The Political Processes of Administering Landscape Preservation

Interest groups reside within the jurisdiction of a local government. Most of them are concerned about administrative processes in city halls. They are eager to get benefits from city halls, and in order to have strong influence over these processes. They think that their interests should be reflected in the administrative processes. However, the interest groups are in serious conflict each other in most cases because a city hall cannot act on all their interests. The most important role of a local government office is to choose among conflicting interests, select the best one for the public, and act on it. Mayors and officials should take parts in these processes. Among these policies, unfortunately, there are some definitely mutually exclusive. In such cases, mayors cannot select the best one, or even a better one, as a rational and feasible policy. A typical example is the relationship between industrial development and environmental preservation policies. Both of them are fundamentally at odds. There are many active interest groups in Kyoto as other cites. Of course, they have influenced the administrative processes about which Kyoto City Hall have made decisions, and they have competed with each other at the same. And because of the incompatibility of these two policies of development and preservation, no compromise has been able to be reached and consistent policies for improving the value of this city has not be able to be established. As a result, the problem continues unsolved.