How is a comprehensive development plan different
from a comprehensive land use plan?
The CLUP and the CDP are two distinct documents.
Also, the responsibility of updating the CLUP and the
CDP are given to separate bodies.
•The CDP is the responsibility of the Local Development
Council.
•The CLUP is assigned to the Local Sanggunian.
The Local Government Code requires that the CLUP be reviewed by respective
land use committees:
•the Provincial Land Use Committee for component cities and municipalities
•the Regional Land Use Committee for highly urbanized cities and independent
cities.
The CDP is only reviewed by the Provincial Development Council to assess
alignment with higher-level development plans. These development plans
include:
• the Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plan,
• the Regional Development Plan, and
• the Philippine Development Plan.
Why does a local government unit need a comprehensive
development plan?
A comprehensive development plan operationalizes the land
use plan.
With an updated and operational comprehensive development
plan, the local government unit has a long list of priority
programs, projects and activities for the next six to nine years.
For example, the Quezon City Comprehensive
Development Plan contains strategies and priority
activities for solid waste management.
Why does a local government unit need a comprehensive
development plan?
Annual and term-based instruments should be derived
from the comprehensive development plan.
Term-based instruments include the Local Development
Investment Program and the Executive-Legislative
Agenda. An important annual instrument is the Annual
Investment Program.
Doing so, the goals of the local government unit (as
outlined in the Comprehensive Development Plan and the
Comprehensive Land Use Plan) are attained.
An updated comprehensive development plan also helps
LGUs access funds from the National Government.
How can LGUs complete a comprehensive development
plan?
With the mandate of the Comprehensive Development Plan
on the Local Development Council, the Mayor is the driver
of the development planning process.
DILG prescribes five steps in the preparation of the
comprehensive development plan.
[Link] and Mobilization of the Planning Team
[Link] of LGU Vision and Existing Plans
[Link] of Ecological Profile and Structured List
of Program, Projects and Activities (PPAs)
[Link] of the Local Development Investment
Program
[Link] of Implementation Instruments
Steps 3 and 4 are the bulk of workload, as these steps
generate the Ecological Profile and the Local Development
Investment Program, respectively.
What is a Comprehensive Land Use Plan?
In the Philippine context, a comprehensive land use plan
(CLUP) is a :
“rational approach of allocating available land resources as equitably as possible
among competing user groups and for different functions consistent with the
development plan of the area… .”
(Section 3, Republic Act 7279)
It is one of two documents mandated by the Local Government
Code (Republic Act 7160) that must be prepared by local
government units in the Philippines. The other is the
Comprehensive Development Plan.
Why is a Comprehensive Land
Use Plan important?
With the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, the local government unit:
•realizes the local government vision for its land resources
•allocates available land resources for different sectors of the population
•communicates the plans of the local government unit
What is the process in completing a Comprehensive
Land Use Plan (CLUP)?
The Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (now the
Department of Human Settlements and Urban
Development) prescribes a 12-step process for the
formulation of a Comprehensive Land Use Plan.
Being an iterative process, the Comprehensive Land Use
Planning process is cyclical. The results of the monitoring
and evaluation must be used as input into another cycle of
the process.
What principles and approaches are considered in the
Comprehensive Land Use Plan?
Principles and approaches important to the formulation of the Comprehensive
Land Use Plan are:
[Link] watershed approach,
[Link] and expansive governance,
[Link] co-management principle,
[Link] responsiveness and sensitivity,
[Link]-up approach, and
[Link]-to-bottom approach.
Supplemental guidelines from the HLURB (now DHSUD) also mandate that
CLUPs mainstream two themes:
•disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
•sustainable land management
How many years should a Comprehensive Land Use Plan
in the Philippines cover?
At present, the typical CLUP in the Philippines covers 8 to 10 years.
Serote (2004) recommends a 30-year planning period with revisions every
six years. In 2000s, the population of the Philippines was estimated to
double after around 30 years.
How long is the process of formulating a Comprehensive
Land Use Plan?
The Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board provides a sample
Comprehensive Land Use Planning schedule that covers 18 months.
The process may extend to a longer period because of issues in the review
and approval of the CLUP (CLUP Step 10).
How much will a Comprehensive Land Use Plan process
cost a local government unit?
For example, the Municipality of Anao in Tarlac, a 5th class municipality,
posted a PhilGEPS request for proposal amounting to P500,000 for CLUP and
CDP updating.
Formulating the Comprehensive Land Use Plan is often done through hiring
external consultants.
Besides consultant fees, additional costs may be incurred for travel expenses, food
for workshops and meetings, and the daily opportunity cost of officials involved in
the planning process.
Who monitors the compliance of local
government units in updating CLUP?
The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development is the “sole and
main planning and policy-making, regulatory, program coordination, and performance
monitoring entity for all housing, human settlement and urban development concerns.”
