IV.

Site Profile and Analysis

IV.1 Site Micro

Philippines

The PHILIPPINES

stands at the crossroads of

the developed western

world and the Orient. It lies

in the heart of Southeast

Asia, stretching more than

1,840 kilometers.

Composed of 7,107 islands,

the Philippines is readily

accessible to the different

capitals of the world. Its

three main islands are

Luzon, Visayas and

Mindanao.

Figure 8.0 Map of the Philippines

The South China Sea washes its western shores. Taiwan, China and Hong Kong

are northern neighbors and further north is Japan. To the west lie Southeast Asian

countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. An arm of the archipelago

reaches out towards Borneo and at its feet stands the chain of Indonesian islands.

To the east and south, the waters of the Pacific Ocean sweep its headlands,

looking out towards Micronesia and Polynesia.

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 Its unique location has made the Philippines the commercial, cultural and

intellectual hub of Asia from the dawn of history.

CALABARZON

CALABARZON is one of the regions of the Philippines. It is also designated

as Region IV-A and its regional capital is Calamba City in Laguna. The region is

composed of five provinces, namely: Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon.

The region’s name is a portmanteau of the names of these provinces.

Map of Batangas Province

Figure 9.0 Map of Batangas Province

IV.2 Macro site

Batangas City

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 Figure 10.0 Map of Batangas City

4.3 Historical Background

Batangas City is politically subdivided into 105 barangays.Pagkilatan was formerly a

sitio of Matoco. Malalim was formerly the "southern portion of the barrio of Sirang

Lupa, the northern portion of the barrio Mahabang Dahilig, and the eastern portion of

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 San Isidro" "together with the sitio of Malalim"; this territory became a barrio

(barangay) in 1954.In the same year, sitio Malitam, formerly part of barrio Libjo, was

elevated as a barrio. San Antonio was constituted from the sitios of Ilaya, Labac,

Matalisay, Pajo and Cacawan, from the barrio of San Agapito. In 1957, the barrio of

Talumpok was divided into two. Sitios Romano, Poyesan, Bondeo and Latag were

constituted into Talumpok Silangan, while sitios Ginto, Duhatan, Kulingkang, Piit and

Cuaba were constituted into Talumpok Kanluran. Balagtas was formerly known as

Patay, Kumintang Ilaya as Sambat Ilaya, and Kuming Ibaba as Sambat Ibaba.

Barangay 1 Balete Kumintang Ibaba San Andres Isla Verde

Barangay 2 Kumintang Ilaya
Banaba Center San Antonio Isla Verde
Barangay 3 Libjo
Barangay 4 Banaba West Liponpon Isla Verde San Isidro
Barangay 5 Banaba East Maapaz San Jose Sico
Barangay 6 Banaba South Mahabang Dahilig San Miguel
Barangay 7 Bilogo Mahabang Parang San Pedro
Barangay 8 Mahacot Silangan
Barangay 9 Bolbok Mahacot Kanluran Sta. Clara
Barangay 10 Bucal Malalim Sta. Rita Aplaya
Barangay 11 Calicanto Malibayo Sta. Rita Karsada
Barangay 12 Catandala Malitam Sto. Domingo
Barangay 13 Maruclap
Concepcion Sto. Niño
Barangay 14 Mabacong
Barangay 15 Conde Itaas Pagkilatan Simlong
Barangay 16 Conde Labac Paharang Kanluran Sirang Lupa
Barangay 17 Cumba Paharang Silangan Sorosoro Ibaba
Barangay 18 Pallocan Kanluran
Cuta Sorosoro Ilaya
Barangay 19 Pallocan Silangan
Barangay 20 Dalig Pinamucan Ibaba Sorosoro Karsada
Barangay 21 Dela Paz Proper Pinamucan Proper Tabangao Aplaya
Barangay 22 Dela Paz Pulot Aplaya Pinamucan Silangan Tabangao Ambulong
Barangay 23 Dela Paz Pulot Itaas Sampaga Tabangao Dao
Barangay 24 San Agustin Kanluran
Alangilan Dumuclay San Agustin Silangan Talahib Pandayan
Balagtas Dumantay Tingga Itaas Talahib Payapa
Haligue Kanluran Gulod Itaas Tingga Labac Talumpok Kanluran
Haligue Silangan Gulod Labac Tulo Talumpok Silangan
Ilijan Wawa

4.4 Geographical Location

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  The City of Batangas is a coastal city lying in a covelike shape at the south

eastern portion of Batangas Province and geographically situated at coordinates 13

degrees, 45 minutes and 25.96 seconds north latitude and 121 degrees, 3 minutes

and 29.2 seconds east longitude. It is bounded on the northwest by the municipality

of San Pascual; on the north by the municipality of San Jose; on the east by the

municipalities of Ibaan, Taysan and Lobo; and on the south by the Batangas Bay.

     Batangas City, the capital of Batangas Province has a total land area of more or

less 28,541.44 hectares. It is about 108.00 kilometres away from Manila and has an

average travel time of approximately one hour and forty-five minutes through the

Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR) tollway.

4.5 Topography

The topography or surface features of the municipality vary from low flat lands

on the eastern portion specifically along Tayabas Bay, slightly rolling on the

midsection and highest at the western side bordering along Rosario and Lobo

municipal boundaries.

Lying along the shores of Tayabas Bay on the east, the shorelines are laced with

swamps and marshlands. These are at Barangays Imelda, Bataan, Nagsaulay,

Subukin, Calubcub l and 2, Pinagbayanan, and Catmon.

