Urban Development Plan for Minami, Tokushima Prefecture

Abstract

Urban development planning efforts are spreading nationwide based on lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Residents and governmental organizations are working on an urban development plan for the town of Minami in Tokushima Prefecture, where there is concern that a huge Nankai Trough earthquake and tsunami will occur in the near future. The government is working on relocating public facilities to higher ground and formulating urban development plans for all towns. Autonomous disaster prevention organizations are working on the development of residential areas on higher ground and the formulation of an urban development plan by residents. However, the problem is that neither the government nor the residents have sufficient financial support for urban development planning. Therefore, in order to promote such planning nationwide, a system must be created that includes budgetary measures to realize implementation.