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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
The planning period of the current CLUP and ZO of the City of San
Fernando shall expire on December 31, 2011. In its desire to formulate an
updated CLUP and ZO, the City Government sought the assistance of the
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Regional Office 3 to which
the latter agreed through a Memorandum of Undertaking (MoU) perfected by
both parties in 2011.
The CLUP is regarded as a plan for the long-term management of the local
territory. Hence, the term “comprehensive” in CLUP is understood in its
geographical and territorial sense.
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The provisions of the Local Government Code require LGUs to prepare two
plans: the CLUP and the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP). The CLUP and
the CDP are distinct and separate. Their relationship together with the Executive
and Legislative Agenda may be gleaned from Figure 3.
Completion of the CLUP ahead of the CDP is desired to ensure that the
location policies in the CLUP will guide the identification, screening, and
prioritization of programs and projects in the CDP.
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Chapter 2
THE PLANNING ENVIRONMENT
The present and future utilization of the city’s land resources is and shall be
shaped by external and internal factors affecting the City’s development. In
order to influence the future extent and intensity of preferred uses, these factors
and their implications need to be considered in the analysis of the planning area.
Such analyses and appreciation will lead to the surfacing of key policy issues,
physical development potentials and limitations, socio-economic trends, and
institutional conditions an understanding of which can facilitate the realization of
the plan that shall be formulated.
Being the capital city of the Province of Pampanga, the City of San
Fernando hosts the seat of the provincial government. As such, it plays a
significant role in the movement of people from all over the province. The
natural tendency of the people from all component municipalities to
regularly visit the City has made it into a bustling commercial area and
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service provider. It has also become a government service center for the
whole province.
The City of San Fernando lies within the northern and higher part of
the floodplains of Pampanga Basin, which has an extensive catchment area
of one million hectares as may be seen in Figure 7 below. A bigger portion
of the City area has higher elevation although its southern area is part of
Pampanga River Basin’s floodplains. Thus, floodwaters pose a real threat to
the City’s physical development as may be apparent in succeeding
discussions on land use trends. The bigger threat from the slopes of Mt.
Pinatubo was addressed through the construction of the FVR Mega Dike
that contained lahar flows within the Pasig-Potrero River System.
Figure 7 Elevation Zones in the Pampanga River Basin
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Pasac river basin covers various river channels running on the eastern
slope of Mt. Pinatubo, such as Abacan-San Fernando River, Pasig-Potrero
River and Porac-Gumain River. All the rivers originate in Mt. Pinatubo, and
flow into Manila Bay. The total catchment area of the river basin is about
1,371km2. In the lower reaches, the river system is connected to the
Pampanga Main River by Bebe-San Esteban Cutoff Channel. The
morphologies of Pasac River have been much affected by the eruption of
Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. The river alignments have changed due to the
mudflow produced by the eruption and serious sediment deposit in the river
channel is still in progress up to the present.
Angat river basin originates in Sierra Madre Mountains and flows into
Angat storage dam meandering through a narrow valley. In the lower
reaches of the dam, the river flows westward and finally empties into
Manila Bay through Labangan Floodway. There is a small connecting
channel with Pampanga River, which is called Bagbag River. The total
length of the main stream of Angat River is 153km and the total catchment
area is about 1,085km2.
The threat of flooding in the southern portion of the City has been
minimized with the on-going implementation of Phase 3B of the Pinatubo
Hazard Urgent Mitigation Project (PHUMP 3B). Started in 2008, the project,
once completed in April 2015, shall increase the capacity of rivers, creeks
and drainage systems including that of San Fernando River thereby
reducing the flood occurences in said area.
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The most recent flooding event that submerged the low-lying areas of
Bulacan and Pampanga from Typhoon Pedring attested to the efficacy of
the project as floodwaters receded quickly in some areas of San Fernando
while the other parts that were historically flooded were not submerged.
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In the final report of the Subic Clark Alliance for Development (SCAD)
Corridor Conceptual Land Use Plan prepared by the SCAD Council in 2009,
the City of San Fernando is an integral part of the Metro Clark Area which
forms the core of the tripolar corridor development. Together with
Mabalacat, Bamban and Angeles City, it supports the development of the
―air hub‖ of the corridor. As such it is expected to serve as the
geographical and economic center of the Corridor, of Pampanga and of
Central Luzon. It shall also provide higher order urban functions and
services such as political-administrative, commercial-business, institutional,
educational-cultural, transportation-utility center, among others.
The current and emerging role of the City of San Fernando vis-à-vis
the SCAD Corridor makes it, hence, imperative to identify areas for
expansion of higher order land uses such as commercial, residential,
institutional and industrial with due consideration of ecological integrity and
other sustainable land use principles.
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With the City’s inherent role as a major economic and service center of
Central Luzon together with its emerging role with the Metro Clark area, it is
not surprising that its day time population is much greater than its night
time population. However, its attraction as a settlement center does not
diminish but continues to increase with the development of the CSEZ
because of proximity, presence of tertiary services and facilities, and a
relatively well-developed infrastructure and utilities backbones.
The increasing demand for lands to be used for higher order land uses
to support the above trend is a major issue that the CLUP needs to contend
with.
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Calulut
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At first glance, one may easily conclude that the City is well-drained by
the network of four creeks. However, as may be seen in the diagram
above, the flow of these four creeks captured on a 7,000-hectare drainage
area converge at San Fernando River which may be found traversing the
lower portions at the south of the City.
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The southern part of the City serves as a catch basin for all runoff
falling within the four mini
watersheds shown in
Figure 12. This would
mean that if all of the rain
that falls within the
watersheds is conveyed
through the drainage
network, every inch of
rainfall would result to
volume of run-off of some
1.7 million cubic meters
that shall accumulate at
the southern portion of
the City assuming that
the run-off shall not be
drained out. This is the
main reason that the same areas are susceptible to siltation and flooding
either recurrent or floods that last for less than a week.
