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Sustainable development
- meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising
the needs of the future generations
Urbanizable areas
- Great potential of becoming urban within the period of 5 years
Urban form
- The way future population are organized and distributed over the
municipal territory
Zoning ordinance
- Implementing tool that provides the different land use districts of the
city/municipality.
Land Use Plan – how land shall be put into use in the next 5 years
Commercial Zone – Central business district.. trade, service business
purpose
Ecozone – special economic zone with potential development into agro-
industrial, industrial, tourist, commercial, banking, investment, finance
Buffer zone – outside the boundaries and immediate adjacent to the
protected areas that needs control to avoid harm
Base Map – map that provides standard configuration of the planning unit
for the preparation of the thematic maps
Zones
- Historical zone
- Urban Land Reform Zones
- Economic zones
- University zones
- SEZ (Special Economic Zones
- (IE) Industrial Estate
- Export Processing Zone (EPZ)
- Free Trade Zone
Parks
- Industrial Parks
- Tourism Parks
- Theme Parks
LAWS
1984 constitution
- PD 1152
- PD 1586 / PRES PROC 2146
o Establishing and EIS system (Environmental Impact
Assessment)
- RA 7586
o NIPAS (National Integrated Protected Areas System Act
of 1992)
Secure existence of native plants and animals through
protected areas within national parks
Strict Natural Reserve
With an outstanding ecosystem, scientifically
important species, maintained undisturbed for
study
Natural Park – maintained to protect nationally significant
natural features
Wildlife Sanctuary – assures natural conditions to protect
species, biotic communities
Protected land/seascapes – harmonious interaction of
man/land opportunities for public enjoyment, recreation
and tourism within area’s normal lifestyle and economic
activity.
Resource Reserve – uninhabited area with natural
resources
Natural Biotic Area – set for societies in harmony with
nature
Buffer Zones – outside boundaries of protected area but
immediately adjacent. Control to minimize harm
PAWB – Protected Areas and Wildlife division under
Regional Technical Directors
Prohibited – hunting, destroying, and possession of
species without permit.
Strict Protection Zone – high biodiversity, only for study
and ceremony
Sustainable Use Zone – allowed natural resource use
through traditional, sustainable methods.
Restoration Zone – habitats for rehabilitation
Habitat Management Zone – threatened endangered
species
Multiple-Use Zone – activities allowed by management
Buffer Zone
Cultural Zone – with significant cultural values
Recreational Zone – sustainable eco-tourism, recreational,
education
Resource Reserve – uninhabited but with natural resource
Strict Protection Zone (SPZ) – high biodiversity
Multiple Use Zone – consistent with management plan
- RA 9147
o Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act of
2001
Collection of Wildlife – allowed if non-threatened species
Possession of Wildlife – Not allowed unless entity has
financial and technical capability
Establishment of Critical Habitats – outside NIPAS with
threatened species to be protected
Sec 27 – Illegal Acts – killing/destroying, inflicting injury to
wildlife; dumping waste, occupying, mineral extraction,
burning, logging quarrying in critical habitats
- RA 9003
o Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000
Solid Waste – household, commercial, agri, insti, industrial
Open dumpsite – indiscriminate throwing. Disposed
without due planning
Controlled dumpsite - site in accordance with the
minimum prescribed standards
Sanitary landfill – operated with engineering control over
significant potential environmental impacts
National Solid Waste Management Commission
Role of LGU – implement segregation and collection
of solid waste
MRF (Materials Recovery Facility)
Open Dumps – convert to controlled dumps after 3
years. No controlled dumps after 5 years
Prohibited acts – littering and dumping in public areas,
