This paper clarified the present condition and subjects on the inhabitant's participadon of ordinance of land use based on the example of Kakegawa City of Shizuoka Prefecture and Kobe City of Hyogo Prefecture. The aim of the ordinance of land use in the both cities was explained. In particular, the present condition on the inhabitant's participation viewed from land use planning and land use controls was clarified. Finally, the characteristics and subjects on the inhabitant's participation of ordinance of land use were adjusted.

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By the amendment of the forest planning competences of Municipalities were intensified. And about 1, 000 of Municipahties have to devise new Municipalities forest improvement planning. Some Municipalitles applied new forest planning effectively. And another Municipalities applied ordinances effectively. Ordinances concerniag a fund of the source of water supply or forest recreation were very effective with new forest planning.

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With regard to control and guidance for land use that are regulated by municipa1 ordinances, in keeping with the current age of decentralization, a change can be seen from those ordinances strongly characterized by development guidelines, as was observed in the past, to those uniquely formed by evaluating the current status of the region, establishing a future concept and enforcing control and guidelines based on guiding principles and standards to be applied to such ordinances. In this study, an attempt was made to typify municipal ordinances from the above aspect. As a result, it was possible to observe a correlation between the type of ordinances applying the regional valuation method and the type of ordinances taking the enforcement approach from the perspective of type of land use control

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Delegatory ordinances conforming to the law, though a promising approach for decentralization, are of limited use in meeting various local needs, while voluntary ordinances enacted by municipalities based on their own judgment are less effective in terms of legislative and judicial processes. To remedy these drawbacks, ordinances combining the functions of these types have been recently established. This study addresses the contents of such ordinances, to clarify the functions of delegatory and voluntary ordinances.

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Contingent Valuation Method is applied well to many studies about multifunctionality of agriculture. It is thought that CVM can be applied to benefit evaluation of social overhead capital, which has no market price. This paper aims at showing how the evaluation value of rural park is influenced by consolidation conditions and area situations quantitatively, and considering the transferability of WTP function, in order to use CVM for the planning of rural park project. The findings are as follows.
First, from the analysis on the basis of 19 rural parks data, it became clear that consolidation conditions and area situations affected the evaluation value, in addition to personal attributes. For making highly evaluated plan by inhabitants, it is important to locate the park near the village, to raise usage frequency of inhabitants, and to arrange water front space in the park. On the other hand, the evaluation of rural park tend to deteriorate in city neighboring area and in hilly and mountainous area. Installing the swing and slider is also deteriorate the evaluation of rural park.
Second, about the transferability of WTP function, it is possible partially to apply an estimate result from one project-site or more than two project-sites to another. Concerned in some variables and some project areas, it is difficult to recognize complete transferability of WTP function. However, the transferability of WTP function becomes high by the selection of appropriate function including area characteristics and consolidation conditions.
Third, if we evaluate the value of rural park by WTP function that was estimated in other project site, we can get estimate precision of around ±60% errors in maximum. As for this difference, there is a little relation with the degree of the transferability in WTP function.

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The present paper describes the cost-sharing ratio for each group of individuals benefiting from the activities of a land improvement district (LID). Benefits are evaluated based on a new method modeled on a benefit-value analysis. Two surveys were conducted in a typical mountainous area to collect data for the study. The preliminary survey was comprised of questions on the respondent's attitude towards LID. The second survey asked respondents to rate several indexes of a goal system.
The responses revealed that non-farmers would receive 60 percent of the benefits produced by LID activities. According to the benefit principle, the cost sharing-ratio of LID's union members to non-farmers who worked for the local and national government was four to six.
Finally, analyses of the evaluation process revealed that (1) Age of the respondents was related to their preference toward LID activities. (2) The agricultural projects did not affect the market land value.

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