourage filling without study always wrong ✓
3. C Construction in areas subject to inundation ✓
4. D Only ignore monsoon floods ✓

Water sensitive urban design integrates

1. A Only pipe everything to river untreated always wrong ✓
2. B Only concrete all surfaces always wrong ✓
3. C Only ignore drainage ✓
4. D Stormwater management with landscape ✓

Solid waste hierarchy prioritizes

1. A Open dumping first always wrong order ✓
2. B Burn everything first always wrong ✓
3. C Reduce reuse recycle then disposal ✓
4. D Ignore source separation always ✓

Transfer station in waste system

1. A Treats all waste to drinking water always wrong ✓
2. B Consolidates waste for haul to landfill ✓
3. C Only compost only always ✓
4. D Only nuclear disposal always wrong context ✓