open burning of solid waste, squatting in dumps and
landfills, open dumps, operations of landfills and aquifer
- RA 8749
o Clean Air Act of 1999
Prevention rather than control
Airshed –
Ambient Air Quality Guidelines Values and Standards –
Tables on limits on pollutants
Ban on incineration
Pollution from smoking – prohibited inside public, enclosed
space, public vehicle
- RA 9275
o Clean water act of 2004
Pollution prevention
Water Quality Management Area – National Water
Resources Board (NWRB)
National Sewerage and Septage Management Program –
sewage/septage treatment facilities for each LGU
Domestic Sewage Collection, Treatment and Disposal
Clean-up Operations
Prohibited Acts – discharging and depositing pollutants
into water bodies
Economic Laws
- RA 8435
o Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997
Sec 2 – Food Security
Sec 3 – NPAAAD Network of Protected Areas for
Agricultural and Agri-Industrial Development
All irrigated lands
Alluvial lands
Agro-industrial croplands
Highlands with potential
Mangroves and fish sanctuaries
Sec 9 – not more than 5 % of all irrigated lands may be
converted
Sec 10 incorporate SAFDZ (Strategic Agriculture and
Fisheries and Development Zones
- RA 7916
o Special Economic Zone Act of 1995
For the preferential use of Filipino labor, domestic
materials and local goods
SEZ (Special Economic Zones) – Ecozones. Potential/highly
developed areas with agro industrial, industrial,
tourist/recreational, commercial, banking investments,
finance centers. May have any of the following IEs, EPZs,
FTZs, Tourist Centers
IE (Industrial Estate – for community industries
EPZ (Export Processing Zone0- outside customs territory,
oriented to export production
FTZ (Free Trade Zone) – goods are manipulated without
import duties
Sec 11 – PEZA (Philippine Economic Zone Authority Board
– EPZA evolves into the PEZA
Exemption from National/Local Taxes
No tax for businesses/ 5% of gross income of firms
within goes to” 3% to national government, 2% to
LGU
- RA 9593
o Tourism Act of 2009
Conserve/Protect heritage
Sec 25: Philippine Tourism Authority to Tourism
Infrastructure and Enterprise Authority (TIEZA)
Sec 37 – LGU should prepare local tourism development
plans
Sec 59 – Tourism Enterprise Zones
Contiguous territory
Historical and cultural significance, environmental
beauty
With access
Sufficient size to bring investments
Strategic location
Social Laws
- RA 8371
o Indigenous People’s Rights Act of 1997 or ICC indigenous
cultural communities
o Ancestral Domains – all belong
o Ancestral Lands – land occupied
o Certificate of Ancestral Domain/Land Title –
o Sec 7 – Rights
To ownership
To regulate entry of migrants
To stay
To develop
To claim parts of reservations
To return if displaced
o Sec 38 – National Commission on Indigenous People
o Sec 60 – Exemption from taxes – from Real Property Tax
- RA 7279
o UDHA (Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992)
o Sec 18 – Balanced Housing – 20% of total area/cost of the
project should go for socialized housing
o Sec 28 – Eviction and Demolition – esteros, railtoads tracks,
dumps, riverbanks, shorelines, waterways, public, sidwalks,
roads, parks and playgrounds
With court order
o Sec 39 – LGU should implement UDHA
o Sec 43 – Socialized Housing Tax - .5% real property tax on the
assessed value of all lands in urban areas in excess of Php 50k
- BP 220
o Economic and Socialized Housing In Rural and Urban
Areas
- PD 957
o Subdivision and Condominium buyer’s protective decree
- PD 1216
o Open Space
Parks, playgrounds, schools roads, worship, health
centers, hospitals, barangay centers,
30% reserve for open space
Infrastructure Laws
- PD 6957 / RA 7718
o Act Authorizing Infra Projects by the private sector
o Sec 1.3
BT – Build and Transfer
BLT – Build, Lease and Transfer
BOT – Build Operate Transfer
BOO – Build Own and Operate
BTO – Build Transfer and Operate
CAO – Contract Add and Operate
DOT – Develop Operate and Transfer
ROT – Rehabilitate Operate and Transfer
ROO – Rehabilitate Own and Operate
- PD 856
o Code on Sanitation of the Philippines
Sec 13
No washing within 25Mm of water source
