A STUDY ON THE INCORPORATION OF CITIZEN PROPOSALS INTO THE MUNICIPAL MASTER PLAN : Focusing upon the plan making stage

Planning scholars and practitioners who are making a master plan, are much interested in how to harmonize the relationship between municipal-wide general public interests and individual citizen's requests. We believe it is important to secure a bottom-up system that would allow to incorporate citizen proposals into the master plan. Based upon a logical structure model for the master plan, we analyzed the plan-making stage of the Komae City's Master Plan. We found the citizen proposals were incorporated into the master plan by changing some elements of its logical structure. Leading factors for accelerating the incorporation were (l)clear plan structure, (2)proper abstraction of elements, and (3)how to deal with a chain reaction caused by changing an element. This finding would provide a useful viewpoint for a logical analysis of the relationship between the master plan and citizen proposals.