The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problems and the desirable proposals of county(local government) development planning process in terms of the characteristics of strategic planning. This study shows the following suggestions for the county development process. First, top leader of county should have active interest on development planning process and become the strategic leader. Second, top leader or key decision maker should expand the participation of task force team, stakeholder and committee. Third, more objective environmental scanning is needed. Planning team should assess the changes of external and internal conditions with SWOT. It also need to make the task force team or special team identify the problems and solutions of county region. Fourth, top leader should propose the successful vision to induce the support of residents. Fifth, selecting of agreeable strategic issues is required. Planning team especially needs to have a leading role in selecting issues which is clear, critical and consentient. Sixth, a critical, few and suitable strategies should be formulated by planning team. Last, effective implementation is needed. Action plans are needed to be established in detail. Project and budget should be connected. Local governance or partnership are also required for the implementation of plans. Particularly, top leader or planning team should be careful the plan or projects not to be the paper plan.