The Master Plan Charles M.Haar o(>﹏<)o

The  Concept  Of  The  Master  Plan
  The master plan has a variety of meanings. Master plan may mean oen thing wehn used to advise on the timing of construction of New York City schools , and  quite another in the allocation of lands for recreational uses in a rural setting. The master plan  concept cannot be said to have an universal meaning.Nor is there any one way of  formulating or administering it.
  The uses to society of this mechanism are envisioned as 6 broad types:
1.a source of information
2.a program for correction
3.a guide to effectuating procedures and measures
4.an ordinance regulating the use of  land
5.a guard against the arbitrary
What The Master Plan Means To The Planner
1.Source of information
The acknowledged initial step of the master plan procedure is the survey.These include studies of economic activity, population composition and growth, land uses, channels of movement, systems of public facilities and physical resources and liabilities.
2.A program for correction
By hypothesis the plan serves to indicate the area`s sore spots and funcitonal deficiencies.
3.An estimate of the future
Plans must be premised upon estimates of industrial growth, of future age and group compositions of the population and the other variables affecting the phsical development of the community.
4.An indicator of goals
The master plan should not merely incorporate ascertained or probale trends of development.Ohterwise, only an incomplete job would ensue.
5.A technique for coordination
The planning commission is directed to study and crystallize the interrelationships of  the various land uses and structures within the city.The coordination is the long range point of view and the phasing of the program for reaching the ultimate objectives that emphasize the potential contribution of the master plan.
6.A device for stimulating public interest and responibility
What the previous categories of the values served by the master plan may very well add up to is simply this:the chief purpose of the master plan is that of mutual education.
The Master Plan Is Hortatory
The statutory mandate to make and adopt a master plan is really synonymous with a mandate to plan.
The Written Master Plan
The master plan is an ever changing recordation of the city planner`s end result thinking.
The improbability of such a mnemonic freak indicates. If the plan is regarded not as the vest pocket tool of the planning commission,but as a broad statement to be adopted by the most representative municipal body the local legislature, then the plan becomes a law through such adoption.
  This will highlight the master plan`s primary role as a constitution. It is a point of view which should be introduced in a courtroom when a particular measure is being assayed.