No wells within 25m of pollution souce
No radioactive within 25m of water source
No public water supply system allo physical
connection between its distribution system and that
of the other water suppy
No booster pump direct from water distribution line
Sec 90 Burial Grounds – none within 50m of rivers; at
least 25m from dwelling house
Sec 91 - Burial – graves at least 1.5m deep
Institutional Laws
- EO 72 / EO 71
o LGU responsibility in land use planning and approval of
development plans
o Sec 1 – Cities and municipalities to prepare or update their CLUP
o Sec 2 – CLUPs of cities and municipalities are reviewed by the
province
Provinces and highly-urbanized cities and independent
component shall be reviewed by HLURB
CLUP – manila shall be reviewed by HLURB
o EO 71
Cities and Municipalities assume the power of HLURB on
the following
Approval of final subdivision schemes and
development plans of all subdivisions, residential,
commercial, industrial PD 97
Approval of all economic and socialized housings
- RA 7160
o Local Government Code of 1991
Sec 16 – General Welfare
Sec 18 – power to generate and apply resources – taxes
Eminent Domain – for public use
Reclassification of lands
If land ceases its economic feasibility
15% highly urbalized
10% component ities 1st to 3rd municipalitits
5% 4th to 6th class
Agri lands under CARP/CARL (RA 6657) not affected
Zoning
Sec 106
Local Development Councils
Sec 107 – Functions of Local Development Councils
Sec 111 – Executive committee
Sec 112 – Sectoral committee
Sec 113 =- Secretariat
Sec 114 – Relations of LDC to the sanggunian and regional
Sec 232 – power to levy real property tax
Sec 233 – rates of levy – not exceeding 1% of assessed
value for province. Not exceeding 2% for city
Sec 235 – for special education fund – 1% on assessed
value
Sec 236 – additional ad valorem tax on idle lands – not
exceeding 5% over basic tax
Sec 237 – idle lands
Agri land more than 1 has, ½ I uncultivated
City/municipal more than 1000 sqm, ½ is unutilized
Sec 271 : distribution of proceeds
Provinve – 35% province, 40% municipal, 25%
barangay
City – 70% city, 15% barangay equal distribution,
15% barangay location
Manila – 35% metro, 35% municipal location, 15%
all barangays, 15% barangay location
Sec 284” Allotment of Interal Revenue Tax
40%
Sec 285 Allocation to LGUs (each based on population
50%, land area 25%, equal sharing 25%)
23% province
23% cities
20% barangays
Sec 287 – Local development projects – no less than 20%
of IRA
- RA 9729
o Climate change act of 2009
Sec 13 – National Climate Change Action Plan
Sec 14 – Local Climate Change Action Plan
- RA 10121
o Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act
of 2010
Sec 5 – National Disaster Coordinating Council renamed to
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
DILG, -Preparedness
DSWD, - Responese
DOST, - Prevention and Mitigation
NEDA – Recovery and Rehabilitation
Sec 6 – Reviewed plan every 5 years
Sec 9 – Office of Civil Defense
Sec 10 – Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Council
Sec 12 – Local Disaster Risk Disaster and Management
Office
- RA 9184
o Government Procurement Reform Act of 2002
Sec 5 – Competitive bidding
Ads, Pre Bid, Eligibility., receiopts and opening of
bids, evaluation of bid, post qualification, awards
Goods – materials, supplies equipment
Head of Procuring
o NGA
o GOCC
o LGU
Sec 7 – all within approved budget
Sec 30 – financial and technical qualification
Sec 32 – lowest calculated bid
Sec 33 – highest rated bid
Sec 37 – notice of award
15 days after lowest/highest responsive bid
10 days after notice of award
7 days after approval of contract, notice to proceed
Sec 50 – direct contracting –
Proprietary goods/source
Critical components from specific supplier
Exclusive dealer/manufacturer
Public Domain
- Agricultural, forests or timber, mineral lands and national parks
- Alienable and Disposable
o Agricultural land
- Non-Alienable
o Forests or timber
o Mineral land
o National parks
Area Plans
- Forest Management Plans
- Heritage Conservation Plan
- Coastal Resource Management Plan
- Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection plan
