The Impact of Urban Planning Rules and Regulations on Sustainable Urban Development (Case Study: Babolsar City)

Cities are a complex and alive system of integrated economic, social, and physical identities in which economic, social, cultural, and physical components play a role. Sustainable development, which is one of the main goals of the policies and activities of the United Nations and is a constant discussion of developed and developing countries, has been mentioned as a process, the need for improvement and progress in various fields. The goal of sustainable development is very broad and its achievement takes place in the shadow of planning. Planning should be a two-way planning because at the macro level, the policies of national governments, even global policies, and at the micro level, education and public participation are very effective in achieving sustainable development and advancing its goals. The issue of urban laws and regulations is one of the most important issues of urban planning and urban planning and it is the basis for the balanced growth of cities and the implementation of a comprehensive plan and detailed plans and criteria set out in the plans. In fact, by applying the rules and methods, control and monitoring the separation of land and buildings, and authorizing the relevant authorities in urban planning to review and amend the proposed separation plans by landowners before registration measures at least 60% of correction comments can be implemented in comprehensive and detailed plans. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of urban planning laws and regulations on sustainable urban development (Case study of Babolsar city). The present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in nature. The method of data collection was designed as a document and field through a questionnaire in the form of Likert scale and research questions were evaluated by SPSS software. The results show that according to the average of items and the use of one-sample t-test, the opinions of experts and citizens in all indicators and items explaining the level of significance is higher than 0.05. This means that the effects of urban planning laws and regulations on sustainable urban development on the level of sample households are below average. The use of TOPSIS method for ranking Babolsar neighborhoods based on the effects of urban planning laws and regulations on sustainable urban development in terms of the weights calculated in each index showed that Javaheri neighborhood with a value of (0.9101) ci with 1 rank of the highest status and neighborhood Katie Bin with the value of (0.3008) ci with the rank of 20 had the lowest position.