Date of Award:
5-1980
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Department name when degree awarded
Town and Regional Planning
Committee Chair(s)
Richard E. Toth
Committee
Richard E. Toth
Abstract
The case study investigated was the 208 water quality planning conducted in the Ashley Valley, around Vernal, Utah. The region is expected to urbanize rapidly due to energy development on adjacent state and federal land. The water quality planning was being conducted in the absence of substantial prior land use planning.
A method is developed in the thesis for evaluating plans and methodologies. The method utilizes preformulated evaluation criteria to analyze structure and function of the methdology, political context, informational inputs, limiting factors, trigger factors, causeeffect relationships, and impacts of methodology on planning recommendations. The criteria collected from the literature and agency guidelines are consolidated into an evaluation model. Data were collected through field interviews, on-site inspection, and examination of workplans, critical path charts and plan documents.
The planning was well conducted overall. However, the water quality planning methodology did not maximize the utilization of land use information, nor did it integrate the available land use information into the analysis as fully as possible. Utilization of land use information could have been increased through greater emphasis on land use in the original workplan, more guidance to staff through specification of land use analysis subtasks, tighter coordination of staff, and consideration of a broader range of alternative scenarios.
The cursory nature of the land use analysis limited the number of alternative land use patterns identified. This in turn limited the number of potential pollution sources identified. The local political context discouraged serious consideration of some alternative land use patterns, and the use of land use controls as a management strategy.
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Recommended Citation
Conover, Matthew B., "Evaluation of a Planning Methodology: Integrating Land Use Information in Water Quality Planning" (1980). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 3689.
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