DK Case Study Comprehensive Land Use Plan of Dagupan City Philippines
Risk Sensitive Land-use Planning
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THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN OF DAGUPAN CITY, PHILIPPINES ,
Introduction
One of the most commonly used planning tools is the comprehensive plan. Variations of this plan may come under the guise of general plans, structural plans, and strategic plans. The overall goal of these plans is to guide the future growth and development of the city over a specified period of time and promote the desirable land use pattern that will support the socio-economic and infrastructure development objectives of the government by providing a set of general land use policy guidelines and spatial strategies that will influence the use of land towards the socially desired land use pattern.
The Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) of Dagupan City is an example of a comprehensive plan and a planning process that incorporate disaster risk factors in the analysis of existing and potential land use patterns and in the evaluation of urban land use form that is suitable for the city given its exposure to various natural hazards and disaster risk profile. In many ways, Dagupan’s
CLUP is a pioneering effort in integrating underlying risk factors in land use planning in the
Philippines.
Dagupan City is located in the Province of Pangasinan in the island of Luzon. It faces Lingayen
Gulf and is the exit point of Agno River and the Toboy-Tolong River, the two biggest river systems in Pangasinan Province. It has a land area of 37.3 square kilometers and a population of 130,
328 (2000 Census), giving a population density of 3,503 people per square kilometer. Dagupan
City is classified as a first class city in terms of income.
The Dagupan City CLUP, adopted in 2002, serves as a long-term guide for shaping the future physical growth of the city and serves as the basis for revising the zoning ordinance. As a comprehensive policy framework, it is used by the city government in exercising its authority to
“prescribe reasonable limits and restraints on the
Case Studies
1 2
THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN OF DAGUPAN CITY, PHILIPPINES ,
Introduction
One of the most commonly used planning tools is the comprehensive plan. Variations of this plan may come under the guise of general plans, structural plans, and strategic plans. The overall goal of these plans is to guide the future growth and development of the city over a specified period of time and promote the desirable land use pattern that will support the socio-economic and infrastructure development objectives of the government by providing a set of general land use policy guidelines and spatial strategies that will influence the use of land towards the socially desired land use pattern.
The Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) of Dagupan City is an example of a comprehensive plan and a planning process that incorporate disaster risk factors in the analysis of existing and potential land use patterns and in the evaluation of urban land use form that is suitable for the city given its exposure to various natural hazards and disaster risk profile. In many ways, Dagupan’s
CLUP is a pioneering effort in integrating underlying risk factors in land use planning in the
Philippines.
Dagupan City is located in the Province of Pangasinan in the island of Luzon. It faces Lingayen
Gulf and is the exit point of Agno River and the Toboy-Tolong River, the two biggest river systems in Pangasinan Province. It has a land area of 37.3 square kilometers and a population of 130,
328 (2000 Census), giving a population density of 3,503 people per square kilometer. Dagupan
City is classified as a first class city in terms of income.
The Dagupan City CLUP, adopted in 2002, serves as a long-term guide for shaping the future physical growth of the city and serves as the basis for revising the zoning ordinance. As a comprehensive policy framework, it is used by the city government in exercising its authority to
“prescribe reasonable limits and restraints on the