Urban land use planning and its implementation with respect to environmental dimension, the case of Gelan Sub City, Sheger city, Oromia national regional state

Abstract

For the last two or three decades, people are becoming more aware of the variety of environmental issues. The Environmental problems include issues arising from and associated with poverty and underdevelopment, issues arising as negative consequences of the development process itself, and issues relating to man-made pollution. Land use planning strategy, which is a deliberate process of defining land for various uses to balance social, economic, and environmental goals, is an approach for improving urban and environmental sustainability. In order to overcome environmental problems into consideration, this study examines urban land use planning and its implementation with respect to the environmental dimension, the case of Gelan sub-city, Sheger city, Oromia national regional state. The specific objectives of the study are to identify environmental issues consider during the land use plan preparation, to identify at what rate environmental issues were implemented concerning the urban land use planning in the sub-city, to identify factors influencing the implementation of environmental issues and examine the contribution of stockholders and community on urban land use planning implementation to environmental issues. This study used both qualitative and quantitative data. For the purpose of this work both primary and secondary data were used. The sampling and techniques would be applied to study Gelan sub-city urban land use planning stuff, management staff, and community household selection. In this study, descriptive and inferential statistics were applied for data interpretation and the analysis was conducted with SPSS version 24 and the data were presented in tables and graphs. Based on paired sample p-test the study found that a statistical significant less than 0.005 for all specific objectives. The result of the study also found that Afforestation and public sanitary are excluded in urban land use planning while the industrial wastage disposal, greenhouse and sewage and wastewater design are included. The procedures used in the implementation of environmental issues are concluded to agree on the ranking level with rules and regulations. In other hand, there are many factors which influence or affect the implementation of environmental issues. To overcome those problems the community and governmental stockholders must pay their appropriate fees. To those issues, the study suggests some recommendations like: Incorporating concreted rules and regulations regarding urban land use planning, Environmental issues are essential things in human beings life the stockholder should take their parts and responsibility and etc.