Study on the Status and Problem of City Planning Area Reorganization due to Merger of Municipalities

Abstract

The problems that different land use control systems exist together in one local authority have been caused by merger of municipalities. The intention to the reorganization of City Planning Area (hereafter CPA) of the local authorities which execute city planning substantially will influence the decision of prefectural divisions about CPA. Then, we extract 109 nationwide municipalities thought to have caused the necessity of the reorganization of CPA due to the merger of municipalities and execute the questionnaire survey. We clarify that there are a lot of municipalities that have not decided a concrete reorganization method though the many municipalities think that they should reorganize CPA with integration or expansion.