抄録
The object of this study was to clarify the characteristics of the planning process and planning methods for rural settlement adjustment plans by means of community participation using the selection system out of alternative plans. Also, it was to study conditions for materializing the selection system out of alternative plans. The basis of the method of study was an analysis of the planning process for rural adjustment plans in the Hirugaya District, Sagara Town, Shizuoka Prefecture.
1. The attributes of the inhabitants, that is the nucleus of the selection system out of alternative plans, were clarified. In particular, the characteristics of the farm households were determind for every class of farm households by scale of the farm size.
2. The planning process using the selection system out of alternative plans was analyzed. The method of decision making by inhabitant participation, the results of the evaluation, the policy of framing a plan for 7 plans from the first to the third were clarified. The decision making by participating inhabitants includes evaluation by urban residents and evaluation about every class of farm household.
3. The characteristics of planning by community participation using the selection system out of alternative plans in the Hirugaya District was analyzed. Planning by the selection system out of alternative plans has a strong point of being able to comprss and refine the actual plan.
4. The exisistence of the inhabitant leader, the dentity with the attributes of inhabitants, the role of the advocate planner, the plan presentation method, the well-known improvement method and where the discretion of the administrative organ lies are important for the selection system out of alternative plans to be materialized. 5. In the future, a comparison study is necessary concerning the method of community participation in the planning process between framing a plan by the selection system out of alternative plans on one hand and framing a plan by bottom-up approach with inhabitants' views on the other.
