LAND USE & LAND USE TRENDS

While the vision of the city is to become a haven for light and medium
industries, agricultural land uses still predominate among all other land uses,
thus the city is still dominantly agricultural and land use directions would be
geared towards preserving, conserving and rehabilitating where necessary the
agricultural protection areas and forest, especially the watershed, while
accommodating under certain regulations and control the coming in of industries,
which are growing in number. Commerce and tourism appears also to show its
mark especially with the transfer of the Cagayan de Oro Airport to Laguindingan
where El Salvador strategically situates in-between.

Agricultural land use covers almost half (46%) of the entire city area where
almost all of it are planted to diversified crops with some 2% irrigated ricelands
locating in the upland portions of barangays of Molugan, Amoros, and Taytay.
Agricultural lands however are not extensively utilized for crop production where
some portions are instead slowly converted into other land uses like residential,
commercial and industrial.

On the other hand, despite the presence of some 11 industries in the city,
the land areas covered by industrial uses is below ten percent (7%) of the entire
city. Most of the wood processing industries which use falcata logs as raw
materials are located in Molugan. Food processing industry using coconuts as
raw materials are located in Taytay. An ice-cream and snacks processing plant
is located in Pedro Sa. Baculio. A big industrial plant (Asia Brewery, Inc.)
occupying 120 hectares cover portions of barangays Sinaloc, Quibonbon and
Poblacion.
 Forest land covers some forty percent of the entire city and these are on
18% slope in the highland barangay of San Francisco de Asis. Actual forestall
area however is only 16 percent and these are those areas with vegetative cover
along bodies of water and watershed. More than 80 percent then is denuded
and used for crop production.

Portion (27%) of the agricultural land is utilized as pastureland and these

are situated along Molugan river running through the barangays of Hinigdaan,
Sambulawan, and Himaya.

Swamplands along the coastal barangays of Poblacion, Molugan, Taytay,

Pedro Sa. Baculio, Amoros and Sinaloc cover almost 10 percent of the total land
area. Swamplands where nipa shingles are utilized for roofing and mangroves
for firewood have become non-vegetative.

Settlement areas are dominantly in coastal barangays and the urban

centers of the upland barangays generally in flatlands. The Poblacion is the
urban and government center, Molugan is generally commercial and industrial,
Amoros and Taytay with their upper portions for agro-indistries, Pedro Sa.
Baculio, industrial, commercial and institutional, Sinaloc where Asia Brewery
Inc.,situates is industrial and Cogon, Poblacion and Quibonbon, commercial
growth centers. The Divine Mercy Shrine at PSB-Ulaliman as a pilgrimage
destination.

General trend of development is going inward to the southern portion of

the city.
The land use discussion was anchored on the vision for El Salvador to become a haven of
light industries identifying the following as the industries: Light industries: ABI, ZEST-O,
URC/CFC Wood industries: Sanwa de Oro Woodcraft, Union Plywood Corp/TIPI, Phil Dong
Won Wood Products and Agricultural industries, the Piggery, Poultry, and Rice/Corn Mills.

LAND USES:

Built-up dominantly coastal barangays

Agricultural & Forest hinterlands

Industrial western part

Agri-industries hinter-barangays

Swampland

Pasture

Forest El Salvador Watershed

URBAN

Poblacion site of provincial, district and national agencies

Molugan commercial and industrial

Amoros agri-industry (upper portion), no expansion allowed

Taytay ricefield/rice and corn mill/timberland along the bay for residential,
commercial, industrial and institutional

Pedro Sa. Baculio URC – for industrial, commercial, institutional

Sinaloc ABI industrial

Quibonbon Industrial

Cogon commerce and trade

EXISTING & PROPOSED LAND USES, 1999-2010

LAND USE EXISTING PROPOSED

LAND AREA % LAND AREA %

RESIDENTIAL 303 9.23 515 16

COMMERCIAL 17 .53 29 .87

INSTITUTIONAL 44 1.35 51 1.54

INDUSTRIAL 218 7 309 9

SPECIAL USES

GSP SITE 7 .21 7 .21

(Cogon)
3.5 .11 3.5 .11
DEMO FARM
3
DUMP SITE
(HIMAYA)

AGRICULTURAL

PROTECTION 287 9 287 9

PRODUCTION 2199 67 1879 57

TOTAL

AGRICULTURAL 2486--------------------------------81%

RESIDENTIAL 303--------------------------------9.8%

INDUSTRIAL 218--------------------------------7.0%

INSTITUTIONAL 44--------------------------------1.4%

COMMERCIAL 17--------------------------------.5%

SPECIAL USES 13.5-----------------------------.3%

TOTAL 3081.5-----------------------------100%

Six (6) Urban Barangays located in lowland areas

Trend of development is going inward to the southern portion of the city

There will be proposed diversion road to prevent traffic jam along the National Highway
THUS

Cogon, Poblacion & Quibonbon is considered the commercial growth center

Cogon – well-known livestock sales center – main commercial district- expansion in

Cogon is now ready

Possible expansion – Ulaliman & PSB

Divi8ne Mercy Shrine – pilgrimage destination

Total industrial area both operational and non-operational = 180.1700 has

63.7136===35.36% in Poblacion

57.6058===31.97% in Quibonbon

22.12125==12.27% in Sinaloc

By 2010 total industrial area will reach 292.2150 has – light and medium industriesHUB
OF INDUSTRIES IN THE WESTERN PART OF MIS. OR.

1. Asia Brewery
2. Tanduay Rhum Distillers
3. Monark, Inc
4. Universal Robina Corp
5. Extract Sales Corp
6. Megabest Food Manufacturing
7. Magnolia Dressing Plant
8. DONAU Carbon Inc
9. Northern Star Corp
10. Zest-O
11. WL Food Products Inc
12. Northern Mindanao Dairy Coop
13. Sanwa de Oro Crafts & Toys
14. SYH Trading Corp
11 Functional Industries

1. Asia Brewery
2. Tanduay
3. Interweb Phils ABI Virgin Cola
4. Highland Fresh Dairy Plant
5. Zest-O
6. WL Food Products, Inc
7. Megabest Food Manufacturing
8. Union Plywood Corp
9. URC
10. SYH
11. DONAU

INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION

According to CAPITALIZATION

Micro-industry 150,000 and below

Cottage Industry Above 150,000 – 1.5M

Small-scale industry Above 1.5M – 15M

Medium-scale industry Above 15M – 60M

Large-scale industry Above 60M

According to EMPLOYMENT SIZE

Micro-industry No specific number

Cottage industry Less than 10 workers

Small-scale industry 10-99 employees

Medium-scale industry 100-199 employees

Large-scale industry 200 or more employees

According to DEGREE OF HAZARD & POLLUTION

1. Hazardous Industries are fire and health hazards, i.e., their wastes have large
amounts of combustible and toxic materials. Non-hazardous industries discharge
negligible amount of combustible or toxic wastes

2. Pollutive Industries discharge large amounts of air, water, and solid pollutants.
Non-pollutive industries on the other hand emit little or negligible amounts of these
pollutants. Based on the hazard and pollution potential, industries are classified into:

Light Industries Non-pollutive/Non-hazardous

Non-pollutive/hazardous

Medium Industries Pollutive/Non-hazardous

Pollutive/Hazardous

Heavy Industries Highly Pollutive/Non-hazardous

Highly Pollutive/Hazardous

Highly Pollutive/Extremely hazardous

Pollutive/Extremely hazardous

Non-pollutive/Extremely hazardous