Persons who wish to become Members of the Institute must
record their work experience in the Log Book, as described in
the following excerpts from the Canadian Institute of Planners
By-laws:
The log book shall set out the responsible professional
planning experience of the candidate, reflecting, where
possible, the specialized interest of the candidate.
The log book shall show the duration of time for each item
or responsible professional planning experience, and
each item so noted shall have the signature of the
supervising Member as witness to the completion of the work so
described, and
the composition of the work recorded shall correspond to
the definition of planning and to responsible professional
planning experience.
The Log Book consists of completed and signed Validation
of Experience Forms. These are found at the end of the Log
Book. More copies may be made as required.
Once a candidate is elected to provisional membership,
she/he is obliged to submit a signed Validation of Experience
Form to the Membership Committee at least once a year in order
to maintain their provisional membership.
Inquiries regarding the log book or any other aspect of
Membership, may be directed to any member of the Membership
Committee, or to the:
Membership Chair,
Atlantic Planners Institute,
c/o Canadian Institute of Planners,
116 Albert St., Ottawa ON
K1P 5G3
The following definitions and guidelines will assist the
candidate in the completion of the Log Book:
"Planning" means the planning of the scientific,
aesthetic and orderly disposition of land, resources,
facilities and services with a view to securing the physical,
economic and social efficiency, health and well-being of urban
and rural communities;
"Responsible Professional Planning Experience"
means work:
a) comprising analysis, projection, design or program
development which specifically requires consideration of the
inter-relationships of space and time among resources,
facilities and activities and which expresses this
consideration in a manner to influence the disposition of land
or the allocation of resources, facilities or services,
b) which shows a specific relationship to public policies
or programs for controlling or influencing the development of
communities,
c) which comprises a substantive component of initiative,
judgment, substantial involvement and personal accountability
or definition or preparation of significant elements of the
program of work.
Candidates wishing to become Members must log the requisite
number of years of experience, pass the exam/portfolio if they
do not hold a recognized planning degree, and pass the oral
interview.
Persons who wish to become Members must submit completed Validation
of Experience Forms documenting years of responsible
professional experience as follows:
1. For those holding degrees recognized by the Canadian
Institute of Planners - at least two years
2. For those holding degrees related to planning (as
determined by the Membership Committee) -at least four years
3. For those holding other degrees - at least six years
In addition to completing the necessary period of
experience, applicants must also have experience in at least
two types of planning work with at least six months being
spent in one of these two types. In determining what
constitutes different types of experience, the following
schematic serves to identify three broad categories: scale,
subject matter, process.
Using this schematic as a guide only, but not being limited
to the categories contained therein, one type of experience is
regarded as being sufficiently different from another when two
of the three categories are different as the following example
indicates:
Example: A person working at the building group scale
on a design process with housing as the subject
matter. If such a person changes merely his subject matter
from housing to commercial, then this is not regarded as being
sufficiently different. If, however, the change is to
neighbourhood scale and to comprehensive land use as subject
matter, then this would meet the range of experience
requirement.
In recognizing sufficient variety of planning experience, a
membership committee will use its judgment in interpreting the
above list and example as they obviously do not cover all
eventualities.
Schooling or time spent acquiring academic training shall
not be considered as part of one's professional planning
experience, including in most cases summer or part-time
employment while enrolled in an undergraduate academic
planning program.
The teaching of planning at an institution whose degree is
recognized by the Institute is regarded as one type of
experience.
Normally, the required years of experience must be obtained
after a candidate is elected to provisional membership.
Submitted Validation of Experience Forms are reviewed by
the Membership Committee. Where the Committee agrees that they
comply with the definition of Responsible Professional
Planning Experience, the Committee will give a credit for
that experience and it will count towards that required for
Membership. Sufficiency of variety of experience is determined
only after the total number of years required has been
submitted or upon application for full Membership.
Candidates who do not hold degrees recognized by the
Canadian Institute of Planners must also either write and pass
the Institute Exam, or submit and pass a portfolio. The exam
may be written or the portfolio submitted only after the
Membership Committee determines that the experience
requirements have been met.
All candidates must pass the oral interview. It deals
mainly with ethics and professional practice. The interview
takes place after the experience and exam/portfolio
requirements have been fulfilled.
The Log Book is the property of the Institute and is
subject to audit.
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1. A candidate may choose to complete one form per period
of time, e.g. calendar year, or per project or for each sphere
of activity. Normally, a separate form should be filled out
for each year of work, and whenever the job involved a
different position, employer, supervisor or validating full
Member. Several projects or spheres of activity may be
recorded for any given time period on one form provided they
were all done under the same supervisor. Where work experience
is reported by project or sphere of activity and it does not
represent full time work, the full time equivalent in days
weeks or months should be recorded under "duration".
2. Under "location" indicate the area to which
the planning work applied, e.g.. such and such neighbourhood
in the municipality of _______in the Province of _________. If
not in Canada, indicate the country.
3. Under "scale" indicate whether building group,
municipality, region, etc.
4. Under "process" indicate whether analysis,
projection, design, program development, etc.
5. Under "subject" indicate whether it was
physical planning, economic planning, resources development,
research, etc.
6. Under "reporting relationship" indicate your
degree of responsibility for the project, i.e. member of a
team, reporting to a superior, reporting directly to client,
project manager, etc.
7. Under "Description of Duties Performed"
describe what you actually did, not what you were supposed to
do. Position descriptions or personal resumés are not
acceptable. If you worked on one or several component(s) of a
larger project, give a brief overview of the project and then
describe in more detail your contribution to it.
8. Under "Relationship of experience to public
policies and programs" indicate whether you were
implementing established policies/programs or developing
public policies/programs. If implementing, indicate which
policies/programs were being implemented. If developing,
indicate how they would be implemented.
9. Validation - Make sure that the both the supervisor and
the Validating Member initial all pages of the Experience
Validation Form before signing it.
10. Use of Form Provided - You may use the Experience
Validation Form provided or you may reproduce all or parts of
it either by photocopying or via a computer. To be accepted,
any reproduced forms must contain all the information required
on the provided form.
