CLUP Guidebook Vol.
1 RA 7160 (Local Government Code of 1991)
Planning Process
Hierarchy and Linkage of Plans
 National land use policy and physical
planning process.
 Formulated using the bottom-up
and top-down approach
 Spatial directions and
development guidelines in 4
major land use policy areas:
1. Settlements development
2. Production land use
3. Protection land use
4. Infrastructure development
 Physical and land use plans content:
1. Development
2. Management and
conservation of critical
watersheds and forest
reserves
3. Key biodiversity areas and
national parks
4. Protected areas
5. Coastal and inland waters
6. Cultural and heritage sites
7. Ancestral lands
Legal Mandates for Land Use Planning
The 1987 Constitution
Article 9, Sec 1. – Congress to enact
measures
Article 7, Sec. 6 – use of property and
operate and enterprise for the
Section 16 – responsibility of the LGU:
1. Preservation and enrichment of culture
2. Promote health and safety
3. Enhance the right of the people to a
balanced ecology
4. Encourage and support the
development of appropriate and self-
reliant scientific and technological
capabilities
5. Improve public morals
6. Enhance economic prosperity and
social justice
7. Promote full employment among
residents
8. Maintain peace and order
9. Preserve the comfort and convenience
of their inhabitants
Section 20(c):
- Preparation of the CLUP
- Enacted through zoning ordinances
Section 447(2)(vii)/Sec 458(2)(vii)
- Adopt a CLUP in coordination with the
Provincial CLUP/ PDPFP
EO 72
- Preparation and implementation of
CLUP by LGU
- Review and approval of HLURB and
Sangguniang Panlalawigan
RA 7279 (Urban Development and Housing
Act (UDHA))
Section 3
Land use plan
- The rationale 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
EO 648 (Reorganizing the Human
Settlements Regulatory Commission)
Sec 5, Art 2
- HLURB to formulate land use planning
guidelines and standards
RA 9729 (Climate Change Act of 2009)
Sec 14
- Local CCA action plans as a regular
function of LGU
RA 10121 (National Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management Act)
- Mainstream DRR in development
process e.g. policy formulation
- LGUs to establish Local Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Office
(LDRRMO) to identify and assess
hazards and produce LDRRMP