GENERAL POLICIES ON LAND USE PLANNING AND LAND

USE REGULATIONS

NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PATRIMONY

• Section 2. All lands of the publicdomain, waters, minerals, coal,petroleum, and other mineral oils,all forces of potential energyfisheries, forests or timber,wildlife, flora and fauna, and othernatural resources are owned by theState. With the exception ofagricultural lands, all other naturalresources shall not be alienated.

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• Section 2. The exploration, development, and utilization of natural resources shall be under the full control and supervision of the State.The State may directly undertake such activities, or it may enter into co-production, joint venture, or production-sharing agreements with Filipino citizens, or corporations or associations at least sixty per centum of whose capital is owned by such citizens.

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• Section 3. ….Private corporations orassociations may not hold such alienable landsof the public domain except by lease, for aperiod not exceeding twenty-five years,renewable for not more that twenty-fiveyears, and not to exceed one thousandhectares in area. Citizens of the Philippinesmay lease not more than five hundredhectares, or acquire not more than twelvehectares thereof by purchase, homestead, orgrant.

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Land Classification under the Constitution

• Agriculture

Alienable and Disposable Land

• Timberland

Non-A&D

• Mineral Land

Non-A&D

• National Parks

Non-A&D

PD 705, RA 8371-IPRA,

RA 9072 -Cave Act

PD 705

Fishery Code

PD 1067 – WATER CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

RA 7586- NIPAS Law, RA 9147-Wildlife Act, RA 9729-CCA,

RA 10129-DRRMA

RA 8435

MC 54

DAR AO 01

series of 2002

EO no.124

RA 7279

RA 9003

PD 953

RA 10066

RA 7916

PD 1096

RA 9593

Forest

• PD 705 – The Revised Forestry Code

• RA 8371 – Indigenous People Rights Act (Forest and Water-Coverage)

• RA 9072 – An Act to Manage and Protect Cave and Cave Resources

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Agriculture Areas

• RA 8435 – Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997

• MC 54- PRESCRIBING THE

GUIDELINES GOVERNING SEC 20 OF RA 7160 KNOWN AS THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE AUTHORIZING CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES TO RECLASSIFY AGRICULTURAL LANDS INTO NON-AGRICULTURAL USES

Agriculture Areas

• DAR AO No. 1 series of 2002-Comprehensive Rules on Land Conversion

• Executive Order no. 124-Establishing Priorities and Procedures in Evaluating Areas proposed for Land Conversion in Regional Agri-Industrial Centers…..

Urban Areas

• RA 7279 – Urban Development and Housing Act

• RA 9003- Waste Management Act

• PD 953- Requiring the planting of trees in certain places and penalizing unauthorized cutting, destruction, damaging and injuring of certain trees, plants and vegetation

• PD 1096-Building Code

PD 953 Sec. 1

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Property adjoining a river or creek shall plant trees extending

up to 5 meters of the property from the edge of the bank of

the river or creek except when permanent improvement is

already present

Urban Areas

• RA 7916-Special Economic Zone Act

• RA 10066- An act providing for the Protection and Conservation of the National Cultural Heritage, Strengthening the NCCA and its affiliated Cultural Agencies and for other Purposes

• RA 9593-Philippine Tourism Act of 2009

• RA 7916 – Special Economic Zone Act

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PD 705 -SEC. 43. Swamplands and Mangrove Forests

maintained and shall not be

alienated

free from artificial obstruction

shall not be subject to clear-

cutting operation

swamps released to the Bureau

of Fisheries

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POLICIES ENCOMPASSING ALL THE ECOSYSTEM

• PD 1067-Water Code of the Philippines

• RA 7586-NIPAS Law

• RA 9147-Wildlife Act

• RA 9729-CCA

• RA 10129-Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act

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