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Much against the will of the City officials and its people, CSF is a natural
recipient of floodwater generated from sources outside of the City’s political
boundaries. Natural causes wrought by the Pinatubo-sourced lahars exacerbated
the flooding problem in mid-1990. Greater variation in natural elevation between
and among CSF and its neighbors particularly Bacolor and Angeles City carry with
it not only floodwater but even solid wastes and other debris which the City has
to address.
―Global Gateway‖… In pursuing the end state, the City shall have become a
global gateway by 2020 and has appreciated and knowingly used the
opportunities opened by its proximity and easy access to the Subic Clark
Alliance for Development Corridor. Thus, during this time, tertiary level
services and facilities are readily accessible to residents of San Fernando
and the influence area of SCAD Corridor. Aside from that, the international
business processes outsourcing community prefers the services of the City’s
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labor force due to high interconnectivity, dependability, high quality and the
presence of responsive support services.
The City is subdivided into thirty five barangays with a total land area
of some 6,800 hectares (Please refere to Table 1 below for land areas for
each barangay as provided by the City Assessor’s Office). It is a component
city that was founded in 1755 that originally included the present day towns
of Bacolor and Mexico and became the capital of Pampanga in 1904. San
Fernando became the 99th City of the Republic of the Philippines on
February 4, 2001 by virtue of Republic Act 8990.
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In August 2007, there were some 269,365 persons residing in the City
of San Fernando. This represents around 14 percent of Pampanga’s
population and 2.8 percent of Central Luzon. In the same year and using
the same census data, two out of every three residents belong to the
economically active age group resulting to an economic dependency ratio of
around 57 percent (Table 2). This heightens the need for higher order
economic activities to generate employment for those in the economically
active age group.
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There is an observed
clustering of the medium-
densities in barangays that
have recently experienced
built-up expansion resulting
from the land use adjustments in response to the post Mt. Pinatubo
eruption in 1991.
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The biggest net outmigration barangays are Del Pilar, San Jose,
Malino, Dolores and Bulaon. The high net outmigration from Bulaon may
either be a trend among those resettled from other places to be returning
to their original places twenty years after the eruption of Pinatubo. It may
also be an indication of economically active population going to other places
in search for jobs and other opportunities. The high net outmigration from
Dolores may be a result of the recent resettlement of families living
informally along the right of way of the Philippine National Railways into the
Northville resettlement. In the case of San Jose, the high outmigration
maybe a response to economic pressures as more families need
employment and livelihood opportunities.
Figure 19 Migration by Barangay, 01 May 2000 to 01 August 2007
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the southeast of Angeles City. On its western side is the east Mega Dike
that was built after lahar flows threatened the City in 1995.
Existing Land Uses and Land Classifications. The existing land uses in 2010
was derived by updating the land classification map prepared for the
previous CLUP of San Fernando through a combination of overlaying with
Google earth satellite images and field validation. The resulting existing
land use map is presented as Figure 22. It shows the trend of built
development on both sides of MacArthur Highway while manufacturing and
agri-industries are found in areas accessible through the same highway.
The agricultural lands are on the peripheries east and west of MacArthur
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Soils. The Soil Map shown in Figure 23 highlights the extensive sandy
areas in the City. The internal drainage of the soil is excellent and thus may
not be conducive to the production of crops that require submerged
conditions such as rice. Silt loam can be found in the southern portion of
the City, the same area that serves as catch basin of surface runoff flowing
in the San Fernando River.
The soil condition is ideal for built development although the subsoil
conditions may prove otherwise. Studies conducted by the National Water
Resources Board (NWRB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency
(JICA) in 2010 reveal that extensive areas in the City may not be able to
support high rise building development.
Geology. Figures 24, 25 and
26 shows that the underlying
geologic formation in San
Fernando is alluvium. The
City is on top of productive
aquifer. However, a study
conducted in 2008 reveal that
groundwater in the area is at
high risk despite the present
good qualities of water from
various pumping stations.
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The road density of the City was computed at 4.14 kms. of road per
km . of land which is way above the national standard of 1.00 km. per km2.
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There are a total 33 bridges within San Fernando. Per latest assessment of
the City Engineer’s Office, six needs rehabilitation while another five are
being proposed for construction.
Despite the high road density, it may be seen from Figure 27 and
Table 4 that the road network is mainly composed of barangay roads and
these have limited carriageways and often road rights of way. The built
development has been concentrated on a corridor on both sides of
MacArthur Highway and the barangays and other local roads connect the
built-up areas to it. Jose Abad Santos Avenue is the only major road on an
east-west direction despite the 12-kilometers length of MacArthur Highway.
The City also serves as a terminus for jeeps plying routes from the rest
of Pampanga such as Lubao-Guagua-Bacolor, Apalit, Arayat-San Juan-
Mexico, Angeles, and Dau, and from neighboring provinces such as Bataan
(Balanga-Hermosa-Dinalupihan), Nueva Ecija (Cabanatuan-Gapan-Cabiao),
Tarlac (Tarlac City-Capas-Bamban).
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The initial attempt by the city government to centralize all these inter-
municipal traffic in the city central terminal was met with opposition not
only from the operators of the public transport utilities but more so from the
general public who raised the additional fare that costs them. Thus, the
terminals of these inter-municipal jeepney routes were spread.
Rail. One project that will benefit the City of San Fernando once completed
is the Manila Clark Rapid Railway System (MCRRS) or the North Rail. A
major undertaking of the national government, the North Rail project aims
to build a fast, reliable and an efficient railway system in Central and
Northern Luzon. Its implementation is undertaken in several phases (I-IV).
Phase I of the Project is an 82-kilometer rail line between Caloocan City in
Metro Manila and the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) in Pampanga.