The southern shorelines bordering Verde Island passage, a seawater

lane, are long stretches of white sandy beaches, picturesque coves and wonderful

marine resources. Likewise, there are prominent forested mountains and hills on the

western side. These are at the foot of the mountainous boundaries with Lobo and

Rosario. The resultant view is a magnificent nature feature which is considered world

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class tourism. These are found in portions of Barangays Imelda, Hugom, Barualte

and the portions of the Laiya areas of Aplaya and Ibabao.

4.6 Slope

Batangas City has a rolling terrain that ranges from 0% to 30% in slope. Its highest

point is Mount Banoy in Barangay Talumpok Silangan which is 968 meters above

sea level and about 13.50 kilometers east of the Poblacion. The city's coastal

Barangays starting from Sta. Rita Aplaya from the north down to Tabangao

Ambulong on the south are nearly level at 0% to 3%.

In the east beyond the barangays of Mabacong, Simlong and Pinamucan Ibaba, the

slope rises from 8% to 30%. The Matuco Point at the southwest tip of the city along

the Batangas Bay has a slope of 30%. To the immediate south is Verde Island

composed of six (6) barangays which is mountainous and with a slope ranging from

3% to 30%.

Slope Classification and Percentage Distribution, By Category, By Area and

By Location

Table 2.0

SLOPE AREA (IN % to Total LOCATION

CATEGOR HECTARES

Y )

0-3% 2,253.39 7.90% Sta Rita,Aplaya,Paliocan

Kanluran,Cuta ,Wawa,Malitam,Lib

jo.Sta

Clara,Tabangao,Ambulong,Maha

bang Dahilig,Pinamucan

Ibaba,Calicanto,San Agustin

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 Kanluran,Poblacion

3% - 8%   4,505.76 15.79% Dumantay,Sampaga,Kumintang

Ibaba,Banaba Center,Banaba

East,Balete,Paliocan Kanluran,Soro

Soro Ibaba.

8% - 15% 10,127.99 35.49% San

Pedro,Catandala,Maapas,Paharang

Kanluran,Conde Labac,Conde

Itaas,Malalim.Pinamucan

Silangan,Pinamucan

Proper,Tabangao Aplaya,Tabangao

Dao,Sti Nino, San

Isidro,Dumuclay,Dela Paz

Proper,Pagkilatan,San Agustin

Silangan.

15% - 25% 1,772.42 6.21% Sto Domingo,Talumpok

Kanluran,Haligue Silangan,San

Agapito,San Antonio

Silangan,Lipom Lipon

25% - 50% 3,609.32 12.65% Cumba, Dela Paz Pulot

Itaas,Mabacong

Above 50% 6,150.27 21.55% San Andres,Talahib

Pandayan,Talumpok

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 Silangan,Talahip

Payapa,Malibayo,Simong,San

Miguel,San Jose Sico,

Bilogo,Paharang Silang,Mahacot

Silang,Mahacot

Kanluan,Catandala,Dalig,Soro Soro

Ibaba,Soro Soro

Karsada,Conception

Bucal,Tulo,Tingga Itaas.

Main River 122.29 0.43%

Total: 28,541.44 100.00%

SLOPE MAP

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 Figure 11.0 Slope Map

4.7 Soil Types

San Juan is characterized by a Guadalupe soil series which is a residual soil

of water-laid volcanic tuff. The profile picture presents surface soil that is dark brown

to nearly black clay, cloudy and hard when dry, very sticky and plastic when wet.

The depth is 25 to 35 cm. The subsoil is brownish black clay, finely granular when

dry but sticky and plastic when wet. Spherical tuffaceous volcanic materials in

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varying degrees of weathering. Below is hard and massive tuff. The types of soil

under these are Guadalupe clay loam and Guadalupe clay.

Soil Type by Area and By Location

Table 3.0

SOIL TYPE Agricultural LOCATION

Potential

Taal Sandy corn, citrus, sugar  Sta. Rita Karsada,

Loam cane, fruit trees Sta. Rita Aplaya,

Sta. Clara and Cuta

 Hydrosoil saltbeds and Calicanto and

fishponds Wawa

Calumpang Sugar Cane Libjo, Poblacion

Clay Loam and Pallocan

Kanluran

 Ibaan Clay  sugar cane, Pinamucan,

Loam upland crops, rice Mahabang Dahilig,

and intercrops Malalim, Sirang

Lupa, Conde,

Talumpok,

Kanluran/Silangan,

Sto. Niño, Tulo,

Paharang

Kanluran/Silangan

 Ibaan Loam sugar cane, Balete,

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 upland rice, corn, Concepcion, Bucal,

vegetables, coffee, Mahabang Parang,

bananas, fruit bearing Sorosoro

trees Karsada/Ibaba/Ilaya, Tingga

Labac/Itaas, Banaba,

Balagtas, Alangilan, Bolbok,

Kumintang Ilaya/Ibaba, San

Pedro, Dumantay, Dalig,

Gulod

Labac/Itaas, Sampaga, San

Isidro, Tabangao Ambulong

and Tabangao Aplaya

Ibaan Loam (Gravely  coconut, atis, cacao and Talumpok

Phase) coffee Kanluran/Silangan, Conde

Labac/Itaas, San Miguel,

Sto. Niño, Tabangao Dao,

Haligue, Talahib Payapa,

Talahib Pandayan,

Mabacong, Ilijan and Dela

Paz Proper/Aplaya/Pulot

Itaas

Sibul Clay Isla Verde (6 barangays) upland rice, peanuts and

vegetables

Source: Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM)

4.8 Climate

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 Batangas City is generally coolest during the months of December to January

with temperature ranging from 22ºC to 26ºC. The mean temperature rises and attains

a maximum of 36 degrees Celsius (36ºC) in April and May. The month of

September marks the steady fall of temperature.

The driest months in Batangas City are from January to April, with the

average monthly rainfall of less than 50 mm per month. The northeast monsoon or

locally known as “amihan” prevails starting the months of November up to April.

