Planning decisions embody the collective voice of communities and key stakeholders. In order to create an implementation that satisfies the participants involved, a successful negotiation must take place. Negotiation, according to Merriam-Webster (2013), is defined as arguing 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 for gathering information to reach a resolution (Shmueli, Kaufman, & Ozawa, 2008). It is important to have positive interactions between the public and private sectors and community stakeholders. Community actors who affect and ultimately create public value for negotiations are citizens, businesses, other public authorities, and nonprofit organizations (Fontana, 2012). Public value is the contribution that a group of people can make to society (Jorgensen and Bozeman, 2007). It is important to recognize that stakeholders all have different agendas and it can be difficult to find a solution that satisfies all parties. However, bringing together different expectations constitutes a fundamental and critical condition for the creation of public value (Fontana, 2012). Not working together risks missing important aspects. These aspects include wasting time and making assumptions about the final results. Wasting time is doing excessive research that may be common knowledge to others, and assumptions could be expectations that the negotiation process will force structural change rather than create workable solutions (Shmueli, Kaufman and Ozawa, 2008). In other words, planners risk missing opportunities for improved and approved implementations. Understanding the contributions of all parties will be valuable in creating implementations that are successful. This article will examine the middle...... of the document...... An evolution of public benefits negotiation processes. Master's thesis, 33-37. Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jorgensen, T.B. and Bozeman, B. (2007). Public values, an inventory. Administration and society, 354-381.Musil, TA (2012). The Sleeping Giant: Community Benefits Agreements and Urban Development. The Urban Lawyer, 44(4), 827-231,833-851. Petro, J. (February 22, 2013). Do Bloomberg's potential successors think Atlantic Yards was a good idea? Next City. Shmueli, D., Kaufman, S. and Ozawa, C. (March 2008). Theory of mining neogitiation for Planning Insights. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 27(3), 359-364.Webster, M. (2014). Negotiate. Accessed June 2014 from Merriam-Webster: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/negotiate Williams, A. (1974, September). The cost-benefit approach. British Medical Bulletin, 30(3), 252-256.