Abstract
We have studied some influences of zoning of the City Planning Act which established newly, urbanization promotion area and control area, and focussed both on the urbanization in Hadano-city, Kan agawa Prefecture, and various changes in the rural areas around it. We found two “discrepant areas” where some discrepancies between the substantive region and the planning region have occurred by the City Planning Act.
One is the case of the Imaizumi and Nishiotake area, which was included in the urbanization promotion area, though it had good agricultural area from historical and geographical points of view, and the inhabitants there are concerned with operating agriculture. So, if this act had not been enforced, it would have firmly kept its character as an agricultural village. Included in the urbanization promotion area, this area has been changed by the influence of increasing houses around the Ohatano station and constructing the connecting road with the Tomei expressway. The other is the Horinishi area. It was included in the urbanization control area, though its urbanization had been expected to be immediate as it was located along the extention of the residencial and the industrial sectors, both of which have been developing with the Shibusawa station as their center. As mentioned above, the Horinishi area is on the direction of the urbanization in Hadano, where considerable parts of farmland have already been converted into urban uses without any sign of resistance, so it may become a part of the
