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The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide These joint studies achieved community ownership over this process. It also allowed the participants to utilize the data from these joint studies to develop their own strategies on how they could contribute to the achievement of the community vision. Interest Groups and Other Partnership Arrangements A series of meetings was also convened with various interest groups to discuss issues that could affect those groups. During the planning process, partnership arrangements were established with organizations, including: Chamber of Commerce; various farm industry groups; Combined Sports Association; Meals on Wheels; Pensioners’ League; Community Advice and Information Centre; Progress Association; Blue Nurses; Housing Forum; Innisfail Youth and Family Services; Chjowai Housing Cooperative (a local Aboriginal organization); and Landcare Groups;Wildlife Preservation Society. Towards Partnerships in Implementation Currently the draft Johnstone Plan is on public exhibition, prior to its approval by the Queensland state government and its eventual implementation by the Shire Council. The Shire planner is responsible for the completion of the final plan and its supporting documentation. Implementation will be through an integrated “Umbrella Action Plan,” using the statutory town planning process, the Council’s new Corporate Plan, and a reorganized corporate structure. An integrated Umbrella Action Plan is currently being drafted in association with the various stakeholder groups in the Johnstone community. The community’s vision of sustainability and underlying economic, environmental, and social values will be reflected in the “Umbrella” of this Action Plan. Community principles and values are intended to influence the programs of the Council, namely the operational, land use, and community action plans. This concept is dia-grammatically outlined in Figure 8: Johnstone Shire’s Integrated Umbrella Action Plan. To oversee the implementation of the Johnstone Plan, Council is currently assessing the role and composition of a multi-stakeholder group that will be based upon the membership of the four Community Consultative Committees. Council recognizes that organizational changes are required to achieve the desired sustainable development targets outlined in the Johnstone Plan. Integrated and holistic operational systems capable of operating under the “Umbrella” will be set up. Council also notes the crucial importance of establishing a direct connection between its Corporate Plan (including Council’s organizational support structure) and its physical Land Use Plan. To develop a “partnership” concept for implementation, three arenas of joint council-community decision making have been identified: • council actions: where it decides to build roads, to provide social services, or to influence other levels of government to alter their practices; • land use planning: where the Council exercises powers over how outside influences interact with the plan; and • local community actions: both organizational and individual. In addition, Council’s four Corporate Plan programs, which include environmental services (including land use planning), social services (housing, human services, and leisure services etc.), works (infrastructure provision), and corporate services (administration and finance), are envisioned as vehicles for providing effective responses to community concerns related to environment, social, and economic development. To conclude, the Johnstone Shire Council case illustrates the use of theme-specific, stakeholder partnerships to undertake specific planning tasks, namely, research, formulating action options, building community consensus, advising on technical matters, and short-term studies related to the development of a plan. Multi-stakeholder partners were not formally engaged in the overall coordination and governance of the planning process. These tasks remained internal to the municipality. As in the case of other municipalities, partnership terms of reference and structures will be renegotiated and reformulated with FIGURE 8 JOHNSTONE SHIRE’S INTEGRATED UMBRELLA ACTION PLAN http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/448-2/ (40 of 180)18/10/2010 12:47:23 AM
The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide the stakeholders for the implementation stage of the planning process. Contact Eddie McEachan General Manager (CEO) Johnstone Shire Council PO Box 887, Innisfail Queensland, Australia, 4860 Tel: +61 70/302203 Fax: +61 70/614258 E-mail: johnstonesc@internetnorth.com.au Report Prepared By Darryl Low Choy Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head School of Environmental Planning Griffith University Nathan, Brisbane, Australia, 4111 Tel: +61 73/875-7496 Fax: +61 73/875-7459 E-mail: d.lowchoy@ens.gu.edu.au http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/448-2/ (41 of 180)18/10/2010 12:47:23 AM
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