(Ebook) Compliance with Planning Standards Related to the Setbacks around Domestic Buildings: Empirical Evidence from Kenya by Dr. Wilfred Ochieng Omollo

(Ebook) Compliance with Planning Standards Related to the Setbacks around Domestic Buildings: Empirical Evidence from Kenya by Dr. Wilfred Ochieng Omollo

This study investigates the extent to which planning standards that regulate the setbacksaround domestic buildings are complied with by developers in Kenya, a case study of KisiiTown. Using proportional random sampling targeting seven neighbourhoods, a sample of364 was drawn from the target population of 7430 developments. While checklists wereused to collect data on the extent of compliance with the planning standards, data wereanalyzed using means, mode, standard deviation and a one-sample t-test. Resultsestablished that most developments disregarded the planning standards on setbacks.Hypothesis tests further reported significant differences between the respectiverecommended setbacks (front, side and rear) and extent of developers’ compliance, t (289)= -14.746, p = .000; t (289) = -8.937, p = .000; and t (289) = -20.3826, p = .000. The studyconcludes that developers flout planning standards owing to insufficient developmentcontrol by the County Government of Kisii. A recommendation is made for the adoption oflocally nurtured standards that addresses the existing socioeconomic attributes as analternative of relying on those generated at the national level. This study enriches thecurrent body of literature in planning by validating how compliance with planningstandards may be statistically assessed.JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2020), 4(2), 95-108. https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2020.v4n2-9