1. "Efforts for Community Planning Master
Plan and Townscape Improvement"
Masakazu Okada: Urban Planning Division, Community Planning Department
of Hino City
Kenichiro Nakadaira: Urban Planning Division, Community Planning Department
of Hino City
■Master Plan for Community Planning
The urban planning master plan was established, setting 2020 as target
completion year. It took four years during 1999 to 2003 for its establishment.
Two citizen groups were involved in preparing the plan (Citizens' Community
Planning Meeting (Shimin Machizukuri Kaigi: Machi-Kai) and Regional
Community Planning Square (Chiiki Machizukuri Hiroba: Machi-Hiro)).
Machi-Kai is composed of 14 publicly sought citizens, 2 specialists,
and 6 staffs. It held 64 meetings, as a core organization of master
plan establishment. Machi-Hiro is an organization aiming to prepare
8 regional-based concepts, composed of 86 publicly sought citizens,
9 supporting staffs and public members of the organization. It held
13 meetings. In order to establish the plan, they identified characteristics
and issues of Hino through walking and treasure hunting, and discussed
ideal images of future city, and considered the measures for realization.
Through discussions with public companies, forums, and public comments,
the plan was proposed to the city mayor in March, 2003.
The master plan consists of regional concepts and general concepts;
the latter consists of basic concepts and basic plan. Basic plan will
flexibly respond the time and regional requirements. Four basic principles
are as follows: a city retaining memories and cultures; a city supporting
livings; a city fostering works; and a system supporting community
planning. The plan aims to conserve and take over Tama hills, greens
in cliff roads, Asakawa, Tamagawa, irrigation channels, farmlands,
and historical and cultural resources. Furthermore, aiming for a city
where citizens can live by walk, stations will be improved; Hino, Toyoda,
and Takahatafudo will be maintained as points for exchanges, and other
stations as living bases. Main roads will be developed to connect those
exchange bases and living bases.
For community planning, nature to be conserved will be identified
based on basic green plan; community planning master plan will describe
land use and projects explicitly; and then, community planning act
will define the system to promote the master plan.
■ Efforts for Townscape Improvement
Since October 2005, 11 meetings were held. Currently, public comments
on citizens' plan are collected. We establish the townscape planning
in 2006, and wish to establish Townscape Improvement Ordinance in 2007.
To establish Townscape Improvement Ordinance, it is required to be
certified as authorized body by Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Townscape
planning is based on the concept for land use. We are reviewing the
plan by four groups on eight regions; 53 publicly recruited citizens,
3 academic experts and staffs have held workshops on landscape community
planning, and will prepare proposals to be presented to Hino City Landscape
Community planning Committee. By reflecting ideas proposed by citizens
through public comments, etc., the plan will be presented to the city
mayor. We will decide policies and rules based on regional situations
and issues. The citizens' plan will be adopted, without interventions
of administration. Though the plan is in the process and of insufficient
contents, we will discuss concrete points within the review committee.
The items which cannot be defined by the Community Planning Ordinance
will be regulated and introduced by Townscape Improvement Ordinance.
It will be necessary to coordinate systems of local government and
Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
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2. "Community Planning Ordinance"
Atsuki Hoshino: Urban Planning Division, Community Planning Department
of Hino City
Hino Community Planning Ordinance was enacted in October 2006. In 2002,
community planning meeting was held by 14 publicly recruited citizens,
4 academic experts, 12 city officers to review the ordinance. In addition,
comments of citizens were widely collected through Machizukuri (community
planning) sessions, Machizukuri Terakoya, etc.
The ordinance aimed for cooperative community planning by citizens and
administration, defining the processes based on citizens' participation;
e.g., citizens' community planning conference (3 publicly recruited citizens
and 4 academic experts), theme-based planning, community planning with
agriculture, focused area planning by Hino city government, etc. The
community planning system for each district intends the land of 3000m2
and over, for which conferences were established by inhabitants; the
plan will be established by reflecting inhabitants' opinions, to be submitted
to the mayor. The mayor holds briefing sessions, and seeks opinions from
citizens and community planning conference (the third-party organization).
