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INTRODUCTION
Siocon is a first class municipality located in the southern part of the Province of
Zamboanga del Norte. It lies on latitude 7° 42” N, longitude 122° 08” E. It is situated in the
northeast quadrant of Region IX and north of Zamboanga City, the former Regional Center.
Siocon lies southwest of Dipolog City, the provincial capital of Zamboanga del Norte. It is
bounded on the west by the Sulu Sea, on the East by the newly created Sibugay Province, on
the North by the Municipality of Baliguian, and on the South by the Municipality of Sirawai.
Basically Siocon is an agricultural community with potential fishing area along the
coastal barangays. The Municipality comprises a total land area of 50,320 hectares with 26
barangays. Based on record, total area for forest and watershed covers 31,669.63 hectares
while Agricultural has a total area of 10,737.80 hectares.
The recent population of Siocon report shows the annual growth rate of 2.28% from
the 2015 PSA record of 46,907. Based on the table below, the municipality of Siocon
experienced gradual growth of population for the past decades. This phenomenon happens
because of the unstable peace and order situation that this municipality experienced.
However, in the succeeding years, an increase of population has been recorded. The highest
population growth recorded was in 2007 with an increase of 8,552 due to the influx of people
from neighboring municipalities when the then TVIRD, Inc (Phils), a mining company, is at the
peak of its operation.
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30,000 0.00
2
25,000
46,644
20,000 41,221 41,673 -3
15,000 32,699
26,723 29,519 26,544 28,196 -8
10,000 18,842
16,953 -13
5,000 10,529 11,751
- -18
1939 1948 1960 1970 1975 1980 1990 1995 2000 2007 2010 2015
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Siocon has a total road length of 262.22 kilometers. Out of this total road length,
about 26.60 kms are classified as National Roads, 86.64 kms are Provincial Roads, 13.39 kms
are Municipal Roads and 135.59 kms are Barangay Roads.
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OBJECTIVES:
SCOPE:
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This manual describes the components of the local road clearing operations of the
Local Government of Siocon in compliance to the DILG Memorandum Circular No. 2019-121:
Presidential Directive during the 4th State of the National Address of the President to clear
roads of illegal structures and constructions.
This manual mentions the basic policies, objectives, strategies, and programs with
regards to the road clearing operations of the municipality.
POLICY STATEMENT:
The Local Government of Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte is 100% committed for the
full compliance to the President Duterte’s nationwide directive to clear all public rods.
The LGU will promote concept of optimum operation and rehabilitation through the
implementation of awareness training to its personnel and LGUs desire to achieve the
objectives within the prescribed period of compliance.
In the execution of the issued DILG Memorandum Circular No. 2019-121 pertaining
to Road Clearing and banning of illegal Constructions, the LGU has created an Executive Order
No. 43, series of 2019 creating the Municipal Task Force in the implementation of said
Memorandum.
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The Task Force shall carry out the road clearing operations and shall ensure submission of
reports in compliance with the memorandum circular.
PNP of Siocon – shall be the lead support for peace and security during the
road clearing activities.
Municipal Mayor’s Office – shall be the lead office for the coordination of all offices
involve including close monitoring with the barangays and
ensure validation and evaluation procedures to effectively
implement the nationwide directive.
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Running almost perpendicular to the arterial roads are five (5) other arterial roads,
maintained by the national and provincial government. At present, all of these are vital road
linkages in as much as they provide access to towns and cities of the provinces, namely:
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Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, the cities of Zamboanga,
Dipolog and Dapitan. These arterial roads are enumerated as follows:
Meanwhile, collector and service roads are those which branch out from these
arterial roads. These include all the municipal and barangay roads in the area. Aside from
serving the main access of the population in the inner portion of the Municipality of Siocon,
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these roads particularly, the service roads are also used as farm-to-market roads by the
farmers of the locality.
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(Bliss Elem.)
30. NO NAME 6 (Boundary 0.000
Poblacion/ S. Arabi) 0.150 0.150
31. PC HILL ROAD 0.800 0.800
GRAND TOTAL 10.569 0.458 0.000 0.885 0.720 12.632
Source: MPDC, Road Inventory Report CY 2017
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Table 8. Inventory of Municipal Roads with identified Illegal Obstruction, Structures and
Construction
There were a total of 98.549 kilometers of road with a total of 439 obstructions
identified for road clearing operations in the Municipality of Siocon.
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Out of the total 439 identified obstructions in the municipality of Siocon, there were only 63
obstructions cleared as of September 30, 2019. The rest 376 obstructions are still on its on-
going clearing operations
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REHABILITATION PLAN:
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Schedule of Road/Street
Activities Status Agency Funding
implementation Location
Clearing/flushing September 27 – All Municipal On-going LGU
of ditches and October 4, 2019 Streets and
sidewalks sidewalks
Repair of October 7– 31, All Municipal Pipelined LGU, BLGU
damaged 2019 Streets and
sidewalks sidewalks
Repainting of October 21 – 31, All Municipal Pipelined LGU, BLGU
curbs 2019 Streets and
sidewalks
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No. of affected to be
Obstructions Strategies
displaced
1. Illegally parked public 21 Issuance of notice of violations
utility vehicles IEC on traffic code provisions
Provide public parking spaces
Provide land (private for rent) and
(public for temporary parking) for
location of garage and parking space
for cargo trucks
2. Illegal vendors none Issuance of notice of violations
IEC on traffic code provisions
Provide or locate vendors to
identified commercial areas
3. Illegal terminals none Issuance of notice of violations
IEC on traffic code provisions
Provide strategic areas for terminals
based on Local Public Transport and
Route Plan (LPTRP)
4. Street dwellers none Issuance of notice of violations
Provide temporary relocation site
Enlist displaced families to shelter
plan housing beneficiaries
5. Public/ barangay 25 Issuance of notice of violations
structures and outposts Provide temporary facility for their
operations
For outposts, move structures
6. Shanties and house 13 Issuance of notice of violations
encroachments Provide temporary relocation site
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Total: 76
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SUSTAINABILITY PLAN:
The LGU will ensure that there is sufficient funding available to carry out routine and
periodic maintenance of the road.
Both the road rehabilitation and road maintenance components were rated likely to
be sustainable. The assessment of sustainability considers the likelihood that human,
institutional, financial, and other resources will be sufficient to maintain the project outcomes
over the life of the Project.
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building permit
applications
Prohibition of illegal Implementation of Local SB, Mayor’s office, MPDC,
dwellers along public Shelter Plan MEO, PNP
sidewalks Implementation of traffic
code and ordinance on
banning of illegal
structures along public
roads and sidewalks
Conduct regular survey
and monitoring
Illegal parking and Implementation of Traffic MEO, PNP
undesignated loading and Code
unloading areas are Implementation of traffic
eradicated code and ordinance on
banning of illegal
structures along public
roads and sidewalks
Prepared by:
Approved by:
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