The Role of Citizen Representatives in the Workshop Approach for Making Planning Scheme

Focused on Supporting Function of Consensus Building of the Urban Master Plan at Hino City

Abstract

Public participation including multi-stakeholders in the planning process is fundamental factor to make plan feasible. Workshop approach is becoming one of the noticeable ways at present. This study focused on the citizen representatives for making planning scheme of urban master plan and aims to reveal this role based on the Hino city as a case study. The main results are summarized as follows; (1) Valuable information was collected by several methods of workshop such as town watching and several outreach activities. (2) Citizen Representatives not only made plural plans in the workshop at the divided groups but replied to local residents by themselves to promote building consensus. (3) Plan was revised from the cross-local point of view such as the main station area in the Hino city as well as local issues within a community. Thus, citizen representatives took important role for supporting consensus building in the planning scheme.