THE Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) has approved Quezon City’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) for 2011 to 2025, the local government of Quezon City (QC) announced over the weekend.
The CLUP draft is geared toward adapting to changes in the landscape—in business, nature, residential, and disaster mitigation.
HLURB Chairman Eduardo Drueco del Rosario handed over to Quezon City Administrator Aldrin Cuña last week the certificate of approval of Quezon City’s CLUP.
The document is a long-term framework plan defining the city’s desired physical pattern of growth.
A revised CLUP was adopted by Quezon City through City Ordinance 2069-2011 due to the transformation of the pattern, direction and intensity of the physical environment.
“The revised Quezon City CLUP adheres to applicable national and regional policies, such as the National Framework for Physical Planning 2001-2030, National Urban Development and Housing Framework 2009-2016, and Physical Development Framework Plan for Metro Manila 1996-2016,” Rrodriguez said in a separate statement.
Quezon City Planning and Development Office chief Pedro Perlas Rodriguez Jr. said the Quezon City CLUP 2011-2015 serves as a basis for the implementation of Quezon City’s Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of 2016.
The Quezon City CLUP also contains a long-term spatial strategy adopting the multiple growth centers’ strategy of the old Quezon City CLUP. The growth centers are CBD Knowledge Community District, Cubao Growth District, Batasan-NGC Growth District, Novaliches Growth District, and Balintawak-Muñoz Growth District.
The nongrowth areas are identified as areas located outside the growth centers which are divided into four categories: the mature stable areas that do not need any intervention during the plan period; the blighted areas where the property owners have not been investing in improving their structures, resulting to a slum-look like area; the transitional areas—lands with undetermined tenure status and substantial number of abandoned lots; and special development areas that need necessary actions to preserve or reclaim their unique and outstanding character.
The city government also included in the Quezon City CLUP the land-use and infrastructure-development challenges from natural hazards, such as floods, earthquakes and climate change. The land-use plan is part of the long-term solution of the Quezon City government initiated by the Bautista administration.
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Lands in the National Government Center Should be use for government office buildings and institution which was originally intended for. Informal settlers should be relocated out of the area to government township projects just like what the Q.C government did when they converted the Quezon triangle area into a CBD.