Although originally moist, it becomes comparatively drier after crossing the Sierra

Madre Range to the north and east of Batangas, thus attributing for predominantly

dry weather during this period. By the latter part of May or June to the later part of

October, the situation is reversed. The southwest monsoon or locally known as

“habagat” prevails bringing with it considerable rain. A pronounced maximum rain

period occurs in the city during the months of June, July, August and September

when southwest monsoon flow is steadiest and the average monthly rainfall is 275

mm per month. By the latter part of October, the northeast monsoon starts to set

again. However, the months from October to December are not characterized by dry

weather as compared to the months from January to April. This is partly due to the

fact that typhoons and depressions most frequently affect the city during the months

from July to December and in some instances because of the effect of climate

change, the tropical storms occurred during months of April to June.

4.9 Resources

Mineral Resources

Several mineral resources can be found in the city and some of the deposits
have not yet been extracted. Traces of metallic mineral like gold and non-metallic

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mineral like gypsum are being detected in the mountainous area of barangays Sto.
Domingo and Cumba respectively.

Salt beds originally existed abundantly in barangays Sta. Clara and Malitam
but rapid urbanization and the expansion/development of the Batangas Port likewise
resulted to the end of this industry.

Forestry:

The forest resources of Batangas City are not in commercial quantity except for

bamboo which are in demand for use in the construction of fish pens.

Marginal forest lands can be found mostly in the barangays of Talumpok Silangan

(where Mt. Banoy is located), Talumpok Kanluran, Talahib Payapa, Sto. Domingo,

Cumba and along the boundary line with the municipality of Lobo.

4.10 Land Uses

The land use of the city has considerably changed from 1946 to 1981

from a major agricultural use to a rapidly developing major urban center and

from 1981 up to the present to a major urban commercial and industrial

center.

LAND USE MAP

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 Figure 13.0 Land use Map

LAND USE PLANNING

Land use planning refers to the rational and judicious approach of allocating

available land resources to different land using activities and for different functions

consistent with the overall development vision / goal of a particular locality.

The study of the existing land uses as well as the pattern of growth and

development is of primary consideration. Factors affecting the emerging trend are

also of vital significance. These do not only provide the proper dimension but likewise

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serve as basic premises in the allocation of adequate and suitable land requirements

and appropriate sites of the different functional land uses.

To ascertain existing land uses, the following activities were undertaken:

1. Assessment of the present uses was conducted through windshield/ocular

survey;

2. Updating and verification of existing land use by the assessor’s office.

General land uses are classified into built-up, agricultural, forest and special uses

such as mangroves, industrial, agro-industrial and tourism. A built-up area is

composed of a cluster of a least ten (10 ) structures or if activity occupies sizeable

land area.

Urban land uses are categorized into residential, commercial, institutional,

functional open spaces, roads, parks and playground.

Projects Considerations

The following are the viable factors taken into consideration in the formulation of

the Land Use Plan of San Juan, Batangas within the planning period 2011-2020.

1. Population

With a land area of approximately 28,541.00 hectares and a total population of

346,756, the city has a population density of 12.18 persons per hectare or 1,165

persons per square kilometer. The population density of the entire city is computed at

181 persons per hectare which far below the population density.

2. Physical and Natural Characteristics

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 Analysis of the town’s physical and natural attributes such as topography,

climate, and capability, drainage, erosion potential and flooding hazards were

considered.

3. Sectoral Requirements

Assessment analysis of the existing and projected sectoral land use

requirements were integrated in the plan.

4. Trend of Development

The existing trend of development in Batangas well as in the adjoining

municipalities obtained during the actual land use survey and interviews were

likewise incorporated in the plan.

5. Development Framework

Higher level of frameworks plans such as Provincial Physical and Development

Framework Plan which is indicate in nature was incorporated in the Land Use Plan

to promote and support the goals and objectives stated therein and serve as

guidelines for the development of the area.

6. Land Use Planning Policies

. PUCZ – PRIMARY URBAN CORE ZONES 1 AND 2 – the financial, commercial

and the business center of the City where intense mixed-use development
such as banking, commercial, trading, business, tourism facilities,
institutional, residential, and parks and recreational uses are allowed.

Note: Permissible uses, development guidelines and building regulations in

low-density (R-1) residential subdivisions located within the PUCZ shall be
governed by rules and regulations contained in PD957 and BP220
respectively to avoid conflict.

A. Allowed Uses:

Dominant Use: Commercial

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1. Office buildings with or without residential units in the upper floors
2. Commercial condominium with or without residential units in upper floors
3. Residential Condominiums
4. Shopping malls
5. Convention centers and related facilities
6. Hotels, resorts, and recreation facilities
7. General retail stores and shops like:
a. department stores
b. supermarkets
c. bookstore and office supply shops
d. home appliance centers
e. car sales, repair and display shops
f. photo shops
g. flower shops
8. Food markets and shops like:
a. bakeries and bake shops
b. wine stores
c. groceries
d. supermarkets
9. Personal services shops like:
a. beauty parlors
b. barber shops
c. sauna baths and massage clinics
d. dressmaking and tailoring shops
10. Recreational center/establishments like:
a. movie house/theater
b. play court e.g. tennis court, bowling lane, billiard hall
c. swimming pool
d. stadium, coliseum, gymnasium
e. other sports and recreational establishment
11. Restaurants and other eateries
12. Short term special education like:
a. dancing schools
b. school for self-defense
c. driving schools
d. speech clinics
e. computer training schools
13. Commercial housing like:
a. Hotels and motels
b. Apartments and apartelles
c. Boarding houses, dormitories and pension houses
d. Clubhouse
14. Storerooms but only as may be necessary for the efficient conduct of a
business
15. Library/museum
16. Filling Station/service station
17. Medical and dental clinics