- Watershed Management Plan
Thematic Plans
- Local Poverty Reduction Action Plan
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Mangement Plan
- Gender and Development Plan
- Local Entrepreneurship Development Plan
- Culture and Arts Plan
System Plans
- Solid Waste Management Plan
- Rapid Transit System Plan
- Sewerage Master Plan
- Integrated Communication Technology Plan
- Open Space Network Plan
Ecosystem Analysis
- Forest Land Use
- Coastal Planning Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Disaster Risk Assessment
- Resource Mapping
Planning Structure
Political Component
- LDC (Local Development Council)
Policy making body
Deliberate and make decisions
o Local Chief Executive
o Punong Baranggays
o Congressman
o CSOs/PSO
- Local Sanggunian
Technical Structure
- Local Special Bodies
- Sectoral and Functional Committees
Technical arm, supplies technical content
o Department Heads
o LPDO
o NGAs
o Private Sector
Sectoral Committees
- Social
- Economic
- Environment and Natural resources
- Infrastructure
- Institutional
Physical Plans
- National Framework for Physical Planning
- Regional
- Provincial
- CLUP
Terms
- PFP – Physical Framework Plan
- CLUP – Comprehensive Land Use Plan
- MTPIP – Medium Term Philippine Investment Plan
- PDP – Philippine Development Plan
CDP - multisectoral
- Social development component
- Economic development component
- Environmental management component
- Admin and financial component
Implementation Instruments
- Local Development Investment program
o Capital
o Non Capital
- Legislative Support measures
CLUP
- Private domain
- Ancestral domain
- Public domain
o Timber
o Mineral lands
o National parks
o Municipal waters
o Untitled A&D
Sieve mapping – knowing how to do basic mapping overlay allows the planner
to identify what decision maps they really want
- aid in the making of GIS generated maps
CLUP contents
a. Four Policy Areas
b. Urban Form
c. Land Use Policy Framework
Policy Areas
- General Land Use Categories
o Life support system
o Space for living
Road
o Space for making a living
- General Land Use Policy Areas
o Protected Areas (Life support system)
NIPdAS
Non-Nipas
Protected agricultural
Environmental constrained
Heritage sites
o Settlement Areas (Space for Living)
Urban (town/centers)
Rural (upland, coastal, lowlands)
Indigenous people’s settment
o Infrastructure Areas (Roads, Exchange space)
Transport network
Social infrastructure
Economic infrastructure
Administrative support
o Production Areas (Space for making a living)
Agricultural
Croplands
Fisheries
Livestock
Forestry
Industrial
Commercial
Tourism
Mining
Policy Interventions
- Programs/projects – designed to produce output within defined time
- Service/non-project – activities that forms the part of the function of an
office
- Regulatory measures – law or ordinance
Do a cost-benefit analysis
GAM (Goal Achievement Matrix)
EP (Ecological Profile)
- A strong foundation for CLUP, CDP
- Provides basic inputs that reflects current condition
- Covers: economic, social, physical, institutional and environmental
aspects
- Enumerates environmental risks
- Identifies development challenges
- Outline
1. Intro: role
History
Overview and rationale
2. Geophysical Description
i. Geographical location
ii. Jurisdiction
iii. Barangays
iv. Topography and slope
v. Physiography
vi. Hydrology
vii. Climate
viii. Land use and land use pattern
3. Socio-Demographic Characteristic
a. Demography
b. Healthy=
c. Education
d. Social welfare and services
e. Housing
f. Sports and recreation
g. Safety and security
4. Characteristic of local economy
a. Livelihood and employment
b. Labor force
c. Family and income expenditure
d. Industry and services
e. Agriculture
f. Tourism
5. Infrastructure/physical development
a. Transportation
b. Power
c. Communication
d. Water supply
e. Solid waste management
f. Drainage and sewerage
g. Parks and opens spaces
6. Environment and Natural Characteristics
a. Biodiversity
b. Solid waste management
c. Air quality
d. Water quality
7. Institutional Development
a. Local govt. organization
b. LGU income
c. LGU legislation
d. Admin and legal frameworks
Planning
