| ABSTRCT | Urban plans and their comprehensive review are mainly considering the pursuing of future development of the urban areas. The Urban Plan Acts indicates that an urban plan shall refer to a rational planning for land use therein and to a planned development for significant facilities concerning urban living such as economic activities, communications, sanitation, public security, culture, education, recreational and so on. Therefore, urban plans hold the characteristics of guiding urban areas’ future development, publicity and dynamics. Simultaneously, in response to the progress of democratization, the current system designed a reviewing process to examine and to handle people’s opinions or suggestions about the plans’ contents.
This research focuses on analyzing the practice and results of the examination of urban plan comprehensive reviews and their handles about peoples’ opinions, with the case of new Taipei City. The study discovers that the characteristics of guiding urban areas’ future development, publicity and urban dynamics are conflicting with the appealing of peoples’ opinions which were mainly focusing on the protection of private property rights. Not only is it time-consuming, but also contrary to the aim of guiding city responding to the post-industrialized development or the rapid change environment. It is also hard for some peoples, who are not beneficiary in the plan, to get satisfactory results. Any policy changes in the near future, it is essential to consider the issues of the conflict between the pursuing of public interests and the protection of private rights.
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