Mekete Bekele,(Associate Professor)Cheru Debiso2025-03-052025-03-052023-07https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4604Land is important for various uses for the development of cities. On the other hand, the utilization of land is highly abused. Hence, the land use should be led by effective plan. To apply effective plan and to avoid abuse of land use plan enforcement, it needs to have strong legal and institutional frameworks, strong regulating mechanisms, active public participation and technical skilled experts. Therefore, the research has undertaken the law and practice of enforcement of LUP in Nfas Silk Lafto and Kolfe Keranio Sub cities. The research has found that there are abuses of land use plan enforcement (the LUP enforcement‟s law and practices are incompatible). Therefore, it recommends that this incompatibility of law and practice should be solved by applying strong legal and institutional framework to enforce proper land use plan.en-USLand use planlegal and institutional frameworkand regulating mechanismsincompatibility of law and practice.Thesis