consequently actual land use plans will be more constrained by regional metropolitan and common issues and be less about very local issues of any given commune that retains the ultimate responsibility for generating a plan that will become the actual law establishing allowable land uses with these current legislative changes the government is establishing a system that privileges regional and intermunicipal levels of governance over individual communes and prioritises the planning tools at those levels it is at this level that the private interests of the land owner are confronted with the public interest embodied in zoning restrictions and specific development ordinances