Summary of Presentation 1

Land Use Planning in Philippines

Concrenio, Basilio Jr.

BSGE-4A

Land Use Planning refers to the rational an judicious approach; to the manner of utilization of land; to a
document embodying a set of policies.

Skewed Land Ownership the owner hire and supervises wage labor; the owner delegates operations to a
tenant-cultivator. The accumulator acquires land by all means, and foul. The disposed seek to acquire
whatever land there is from any source traders in “rights”.

Land Acquisition. The cushaners refers to the native principalia as “opportunistic Judases. Land sales
were unfair and abusive. Lease-Purchase the native seller often failed to buy back the lease property.

The new elite. New social structure: Absentee Landowners. The Renters. Apraceros.

The Torrens Title System it makes title a most sought-after instrument to prove one’s possession and a
security against any possible dispossession.

Traditional agriculture state and Large urban real estate business are the types of landed interest.

A weak state: Land Classification and Titling system and General Land Classification System

Old Land Classification System: Total Land the Unclassified Public Forest and Classified, under Classified
are the mineral land, timber lands, Agriculture or A&D. Under the Timberlands Subclassified the Forest
Reserve, Timberlands, parks, civil reserve, fishponds. Under Agricultural or A&D title and untitled the
Agricultural, Residential, Industrial, Townsite, and others.

New Land Classification System: Total Land Public Domain and Private Lands. Unappropriated Lands the
non A&D and the A&D.

Speculative trading in land

Marcos administration: Urban Land Reform Law (PD 1517; President Marcos (Proclamation No. 1893);
President Marcos (Proclamation No. 1967 on May 14, 1980)

Aquino Administration: Aquino execute the coup de grace; The urban land reform law (PD 1517) was
replaced “Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (RA 7279).

Welfare as Rhetoric: the 1935, 1973, and 1987 Constitution.

That technocrats and their welfare rhetoric attained respectability and importance. Zoning has become
popular that people tend to equate planning.

The politics of land use planning: the two contrasting realities; 1973 and 1987 Constitutions, National
Land Use Act, Codes of Laws, and Comprehensive Land use regulatory framework, Town and Country
Planning Act of 1947, Zoning Officer, Retained Functions.

Co-management of the Environment: 1991 Local Government Code (RA7160).