Transition from Land Use to Policy Planning: Lessons Learned

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The City of Honolulu adopted a new charter which mandated the transformation of its existing general (land use) plan into a “policy plan” containing objectives and policies. The city's experience in attempting to make this transformation provided a number of lessons. Among them were: the dangers of persisting with the concept of comprehensiveness and failing to eliminate the general plan as a planning tool; the dangers of legal mandates and the need for flexibility in designing. analyses; the problems inherent in the lack of preparation for the transition to policy planning and the need for reeducation of participants in the planning process; the dangers of abstract analysis and the need to treat issues at both the macro and micro levels; and the opportunities available to the planner to act in the role of a catalyst for modifying existing processes.
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