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 18. Vocational/technical school
19. Messengerial services
20. Security agencies
21. Janitorial services
22. Banks and other financial institutions
23. Radio and television studios/stations
24. Building garages, parking lots and the like
25. Custom dressmaking shops
26. Custom tailoring shops
27. Commercial and job printing/publishing centers
28. Typing and photo engraving services
29. Photocopying services
30. Repair of optical instruments and equipment and cameras
31. Repair of clocks and watches
32. Manufacture of insignia, badges and similar emblems except metal
33. Bakery and baking of bread, cake, pastries, pies and other similar perishable
products

Complementary Uses: Residential, Institutional and Recreational

1. Single detached family dwellings

2. Duplexes, semi-detached houses, and the like
3. Multi-family dwelling e.g. row-houses, apartments
4. Residential condominium
5. Apartment
6. Hometel/Hotel
7. Pension house
8. Hotel apartment or apartelle
9. Dormitory
10. Boarding House
11. Branch libraries and museums
12. Customary accessory uses like:
a. Servants quarter
b. Private garage
c. Guard house
13. Home occupation for the practice of one’s profession or for engaging in home
businesses such as dressmaking, tailoring, baking, running a sari-sari store
14. Home Industry classified as cottage industry
15. Nursery/Elementary School
16. High School
17. Sports Club
18. Multi-purpose hall/barangay hall
19. Clinic, nursing and convalescing home, health center
20. Plant nurseries
21. Government center to house national, regional or local offices in the area
22. Colleges, universities, professional business schools, vocational and trade
schools, technical schools and other institutions of higher learning
23. General hospitals, medical centers, multipurpose clinics

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 24. Scientific, cultural and academic centers and research facilities except
nuclear, radioactive, chemical and biological warfare facilities
25. Religious structures e.g. church, seminary, convents
26. Museums
27. Parking structures and facilities
28. Student housing e.g. dormitories, boarding house
29. Parks, gardens and other open spaces for recreational purposes
30. Resort areas e.g. beaches, including accessory uses
31. Open air or outdoor sports activities and support facilities, including low rise
stadia, gyms amphitheaters and swimming pools
32. Ball courts
33. Sports club

The following activities/uses/projects may be allowed in PUCZ subject to compliance

with the applicable provisions of existing laws and ordinances and requirements of
the concerned government agencies:

1. Computer shop/internet café

2. Appliances repair shop
3. Parking lots/garage facilities
4. Carwash
5. Storerooms/ warehouses but only as maybe necessary for the efficient
conduct of the business
6. Filling/service stations
7. Lumber yard/ hardware
8. Memorial/ shrines monuments, kiosks and other park structures
9. Other similar uses/ activities/ projects

B. Area coverage of each district concerns are as follows:

DISTRICT AREA (HAS) % TOTAL LAND AREA

PUC – 1 589.10 2.06

PUC – 2 263.40 0.92

TOTAL 852.50 2.98

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 C. General Zone Regulations:

a. Parking

- Parking requirements shall be per the required parking and loading space
provided in Article VII, Section 46 of this Ordinance.

- Parking areas and slots shall be clearly marked in order to provide sufficient
guidance to the users and passers-by alike; signs shall be unobtrusive but
shall clearly define entry and exit points.

- Parking spaces shall have distinct entry and exit points and shall, to the
extent possible, be buffered from the sidewalk by visual barriers such as
planting strips.

- There shall be a distinct delineation between sidewalks and parking spaces

and the latter shall in no case occupy space allotted to the former.

- Open and non-landscaped parking lots are discouraged. Should open-lot

parking be provided, these shall be so landscaped to have a park-like
character.

b. Landscaping

- All large-scale development proposals shall be accompanied by a

landscaping plan for review and approval of the City Planning & Development
Coordinator / Zoning Administrator.

- Owners of developments are required to comply with the applicable

provisions of Batangas City Environment Code.

c. Fencing

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 - Undeveloped properties may be fenced-off by concrete, hollow block or
similar materials having a maximum height of 2.40 meters from the sidewalk
level.

- Fences shall in no manner obstruct the flow of pedestrian traffic along the
sidewalk.

d. Skywalks

- The construction of skywalks linking major developments is encouraged.

Planning and design shall, however, put an important consideration on
possible view obstructions which shall be avoided.

e. Cantilever/ Setback

- These shall provide weather protection, enhanced comfort and greater

mobility to pedestrians. All developments in designated areas along P.
Burgos St., Rizal Avenue and D. Silang St. which is from Evangelista St. to P.
Burgos St., are required to provide front building setbacks of 11.50 meters
measured from the center line of the street up to the building line and
cantilever. The cantilever portion of each building shall extend at a distance
of greater than 3.5 meters from the ground building line with a vertical
clearance of 3.5 meters. No abutting fences shall be allowed in this area and
property lines maybe delineated by landscaping techniques.

f. Abutments

- No abutments on property lines fronting any street are allowed.

EXISTING GENERAL LAND USES

Use Regulations in Secondary Urban Core Zone (SUCZ)

SUCZ – SECONDARY URBAN CORE ZONE – provides support services to the

primary urban core zone. The dominant land use is also commercial but

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 land use intensities are rated lower than that of the PUCZ. Large scale,
sprawling mixed-use developments (e.g. shopping malls, recreation
centers, etc.) are encourage in this area. Further, the SUCZ allows quasi-
commercial/industrial types of activity such as lumber/ hardware, repair,
shops, junk shops and the like. The over-all zone character shall be of a
low-intensity development area. Ample ground open spaces are also
required for development within this area.