Other phases of the project are: Phase II - Branch line to Subic Economic
Freeport Zone; Phase III - Extension to Bonifacio Global City; and, Phase IV
- Extension to San Fernando, La Union. Three multi-modal stations or
terminals provided with park-and-ride facilities are planned to encourage
car owners to use the mass transit system, namely: CSEZ, Guiguinto,
Bulacan and Bonifacio Global City. There will also be in-line stations to be
built in various cities/municipalities i.e., Section 1- Caloocan, Valenzuela,
Marilao, Bocaue, Guiguinto and Malolos; Section 2 - Calumpit, Apalit, City of
San Fernando, Dau or Angeles City and Clark/ Mabalacat.
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There are four TV stations namely KTV Channel 12, Infomax Channel
8, CLTV 36 and ABS-CBN TV46 Pampanga. There are also two radio
stations, RW 95.1 of the Radio World Broadcasting Corporation of the
Philippines and the Power 92.7 of the Love Radio Network. Several local
newspapers are published in the City which includes SunStar Pampanga,
The Probe, Coffee Punch, Pampanga Times and the Observer.
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Economic and political dynamics in the City of San Fernando are fast
altering the City’s economic landscape and causing it to shed some ―old
skin‖. With the changes come the pressure or challenge to face up to the
demands presented by the opportunities brought about by said changes,
and in harnessing its potentials as well as addressing the barriers to
creating the desired change.
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may well be the City’s imprint in the future even as the City is taking a
facelift that would encourage further investments because of the spike in
real estate development. And as the City is the heart and center of the
region and the province, its role would have to be as source of the services
and assistance needed by the other sectors (industry and agriculture) that
are the base of the other municipalities surrounding it.
Yet, even if services are shaping the local economy, the City is also
known for its thriving local industries such as lantern-making, processed
meat, sweets and delicacies and handicrafts. Said industries have
consumers extending beyond the City’s borders making these industries
therefore the City’s economic base along with services.
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City’s crop area, with 37 percent for rice and 43 percent for sugarcane.
Major crop areas in terms of extent of land use and share of barangay land
area are Barangays Panipuan (53%), Malino (48%), Dela Paz Sur (45%),
Del Rosario (33%), Maimpis (31%), Malpitic (26%), San Isidro (21%) and
Calulut (20%) for sugarcane; Magliman (43%), San Felipe (33%),
Quebiawan (20%), Del Carmen (20%), Calulut (15%), Bulaon (14%), Del
Rosario (10%) and San Pedro (8%) for rice; and Barangays Dela Paz Sur
(29%), Bulaon (19%), and Calulut (6%) for HVCC. Figure 29 (below)
shows the crop area distribution by barangay.
Fig. 1. Barangay Crop Area Distribution, CSFP
Figure 29 Barangay Crop Area
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Pandaras, Panipuan, San Pedro, Sta. Lucia, San Juan and San Felipe. About
73 percent of the City’s fish output comes from Barangays Pandaras, Sta.
Lucia and San Juan. Only San Juan and San Felipe are with swampy areas
and therefore a more stable site for fish production. Similarly, as it is largely
agricultural, Pandaras may well continue as a fish production site, while the
other barangays with small-volume producers may find themselves more
prone to conversion especially those with large settlements.
trajectory, although 42 percent of its land area is still used for agricultural
production, both crops and poultry. The potential for conversion in these
areas is strong because of commercial and settlement growth west of said
barangays particularly in Barangay Sindalan. Projections are that if
commercial and population growth in these areas continues to climb this
may give way to the abandonment of agriculture in the foreseeable future.
Given urban and commercial as well as industrial crawl, the City faces
the challenge of striking a balance between sustaining the City’s agriculture
sector and providing space for more high value-adding activities and an
expanding population.
The City’s record of business permit issued from 2007 to July 2011
shows business to be growing in the city, an indication of its increasing
attractiveness as business and investment location. The City’s streamlined
business permitting procedure combined with its strategic location i.e.,
proximity to the Clark Special Economic Zone and Metro Manila and position
as the regional administrative center and travel hub all play in causing the
spike in business in the City. The result, as well as indication, of the
growing business is increased traffic in the city’s major roads. Consequently,
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pressure is now on for identifying alternative routes that would help ease
traffic flow and subsequently sustain economic growth.
The City’s proximity to the Clark Special Economic Zone and quick
access to Metro Manila are opportunities for driving growth in the
manufacturing sector. With its business-friendly investment environment
the possibility of the City attracting more investment is not remote and as
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such it must come prepared with the infrastructure and space appropriate
for such investments. Ideally, this should be in areas with facility of
movement and not too densely populated to minimize any possible negative
impact on population. One such potential impact is from the wastes and
discharges of the manufacturing plants or facilities. This could be avoided or
mitigated with provisions for solid waste management and waste water
treatment. Ensuring these must be among priorities of the City if it were to
achieve its objective of becoming a habitat for human excellence and
quality living.
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Low completion rates and high dropout rate remain problems at both
elementary and secondary levels. Economic difficulty was cited as the
primary reason for the high dropout rate. Another factor that contributes to
low completion and high dropout rates are lack of interest of students and
parents.
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The results of the National Achievement Tests (NAT) show that the
students in general are not acquiring the required mastery of subject
contents in English, Science, Mathematics, Filipino and Araling Panlipunan.
The mean performance scores obtained by students are way below the 75
percent minimum standard of the DepEd. The situation is true for
elementary and secondary levels and at both public and private schools.
The reasons held for the poor performance are shortages of teachers,
classrooms, textbooks and furniture in public schools. The teacher-pupil
ratio in SY 2009-2010 was 1:42 for elementary level and 1: 38 for
secondary level. The classroom-pupil ratio stood at 1:47 for elementary
and 1:60 for secondary. Against the standard of the DepEd, there is a need
to increase the number of teachers and classrooms in elementary public
schools. Meanwhile, although there are enough teachers at the secondary
level, there is an acute shortage of classrooms. At the same time, wide
disparities at the school level exist. For example, the teacher-pupil ratio in
different schools ranges from 23.3 to 66.3. The same is observed in pupil
classroom and furniture ratios.