The community planning with agriculture aims for the conservation of
productive greens. Based on the conferences of land owners, it can plan
and propose land aggregation for easy conservation of farmlands. However,
the plan does not necessarily result in the conservation of farmlands.
The law regulates the citizens' participation from the preparatory steps
in addition to their defined participation in urban planning. For development
activities, the law also regulates the establishment of conferences including
inhabitants of surrounding areas, and briefing sessions and discussions
with inhabitants in the early stage of the planning. If an opinion brief
is submitted, coordination meeting should be held by community planning
meeting of citizens. Penal regulation is to be applied when the adjustment
proposal would not be adhered. For the conversion of large-scale lands,
the land deal of 5000m2 and over requires notification to the city; the
city will give advice and provide information. The large-scale development
such as a construction of condominium apartment for 100 families and
over, notification of land use is imposed. Other cases which cannot be
regulated by law are subject to guidance standards.
Lastly, the examples of guidance are as follows: the installation of
facilities for controlling rainwater flow, maintenance and improvement
of spring water and aqueduct (for environmental improvement for community
planning retaining greens and clean waters defined under the article
27), conservation of groundwater, the height restriction of factories
(25m), etc.
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3. "Renovation Plan and Tourism of Hinojuku"
Hiroshi Nikada (Planning and Adjustment Division, Planning Department,
Hino City)
I will outline renovation and improvement plans for the area around
Hino-juku street, established in the last year. Our division (planning
and adjustment division) took in charge in order to collect opinions
widely from citizens. The project was started because the role of national
route 20 would be changed by the opening of bypass. The document center
related to Shinsen-gumi, main base of Hino-juku, old warehouses and buildings
can be found in the surrounding areas. However, they have been lost because
of succession and other reasons.
36 citizens (from shopping malls, residents' association, PTA, clubs
for the elderly, temples related to Shinsen-gumi, and document center,
etc.) prepared the plan through conferences and walking. We also refer
to opinions from students of Jissen Women's Educational Institute.
We set the following themes for improvement; 1) The renovation of Koshu
Kaido, from the viewpoint of each period (the end of Edo, Meiji and Taisho);
2) Community planning utilizing waterways; 3) Tourism route linking main
base of Hinojuku, Hino Library, and Exchange Center of Hinojuku (tentative
name). Original proposal by the city was focused on the end of Edo Era,
in relation to Shinsen-gumi; however, comments from senior citizens show
that images of the old city when they were children, are derived from
the period after the end of Edo or Meiji Restoration. They said many
good old things of that period still remain in Hino, and they are to
be conserved. Reflecting such opinions, the setting of the time was widened.
The second theme: "community planning utilizing waterways" was
mainly based on the inhabitants' opinion. They missed waterways so much
because they have rich memories of waterways, where they played, washed
various things, or swam, though such water has been replaced by roads.
As for third theme, main base of Hinojuku is the only one which remains
within Tokyo. Hino Library was rebuilt into old-style building using
the budget of the city and the subsidy from Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Exchange Center of Hinojuku (tentative name) is located at the vacant
lot in front of old Hachioji Shinyo Kinko, bought by the city and will
be improved as a new base point for tourism. In addition, document center
of Genzaburo Inoue, and Hikogoro Sato, Yasaka Shirine, Taisho Temple,
etc. will be linked to the tourism line. Hino retains the land shape
of Shuku-ba; deep lot with narrow opening, encircled by arrays. Walking
around the arrays is enjoyable. Such pleasure can be utilized for community
planning.
Lastly, the importance to conserve old local things should be emphasized,
such as wooden station building as a symbol of Hino Station, warehouses,
etc. Irrigation channel of Hinojuku which is now covered, should be opened
to be a waterway providing pleasure to citizens, for community planning
based on waterways as a symbol. Also, greens should be conserved and
utilized by setting live fences. New view spots should be created by
setting decorative spots on waterways or bridges.
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