Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
Landscape Act of 2004 is expected to provide practical effect to developing better landscape and 99 legal Landscape Plans were established by the end fiscal year of 2007. We classify the contents of the Landscape Plans in the early stage and conducted questionnaire survey to reveal the diversity in planning and its implementation to materialize local interests. As a result, we found that local governments have some difficulties in judgment of conformity to the restriction on design features without numerical criteria and that pre-application consultation for better design and ordinance which is supplementary to the Act are necessary for effective implementation.
