Abstract
This research conducted a questionnaire survey about measures of public participation and the program framework of planning process on the landscape plan in small and medium-scale local governments. And the results are as follows; 1) It was observed that the program framework of planning process constituted by 3 types of meetings, a committee meeting that the members are from many professions, a workshop that half or more of the members are inhabitants, and the internal meeting of the government. Then, the program framework was divided into 3 types based on the degree of public participation. 2) It was observed that the content of the landscape plan such as landscape characteristic, landscape image, could reflect opinion of inhabitants by public participation measures such as public comment or briefing sessions etc. 3) After analyzing the relationships between content of the landscape plan developed with public participation and the program framework, it was observed that the program framework with high degree of the public participation, carried out multiple measures of public participation, and the plan contained higher degree of public opinion.