Note: Permissible uses, development guidelines and building regulations in

low-density (R-1) residential subdivisions located within the SUCZ shall be
governed by rules and regulations contained in PD957 and BP220
respectively to avoid conflict.

A. Allowed Uses

Dominant Use: Commercial

1. Office buildings with or without residential units in the upper floors

2. Commercial condominium with or without residential units in upper floors
3. Residential Condominiums
4. Shopping malls
5. Convention centers and related facilities
6. Hotels, resorts, and recreation facilities
7. General retail stores and shops like:
a. department stores
b. supermarkets
c. bookstore and office supply shops
d. home appliance centers
e. car sales, repair and display shops
f. photo shops
g. flower shops
8. Food markets and shops like:
a. bakeries and bake shops
b. wine stores
c. groceries
9. Personal services shops like:
a. beauty parlors
b. barber shops
c. sauna baths and massage clinics
d. dressmaking and tailoring shops
10. Recreational center/establishments like:
a. movie house/theater
b. play court e.g. tennis court, bowling lane, billiard hall
c. swimming pool

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 d. stadium, coliseum, gymnasium
e. other sports and recreational establishment
11. Restaurants and other eateries
12. Short term special education like:
a. dancing schools
b. school for self-defense
c. driving schools
d. speech clinics
e. computer training schools
13. Commercial housing like:
a. Hotels and motels
b. Apartments and apartelles
c. Boarding houses, dormitories and pension houses
d. Clubhouse
14. Storerooms but only as may be necessary for the efficient conduct of the
business
15. Commercial condominium (with residential units in upper floors)
16. Library/museum
17. Medical/dental clinics
18. Vocational/technical school
19. Convention Center and related facilities
20. Messengerial services
21. Security agencies
22. Janitorial services
23. Bank and other financial institutions
24. Radio and television stations
25. Building garage, parking lot and the like
26. Bakery and baking of bread, cake, pastries, pies and other similar perishable
products
27. Custom dressmaking shop
28. Custom tailoring shop
29. Commercial and job printing
30. Typing and photo engraving services
31. Repair of optical instruments and equipment and cameras
32. Repair of clocks and watches
33. Manufacture of insignia, badges and similar emblems except metal
34. Printing/publishing
35. Machinery display shop/center
36. Lumberyard/hardware
37. Printing and publishing of books and pamphlets, printing cards and stationary
38. Manufacture of signs and advertising displays (except printed)
39. Manufacture of wood furniture including upholstery
40. Manufacture of rattan furniture including upholstery
41. Manufacture of box beds and mattresses
42. Chicharon factory
43. Bakery and shops for baking of bread, cakes, pastries, pies and other similar
perishable products; biscuit factory for manufacture of biscuits, cookies,
crackers; doughnuts and hopia factory and other similar dried bakery products
44. Other bakery products not elsewhere classified (n.e.c.)

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 45. Repacking of food products e.g. fruits, vegetable, sugar and other related
products
46. Plant Nursery
47. Other commercial activities not elsewhere classified
48. Scientific, cultural and academic centers and research facilities, except
nuclear, radioactive, chemical and biological warfare activities.

The following uses/ activities/ projects maybe allowed within the SUCZ subject to
compliance with the applicable provisions of existing laws and ordinances and the
requirements of the concerned government agencies.

1. Gravel and sand

2. Welding shops
3. Machine shop, service operation (repairing/ rebuilding or custom job orders)
4. Junk shops
5. Repair shop of motorcycles, vehicles, car and other motor shops
6. Appliances repair shop
7. Carwash
8. Lechon or whole pig roasting
9. Small-scale manufacturer of ice cream
10. Parking lots/ garage facilities
11. Computer shops/internet cafes
12. Car/ Vehicle body repair/Painting shop
13. Storerooms/ Warehouses but only as maybe necessary for the efficient
conduct of the business
14. Transportation terminal/ garage with and without repair
15. Repair shops
a. House appliances repair shop
b. Motor vehicles and accessory repair shop
c. Home furnishings repair shop
16. Filling/ service stations
17. Other similar uses/activities/projects

Complementary Uses: Residential, Recreational, and Institutional

1. Single detached family dwellings

2. Duplexes, semi-detached houses, and the like
3. Multi-family dwelling e.g. row-houses, apartments
4. Residential condominium
5. Apartment
6. Hometel/Hotel
7. Pension house
8. Hotel apartment or apartelle
9. Dormitory
10. Boarding House

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 11. Branch libraries and museums
12. Customary accessory uses like:
d. Servants quarter
e. Private garage
f. Guard house
13. Home occupation for the practice of one’s profession or for engaging in home
businesses such as dressmaking, tailoring, baking, running a sari-sari store
14. Home Industry classified as cottage industry
15. Nursery/Elementary School
16. High School
17. Sports Club
18. Multi-purpose hall/barangay hall
19. Clinic, nursing and convalescing home, health center
20. Plant nurseries
21. Government center to house national, regional or local offices in the area
22. Colleges, universities, professional business schools, vocational and trade
schools, technical schools and other institutions of higher learning
23. General hospitals, medical centers, multipurpose clinics
24. Plant nurseries
25. Renovation and repair of officer machinery

The following are the allowed uses in Special Entertainment Zone (SEZ)

1. Day and night clubs

2. Cabarets
3. Beer houses
4. Videokes, Karaokes and Sing-a-longs that employ GROs/hostesses
5. Pub Houses that employ GROs/hostesses
6. Other similar activities

All existing light (I-1) and medium (I-2) industries within the SUCZ may be allowed to
remain the period of which shall be determined by the City Zoning Board of
Adjustment and Appeals (CZBAA) provided however, that no expansion of whatever
nature will be permitted and the necessary waste water treatment facility be installed
and properly operated to regulate effluent emanating from these industries.

