Overview

Local Development
Planning in the
Philippines
 Art. XII, Sec. 6 - Philippine Constitution

The use of property bears a social function and all

economic agents shall contribute to the common good.

Individuals and private groups, including corporations,

cooperatives and similar collective organizations, 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. XIII, Sec. 1 - Philippine Constitution
The Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment
of measures that protect and enhance the right of all the
people to human dignity, reduce social, economic and
political inequalities and remove cultural inequities by
equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the
common good.

To this end, the State shall regulate the acquisition,

ownership, use and disposition of property and its
increments.
1987 Philippine Constitution

Agricultural
Forest or Timber
Mineral
National Parks

Former Land Classification:

Forest Lands
Alienable and Disposable Lands
 Types of Plans
(Development Planning)

Physical
Framework and Socio-Economic Investment
Comprehensive Development Programs
Land Use Plans Plans
Hierarchy of Plans
Agencies with Land Management Tasks

Much of the land management activities

in the Philippines are undertaken by
national government departments and
line agencies mandated to perform
specific function.
National Economic and Development Authority
 Department of Environment and
Natural Resources

 Land Management Bureau

 Forest Management Bureau
 Mines and Geosciences Bureau
 Department of Agriculture

Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA)

Strategic Agriculture and

Fisheries Development
Zone
Department of Agrarian Reform

 Agrarian Concern

 Agricultural Land Conversion

Department of Interior and Local Government

Local Government Code

Comprehensive Comprehensive
Development Land Use Plan
Plan (CDP) (CLUP)
DILG:
 Supervision over local government units

 Land use allocation of both government

or privately-owned properties is
undertaken by local government units
as authorized by the Local Government
Code
Sangguniang Bayan/Panlungsod

“Adopt a Comprehensive Land Use Plan for

the Municipality (Sec. 447(2)(vii)/City (Sec.
458(2)(vii): Provided, that the formulation,
adoption, or modification of said plan shall be
in coordination with the approved
Provincial Comprehensive Land Use Plan.”
LGC Sec. 447(2) (ix) - Municipality
LGC Sec.458(2) (ix) - City

“Enact integrated zoning ordinance/s in

consonance with the approved
Comprehensive Land Use Plan, subject
to existing laws, rules and
regulations,…”
Housing and Urban Development
Coordinating Council
HUDCC provides technical
assistance in the
preparation of
Local Shelter Plan of LGUs
The HLURB is the government agency tasked
as the planning, regulatory and quasi-
judicial body for land use, real estate and
housing regulation and homeowners
associations
On Land Use Planning:
a. Guidelines and Standards Formulation:

The HLURB is mandated to promulgate

land use planning and zoning
standards and guidelines for the
guidance of local governments
b. Technical Assistance

Local government units are provided

technical assistance in the preparation
of their Comprehensive Land Use Plan
and Zoning Ordinance
CLUP Guidebook Series 2013-2014
Other CLUP References
Volume 1: Procedural Steps in the preparation of
Comprehensive Land Use Plan and
Zoning Ordinance
Integrated Model
Zoning Ordinance
 Cross-Cutting in the
CLUP Planning Process

Forest, Coastal, Ancestral Domain, Biodiversity Conservation,

Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Heritage
Conservation and Green Urbanism

Volume 1
Multi-Hazard Maps
LCE Summit March 2013
Hierarchy of Plans
Hierarchy of Physical Plans
Hierarchy of Socio-Economic Development Plans
Hierarchy of Plans
Hierarchy of Plans