Environmental Planning Reviewer

1. GENERAL POLICIES ON LAND
USE PLANNING AND LAND
USE REGULATIONS

2. NATIONAL ECONOMY
AND PATRIMONY

3. • Section 2. All lands of the public
domain, waters, minerals, coal,
petroleum, and other mineral oils,
all forces of potential energy
fisheries, forests or timber,
wildlife, flora and fauna, and other
natural resources are owned by the
State. With the exception of
agricultural lands, all other natural
resources shall not be alienated.
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4. • Section 2. The exploration,
development, and utilization of natural
resources shall be under the full
control and supervision of the State.
The State may directly undertake such
activities, or it may enter into co-
production, joint venture, or production-
sharing agreements with Filipino
citizens, or corporations or associations
at least sixty per centum of whose
capital is owned by such citizens.
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5. • Section 3. ….Private corporations or
associations may not hold such alienable lands
of the public domain except by lease, for a
period not exceeding twenty-five years,
renewable for not more that twenty-five
years, and not to exceed one thousand
hectares in area. Citizens of the Philippines
may lease not more than five hundred
hectares, or acquire not more than twelve
hectares thereof by purchase, homestead, or
grant.
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6. Land Classification under the Constitution
• Agriculture
Alienable and
Disposable Land
• Timberland
Non-A&D
• Mineral Land
Non-A&D
• National Parks
Non-A&D

7. PD 705, RA 8371-IPRA,
RA 9072 -Cave Act
PD 705
Fishery Code
PD 1067 – WATER CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
RA 7586- NIPAS Law, RA 9147-Wildlife Act, RA 9729-CCA,
RA 10129-DRRMA
RA 8435
MC 54
DAR AO 01
series of 2002
EO no.124
RA 7279
RA 9003
PD 953
RA 10066
RA 7916
PD 1096
RA 9593

8. Forest
• PD 705 – The Revised Forestry
Code
• RA 8371 – Indigenous People
Rights Act (Forest and Water-
Coverage)
• RA 9072 – An Act to Manage and
Protect Cave and Cave Resources

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Agriculture Areas
• RA 8435 – Agriculture and
Fisheries Modernization Act of
1997
• MC 54- PRESCRIBING THE
GUIDELINES GOVERNING SEC 20 OF RA
7160 KNOWN AS THE LOCAL
GOVERNMENT CODE AUTHORIZING
CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES TO
RECLASSIFY AGRICULTURAL LANDS
INTO NON-AGRICULTURAL USES

10. Agriculture Areas
• DAR AO No. 1 series of 2002-
Comprehensive Rules on Land
Conversion
• Executive Order no. 124-
Establishing Priorities and
Procedures in Evaluating Areas
proposed for Land Conversion in
Regional Agri-Industrial
Centers…..

11. Urban Areas
• RA 7279 – Urban Development and
Housing Act
• RA 9003- Waste Management Act
• PD 953- Requiring the planting of trees
in certain places and penalizing
unauthorized cutting, destruction,
damaging and injuring of certain trees,
plants and vegetation
• PD 1096-Building Code

12. PD 953 Sec. 1
5m 5m
Property adjoining a river or creek shall plant trees extending
up to 5 meters of the property from the edge of the bank of
the river or creek except when permanent improvement is
already present

13. Urban Areas
• RA 7916-Special Economic Zone Act
• RA 10066- An act providing for the
Protection and Conservation of the
National Cultural Heritage,
Strengthening the NCCA and its
affiliated Cultural Agencies and for
other Purposes
• RA 9593-Philippine Tourism Act of 2009

14. • RA 7916 – Special Economic Zone Act
Picture Source: https://www.google.com.ph/search?biw=1366&bih

16. PD 705 -SEC. 43. Swamplands and Mangrove Forests
maintained and shall not be
alienated
free from artificial obstruction
shall not be subject to clear-
cutting operation
swamps released to the Bureau
of Fisheries
COASTAL/MARINEAREAS

17. POLICIES ENCOMPASSING ALL
THE ECOSYSTEM
• PD 1067-Water Code of the Philippines
• RA 7586-NIPAS Law
• RA 9147-Wildlife Act
• RA 9729-CCA
• RA 10129-Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Act

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