- Political process of translating social values into govt policies and
programs to pretect the welfare of the public
Environmental Planning
- art and science of analyzing, specifying, clarifying, harmonizing,
managing, and regulating the use of land and water in relation to the
environs for sustainable development (RA10587
- Management and Development of Land
Enrivonmental Planner
Registered and licensed to practice environmental planning
Ekistics by Doxiadis
- Basic element of settlement
o Content (Man, Society)
o Container (Nature, Shells, Networks)
- Settlement Hierarchy
o Hamlet – 10-100
o Village – 100-2,500
o Small Twon – 2,500 – 25,000
o Large Town – 25,000 – 150,000
o Regional Center – 150,000 – 500,000
o Capital city – above 2M
- Ecumenopolis – earth is taken up by human settlement
- Megalopolis – conurbations, 10M people each
- Conurbation – group of large cities with 3-10M people
- Metropolis – large city – 1-3M people
- Large city – less than 1 but over 300,000 people
- City – 100k to 300k people
- Large Town – 20k to 100k
- Town – 1k – 20k
- Village – larger than a hamlet – 100 – 1k
- Hamlet – less than 100
History of Planning
Ancient Time – 400 B.C. in the fertile crescent (from Nile valley to tirgris and
Euphrates river)
- Rectilinear Plotting
- Eridu – oldest city
- Damascus – oldest inhabited city
- Babylon – largest city with 80k inhabitants
- Khirokitia – in Cyprus 5,500 BC first documented settlement with
streets
- 3000 BC – Egyptian Civilization, cities along the NILE river
- 2500 BC – Indus Valley (Pakistan)
- 1900 BC – Yellow river of china
- 800 BC Beijing
- Polis – city state
- Acropolis – relationship between building and nature
- Hippodamus of Miletus – Father of Town Planning
o Gridiron Pattern – rectangular street system
o Agora – Central Marketplace
- Vitruvius – treatise “de arkitectura”
- Aqueducts
- Basilica – covered markets, law courts
- Curia – local meeting hall, the capitol
- Domus – house
- Insulae – 3-6 storey apartment with storefronts.
Medieval
- Sienna and Constantinople – riseof the church
- Feudalism
- Mercantilists cities
Renaissance – rebirth
- Arts and architecture
- Geometrical forms of cities
- Karlsruhe – Germany
- Versailles – France
- Leonardo da Vinci – Codex Atlanticus
- 1844 – Arturo Soria Y Mata – Linear City
- King Philip’s city guide
o Pueblo (civil)
o Presidio (military)
o Mission (religious)
- Savannah – largest officially recognized historical district
Pre-Colonial
Spanish Colonial
- Plaza Complex
- 1596 – spatial segregation
o cabeceras
o ciudades
o plaza
o Intramuros – 1.2 sq km
Americans 1900
- Burnham
- 1910 – rebuilding settlements
- 1928/1940 – zoning ordinace for manila promulgation
- July 31, 1903 – act no 183 – manila incorporation
o Manila as chartered City
Binondo, Tondo, Sta. Cruz, Malate, Ermita, Paco, Pandacan
190,000 population
ZONING
- Division of the community into zones (residential, commercial,
industrial, institutional, etc)
- The translation of CLUP into a legal tool
- Binding and enforceable legal document that contains rules and
regulations, systems and procedures and incentives or sanctions
- Elements
o Zoning Ordinance
o Zoning Map
- Classifications
o Residential Zone
R1 - Low density, R2 - medium and R3 - High density
o Commercial Zone
Commercial 1,2,3 and General Commercial
o Institutional Zone
Industrial 1,2,3
o Agricultural Zone
o Forest Zone
o USE
Institutional, Tourism, Parks and Open Space, Agricultural
Zone, Agro-Industrial Zone, Forest Zone
o Overlay Zones
Urban Corridor Special Development Zone
Historical Development Zone
- Regulations
o Permitted, permissible, prohibited
o District regulation: height, area, bugger, easement
- Scope
o Density Controls – restrictions and incentives
o Open Space Requirements – PLO – percentage of lot occupancy
o Population Controls – Gross Floor Area and Floor Area Ratio
controls
- Mitigating Devices
o Variances
Discretionary permit to proceed despite non-compliance
Undue hardship on the proponent (neither self-
created nor self-imposed)
Will not defeat the purpose and objectives of the
ordinance
Will not disturb the peace and quiet.
