Abstract
Environment Planning needs deliberation and multiple citizen participation. We held the meeting on environmental vision of Numazu City by randomly selected citizens. The method of the meeting was to choose alternatives after discussion. We build the framework for the discussion and evaluated if balanced discussion was implemented with analyzing aural descriptions of participants from recording. The result was that discussion was balanced and diverse. The framework was effective and the facilitator played an important role. Participants were likely to say faults of alternatives but rarely opposite to each other. One day discussion was effective as learning process but insufficient as deep discussion for group decision making.
