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The Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) has approved the Quezon City Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) for 2011 to 2025.
The CLUP drafted in the administration of Mayor Herbert Bautista is geared towards adapting to changes in the landscape, in business, nature, residential, and disaster mitigation.
The Quezon City Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2011- 2025 is a long term framework plan defining the city’s desired physical pattern of growth.
A revised Quezon City CLUP was adopted thru 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 & Housing Framework 2009- 2016, and Physical Development Framework Plan for Metro Manila 1996-2016.
QC Planning and Development Office chief Pedro Perlas Rodriguez Jr. mentioned that the QC CLUP 2011-2015 serves as a basis for the implementation of the Quezon City Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of 2016.
“Basis ng zoning ordinance ang QC Comprehensive Land Use Plan kung paano natin gagamitin ang available land resource of Quezon City.Pinag-aralang mabuti ‘yan, tulad ng mga infrastructures natin na both national and local. Maraming ginagawa ang national dito sa atin gaya ng Segment 8.2, Skyway, MRT-7, maaapektuhan ngayon ang paggamit natin ng lupa kasi etong mga infrastructures na ito ang magdidikta kung saan natin ilalagay, magkakaroon ng transportation linkage, roadway, tapos ang mga dadaanan nito baka ma-develop into commercial hub. Kaya ‘yung mga dating residential itatransform natin into commercial,” Rodriguez said.
The Quezon City CLUP also contains a long-term spatial strategy adopting the multiple growth centers’ strategy of the old QC CLUP. The growth centers are CBD Knowledge Community District, Cubao Growth District, Batasan-NGC Growth District, Novaliches Growth District, and Balintawak-Muñoz Growth District.
Furthermore, the non-growth 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 were have not been investing in improving their structures resulting to a slum-look like area, the transitional areas are lands with undetermined tenure status and substantial number of abandoned lots, and special development areas need necessary actions to preserve or reclaim their unique and outstanding character.
The city government also included in the QC CLUP the land use and infrastructure development challenges from natural hazards, such as, floods, earthquakes, and climate change. Bautista envisions Quezon City to be the Green Lung of Metro Manila which is devoted in recovery and conservation of the network of open spaces which shall be under perpetual greenery and protection, Knowledge Industry Capital of the Philippines, and Health & Wellness Center in Asia. The Quezon City Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2011-2025 is part of the long term plan of the Quezon City government initiated by the Bautista administration.