There are 16 tertiary level schools scattered in the City, all of which
except one are privately owned. Starting academic year 2009-2010, the
City College of the City of San Fernando, the very first government-run
Higher Education Institution (HEI) was opened to provide access to higher
education to poor but deserving Fernandino students. The HEIs offer a
variety of courses ranging from 2-year technical courses and 4-5 year
degrees in Education, Business Administration, Information Technology,
Computer Programming and other related courses. Fernandino students
also availed of state-subsidized tertiary education at Don Honorio Ventura
Technological State University (DHVTSU) in the Municipality of Bacolor that
is only a few minutes away from the City’s CBD.
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Health Status and Facilities. Key health indicators in the City of San
Fernando reveal no particular pattern in the last five years since 2005 and
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The good overall health status of the City may be attributed to the
presence of 11 hospitals operating in the City of San Fernando, two public
hospitals and 9 private hospitals. The two public hospitals are tertiary and
secondary namely Jose B. Lingad Memorial Regional Hospital (JBLMRH) with
a 250-bed capacity hospital and Ricardo P. Rodriguez Memorial District
Hospital which is a 42-bed capacity hospital. The 9 private hospitals have a
combined capacity of 551 beds, which brings the total number of hospital
beds in the City to 843. This translates to a combined bed-to-population
ratio of 2.90 which is a relatively high ratio compared to the other towns of
Pampanga. Though there is a high hospital bed to population ratio, majority
of these come from private hospitals thus there is now increasing trend of
request for medical assistance in order for the patients to be discharged.
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sanitary inspectors, 12 nurses, 135 project based nurses, 357 BHWs, and 55
BNSes.
On the other hand, five out of eight private cemeteries (Chinese Cemetery,
Sanctuario, Calulut Memorial Garden, St. Joseph Memorial Park and Christ
the King) have to comply with health certificate requirements, while three
out of eight have good sanitary condition.
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Despite this initiative, in 2009, theft recorded at 47.46 percent had the
highest incidence ratio among all the crimes reported. Unclassified crimes
obtained the highest increase in occurrences for 2009. Based on the
geographic comparison of crime statistics for Region III in 2009, CSFP was
the most peaceful city as regards theft, robbery and physical injury;
Olongapo City was the best performer as far as murder and homicide or
crimes against person. To further boost the City’s PNP capability to fight
criminality, in the same year, the City appropriated funds for the provision
of patrol cars, ammunitions and communications equipment to the
Philippine National Police and provided for the donation of lot that could be
developed as Type ―A‖ City Police Station.
In 2007 the highest fire incidence was recorded in Dolores and the
most number of physical structures affected are residential houses. The
same situation obtained in 2008, the only difference was that the structures
affected were mostly commercial. Again, the identified culprit was electrical
short circuit.
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Chapter 3
LAND USE RELATED ISSUES AND CONSTRAINTS, AND
OBJECTIVES
Knowing and understanding what one can and should not do or avoid is the
springboard to unleashing ones potential. To actually do so and pole vault to
being what one can be requires acting on said opportunities and limitations. Such
is true for man and for communities.
The following are the Strengths and Opportunities, Weaknesses and Threats
facing the City of San Fernando as its stakeholders have identified:
A. Strengths
Strengths are factors within the control of the local government unit with
potential of driving the local area’s growth and development.
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2. Good Governance
Behind the growth of the City are its people who are known for their
skills and craftsmanship. Fernandinos are particularly known for their
culinary skills and aptitude in lantern and furniture making, skills which are
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being wisely tapped to start enterprises that provide local employment and
income to local residents. Preserving and harnessing such skills in addition
to enhancing the literacy and proficiency of the City’s labor force are tools
to increasing the City’s productive capacity and promoting investment here.
B. Weaknesses
These are factors within the control of the local government unit that it
should eliminate, avoid or improve otherwise such factors would constrain
pursuit of local development.
1. Flooding
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With urbanization and industrial crawl, the City of San Fernando’s large
tract of agricultural land which formerly used to be the base of the City’s
economy has shrunk to just about a third of the City’s land area because of
conversion. While conversion per se is not entirely bad if done rationally, its
haphazard application in previous years has led to the mix of land uses that
now threaten the sustainability and productivity of agricultural land, and to
the emergence of environmental issues brought about by settlements
encroaching into livestock and poultry farm areas or industrial plants in
residential areas. These problems are expected to intensify if proper land
allocation and land use management are not accorded proper attention and
implemented.
3. Environmental Degradation
While the City’s urban growth has led in the upwelling of businesses
that are driving the City’s economic growth, these though have not come
without adverse effects on the environment. Concerns include
contamination of the groundwater from fecal coliform and high level of
manganese; air pollution from smoke emissions of increasing volume of
vehicles running the it’s thoroughfares; and waste management. Although
the City has made progress in managing its solid wastes, more remains to
be desired especially in instilling discipline among the City’s populace in the
proper disposal of wastes. Another concern that must be attended to is the
City’s lack of an adequate and integrated sewerage system. Non-treatment
or management of effluent discharges and sewage cause pollution of the
waterways and add to groundwater contamination. Failure to address these
concerns would diminish what economic advancements the City would
attain in the long-run, with these depriving the City’s people and economy
of sustainable quality and quantity of environment and resource.
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6. Housing Problems
Not unlike most if not all cities in the country with fast population
growth, the City of San Fernando faces the challenge of ensuring that all
families own decent, safe and affordable housing units. Based on the 2007
CPH, the city’s household to occupied housing unit ratio stood at 1:1.01873
indicating doubled-up household and shortage of housing units. However,
the census also revealed the existence of 4,500 vacant housing units
indicating doubled-up housing is due more to the inability of households to
afford available housing units rather than the lack of housing units.
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C. Opportunities
Being the regional capital the City of San Fernando has the distinct
advantage of a quick access to government services, with most if not all of
government offices located here. Collaboration and coordination for social
and economic programs between the local government and the regional line
agencies is made much easy with the presence of the government
institutions. The City readily provides a venue for development initiatives or
interventions, while an opportunity for other sectors here to provide the
goods and services that the government and the people and entities it
transact with require.
