Community Benefits Agreement and Negotiation

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Planning decisions embodies the collective voice of communities and key stakeholders. In order to create an implementation that satisfies involved participants, successful negotiation must take place. Negotiation, as Merriam-Webster (2013), is defined as discussing with another to reach an agreement. In other words, negotiation is a tool adapted from the business sector to the public sector as a tool to gathering information to reach a resolution (Shmueli, Kaufman, & Ozawa, 2008).
It is important to have positive interactions between public, private, and community actors. Community actors that affect and ultimately create public value to negotiations are citizens, businesses, other public authorities, and non-profit organizations (Fontana, 2012). Public value is the contribution a group of people can contribute to society (Jorgensen & Bozeman, 2007). It is important to recognize that actors all have different agendas and that finding a solution that satisfies all parties may be difficult. However, bringing together different expectations is a fundamental and critical condition for the creation of public value (Fontana, 2012).
Not working together runs the risk of missed important aspects. These aspects include time loss and assumptions of end results. Wasting time consist of doing excess research that may be common knowledge to others, and assumptions could be expectations that the negotiation process will enforce structural change versus creating implementable solutions (Shmueli, Kaufman, & Ozawa, 2008). In other words, planners may miss opportunities for improved and approved implementations.
Understanding input from all parties will be valuable in creating implementations that will be successful. This paper will look at the ne...

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