Identifying and Ranking the Obstacles to the Full Implementation of the Comprehensive and Detailed Plan of Ilam City

The present study aims to identify and rank the obstacles to the full implementation of the comprehensive and detailed plan of Ilam city. This research is applied in terms of its objective and mixed (quantitative-qualitative) research in terms of data collection method. The statistical population consists of two sections: the qualitative section consisting of 30 experts of the municipality and members of the city council of Ilam and the quantitative section including all employees of the Ilam municipality, i.e. 225 people. A researcher-made questionnaire is used to collect data, whose face and content validities are confirmed by supervisor. Cronbach's alpha coefficient is used to determine its reliability, turning out to be 0.90, which is statistically acceptable. Research hypotheses are tested by SPSS 22 and LISREL 8.5 software. The statistical methods used in this research are Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to verify the normality of the data, the structural equation modeling to investigate the hypotheses, and also fuzzy Delphi technique to rank the variables. Based on the results of factor analysis, factor load of obstacles to the full implementation of the comprehensive and detailed plan of Ilam city is greater than 0.50 and their significant coefficients are greater than 1.96. Therefore, all components (lack of power concentration and execution facilities, delays in the design of the detailed and executive plans, specific feature of the plan, passive approach to the plan, inefficiency of organizations, lack of local participation, and land ownership problems) and all 24 obstacles to the full implementation of the comprehensive and detailed plan of the Ilam city are confirmed. According to the components’ ranking, the problems related to the land ownership with a weight of 0.240 have the least impact and passive approach to the plan and inefficiency of organizations with a weight of 0.355 have the greatest effect on the full implementation of the comprehensive and detailed plan of Ilam city.