Investigating the Effects of Operational Plans (Thematic and Local Plans) on the Quality of Life of Citizens in the Old Texture (Case Study: Sari City)

Regarding the methodological problems in comprehensive plans, method of preparing and approving comprehensive plans, their study methods that are usually linearly and lack consistency between goals and suggestions, and the process of preparing a plan that is separate from the implementation process and the terms of the research, the preparation of "strategic - structural urban plans" is suggested instead of the traditional comprehensive urban plans and the provision of "local" and "thematic" plans is presented instead of detailed plans. In the comprehensive plan of Sari city, approved in 2015, thematic and local plans have been defined that include factors such as prosperity, promotion of quality of life, safety, vitality, and tranquility. This research seeks to answer the question of “whether the thematic and local plans’ adoption has affected the quality of life of the citizens of Sari, especially in the old context of the city.” Accordingly, the research is applied in terms of its objective and it is descriptiveanalytical in terms of its research method. The statistical population consists of all citizens of the old texture of Sari City, i.e. 12245 people. Based on the Cochran formula, 380 people are selected by simple random sampling and includes 76 urban experts. The collected data is transferred to SPSS software and analyzed using U Mann–Whitney, one-way ANOVA, and stepwise regression. The results show that there is no significant difference between citizens and experts’ viewpoint regarding the effect of thematic and local plans on quality of life of Sari citizens. They believe that thematic and local plans have a significant effect on citizens’ quality of life in old texture.