The world’s tourists are growing in number with the Philippines getting
more from the international market each year. The trend in the region is
also positive with, however, more domestic tourists visiting the region. Bulk
of the tourists go to and stay in the provinces of Zambales and Pampanga.
For areas within the influence of the two provinces, this means
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opportunities to provide for the goods, services and attractions that are
required by and that appeal to tourists. The City of San Fernando should, in
taking advantage of this opportunity, determine its niche and build on its
capacity to provide an attractive offer to tourists.
Not only is the Philippines now the call center capital of the world, but
overall the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is growing. This is
boon for the country needing to provide employment to its ballooning labor
force. And as the City of San Fernando is positioning itself or aiming to be
an investment location for ICT, the growth of the industry should be a
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D. Threats
Threats are factors outside the control of the local government, which could
inhibit or stymie local growth and development.
1. Global Recession
2. Urban Migration
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3. Climate Change
The increases in
regional land and sea surface
temperatures in the past 40
years observed by Manton,
et.al. (2001) led the Manila
Observatory (2007) to predict
more hot days and warm
nights with fewer cold days
and nights in the coming
years. Central Luzon is
predicted to have low risk in
terms of projected
temperature increases except
for the province of Pampanga
which has medium risk.
Predictions of local
variations in rainfall over the
country has been limited by
research and technical
capabilities and utilizes
extrapolation of past rainfall Figure 32 Risk to Projected Rainfall
trends into the future although global Change
models predict increases in rainfall amount over this part of subtropical
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Asia. Using the Manton, et.al. (2001) study, the Manila Observatory
predicts that Central Luzon’s provinces shall be subjected to high and very
high risks to projected rainfall changes (Figure 32).
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Long Term Goal Land Use Related Issue(s) Land Use Objective
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Chapter 4
SPATIAL STRATEGY, PROPOSED LAND USES AND MAJOR PROJECTS
This Chapter presents, describes and discusses the spatial strategy and the
proposed land uses encompassing the whole land area of the City of San Fernando.
Food production
continues to be a major land
using activity that should not
be relegated to the
background. Competing land
uses such as residential,
commercial and industrial
uses should be balanced
against the food production
capability of the City’s land
2021 Spatial Strategy
resources. Thus, the
buildable area of the City shall
be a compact one that
optimizes the access provided by the major roads traversing the landscape. The
MacArthur Highway, Jose Abad Santos Avenue, NLEx and the FVR Mega Dike are major
infrastructures that can be used to define the physical development of the City along a
compact development through dispersion and infilling spatial strategy.
As may be seen in Figure 34, the City’s built-up areas shall be encouraged to
develop on both sides of MacArthur Highway and the JASA. The dispersion that is
referred to in this spatial strategy emphasizes the need for simultaneous physical
development of several but adjacent nodes to meet the high demand for buildable
lands. The dispersed infilling strategy recognizes the inter-relationship of physical
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infrastructures, land resource characteristics and the land use demands. Thus, eight
areas are recognized to have comparative advantages on specific land uses. Within each
development area, despite it having a comparative advantage on a specific land use,
related land uses can also be found. For example although the triangle that forms from
the MacArthur Highway, JASA and Lazatin Boulevard may be identified as the new
Central Business District, one may find residential and institutional areas adjacent to the
commercial areas.
The dispersed infilling strategy further emphasizes the need to develop first those
areas that are vacant within the special development areas prior to considering the
reclassification of the agricultural areas in the peripheries. This is the essence of the
infilling component of the strategy. In some instances, such infilling may consider
densification or redevelopment of existing areas to more dense uses. This is especially
true for residential areas. The demand for residential areas especially near or adjacent
to industrial zones shall incre4ase significantly. This should prod the local government
to resort in high density residential development.
The eight special development areas that form the dispersion strategy are
presented below (Table 10) and are reflected in Figure 34 conceptually defined by the
red circular lines.
Table 10 Coverage and Land Uses in Special Development Areas, CSFP CLUP 2021
Special Development
Barangays Covered Major Land Use Other Land Uses
Area
Commercial, Residential
Old CBD Institutional, City
Government Center
Dolores-San Agustin Commercial Residential, Institutional,
SDA Agricultural
Commercial Residential, Institutional,
San Jose SDA
Agricultural
Regional Commercial, Residential,
Maimpis-Quebiawan-
Government Center, Agricultural
San Isidro SDA
Industries
Sindalan-Calulut Residences
SDA
Lara-Saguin-dela Agri-Industries Residences,
Paz Norte SDA Commercial, Agricultural
Industries Residential, Commercial,
Baliti SDA
Institutional
Telabastagan SDA Residences Commercial, Institutional
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The proposed land uses up to the year 2021 for the City of San Fernando is
envisioned to achieve the land use objectives set forth in the previous chapter and
directly supports the City’s long term development vision of becoming a “Habitat for
Human Excellence”. It is a land use mix that provides for the development needs for
sustained urban development without unduly sacrificing its food production capability.
The resulting land use mix as presented in Figure 35 recognizes the opportunities
offered by the industrial development in neighboring Clark Special Economic and
Freeport Zone, the Subic Bay Economic and Freeport Zone in Bataan, Olongapo City and
Zambales, and the Hacienda Luisita Special Economic Zone in Tarlac City. It also
recognizes the role of the City of San Fernando with respect to the realization of an East
Coast-West Coast land connection. As the regional government center, the City not only
plays a significant role in regional governance but also in attaining Central Luzon’s socio-
economic goal of sustained inclusive growth and poverty alleviation.
Despite the high demand for buildable lands resulting from the above external
developments, the proposed land use mix of CSFP by 2021 provides for a continuing
agricultural production supported by agri-industrial production areas, residential and
institutional land uses. It shall have a significant increase in industrial (32%) and
commercial (22%) land uses. The extent of the above general land uses is presented in
Table 11 while each of the land use class shall be discussed in more detail in succeeding
sections. The extents of proposed land uses by barangay is provided in Table 11 below
including the barangay proposed land use maps.
