After a plan is completed, the next step is to implement it. The following section discusses a wide variety of implementation tools. A planning process can help identify the various tools best-suited to a community’s plan. Effective planning will normally result in the community needing to use more than one tool. As communities use these tools, local decision makers and citizens need to continually ask: "Is the tool consistent with the plan?" Without coordination, certain community activities may be working at cross purposes with other activities.