Introduction

Comprehensive land use plan, are proposing areas for residential and industrial use,
along with social, economic, aesthetic, transportation, fire prevention, sanitary and
drainage considerations. It even suggests an early form of zoning regulation that
recommended restrictions so that cheap and comfortable houses could be built for the
poorer classes. Underlying all of this recommendations was an urgency for speedy
action to acquire land, because the land is reasonably cheap for now, and by and by it
would be very costly in the future.
Objectives of this research
A. The paper would prove the goals and objectives of the framework plan of a
comprehensive land use when it comes to urban planning, and how does it can
affect the community.
B. The research work wanted to attain more information about the topic.
Contents of the research
According to Gary D. Taylor (2015) The comprehensive plan, also known as a general
plan, master plan or land-use plan, is a document designed to guide the future actions
of a community. It presents a vision for the future, with long-range goals and objectives
for all activities that affect the local government. This includes guidance on how to make
decisions on public and private land development proposals, the expenditure of public
funds, availability of tax policy (tax incentives), cooperative efforts and issues of
pressing concern, such as farmland preservation or the rehabilitation of older
neighborhoods areas. Most plans are written to provide direction for future activities
over a 10- to 20-year period after plan adoption. However, plans should receive a
considered review and possible update every five years.
A community comprehensive plan serves the following functions:

 The plan provides continuity. The plan provides continuity across time, and
gives successive public bodies a common framework for addressing land-use
issues.

 It is the means by which a community can balance competing private

interests. Planning seeks to strike a balance among the many competing demands
on land by creating development patterns that are orderly and rational, provide the
greatest benefits for individuals and the community as a whole and avoid nuisance
conflicts between land uses.

 It is the means by which a community can protect public investments.

Planning is the means by which a community avoids digging up last year’s new road
to lay this year’s new sewer pipe. Well-planned, orderly and phased development
patterns are also less expensive for a community to provide with public services
than low-density, scattered development.

 It allows communities to plan development in a way that protects valued

resources. Planning can identify environmental features like wetlands, agricultural
lands, woods and steep slopes and suggest strategies for preserving those
resources from destruction or degradation by inappropriate development.
 It provides guidance for shaping the appearance of the community. A plan
can set forth policies that foster a distinctive sense of place.

 It promotes economic development. The plan contains valuable information

that drives the location decisions of prospective firms.

 It provides justification for decisions. Plans provide a factual and objective

basis to support zoning decisions and can be used by communities to defend their
decisions if challenged in court.

 Through public dialogue, citizens express a collective vision for the future. 
the planning process provides citizens an opportunity to brainstorm, debate and
discuss the future of their community. A plan developed through a robust public
input process enjoys strong community support. Subsequent decisions that are
consistent with the plan’s policies are less likely to become embroiled in public
controversy. (Gary D. Taylor, Iowa State University,2015).

The Comprehensive Land Use Plan

The Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) refers to a document embodying

specific proposals for guiding, regulating growth and development of a city or
municipality. It is comprehensive because it considers all sectors significant in the
development process, i.e. demography, socio-economic, infrastructure and utilities,
land use and local administration, within the territorial jurisdiction. (Romulo Q. F.
(2006)

Rationale for the Formulation/Revision of a Comprehensive Land Use Plan

(Romulo Q. F.(2006).To achieve an improved quality of life; To guide the orderly

development of a city/municipality to promote the health, safety, welfare and
convenience of the population; To promote sustainable development; To preserve
special natural features and environmentally critical areas; To translate socio-
economic policies into physical policies and plans; To comply with the requirements
of Article 41 of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Local Government
Code of 1991 (Sec. 20, RA 7160); To provide guidelines for the appropriate use of
natural resources; To allocate land for settlements, industries and other urban uses
on land least suitable for agricultural and farming uses; To serve as basis for
reclassifying and converting land; To reflect changes in the physical, social and
economic characteristics of the community; and To incorporate changes in the goals
and objectives of the community

Comprehensive Land Use Planning puts into practice the essence of local autonomy
among LGUs. This process and its output which comes in a form of a
Comprehensive Land Use Plan document sets the direction which the LGUs have to
take to enable them to attain their vision and to transform them into active partners
in the attainment of national goals. (Romulo Q. F.(2006).

The CLUP process provides a venue to level off the different groups with varied
interests in the local planning area. It opens an opportunity for gaining community
support, understanding and ownership of the Plan through a broad-based
consensus formation efforts and participatory arrangements. The process attempts
to rationalize the allocation of the limited local land resources by using empirical
basis to analyze existing social, economic, physical, environmental, political and
institutional situation. This enables the LGUs to formulate development goals and
objectives, design alternatives, and arrive at sound policies, strategies, programs
and projects.

