Comprehensive planning is an essential framework for housing and urban development. It involves creating a comprehensive development plan that covers the entire local jurisdiction, incorporates national policies, and is based on analysis of socioeconomic, physical and environmental data. It contains multi-sectoral goals, plans and projects for production, settlements development and protection. A key component is the land use plan, which designates the future use of public and private land based on the planned organization of activities and transportation. The objectives of land use planning include promoting efficient land use, influencing decisions, reconciling land use conflicts, and protecting agricultural and environmentally sensitive areas. The process involves data collection, analysis, goal setting, generating alternative strategies, and adopting, implementing and monitoring

1. Comprehensive Planning :
An Essential Framework for
Housing and Urban Development
Atty. FRANCISCO L. DAGNALAN, En. P.
Commissioner , Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board
President, Philippine Institute of Environmental Planners

2. What is a Comprehensive
Development Plan ?
 The document/s , including maps, charts and
other materials embodying goals and
objectives, policy guidelines strategies and
proposals for over-all socio-economic growth
and development of the area
– Source – The Language of Environmental Planning in the
Philippines , by Endriga, Elum, Yap and Alcalde, School of
Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Philippines,
Quezon City, 2004

3. What is a Comprehensive
Development Plan ?
 It has also been defined as an integrated series of
decision documents, including maps specifying the
nature of future physical, social, economic and
environmental development of the Urban Zone as
outlined in the Concept Plan, consisting of, among
others, a land use plan, including area phasing,
sectoral programs, land acquisition and disposition
programs and capital improvement programs
– Source : The Language of Environmental Planning in the
Philippines , ibid.

4. Why Comprehensive & Integrated ?
 It covers the entire territorial jurisdiction of the local
government unit ( city or municipality) ( forest,
lowland, coastal );
 It incorporates national policies and links (or is
integrated )with other (higher level) plans;
 It is based on the detailed scientific analysis of socio-
economic (including demographic), physical and
environmental data and projected conditions of the
planning area; and
 It contains multi - sectoral goals, plans, strategies
programs and projects , e.g., for production,
settlements development and protection .

5. What is a LAND USE PLAN ???
An essential component of the
comprehensive development plan, it
designates the future use or reuse of the
land and the structure built upon the land
within a given jurisdiction’s planning
area and the policies and reasoning used
in arriving at the decisions in the plan
It projects public and private land
uses in accordance with the planned
spatial organization of economic and
social activities and the traffic of goods
and people

6. What is Land Use Planning ?
 It is the systematic approach / process for
identifying, classifying and locating urban land,
which is achieved by analyzing the socio-
economic needs of the population in
consideration of the physical and natural
attributes of a city / municipality
– Source: National Urban Development and Housing Framework

7. Relationships of Dev’t. & Land Use Plans
National
Medium Term Philippine
Development Plan
National Framework
for Physical Planning
National Urban Development
and Housing Framework
Regional Regional Development Plan
Regional Physical
Framework Plan
Provincial
Provincial Development Plan Provincial Physical
Framework Plan
City /
Municipal
Comprehensive Development Plan
Comprehensive Land
Use Plan (CLUP)
Local Shelter Plan
Zoning Ordinance

8. Who are the Actors in Planning ?
Government
Professional Staff
Private Sector Development Council Civil Society

9. Why Plan ???
Land is a finite resource but
population continues to grow year after
year requiring more land for housing
and other urban uses, agricultural areas
for food production and more forest for
timber production and watershed
protection. Therefore, the need to
allocate land judiciously and
discriminately

10. LEGAL BASES of PLANNING
Constitutional Provisions on
National Economy and Patrimony
- Article XII, 1987 Constitution
Local Government Code
- Sec. 447 and 458, R.A. 7160
Existing Laws on Land Use Planning

11. Constitutional Principles
 “The use of property bears a social function,
and all economic agents shall contribute to the
common good. Individuals and private
groups… shall have the right to own,
establish, and operate economic enterprises,
subject to the duty of the State to promote
distributive justice and to intervene when the
common good so demands.”
- Art. XII, Sec. 6

12. Powers of Local Governments
 Generate and maximize the use of resources and
revenues for the development plans, program
objectives and priorities of the city as provided
for under Section 18 of the Code, with particular
attention to agro-industrial development and city-
wide growth and progress, and relative thereto,
shall:
– Prescribe reasonable limits and restraints on the
use of property within the jurisdiction of the city /
municipality ;
– Adopt a comprehensive land use plan for the city/
municipality;

13. Powers of Local Governments
 Regulate activities relative to the use of land,
buildings and structures within the city/
municipality in order to promote the general
welfare ;
– Source: Sec 447 and 458, subsec (a) (2) of R.A. 7160

14. Existing Laws on Land Use Planning
 P.D. 933 as amended by E.O. 648 Series of
1981 and E.O. 90, Series of 1986
 Executive Order 72 Series of 1993
 Sec. 6 of R.A. 7279 (UDHA)
 Sec. 4 of R.A. 8435 (AFMA)

