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Until now many planners and/or policy-makers think that locational decisions such as siting LULUs must be made upon functional rationality, and these decisions are the prerogative of planner and/or policy-makers. In other word the conventional siting process, which is technocratic and top-down in orientation, result in one outcome, that is, the imposition of a decision. This process, which is expressed as decide-announce -defend(DAD), is inherently confrontational in nature and creates an ‘us-them’ adversarial situation, namely siting conflicts. But understanding locational decisions as the products of interactions and conflicts of policy-makers and affected citizens, the most crucial aspect in planning LULUs is to resolve the conflicts among stake-holders.
To resolve these conflicts we need a sound planning process for siting LULUs, which should improve the ability of citizens to influence the decisions that affects them. By a sound planning process, we mean one that is open to citizen input and contains accurate and complete information. In other word the public is also part of the goal setting process, and as the information and analyses developed by the planners is evaluated by the public, strategies for solutions can be developed through consensus-building.