ABSTRACT
Elected officials and city administrators will need to have a full comprehension of the political influences and forces at work when engaged in the planning and zoning process. Disregarding the political nature of planning and zoning can cause residents to turn against their elected and appointed officials. An academic political science perspective may very well define a political agenda as stated from Walgrave and Van Aelst: Political actors such as political parties, presidents, or governments have their own agendas as well, the list of things they care about and intend to act upon. The bounded rational decision-making model used for bureaucratic decision-making and the consensus decision-making model used for political decisions will often both be active when decisions are being made by city administration. The city council's viewpoint changed to having pursuit policies in place after a police pursuit ended with the death of a child when a police car accidentally slammed into a motorist.