B. Area coverage of the SUCs are as follows:

DISTRICT AREA (HAS) % TOTAL LAND AREA

SUC 1,268.50 4.44

SEZ 5.88 0.02

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 TOTAL 1,274.38 4.46

C. General Zone Regulations:

a. Parking

- Parking requirements shall be per the required parking and loading space
provided on Article VII, Section 46 of this Ordinance.

- Parking areas and slots shall be clearly marked in order to provide sufficient
guidance to the users and passers-by alike; signs shall be unobtrusive but
shall clearly define entry and exit points.

- Parking spaces shall have distinct entry and exit points and shall, to the
extent possible, be buffered from the sidewalk by visual barriers such as
planting strips.

- There shall be a distinct delineation between sidewalks and parking spaces

and the latter shall in no case occupy space allotted to the former.

- Open and non-landscaped parking lots are discouraged. Should open-lot

parking be provided, these shall be so landscaped to have a park-like
character.

b. Landscaping

- All large-scale development proposals shall be accompanied by a

landscaping plan for review and approval of the City Planning & Development
Coordinator / Zoning Administrator.

- Each development is required to comply with the applicable provisions of the

Batangas City Environment Code

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c. Fencing

- Undeveloped properties may be fenced-off by concrete, hollow block or

similar materials having a maximum height of 2.40 meters from the sidewalk
level.
- Fences shall in no manner obstruct the flow of pedestrian traffic along the
sidewalk.

d. Skywalks

- The construction of skywalks linking major development is encouraged.

Planning and design shall, however, put an important consideration on
possible view obstructions which shall be avoided.

e. Abutments

- No abutments on property lines fronting any street are allowed

Use Regulations In General Development Zones – 1 and 3 (GDZ – 1 and GDZ –
3)

GDZ – GENERAL DEVELOPMENT ZONES – 1 AND 3. The zone shall

predominantly be low- to medium-density residential area located away from the
PUCZ and SUCZ with supportive neighborhood-scale commercial, institutional,
recreational and agricultural uses.

Permissible uses, development guidelines and building regulations in low-density (R-

1) residential subdivisions located within the GDZ shall be governed by rules and
regulations contained in PD957 and BP220 respectively to avoid conflict.

The GDZ-3 is considered here as a “special management district” due to the

presence of residential land uses adjacent or in proximity to existing heavy industrial
areas. Proper hazard (pollution, noise, odor, etc.) mitigation devices shall be
instituted by operators of heavy industries and regularly inspected. Developments
adjacent to these industrial establishments shall consider prescribed minimum
setbacks, easements and other technical considerations to mitigate the harmful
effects of the latter. At least five (5) meter wide setbacks are recommended to serve
as buffer areas. These may also serve as recreational facilities to the workers and
their families. Construction of structures within these buffer zones shall be strictly
prohibited.

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A. Allowed Uses

Dominant Use: Residential

1. Detached family dwelling

2. Multi-family dwelling e.g. row-houses, apartments
3. Customary accessory uses like:
a. Servants quarter
b. Private garage
c. Guard house
4. Recreational facilities for the exclusive use of the members of the family
residing within the residence’s premises, such as:
a. Swimming pool
b. Basketball, volleyball, and/or tennis courts
c. Others
5. Pension house
6. Dormitory
7. Boarding House
8. Home occupation for the practice of one’s profession or for engaging home
business such as dressmaking, tailoring, baking, running a sari-sari store and
the like provided that:
a. The number of persons engaged in such business/industry shall not
exceed five (5), inclusive of the owner;
b. There shall be no change in the outside appearance of the building
premises;
c. No home occupation shall be conducted in any customary accessory
uses cited above;
d. No traffic shall be generated by such home occupation in greater
volume than would normally be expected in a residential
neighborhood and any need for parking generated by the conduct of
such home occupation shall be met off the street and in place other
than the required front yard;
e. No equipment or process shall be used in such home occupation
which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors and electrical
interference detectable to the normal senses and visual or audible
interference in any radio or television receiver or causes fluctuations in
line voltage off the premises.
9. Home Industry classified as cottage industry provided that:
a. Such home industry shall not occupy more than thirty percent (30%) of
the floor area of the dwelling unit. There shall be no change or
alteration in the outside appearance of the dwelling unit and shall not
be a hazard or nuisance;
b. Allotted capitalization shall not exceed the capitalization as set by the
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI);
c. Such shall consider same provisions as enumerated in letters c, d,
and e, Item 7 home occupations, this section.

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Complementary Uses: Commercial, Institutional, Recreational, and Agricultural

1. Office buildings up to three (3) storeys high

2. Commercial condominium up to three (3) storeys high
3. General retail stores and shops like:
a. bookstore and office supply shops
b. home appliance centers
c. car sales, repair and display shops
d. photo shops
e. flower shops
4. Food markets and shops like:
a. bakeries and bake shops
b. wine stores
c. groceries
5. Personal services shops like:
a. beauty parlors
b. barber shops
c. sauna baths and massage clinics
d. dressmaking and tailoring shops
6. Recreational center/establishments like:
a. play court e.g. tennis court, bowling lane, billiard hall
b. swimming pool
c. other sports and recreational establishment
7. Restaurants and other eateries
8. Short term special education like:
a. dancing schools
b. school for self-defense
c. driving schools
d. speech clinics
e. computer training schools
9. Commercial housing like:
a. apartments and apartelles
b. boarding houses, dormitories and pension houses
10. Medical/dental clinics
11. General hospitals/medical centers/multipurpose clinic
12. Security agencies
13. Janitorial services
14. Bank and other financial institutions
15. Radio and television stations
16. Bakery and baking of bread, cake, pastries, pies and other similar perishable
products
17. Custom dressmaking shop
18. Custom tailoring shop
19. Commercial and job printing
20. Typing and photo engraving services
21. Photocopying shops
22. Repair of optical instruments and equipment and cameras
23. Repair of clocks and watches
24. Manufacture of insignia, badges and similar emblems except metal
25. Printing/publishing