Will not alter the character of the district
o Exceptions
Authorized but not Normally not allowable under
ordinance
File an application with attaching support
Consent from adjoining property owners
Public hearing must be conducted
o Certificates of Non-Conforme
- Permits issued by ONLY by – LOCAL ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS (LZBA)
o Administrative regulatory agency of LGU
Mayor
Legal Officer
Assessor
Engineer
Planning and Development Coordinator
2 representative of private sector
2 representative of non-government organization
SB committee chair on Land Use
- LZRC (Local Zoning Review Committee)
o Planning and Development Coordinator
o Health officer
o Agriculturist
o President of the association of Brgy captains
o Engineer
o CENRO (community environment and natural resources officer)
o (MARO) Municipal Agrarian reform officer
o District school supervisor
o 3 Private sector representatives
o Housing Industry and Homeowners Assoc
o 2 NGO representatives
Open Zone
- Similar to the nature of parks and recreation zones
- Non-agricultural character
Mock Exam
1. Anthropological area
2. Cultural properties
3. NCCA maximum days of submission
Stocks to Watch
BDO leasing & finance
Concrete aggregates 74
Exam Notes
Types of Maps
1. Topgraphic Map – elevation points
2. Land classification Map - alienable or disposable, timber, forests
3. Land cover map – extent of vegetation cover
4. Legal status map – reservation covered by DENR, protected areas
5. Slope Map – slope category
6. Present Land Use and Vegetation Map – land uses, agricultural
7. Protected areas for agricultural map – restricted areas from conversion
8. Key production map – areas suitable for agri or activities
9. Geographic flow of commodity map – production market areas
10.Road Network Map – existing road networks
11.Geological map – subsoil, faultline, rock types
12.Seismic hazard map – hazard and danger zones
13.Existing land use map – city distribution
14.General Land use plan – proposed land use
15.Zoning map – proposed land use for buildable areas, urban
Augment Supply
- Infilling
- Densification
- Urban Renewal/Redeveloment
- Reclamation
- Agricultural Land Conversion
Then
- Improve rural services
- Opening of alternative growth centers
- Relocation or resettlement
Spatial Strategies
- Do nothing
SOCIAL SECTOR
- Education, Health, Housing, Services, Sports and Recreation
Education
- Student-Teacher Ratio – Enrollment /Teachers
- Student-classroom – Enrollment/ Classroons
- School buildings – Type1, Type2, Type3, Type4, Type5
- Space –
o Pre school – 500 sqm minimum – 4 classes
Needs open space not more than 200 meters walking
distance from school
1 ½ sqm per child
o Elementary
½ hectare for non-central
1 has for central
2 has 7 to 9 classes
3 has – 10 to 12 classe
4 has more than twelve classes
Rural Area
½ has for central with 6 classess
non-rural 3-4 classes.
1 ½ has for 7 to 10 classes
2 has for more than 10 classes
Urban
½ has for central with 6 classes
non-central with 7-10 classes
¾ has for 11 to 20 classes
1 has for 21 or more classes
o College
500 or less students .5 has
501 to 2000 – 1 has
1001 to 2000 – 2 has
2001 – 3000 – 3 has
7 has for minimum of 10,000 students
Sprague Multiplier
Interpolation Technique – assumes that each of the individual age in the age
bracket contributes equally to the total population of that specific age bracket
Health center
- Barangay health center
- Main health center
- City Health Center
- Municipal Hospital
- Secondary care district
- Tertiary care district
- Tertiary care provincial
- Tertiary care regional
- Medical center
- Government hospital
- Private hospital
- General hospital
- Teaching and training hospital
Cemetery
- 20 meters from dwelling unit
- 50 meters either side of the river or water source
- not in recharged aquifer, high water
- not located in flood hazards
- away from watersheds
Controlled dumpsites
Sewerage disposal
- at least 25 meters away from shallow wells and 15 meters away from
deep wells
- 120 meters depth bedrock
- 120 meters away groundwater below the disposal field
Protective Services
- police, fire, jail
- Service
o Traffic, peace and order, disaster, auxiliary service
- Police Ratio
