2021 年 44 巻 2 号 p. 33-45
The City Planning Proposal System, which allows landowners, residents, developers, etc. to propose modifications of the existing city planning to the local government, was enacted by the Amendment of the City Planning Act in 2002 and has been in force since 2003. The proposal system was expected to convert city planning that is conventionally determined by the government into a bottom-up city planning system. However, looking at the subsequent development of the proposal system, it is hard to say that it has had the impact on city planning that was expected at the time of its introduction. This study aims at (1) clarifying why the proposal system did not spread as an approach of consultative city planning, by structurally grasping the local government's stance on the use of the proposal system and their reasoning, and (2) analyzing how the stance influences the actual state of the system operation and how that influence relates to the performance of proposals. In addition, we examine the issues and potential of the proposal system as a platform for consultative city planning and development.