Sustainable Urban Planning

Guiding the Log Frame project implementation procedure requires a stand-
alone allocation of resources and personnel. It also requires empowerment of an
agency with powers to apply intervention procedures including ‘stop notices’ and
mediation. Above all else the Log Frame procedure will work only if the stated
principles are adhered to, and are continuously improved upon, recalibrated,
cross-checked and updated. If an outcome is found wanting, it will of course then
be too late to do much about the matter. It is at the beginning of the Log Frame
construct, with ‘targets’, that the eventual success or failure of a project, in terms
of profits and protections, is cast and settled.

This passage – project propagation, risk assessment, project implementation – sets
out some of the technical parameters which enable development and conservancy
specialists to operate with integrity. Planning specialists seek progressive results,

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Box 4.7 Log Frame project implementation

Although project implementation is pursued in the direc-

tion Targets-to-Goal, it is first envisaged in the direction

Goal-to-Targets. This can be elaborated in relation to a

commercially operated landfill project, an extension of

the study example selected to illustrate the Benefit-cost

prognosis given as box 4.6 earlier in this chapter.

It can be assumed that the GOALis on-site disposal

(landfill, incineration, recycling) of urban refuse within

agreed levels of environmental control, leading to the cre-

ation of a landscaped park, a housing tract, and eventually

a sporting complex during the projects’ terminal phase.

TheOUTPUTelements include: (1) Park land, housing

tract and sporting complex. (2) Safely landfilled refuse

disposal. (3) Neutralized toxin disposal or containment.

(4) Beneficial recycling. (5) Profitability with no

comeback.

TheINPUTresources include: (1) Good layout design

and operational organization for the project, including

access-to-site operating times and tolerances. (2)

Plant provisioning and staffing. (3) Effective management

and public relations. (4) Monitoring operations and

profitability.

TheTARGETSinvolve rubbish disposal within negotiated

levels of impact tolerance, provision of a landscaped park,

a housing tract and a sporting complex; along with profit-

producing dividends.

Structural arrangements Verification procedures

TARGETS Potentials to be realized?

The ‘problems’ and the ‘potentials’ Problems to be ameliorated?

Solutions with minimum adverse effects. Externalities to cope with?

Ø

INPUT RESOURCES Quality, quantity and accountability

Project designs, raw materials, skills, equipment, of inputs.

services, finance, public relations.

Ø

OUTPUT OUTCOMES How much throughput?

Measurable benefits (profits/gains) and disbenefits At what cost and profit?

(externalizations) consequent to the foregoing. On time?

Adverse effects?

Ø

GOAL Post-project evaluation

Terminal development outcome. Profits/Benefits. (Utility to other projects).