Chatterton, Bruce D., December 1984 - THE 701 PROJECT: LAND USE PLANNING IN TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA Abstract: A nine month urban planning project conducted in a small city in Florida is used as the basis for the thesis. The author served as planning consultant to the city with project funding provided by the state. The project involved the analysis, revision, and adoption of the city's comprehensive land use plan as required by the state. The project is discussed as an example of problem solving in applied anthropology. In placing land use planning in an anthropological context, the author examines the social aspects of land use regulation. The author's role in the project is compared to those of the action and advocate anthropologist, with special emphasis on questions of directed change as promoted by a wider government. The author relates the process of analyzing the original land use plan through the application of data from a variety of sources. It is shown how the plan was revised with additional information gained from public participation in the planning process. The revised land use plan was then altered, adopted, and finally implemented by the city. Three stages of the city's plan, as originally drafted, as revised through the project, and as finally adopted, are compared to one another as to the development potential allowed under each plan and the distribution of land uses in the city. It is shown that the project's recommendations remained substantially intact in the adopted plan. A critical evaluation of the project's data collection techniques is presented by the author with special attention paid to the citizen participation effort. It is determined that the participation of the public in the planning process could have been improved through the correction of problems which are seen in the project's citizen advisory committee and the land use needs survey administered in the city. The author shows that the project's stated goals for land use planning were substantially achieved. It is concluded that, although the author's role in the project did not embody the specific roles of action anthropologist or of anthropologist as advocate, elements of these approaches were present. The nature of the change which occurred as a result of the project is shown to resemble examples of directed change in which change is mandated by a wider government. .