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Total 27,736,106 2,770,804 143,636 66,114 181,991 30,898,651 67,740,000 100.00 45.14
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In addition to the croplands, the proposed agricultural land uses include the
development of an agri-industrial area where livestock production (especially
poultry and swine) shall be encouraged to locate. This area shall be adjacent to
the FVR Megadike in Barangays Lara and Dela Paz Norte as shown in Figure 36
below.
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Residential Land Uses. By 2021, the proposed residential uses shall cover
around 2,565 hectares representing some 37 percent of the city’s total land area.
The resulting estimated average residential land population density shall be
around 136 persons per hectare considering only a population that shall grow due
to natural increases as shown in Table 13. This density is characteristic of medium
density development.
The most extensive residential lands shall be in San Agustin which shall have
more than 270 hectares while seven other barangays shall have between 100 and
250 hectares each as may be seen in Figure 37. Except for Barangay Poblacion, the
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The population growth in Bulaon and Calulut should also be monitored since
they host resettlement areas for families that were affected by the eruption of Mt.
Pinatubo in 1991 and those families that were relocated from the right of way of
the Philippine National Railway (Figure 38). The natural increase population
growth estimates for Bulaon may increase the density in the proposed residential
areas of the barangay up to about 350 persons per hectare which is characteristic
already of a high density residential development. Thus, further residential
development in the barangays should be biased towards high density
development. Such can be attained through multi-storey residential buildings.
The other barangays worth monitoring in terms of population growth are the
in-migration barangays of San Pedro, Quebiawan, Panipuan, dela Paz Sur,
Pandaras and Sta. Teresita. Encouraging the development of transient homes in
these areas may be a priority policy in terms of investment incentives and
infrastructures development. These areas have become favored areas for
temporary residences of possibly migrant workers from other areas and thus, their
residential requirements are not the same as for the barangays that were earlier
discussed.
The estimated population densities for all the barangays indicate a trend
towards the development of a network of built-up areas especially residential
areas in almost all barangays. This necessitates looking into the internal circulation
systems of the City with respect to the major land transport nodes and the other
major support land uses.
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Both sides of MacArthur from the intersection with JASA up to Barangay St.
Jude shall also be encouraged to attract commercial activities especially financial
services. Thus, this strip shall be marketed as the financial district of the City of
San Fernando. On the other hand, both sides of Lazation Boulevard from its
junctions with JASA and MacArthur Highway shall be encouraged to attract
restaurants and entertainment businesses and shall thus be marketed as the City’s
entertainment district. A strip one-lot deep on both sides of the whole stretch of
MacArthur highway with exceptions is being proposed and reserved for
commercial activities.
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In the Baliti area, Figure 43 Proposed San Isidro-Quebiawan Industrial Area Map
the industrial expansion
areas shall be northeast
of the existing industrial
activities of Cocacola 2012-2021
In Barangay del
Rosario, industrial land
use is expected to expand
near the junction of the
del Rosario Road with the
FVR megadike road. Figure 44 Proposed del Rosario Industrial Area Map
Universal Robina
Corporation (URC) is
located along the same
road but on the junction 2012-2021
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the San Isidro-MacArthur road and opening up a new connector road from
Quebiawan to the del-Carmen-Bulaon Road.
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A clustering of institutional land uses has developed within and around the
old CBD as may be seen in Figure 46 above. The city government center in the Old
CBD was decongested with the operation of the Heroes Hall along Lazatin Blvd. It
is expected that the city government use of the Heroes Hall complex shall become
more intense as new services are located in the site. Initially, the city college is
being contemplated to locate at the back of Heroes Hall. Although there are other
propositions to acquire a more expansive land near the new commercial district in
Barangay San Jose.
The provincial capitol compound of Pampanga may also be found in the area
along Capitol Boulevard in Barangay Sto. Nino.
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Materials Recovery Facility. The 6.6 hectares site of the materials recovery
facility for the City’s solid waste management program is shown in Figure 47
below. The location is in Barangay Lara immediately adjacent to the FVR megadike
and is surrounded by classified agricultural lands reserved for crop production.
The MRF in the past served as a controlled dump site for the City’s solid wastes but
was ordered closed on full implementation of the Solid Waste Management Act of
2003 for lack of facilities to continue operating as a sanitary landfill. The site can
be the future site of the city sanitary landfill when economics become favorable.
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The realization of the proposed land uses discussed in the previous section shall be
supported by a road development framework that decouples the physical development
of the City on the level of service of MacArthur Highway. The dispersed concentration
can be achieved by defusing the primacy of MacArthur highway and in providing for
alternative roads of increased levels of service that are accessible to all the built-up
development areas. This can be achieved through a grid road network composed of two
roads running almost parallel to MacArthur and completing access to and from these
three roads through a series of east to west roads that run almost parallel to the Jose
Abad Santos Highway and crossing MacArthur highway in key points.
The development of this road grid benefits from the physical development that
occurred when the Jose Abad Santos Avenue that runs almost parallel to the old
national road running from Bacolor to San Fernando to Mexico. As may be seen from
Figure 48 below, all barangays are now easily accessible with alternative routes in
contrast to the existing road network that provides access to most barangays through a
single access point. This grid road network effectively supports the dispersed
concentration spatial strategy of this CLUP.
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The three parallel roads shall be connected by a series of feeder roads as shown in
Table 14 below. All road components shall have an estimated total length of 78
kilometers.
The topography and the location of the City of San Fernando lend the southern
part of the City to flooding and possibly flooding related disasters. Being a tributary of
the Pampanga River, the San Fernando River conveys floodwaters from the higher areas
towards Manila Bay. Floodwaters from upstream of Pampanga River and the creeks
with headwaters from areas north of San Fernando City are naturally collected in the
San Fernando River. Thus, as shown in Figure 49 below, the areas in the immediate
vicinity of San Fernando River are highly susceptible to flooding including those adjacent
to the four major creeks that flow almost parallel to each from the north.