o 1 police/500 persons – ideal
o 1 police / 1000 persons – minimum
- Fireman ratio
o 1:2000
o Fire Truck 1:28,000
o Fire truck to fireman 1:14
- BJMP
o Guard to inmate – 1 guard/5 inmates – ideal
o 1 guard / 7 inmates – minimum
Economic Sector
- Agriculture
o Bureau of Soils and water Management (BSWM)
o Grazing land – at least 70% of the area not a slope of more than
50%
- Commerce and Trade
o CBD, commercial strip,
o Rate of increase = current rate of establishment – previous no of
establishment over no of years between current year and any
yaey x # of establishment in the previous years
o Neighborhood center – 740 meters or 15 min travel on foot
(max)
o Minor CBD – 12 kms, 15-30 mins travel by public transport
o Major CBD – 45 mins to 1 hour travel from the farthest by public
transpot
o From hospital – 300 miters or 10 – 20 mins travel time
o From police station – 5 mins travel time
o From fire station 3-5 mins travel time
o From garbage disposal – 5 to 10 km
- Industry
o Industrial area requirement – population x standard area per
1,000 population
o Industry classification
Micro industry - 150
Cottage industry -150 – 1.5m / less than 10 workers
Small-scale – 1.5 -15. / 10-99 workers
Medium-scale – 15 – 60M / 100-199 employess
Large – scale – above 60M – 200 more employees
o Pollutive
Light – non-hazardous
Medium – hazardous
Heavy – extremely hazardous
- Tourism
o Local Quotient – employment (in an economic activity)total
employment over employment in the province / total
employment in the province
o If the LQ is less than 1, the city is less specialized in the sector
that the province. There is less concentration of the activity in
the LGU compared to the province
o If equal to 1 both the city and the province thave the same level
of specialization
o EBM (Economic Base Multiplier) = Total employment /
employment in the basic sector
- Industrial Classification
o Primary – agri, natural resource-based
o Secondary – manufacturing, utilities, construction
o Tertiary – trade services, finace, real estate economic activities
Infrastructure Sector
- Transportation
o Roads
National, provincial, city, barangay, alley, footpath
- Power
o Number of household served over total number of households
times 100
o Future power requirement = no of projected establishment x
average consumption rate/year
o Connection
Domestic, industrial, commercial, institutional, agricultural
streetlights
- Water
o NSDW – national standards for drinking water
o Classficication
AA – water with watersheds
A – public water
B – recreational water
C – fishery water
D – agri
- Information and Communication Technology
- Ahwahnee Principles – smart growth movement and new urbanism
- Impervious surface – pavement
- Philippine Institute of Environmental Planners (PIEP) – AIPO
- RA 9710 – Magna Carta for Women of 2009
- RA 8371 – IP
- RA 10066 – National Heritage Act of 2010
- RA 9184 – Procurement
- RA 9729 – climate change
- EO 481 – Organic Agriculture
- RA 6977 – Magna Carta for Small Enteprises
- RA 9501 – Amendment for small enterprises
- RA 6541 – National building code
- RA 9522 – territorial Sea
Impact Prediction
- Identification of potential changes in indicators of environmental
receptors
- Identify the magnitude and other dimensions of identified change in
environment as a result of a project activity in comparison with the
situation without the project
Impact evaluation
- Identify the relative significance of the potential impacts identified
Criteria
- Magnitude and likelihood of the impact
- Spatial and temporal extent
- Degree of recovery of the affected environment
- Level of public concern of the impact
- Political repercussion of the impact
- Local Economy
o Primary
o Secondary
o Tertiary
- Physical and Infrastructure
o Inventory of land and land use
o Preparation of thematic maps
Boundaries
Land classification
Slope
Elevation
- Environmental management and natural resources
o Natural resources inventory
o Inventory of existing mitigation
o Human pressures, threats
- Institutional
o Organizational structure of the LGU
o Staff of LGU
o Fiscal position of LGU
o Inventory of outputs
o Local special bodies
o Civil society participation
o NGA
Reading List
- The wealth of nations by Adam Smith