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 26. Machinery display shop/center
27. Printing and publishing of books and pamphlets, printing cards and stationary
28. Manufacture of signs and advertising displays (except printed)
29. Manufacture of wood furniture including upholstery
30. Manufacture of rattan furniture including upholstery
31. Manufacture of box beds and mattresses
32. Chicharon factory
33. Bakery and shops for baking of bread, cakes, pastries, pies and other similar
perishable products; biscuit factory for manufacture of biscuits, cookies,
crackers; doughnuts and hopia factory and other similar dried bakery
products
34. Other bakery products not elsewhere classified (n.e.c.)
35. Repacking of food products e.g. fruits, vegetable, sugar and other related
products
36. Plant Nursery
37. Other commercial activities not elsewhere classified
38. Scientific, cultural and academic centers and research facilities, except
nuclear, radioactive, chemical and biological warfare activities.
39. Cultivation, raising and growing of staple crops such as rice, corn, camote,
cassava and the like
40. Growing of diversified plants and trees, such as fruit and flower bearing trees,
coffee, tobacco, etc.
41. Agricultural research and experimentation facilities such as breeding stations,
fish farms, nurseries, demonstration farms, etc.

The following uses/ activities/ projects maybe allowed in GDZ-1 and GDZ-3 subject
to compliance with the applicable provisions of existing laws and ordinances and
requirements of the concerned government agencies:

1. Computer shop/ internet café

2. Repair shops like:
a. House appliances repair shops
b. Motor vehicles and accessory repair shops
c. Home furnishing shops
3. Gravel and Sand
4. Lumber yard/ hardware
5. Machine shop service operation (repairing/ rebuilding, or custom job orders)
6. Welding shops
7. Medium scale junk shops
8. Repair of motorcycles
9. Lechon or whole pig roasting
10. Parking lots/ garage facilities
11. Transportation terminals/ garage with and without repair
12. Filling/ service stations
13. Small-scale manufacture of ice-cream
14. Silviculture, mushroom culture, fishing and fish culture, snake culture,
crocodile farm, monkey raising and the like.

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 15. Customary support facilities such as palay dryers and rice trushers and
storage barns and warehouses
16. Agricultural research and experimentation facilities such as breeding stations,
fish farms, nurseries, demonstration farms, etc.
17. Pastoral activities such as goat raising and cattle fattening
18. Carwash
19. Storerooms/ warehouses but only as maybe necessary for the efficient
conduct of the business
20. Car/ Vehicle body building/ painting
21. Container Van/Trucks Terminal
22. Other similar uses/activities/ projects

All existing light (I-1) and medium (I-2) industries within the GDZ-1 and GDZ-3 may
be allowed to remain the period of which shall be determined by the City Zoning
Board of Adjustment and Appeals (CZBAA) provided however, that no expansion of
whatever nature will be permitted and the necessary waste water treatment facility
be installed and properly operated to regulate effluent emanating from these
industries.

B. Area coverage of zones concerned are as follows:

ZONE AREA (HAS) % TOTAL LAND AREA

GDZ – 1 978.90 3.43

GDZ – 3 642.60 2.25

TOTAL 1,621.50 5.68

C. General Zone Regulations:

a. Parking

- Parking requirements shall be per the required parking and loading space
provided on Article VII, Section 46 of this Ordinance.

- Parking areas and slots shall be clearly marked in order to provide sufficient
guidance to the users and passers-by alike; signs shall be unobtrusive but
shall clearly define entry and exit points.

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 - Parking spaces shall have distinct entry and exit points and shall, to the
extent possible, be buffered from the sidewalk by visual barriers such as
planting strips.

- There shall be a distinct delineation between sidewalks and parking spaces

and the latter shall in no case occupy space allotted to the former.

- Open and non-landscaped parking lots are discouraged. Should open-lot

parking be provided, these shall be so landscaped to have a park-like
character.

b. Landscaping

- All large-scale development proposals shall be accompanied by a

landscaping plan for review and approval of the City Planning & Development
Coordinator / Zoning Administrator.

- Each development is required to comply with the applicable provisions of

Batangas City Environment Code.

c. Fencing

- Undeveloped properties may be fenced-off by concrete, hollow block or

similar materials having a maximum height of 2.40 meters from the sidewalk
level.

- Fences shall in no manner obstruct the flow of pedestrian traffic along the
sidewalk.

d. Skywalks

- The construction of skywalks linking major development is encouraged.

Planning and design shall, however, put an important consideration on
possible view obstructions which shall be avoided.

e. Abutments

- No abutments on property lines fronting any street are allowed.

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SECTION 15. Use Regulations In General Development Zone 2 (GDZ – 2)

GDZ – 2, GENERAL DEVELOPMENT ZONE 2. The zone shall predominantly be a

medium- to high-density residential area located that serve the PUCZ, SUCZ, and
LIZ with supportive commercial, institutional, recreational uses.

Permissible uses, development guidelines and building regulations in low-density (R-

1) residential subdivisions located within the GDZ-2 shall be governed by rules and
regulations contained in PD957 and BP220 respectively to avoid conflict.