This was especially true prior to the implementation of the Pinatubo Hazard
Urgent Mitigation Project Phase 3 complemented by the City Government’s Sagip Ilog
Project. In the most recent flooding events that submerged extensive areas in
Pampanga and Bulacan from floodwaters brought by Typhoons Pedring and Quiel
(2011), the same areas in San Fernando would have been underwater for the same
period of almost 18 days. However, the people observed that the usual flooding event
did not occur in the City and attributed such to the Sagip Ilog Project.
Although past flooding events of such magnitude and extent may be a thing of the
past for the City, the uncertainties on rainfall qualities resulting from climate change
may yet render the same areas vulnerable to flooding especially during extreme rainfall
events.
The proposed land uses responds to the vulnerabilities to flooding events as may
be seen in the figure below. Minimal high economic value uses shall be encouraged in
areas highly susceptible to flooding. Except for those uses that are already existing,
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tourism related uses such as resort development shall be encouraged in the area. Crop
production shall be the main land use to be encouraged. Higher value land uses shall be
encouraged to develop towards the north going to Angeles City.
The proposed road transportation framework also takes cognizance of the flooding
hazard susceptibility of some areas of the city. The grid road network provides
alternative routes for all residential land use areas towards the economic activity
centers.
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The realization of the proposed land use mix shall be facilitated by the
implementation of programs and projects on the following areas: 1) road development;
2) environment management; 3) agricultural productivity enhancement; 4) urban
development; and, 5) governance enhancement.
This project shall involve new road opening, road upgrading, rehabilitation,
concreting, widening, and construction of drainage canals. The focus of these
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activities shall be all in the identified road transport framework. The road sections
are of different classifications and are thus under the management of either the
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the Provincial Government of
Pampanga, the City Government of San Fernando and the Department of
Agriculture or Agrarian Reform.
The project aims to improve internal circulation and access between and
among the built-up areas and also to provide alternative routes during
emergencies. It aims to improve travel time between the industrial/manufacturing
areas to the inter-regional trunkline roads especially to the North Luzon
Expressway and the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway.
Table 15 Priority Road Sections, By Classification, Indicative Works and Responsible Agency
Responsible
Road Name/ Section Classification Indicative Works Remarks
Agency
MacArthur Highway National DPWH
Widening On-going but
construction
temporarily stopped
due to environment al
issues re cutting of
century old trees
Drainage Same as above
Construction
Jose Abad Santos Ave. National DPWH
Km. _ to Km. _ Widening, drainage On-going thru GSO II
canal construction Project
Km. _ Pedestrian On-going thru GSO II
Overpass Project
Jct. Lazatin Blvd Fly-over On-going thru GSO II
Project
Bacolor-Sn Fdo-Mexico Old National DPWH Concreting Continuing Continuing
National Road Drainage Canal
Improvement
MacArthur Old Road National DPWH Widening and
Drainage Canal
Construction
San Pedro-Lara Rd City/Local CEO
Pandaras-Malino Road Provincial PG
Pampanga
Lara-Baliti-Panipuan Rd City/Local CEO
San Pedro-Pandaras Road City/Local CEO
San Isidro-Alasas- City/Local CEO
Quebiawan Road
Del Rosario-Sindalan Road City/Local CEO
Sindalan-Calulut Road National DPWH
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The project shall have three major components namely: Sagip Ilog Project;
Sanitary landfill; and, Watershed rehabilitation.
Sagip Ilog is a continuing project that was conceived to support the Pinatubo
Hazard urgent Mitigation Project Phase 3. The initial stages of this project have
been completed and involved the reclamation of the waterways along the San
Fernando River. Its primary activities focused on widening and securing the
easements of San Fernando River. River banks were concreted and the easements
were feed from obstructions. The succeeding stages of the project shall involve
the improvements of tributary creeks.
It shall also include the construction of trash collectors across the barangay
boundaries of these creeks and river bank improvement. Another major sub-
component shall be the establishment of greenlanes along both sides of these
creeks to serve as walkways or jogging lanes for residents.
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This project aims to increase and maintain the productivity of the areas
reserved for agricultural production. The sub-components include the
construction rainwater or surface water harvesting facilities and the establishment
of bamboo groves in key areas along the banks of creeks and the San Fernando
River.
The former supports the natural disaster risk reduction efforts of the City as
it shall involve the construction of underground reservoirs that shall temporarily
store excess surface run-off and make the same available as irrigation water during
the dry months. Climate change scenarios predict drier summer months and
wetter rainy months. Therefore aside from reducing the volume of run-off that is
conveyed directly to the San Fernando River, these underground reservoirs shall
ensure the availability of irrigation water in key crop production areas. The
proposed indicative areas for these underground reservoirs is shown in Figure 50
below.
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The Urban Development program consists of several components that are all
meant to improve the overall urban environment especially in the proposed built-
up areas and in the existing and proposed business districts. The components
include: i) Urban Forestry and Parks Development; ii) High Density Residential Area
Development project; iii) Traffic Management Project; iv) Himlayang Fernandino
and Public Cemetery Redevelopment; and, v) Sewerage and Septage Development.
The Urban Forestry and Parks Development Project shall involve the
establishment of forest tree plantations and parks development in public open
areas. It shall also include the development of parks and open spaces in approved
subdivision plans by the subdivision developers. These sites shall be the
contribution of the city government to the national government’s national
greening program.
Caring for the final resting place of loved ones is a tradition and cultural
practice that shall benefit from the Development of the Himlayang Fernandino and
the Redevelopment of the City Public Cemetery. Congestion has become a
problem in the existing public cemetery that led the city government to develop
the Himlayang Fernandino. However, the old public cemetery needs to be
redeveloped in order to be a mirror of the city becoming a “Habitat of Human
Excellence”.