15. Why the Urgency of Planning ???
 Continuing unmet needs of existing population as well
as projected increasing population for land for various
uses;
 Demand for more cheap and accessible land for urban
development;
 Continuing issues / problems on conversion of
agricultural land to urban uses.
 Accelerating transmigration of rural poor to
Cities/Urban Areas, seeking employment.
 Ongoing environmental degradation;
 Fragmented laws constrain development

16. Objectives of Land Use Planning
1. Promote the efficient utilization, acquisition
and disposition of land as a limited resources;
a) Make sure there is enough for our future generations to use
and enjoy while addressing the needs of the present times
2. Influence, direct and harmonize decisions and
activities of the public and the private sectors
affecting the use, management and
disposition of lands;

17. Objectives of Land Use Planning
3. Reconcile land use conflicts between and
among individuals and government agencies
relating to present needs and anticipated
demands for land;
4. Promote desirable and efficient patterns of
land uses and prevent premature and wasteful
development and minimize the cost of public
facilities, services and infrastructure;

18. 5. Protect and preserve valuable agri-
cultural areas consistent with the need to
promote industrialization;
6. Maintain ecological balance thru Control of
development in critical areas such as flood
plains and watershed areas;
7. Integrate programs and projects on land
resources development among land
development agencies;
Objectives of Land Use Planning

19. 8. Conserve areas of ecological, aesthetic
and historical values and maintain and
protect natural open areas and areas of
significant views;
9. Promote and implement a shelter plan
• Thru Identification of sites suitable
for housing; and
10. Promote an efficient circulation system
Objectives of Land Use Planning

20. Overview of the Process
 It utilizes the planning methodology which
includes: data gathering, problem identification
and situational analysis; goals / objectives
formulation; generation of alternative spatial
strategies; evaluation and selection of preferred
strategy; formulation of the plan; adoption,
review and approval; and implementation and
monitoring
– Source: National Urban Development and
Housing Framework

21. The NUDHF and Planning
 The framework shall refer to the comprehensive plan for urban and
urbanizable areas aimed at achieving the objectives of the Program.
In the formulation of the Framework, a review and rationalization of
existing town and land use plans, housing programs, and all other
objectives and activities of government agencies and the private
sectors which may substantially affect urban land use patterns,
transportation and public utilities, infrastructure, environment and
population movement shall be undertaken with the concurrence of the
local government units concerned.
– Source : Sec. 6, R.A. 7279

22. Agricultural Considerations in Planning
 AFMA (RA 8435)
– Sec 4. – Local
government units
shall continue to
prepare CLUPs
but must integrate
NPAAAD and
SAFDZ in land
use plans and
zoning
HLURB to review and
ensure integration of
SAFDZ in all CLUPs
– LGUs Given one year
to complete CLUPs

23. Forestry Considerations in Planning
 NIPAs Law (RA 7586)
– Declared protected
areas as not subject to
settlement, disposition
or development
– Called for the
establishment of
Protected Area
Management Boards
Each PAMB may
promulgate own land
use and management
program

24. IDENTIFICATION OF KEY ISSUES AND
ASSUMPTIONS
DATA COLLECTION AND INVENTORY
SITUATION ANALYSIS
GOALS/OBJECTIVES SETTING
Steps in CLUP Preparation
1
STAGE 1
SITUATION
ANALYSIS
PUBLIC
CONSULATION
NUMBER 1
2
3
4

25. 25
GENERATION OF ALTERNATIVE
SPATIAL STRATEGIES
EVALUATION AND SELECTION OF
PREFERRED SPATIAL STRATEGY
DETAILING AND REFINEMENT OF
PREFERRED STRATEGY
FORMULATION POLICIES AND
IMPLEMENTATION TOOLS
5
8
7
6
STAGE 2
CONCEPTUA-
LIZATION
STAGE 3
DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING
PUBLIC
CONSULATION
NUMBER 2
DEVELOPMENT

26. PLAN ADOPTION AND
LEGITIMIZATIONSTAGE 4
PLAN IMPLE-
MENTATION
9
IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING
AND FEEDBACK10
PUBLIC
CONSULATION
NUMBER 3

28. Recent HLURB Initiatives Recognizing
Value of Land Use Planning
 Dispensing with Certificate of Exemption as Requirement
for Issuance of Development Permit and License to Sell
of Housing Projects Located in Areas Zoned for
Residential Zone in duly approved CLUPs
– Res No. 725 s 1992; Res 725-A s 1993;
 Dispensing with Order of Conversion as Pre- License
Requirement for Housing Projects in Areas Zoned for
Residential Use in duly approved CLUPs
– Res No. 768 s 1993

29. Conclusions
 Preparation of a Good Local Comprehensive
Development Plan , one that is Strategic and
Participatory in Approach, is essential prerequisite for
successful shelter plan
 Properly Prepared Comprehensive Land Use Plan will
eventually obviate need for piece meal approval of
conversion of agricultural lands;
 Suitable Location of Housing Projects best determined in
Land Use Plan;
 Site development plans of housing projects must be
consistent with comprehensive development and land use
plan