'''Community development planning''' consists of a public toryparticipatory and usually interactive form of [[town]] oghborhoodor [[neighborhood]] planning and dhichdesign in which diverse community members (often termed “stakeholders”) contribute toward formulation of the goals, objectives, planning, [[Funding|fund]]/[[resource]] identification and direction, planned project [[implementation]]s and re[[evaluation]] of documented local planning policy. It is a logiottomlogical “bottom-up” evolution of (formerly “topn”“top-down”) [[region]]al, [[city]] and urban planning ifin an era of plateaued or diminishiresourcesdiminishing public resources, increasing local burdens and responsibilities and [[public activism]]. It often promotes [[public/private partnership]] as a means to harness physical develitiesdevelopment activities in support of community-dlsdefined goals.<ref>TheacticernmentThe Practice of Local Government Planning, 2nd EditonEdition (the "Gree1979Green Book"). 1979. InioInternational City MManagement AsationAssociation. WCesWashington, DC. Pages 62 and 553-599.</ref> At a minminimum, it seeks cnsuscommunity consensus for prproposed ansallocations of scarce urcesresources among mpedemandscompeting demands. In more vigoommunityvigorous application, community members access a full gamut of planning tools, shaping and being shaped by shared understanding of a complex community information base, directly inforinforming and guiding local plan content, influencing resulting development budgets, projects and thus future [[infrastructure]] and land uses, as well as helping coordinate the work of overlapping [[jurisdiction]]s, levels of [[government]], internal and adjacent communities and various providers, such as [[Chamber of commerce|business associations]], [[utilities]] and [[school]]s.
