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Situational Report on • Conduct sieve analysis to get the land supply

Environment and Land • For the Eco-tourism & Cultural Heritage Network Corridor, here are too many environmental issues, so it may be hard
Use to promote eco-tourism
• Zambales and Bataan also have surfing beach locations (surfing tourism)
• Consider the Manila Bay Reclamation Project, and other reclamation projects (i.e. International Container Port Terminal
in Mariveles, etc.); Team may refer to PRA or AFAB for the studies and proposals
• Include Balo-Balo Dam in the assessment
• DENR can provide the updated number of rivers, which is different form EMB’s inventory
• DENR would like to see the maps of the protection forest and production forest in the environmental assessment
• “Unregulated” land conversion

Issues Recommended Policies and Projects by Participants

Proposed 10 Corridors • Land conversion • Recommends compact development, densification, and vertical development
aimed at minimizing conversion of lands
• Recommends market-driven land uses to limit allotment of lands during land use
planning
• Recommends vertical farming to maximize agricultural lands
• Policy reform thru the passage of the National Land Use Act (NLUA)
• Monitoring program when implementing the limit of 5% land conversion
• Idle lands (Refers specifically to • Conduct of an inventory of idle lands, lands converted, and actual uses of
Bataan Province) converted lands
• Incompatible land uses • Promote of mixed-use developments
• Policy to provide green buffers between industries and other land uses
• Traffic • Promote Transit Oriented Development (TOD)

• Possible insufficiency of Subic • Conduct of a study

 as a transshipment hub
• Lack of lands allotted to the • Tap frontline agencies (DOST & DICT)
R&D
• Lack of accessibility of the • Introduce local ordinances to prevent loss of public access to coastlines
public to the coastline
Other comments • Low environmental fees • Integrate planning of infrastructure plans in protected area plans and eco-
tourism plans