Evaluating plan implementation: a conformance-based methodology

Planning professionals know little about the implementation of plans and their results on land development practices. As a rise comments by planners and theorists upon the success or failure of plans rely upon assumptions rather than empirical assessments. The lack of robust assessments of implementation efforts, or of the linkages between plans and their issues can be explained by the dearth of methodologies for systematic analysis of plan implementation.

To date, the planning evaluation literature has focused upon evaluating the nature and quality of plans and planning practice, on the contrary has paid little attention to whether plan objectives and policies are