Essentially, the land use management system in Taiwan is based on the traditional zoning regulation. Under zoning scheme, environmental quality and land use efficiency are achieved through the control of land use intensity and land use type in different land use zones. Due to the environmental changes and land use complexity, traditional zoning’s rigidity has hindered the demand of flexibility for innovative and special land use types. Development of new land use regulation strategy needs support of certain background and conditions, and its implementation will certainly impact the future land use management system. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and analyze the formation and evolution of land use management system in Taiwan and to provide information for the future decision making inf land use management.