The national, regional and provincial physical framework plans are policy oriented
and indicative in nature, where different land use categories such as forest lands
and agricultural lands are categorized into protection and production land uses.

The broad allocation of land uses in the level of physical framework plans are
treated in detail in the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. The goals and objectives of
the framework plans are considered in the formulation of the CLUPs.

The local plans shall have the following relationships to the other plans existing in
the country:

1. Provincial plans shall promote the goals and objectives provided for in the
national and regional plan and shall provide the guidelines for the preparation of
city and municipal plans.

2. The city and municipal Comprehensive Land Use Plans shall be consistent with
and supportive of the goals and objectives in the provincial plan and shall provide
the guidelines for the development of plans for parts of the city or municipality such
as the barangay.

3. The barangay plan and other area specific plans, such as heritage area plan,
ancestral domain plan etc., shall be consistent with the vision, planning goals and
objectives set forth in the city or municipal plan of which it forms part and shall
furthermore, provide the guide to plans of smaller scale such as neighborhood or
community.

All local plans shall be consistent with the existing national agency plans, i.e.
Tourism Master Plan, Forestry Master Plan, Medium Term Agricultural Development
Plan, etc.

Further, all local plans shall conform with set national planning goals, policies, as
well as planning guidelines and standards promulgated by HLURB as much as
practicable. (Romulo Q. F.(2006).

THE GOALS OF COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING

(John M. Levy 2003) Since municipalities differ, the following list of goals will not
be complete, nor will every item necessarily apply to every community. Because the
goals overlap, another writer might list them differently yet cover the same ground.
Note that all of the following goals, with the possible exception of the last, readily fit
within the rubric of the phrase health, safety, and public welfare, in connection with
the police power.
1. Health. Achieving a pattern of land use that protects the public health is a
well-established planning goal. One aspect might be prohibiting densities of
development that threaten the overload water or sewer facilities. In areas that
do not have water and sewer facilities, it may mean spacing houses far
enough apart to prevent leakage from septic tanks from contaminating well
water. It may involve separating industrial or commercial activities that
produce health hazards from residential areas. It may be banning certain
types of industrial operations from the community entirely.

2. Public safety. The goal may manifest itself in numerous ways. It might mean
requiring sufficient road width in new subdivisions to ensure that ambulances
and fire equipment have adequate access in emergencies. Many
communities have flop plain zoning to keep people from building in flood
prone area. At the neighborhood level it might mean planning for a street
geometry that permits children to walk from home to school without crossing
a major thoroughfare. In a high crime area it may mean laying out patterns of
building and spaces that provide fewer sites where muggings and robberies
can be committed unobserved.

3. Circulation. Providing the community with adequate circulation is an almost

universal goal of comprehensive planning. This means a system of streets
and perhaps also parking facilities that make possible an orderly, efficient,
and rapid flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. In many communities I also
means providing for adequate public transportation. Planning for
transformation and planning for land use are intimately connected.

4. Provision of services and facilities. An important part of comprehensive

planning efforts is determining the location of facilities such as parks,
recreation areas, schools, social services, hospitals, and the like. In addition,
for planning for facilities, it is also important to plan for a pattern of land use
that facilitates the provision of public services like police and fire protection,
water, and sewers. The location of housing relative to the location of schools
will determine whether children can walk or must be bused to school.

5. Fiscal health. There is a relationship between the pattern of development

and the fiscal situation of the community. Any development will impose some
cost on the community. Similarly, virtually any development will generate
some revenues to the municipality. Some uses will yield to surpluses, and
other deficits. Generally speaking, it is not very difficult to predict which uses
will do which. In fact, a fairly substantial literature exists on this very point.
Many communities will plan for a pattern of land use that will hold down
property taxes. But there are limits here.

6. Economic goals. In thousands of communities, economic growth or

maintenance of the existing level of economic activity is an important goal.
There is a link here with the fiscal goal, but there may be even motivations as
well, most notably providing employment for community residents. Thus a
community may seek to develop a pattern of land use that provide for
 commercial and industrial sites, provides good access to such sites, and
facilities supplying utilities to such sites. Other steps that a municipality may
take to stimulate its own economic development.

7. Environmental protection. This goal is an old one but, it has become much
more common since the 1960s. it might involve restrictions on building in
wetlands, steep slopes, or other ecologically valuable or fragile lands. It might
involve preservation of open space, ordinances to control discharges into
water bodies, prohibition or limitations on commercial or industrial activities
that would degrade air quality, and so on. In a broader sense it may be
connected to planning for the entire pattern of land use.

8. Redistributive goals. Some planners of the political left would argue that a
goal of planning should be distribute downward both wealth and influence in
the political process. In a limited number of communities, planners have been
able to bend the planning process in that direction.