Land Use Order Formation of Rural Settlements by Repetition of Farm Land Replotting

Aproposal based on a case study of the Simplified Farm Land Consolidation Project Areas

Abstract

Although rapid development in rural settlements in urban fringe areas has decreased, sprawl development is still progressing. As if it responded to this, the area of abandoned agricultural field is increasing. The ordering of land use is considered to give profound effects for farmland resource preservation of such areas. One of the means to orderig land use is to make practical use of non-agricultural land by land replotting system. However, since the land replotting is institutionalized inclusively with land readjustment under the present system, the repetition of land replotting is impossible unless land readjustment is performed simultaneously. In this paper, we discuss the function of land use ordering embedded in the repetition of land replotting through a case study of the “ Simplified Farm Land Consolidation Project ”, which is considered to be less bound by the institutional restriction. We also propose a land use regularization technique in the case of “ Simplified Farm Land Consolidation Project ”.