Community development planning

Community development planning consists of the public participatory and commonly interactive take of town or neighborhood planning & design in which diverse community members often termed “stakeholders” contribute toward formulation of the goals, objectives, planning, fund/resource identification & direction, specified project implementations and reevaluation of documented local planning policy. it is for a logical “bottom-up” evolution of formerly “top-down” regional, city and urban planning in an era of plateaued or diminishing public resources, increasing local burdens and responsibilities and public activism. It often promotes public/private partnership as a means to harness physical coding activities in help of community-defined goals. At a minimum, it seeks community consensus for submission allocations of scarce resources among competing demands. In more vigorous application, community members access a full gamut of planning tools, shaping and being shaped by shared understanding of a complex community information base, directly informing and guiding local plan content, influencing resulting development budgets, projects and thus future infrastructure and land uses, as alive as helping coordinate the hold of overlapping jurisdictions, levels of government, internal and adjacent communities and various providers, such as business associations, utilities and schools.