Abstract
The objet of this paper was to clarify the planning methods for rural district plans by means of community participation. The base of the study was an analysis of the planning process for road planning by means of community participation in the Shijima District, Ago Town, Mie Prefecture. It confirmed that the system of piling up inhabitant's views was the planning method made it stabilize the planning process, and related to the steady plan. The road plan became the plan that relation with the whole landuse planning of the district was taken seriously as a rsult that the road planning was expanded into the district improvement planning.