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Chapter 5
IMPLEMENTING THE CLUP
A. Introduction
The effectiveness of the proposed land use plan in guiding the physical and socio-
economic development of the City of San Fernando depends on its being able to
mobilize public and private sector support and compliance. Several factors affect its
ability to augur improvements in the quality of lives of the people and the attainment of
their shared long term development vision of becoming a
Each of these factors shall be discussed in more detail in the following sections.
B. Institutional Strengthening
The Local Government Code of 1991 reserves to the municipal government the
function and responsibility of regulating land uses within its bounds through its zoning
powers. This is a major responsibility that requires the collective efforts from several
local government departments and offices to optimize the benefits that may be derived
there from. This rationale forms the basis for the proposed creation of a “Land
Management Committee” as a distinct and separate cluster under the office of the
mayor as shown in Figure 51 below.
The committee shall be under the direct supervision of the municipal mayor. Its
functions include: i) formulating land use related policy recommendations; ii) informing
socio-economic development decisions on potential implications on land uses; iii)
monitoring the implementation of the CLUP and Zoning Ordinance, and, iv) mobilizing
support to and ownership of the CLUP.
The committee shall be chaired by the Deputized Zoning Administrator (usually the
City Planning and Development Coordinator, (CPDC) with the following members –
Assessor, Engineer, ENRO, Business License Officer, ABC President and the Chairman of
the SP Committee on Land Use. The secretariat support to the committee shall be
provided by the Office of the CPDC.
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Figure 51 Proposed Organizational Structure of the City Government of San Fernando, Pampanga
National
Government City Mayor Sangguniang
Agencies Panlungsod
PNP, BFP,
MTC, BIR, Municipal Administrator
DOTC/PO, Secretary to the SB
MARO
General Services Finance Cluster Social Services Land Mgt. Economic Services
Cluster Cluster Cluster Cluster
Barangays
The new cluster shall be responsible for regularly updating the Comprehensive
Land Use Plan and recommend the corresponding amendments to the Zoning
Ordinance. In addition it shall oversee the CLUP’s overall implementation, monitor
compliance to the Zoning Ordinance, determine the benefits derived from these
activities, establish coordinating mechanisms to facilitate the implementation and
compliance, mobilize support to the CLUP, and, develop a sense of ownership among
the residents and other stakeholders of the CLUP and its provisions.
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A Technical Working Group composed of senior technical staff from each of the
member offices shall be organized to provide technical support services to the
committee (Figure 52). The working group members shall be trained on Geographic
Positioning System (GPS) operations and on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to be
able to provide the committee with land use related information and analyses for their
informed decision and policy recommendations. Each of the offices shall be provided
with information technology hardware capable of handling the high volume of
information and processing requirements of land use analyses.
The secretariat support functions of the CPDO shall be lodged with the zoning
administration division to be headed by a senior technical staff who shall serve as
chairperson of the technical working group. The technical staff of the CPDO shall also
be trained on GPS and GIS operations and be provided with hardware and software.
The division shall be responsible for establishing and maintaining a land use
management related database to be shared with the other member offices.
Zoning Ordinance. Sections 458 a.2 (7-9) and 447 a.2 (7-9) of RA 7160 or the Local
Government Code of 1991 authorizes the Sangguniang Panlungsod to adopt a zoning
ordinance subject to the provisions of existing laws and in conformity with Executive
Order No. 72. The zoning ordinance provides for the administration and enforcement of
the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. Its purpose, therefore, is consistent with that of the
CLUP which is to ensure the availability of land for settlements (residential land use),
food production (agricultural production land use), industrial expansion (manufacturing
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or industrial land use), and ecological balance (protection land use). In more specific
terms, the City of San Fernando zoning ordinance aims to:
o Improve intra-city and inter-barangay physical mobility of goods and the people;
o Provide a policy environment that is predictive and a solid basis for objective
implementation to attract new investments;
o Promote and protect the health, safety, peace, comfort, convenience and
general welfare of the inhabitants in the locality.
Implementing the CLUP through Public Investments. The major projects identified
in Chapter 4 are expected to contribute to the attainment of CSFP’s proposed land use
mix and development vision. These projects may be implemented through a
combination of government (national government, provincial government or city
government) and private funds. These projects may be considered strategic and
encourage the private sector to comply with the zoning regulations that shall implement
the CLUP.
The same projects should form the core of the proposals in a long term investment
program that should be formulated once the CLUP is approved. The investment program
should be guided by the principles of sharing and continuity.
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cannot be implemented in a single year especially those that are to be funded from local
revenues thereby making it necessary to program them through multi-year programs.
The investment program may be divided into three temporal slices: Phase 1-
immediate term or the first three years; Phase 2 – medium term or the succeeding three
years; and Phase 3 – the remaining four years of the plan implementation period). The
first two temporal slices are conveniently timed with the holding of office of elected
local officials to assist in the formulation of the medium-term plans.
CLUP Implementation through Other Instruments. The zoning ordinance and the
investment program may be complemented or supplemented by other implementation
instruments available to the City. These include an array of policy instruments that fall
within the regulatory powers of the local government. Examples of such policy
instruments are local investment incentives code and environment code. To date, the
City is enforcing these codes and with the approval of the CLUP and the Zoning
Ordinance, there may be a need to review them in order that inconsistencies can be
addressed or clarified. Other policies that may be adopted and implemented include: i)
an expressed bias towards higher value land uses; ii) moratorium on agricultural land
reclassification for horizontal residential development; iii) reclamation of roads rights of
way; (d) reclamation of easements of creeks and rivers; iv) maximizing participation of
barangays in rivers or creek water quality maintenance; v) promotion of low-cost high
density residential development; and, vi) intensified public-private partnership in the
implementation of projects.
The barangays and the respective member offices shall be the main source of data
and information to be submitted to the Cluster on a quarterly basis. The secretariat shall
consolidate these individual barangay and agency reports to form the municipal land
management status report.
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