Housing (shelter), permanent shelter for human habitation.
Because shelter is necessary to everyone, the problem of providing
adequate housing has long been a concern, not only of individuals
but of governments as well. Thus, the history of housing is
inseparable from the social, economic, and political development of
humankind.
From the beginning of civilization, attention has been paid to the
form, placement, and provision of human habitation.
The earliest building codes, specifying structural integrity in housing
construction, are found in the Code of Hammurabi/
City planning activities during the Greek and Roman empires
centered almost exclusively on the appropriate placement of urban
housing from the perspectives of defense and water supply.
These same concerns continued throughout the Middle Ages. In
13th-century Europe, the city became a center of trade, and its walls
provided a safe haven from nomadic warriors and looters. People
could find shelter for themselves and their flocks, herds, and
harvests while the open country was being overrun by enemies of
superior force.
Four Basic Models of Planning
The Acropolis: Plan 530-450 B.C.
Demand for urban housing increased. For centuries this demand was
filled by unplanned additions to, and subdivisions of, existing
structures. Where climate permitted, squatting (occupying without
title or payment of rent) became commonplace, but provided only
temporary shelter.
By the 19th century, with the Industrial Revolution, people were
moving to cities in unprecedented numbers. Workers lived in sheds,
railroad yards, and factory cellars, typically without sanitation
facilities and water supply.
The physical stock of housing in the United States is one of the
nation's principal capital assets. The unique aspects of housing in the
United States are its density and how it is provided. In the United
States, about two-thirds of the population live in single-family homes,
most of which have been built by small, private housing developers
on separate lots. America's housing industry is a largely unorganized
group of entrepreneurs who construct housing in their own
geographical area. They decide on the type of housing that will be
accepted by consumers and then proceed to provide this housing
through the development process.
Various laws, institutions, and public agencies work to ensure that
private-market housing is produced safely by builders and delivered
efficiently to consumers. The quantity and type of housing are
controlled by zoning laws; the quality of the housing and the inclusive
services to be offered are determined by building or housing codes.
Financing needed to construct and purchase housing is available
from lending institutions whose activities are governed by law.
Consumers are afforded access to this housing through a variety of
settlement procedures and fair-housing laws.
Figure. Pressures on Land Use: The Case of the Urban Fringe
Introduction to Vision Goal Setting Constraints:

“Sustainably Developed Provincial-Regional Urban Growth Center” HIGH POPULATION GROWTH

INSUFFICIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Daanbantayan’s overall vision is to become and urban growth center SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
of provincial and regional significance, which stresses the attainment DEGRADED UPLAND & COASTAL
development scenarios that Daanbantayan will be: LIMITED FINANCIAL RESOURCE
 one of the premier tourist destinations in the country;
Development Goal:
 a regional transportation hub;
“Balamban shall become an urban growth center in the western
 an institutional center;
part of the province through the sustainable development of its
 a commercial-trading center;
resources and potentials”
 an industrial center, and
 a City by year 2020 Objectives:

 Provide better access to economic opportunities &

services..
 Ensure sustainable use of land resources and protection
of critical environment
 Provide improved access and efficient provision of
infrastructure and facilities
 Social Development

ALTERNATIVE SPATIAL STRATEGIES

Trend Alternative
Urban Industrialization Strategy

Concept: Balamban to be an urban growth center of the

Western Cebu Province and the focal point of industrial
Development
Potentials:

INDUSTRIALIZATION Linear corridor type type of development is encouraged as industrial,

COMMERCIAL AND TRADING CENTER commercial, institutional and housing development will be intensified
URBANIZATION in the coastal areas… minimizing population and development
RESOURCE USE
pressure in the upland areas…. along the concepts and principles of
sustainable land use and resource management.
REVIEW OF HIGHER LEVEL PLANS
REGIONAL PHYSICAL FRAMEWORK PLAN 1993-2020
PROVINCIAL PHYSICAL FRAMEWORK PLAN 1993-2002
CEBU INTEGRATED AREA DEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN
LAND USE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
Production and Protection Land Uses
Agriculture and Fishery Production Land Use
Policies on Urban Land Use
Policies on Industrial Land Uses
Policies on Commercial Land Use
Policies Tourism Land Use
POLICIES ON PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION LAND USES
Urban areas and community settlements shall be limited to slopes
30% or less, but if appropriate, shall be subject to strict regulations
on soil erosion and open area limitations;
Areas utilized for inland fisheries shall maintain a 50-meter mangrove
buffer between the development area and the open sea for coastal
protection.
Existing mangrove forests shall no longer be subject for alternative
land use conversion but shall be maintained in support of the fishery
productivity program and coastal protection program;
All identified prime agricultural lands shall be declared protected
lands for agricultural production and not subject to conversion for
other land uses unless certified vital and necessary for the
development and progress areas (has to undergo the conversion
process set-forth by DAR).

All forested areas above 1,000 m.a.s.l and 50% in slope and above
shall be maintained as protection forests to maintain water
generating capacity and minimize soil loss potential of the
watersheds. In the proposed land use plan of Balamban such areas
falls within the watershed/forestry and protected landscape
classifications, which is already a protected area by definition.

All riverbanks and stream banks shall maintain easements or

vegetative riparian buffer (3-5 meters in urban areas, 20-meters in
agricultural areas and 40-meters in forestland areas).

Intensive agricultural production that requires seasonal and periodic

cultivation shall only be allowed on areas with 0% to 18% slope
gradients.

Areas with slope gradients of 18% to 30% shall only be utilized for
purposes of grazing and the planting of commercial tree corps or
production forests:

Areas with slope gradients of 30% to 50% shall only be utilized as

production forests;