A STUDY ON THE COMMUNITY PLANNER INITIATIVES- AN EXAMPLE OF TAO-YUAN COUNTY

• Main Authors: Chi-Ming Wu, 吳啟民
• Other Authors: 謝登旺
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88571716666042503240

碩士 === 元智大學 === 管理研究所 === 94 === Since the national government established the “community planner and local environmental improvement” initiatives (hereafter referred as the “Community Planning” initiatives or the “Programs”), local governments have adopted them as the primary approach and strategy to address and to improve local issues. Community planners can act as a liaison between the central and local governments with regard to various local issues. Tao-Yuan county government was initially the major implementer of the County’s public space improvement programs. This approach was not successful due to inadequate participation and communication between the communities and the County government. Tao-Yuan County was selected to be the case study for this thesis since the researcher had participated in various activities of the County’s “Community Planning” initiatives. During the two-phase implementation period, constraints and problems were found to affect the Programs’ effectiveness or may even diminish the citizens’ participation. Therefore, the purpose of the research is to fully understand the issue(s) or challenge(s) that may occur on the practices and implementations of the Programs. This thesis will also be used as a guide to the implementation and operation of the County’s various community planning initiatives in the future. This thesis is based on the experiences and issues of implementing the Programs that the first-term and second-term appointed panels of community planners and governmental representatives have encountered. Data was collected through both primary and secondary data collection methods, which included personal participation, literature reviews, and analysis of the final report, and so on. This thesis also attempts to reveal and to analyze the challenges and the potential difficulties derived from the implementation of the “Community Planner” initiatives. The challenges include the definitions of the role(s) of the community planners and the County’s government and also on the identification of local issues. In addition, Tao-Yuan County government also has examined the experiences and challenges of other local governments in order to improve its performance of the Programs. However, after data collection and analyzing the Tao-Yuan County’s efforts on operating the Community Planner initiatives, this thesis concluded that the County should emphasize on several aspects. First, the County should collaborate with the professional planning organization. Second, extended training sessions with ranked and/or advanced course materials are deemed necessary for community planners. Third, the County government should allocate budget for continuous supports of the Community Planner initiatives. A “Community Planning Service Center” should also be established in order to communicate with the community as well as importing local talents. Fourth, the community planner training programs should be expanded to all age levels in order to develop planning knowledge and to encourage participation in different age groups. Fifth, the implementation division should be in joint effort with academics on the extended and continuous trainings for the staff of the local workshops. Finally, the County government shall provide assistance, administrative resource(s), and information to community planners in order to assist them on increasing the citizens’ participation and interests in the planning process.