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Dumaguete City Masterplan
« on: March 03, 2017, 04:35:50 PM »
Masterplan grilled anew
Published by Negros News on September 27, 1999

Early last week, the "privilege" letter from the regional director of the Department of Interior and Local Government to the Dumaguete DILG head leaked to the media.

From there, DILG Regional Director Roberto Abejero described the city's masterplan as "short of requirements."

It was learned that the city DILG head only solicited Abejero's comment on the masterplan for her personal consumption as a guide, but Abejero disclosed the development to some media practitioners here in some interviews, as an authority on the issue.

Abejero cited provisions in the Local Government Code, particularly the formulation of a development plan against the requirement of a comprehensive land use plan.

Abejero said that since the administration presented the masterplan as "more of a physical framework than a multi-sectoral development plan," it can be considered as alternative to the comprehensive development plan in a way, based on its "physical-plan" nature.

Abejero pointed out that the formulation of a development plan still has to follow the same "procedure of approval and adoption" for its acceptability, even if it is the local government's voluntary effort to come up with its own development.

In the usual legal process, development plans have to pass through the constituents' approval based on public hearings and consultations conducted by a hearing board, aside from the required blue print of the plan to be prepared by the Local Development Council, Abejero explained.

The LGC requires every LGU to come up with a comprehensive multi-setoral development plan and comprehensive land use plan to be enacted through zoning ordinances which would be the basis for future use of the city's land resources and distributing development.

These plans have to be approved by the City Council.

City Information Officer Jimmy Abayon earlier said that public consultations were done in a way that elicited questions and suggestions from all sectors in the community.

He described the consultations as both a forum and a presentation. Compared to normal public hearings where the audience is composed of limited sectoral representations, the separate consultations with the business sector, the academic community, to include students, barangay officials, church groups, non-governmental organizations, senior citizens and ordinary residents among others resulted to more judicious reactions and comprehensive inputs.

Abayon earlier assured that the masterplan was designed in conformity with the city's CLUP which was passed in 1994.

He said there is no question about any conflict between the implementation of the projects under the masterplan and the data in the CLUP, saying the masterplan's land use element was based on the CLUP.

Abayon explained that the masterplan and the CLUP are two separate plans. The masterplan, as a general plan, serves as the community's "constitution" for the development and use of its land. It is a comprehensive, long-term document, detailing proposals for the physical development of the local government unit enacted through zoning and subdivision regulations as provided in Republic Act 7160.

Meanwhile, the CLUP is a specific plan to guide the use of the city's land areas detailing zones of development.

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