Updating of clup, ongoing

The city government thru its City Planning, Development and Sustainability Office (CPDSO) under Arch. Donna Rillera-Tabangin is currently updating the Summer Capital’s City Land Use Plan (CLUP).

During the executive-legislative meeting at City Hall, Nov. 6, led by Mayor Benjamin Magalong, she presented a Digital Twin or 3D presentation of the current situation of Engineer’s Hill barangay as to its land use as a sample of their ongoing updating activity of the different barangays.

Elias Aoanan, Assistant CPDSO head (officer-in-charge) said that included in the updating process is public consultations with the barangays where 127 have already been consulted and that residents of the remaining barangay, Happy Hollow, are slated to be consulted by the end of November this year.

He said that updating of the CLUP is necessary since its validity will lapse on December 31, 2023, or 10 years after it was started in 2013 but only approved in 2016 by the city council and the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) now the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD).

After the consultations are done, all the comments, suggestions and inputs of stakeholders will be consolidated into the finalization of the CLUP and presented to the city council for approval.

He explained  that updating of the CLUP is needed because it no longer is in keeping or up-to-date with the present situation of the city.

“The CLUP is used to help regulate land use in the city of Baguio. We have to adjust the plan to the current situation of our community,” Aoanan stressed. – Gaby B. Keith