A. Allowed Uses

Dominant Use: Residential

1. Single detached family dwellings

2. Duplexes, semi-detached houses, and the like
3. Customary accessory uses like:
a. Servants quarter

b. Private garage
c. Guard house
4. Multi-family dwelling e.g. row-houses, apartments

5. Residential condominiums

7. Apartments
8. Hometels/Hotels
9. Pension houses
10. Hotel apartment ors apartelles
11. Dormitories
12. Boarding Houses
13. Home occupation for the practice of one’s profession or for engaging in home
businesses such as dressmaking, tailoring, baking, running a sari-sari store
14. Home Industry classified as cottage industry

Complementary Uses: Commercial, Institutional, Recreational and Agricultural

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1. Office buildings with or without residential units in the upper floors

2. Commercial condominium with or without residential units in upper floors

3. Residential Condominiums
4. Convention centers and related facilities
5. Hotels, resorts, and recreation facilities
6. General retail stores and shops like:
a. bookstore and office supply shops
b. home appliance centers
c. car sales, repair and display shops
d. photo shops
e. flower shops
7. Food markets and shops like:
a. bakeries and bake shops
b. wine stores
c. groceries
d. supermarkets
8. Personal services shops like:
a. beauty parlors
b. barber shops
c. sauna baths and massage clinics
d. dressmaking and tailoring shops
9. Recreational center/establishments like:
a. play court e.g. tennis court, bowling lane, billiard hall
b. swimming pool
c. stadium, coliseum, gymnasium
10. Restaurants and other eateries

11. Short term special education like:

a. dancing schools
b. school for self-defense
c. driving schools
d. speech clinics
e. computer training schools
12. Commercial housing like:
a. Hotels and motels
b. Apartments and apartelles
c. Boarding houses, dormitories and pension houses
13. Medical/dental clinics
14. Vocational/technical school
15. Messengerial services
16. Security agencies
17. Janitorial services
18. Bank and other financial institutions
19. Radio and television stations

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20. Building garage, parking lot and the like
21. Bakery and baking of bread, cake, pastries, pies and other similar perishable
products
22. Custom dressmaking shop
23. Custom tailoring shop
24. Commercial and job printing
25. Typing and photo engraving services
26. Repair of optical instruments and equipment and cameras
27. Repair of clocks and watches
28. Manufacture of insignia, badges and similar emblems except metal
29. Printing/publishing
30. Machinery display shop/center
31. Printing and publishing of books and pamphlets, printing cards and stationary
32. Manufacture of signs and advertising displays (except printed)
33. Manufacture of wood furniture including upholstery
34. Manufacture of rattan furniture including upholstery
35. Manufacture of box beds and mattresses
36. Chicharon factory
37. Bakery and shops for baking of bread, cakes, pastries, pies and other similar
perishable products; biscuit factory for manufacture of biscuits, cookies, crackers;
doughnuts and hopia factory and other similar dried bakery products
38. Repacking of food products e.g. fruits, vegetable, sugar and other related
products
39. Plant Nursery
40. Scientific, cultural and academic centers and research facilities, except nuclear,
radioactive, chemical and biological warfare activities.
41. Nursery/Elementary School
42. High School
43. Universities/Colleges
44. Sports Club
45. Religious Use
46. Multi-purpose hall/barangay hall
47. Clinic, nursing and convalescing home, health center
48. General hospital/Medical Centers/Multi-purpose Clinics
49. Resort areas including accessory uses
50. Open air or outdoor sports activities and support facilities, including low rise
stadia, gyms, amphitheaters and swimming pools
51. Printing, publishing and allied industries and those n.e.c.
52. Manufacture of signs and advertising displays (except printed)
53. Cultivation, raising and growing of staple crops such as rice, corn, camote,
cassava and the like
54. Growing of diversified plants and trees, such as fruit and flower bearing trees,
coffee, tobacco, etc.

The following uses/ activities/ projects maybe allowed in GDZ-2 subject to

compliance with the applicable provision of the existing laws and ordinances and the
requirements of the concerned government agencies:

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1. Repair shops like:
a. House appliances repair shops
b. Motor vehicles and accessory repair shops
c. Home furnishing shops
2. Filling/ service stations
3. Gravel and Sand
4. Computer shop/ internet café
5. Lumber yard/ hardware
6. Welding shops
7. Machine shop service operation/repairing/rebuilding, or custom job orders
8. Junk shop
9. Car/vehicle body building/painting
10. Storerooms/ warehouses but only as maybe necessary for the efficient conduct of
the business
11. Carwash
12. Repair of motorcycles
13. Lechon or whole pig roasting
14. Transportation terminals/ garage with or without repair
15. Parking lots/ garage facilities
16. Parks/ gardens
17. Memorial/ shrines monuments, kiosks and other park structures
18. Small/ medium scale manufacturers of ice cream
19. Silviculture, mushroom culture, fishing and fish culture, snake culture and the like
20. Customary support facilities such as palay dryers and rice threshers and storage
barns and warehouses
21. Agricultural research and experimentation facilities such as breeding stations, fish
farms, nurseries, demonstration farms, etc.
22. Pastoral activities such as goat raising and cattle fattening
23. Golf courses, ball courts, race tracks and similar uses.
24. Other similar uses/ activities/ projects

All existing light (I-1) and medium (I-2) industries within the GDZ-2 may be allowed to
remain the period of which shall be determined by the City Zoning Board of
Adjustment and Appeals (CZBAA) provided however, that no expansion of whatever
nature will be permitted and the necessary waste water treatment facility be installed
and properly operated to regulate effluent emanating from these industries.

B. Area coverage of zone concern are as follows:

ZONE AREA (HAS) % SHARE

GDZ – 2 2,070.55 7.26

TOTAL 2,070.55 7.26

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C. General Zone Regulations:

a. Parking

- Parking requirements shall be per the required parking and loading space
provided on Article VII, Section 46 of this Ordinance.

- Parking areas and slots shall be clearly marked in order to provide sufficient
guidance to the users and passers-by alike; signs shall be unobtrusive but
shall clearly define entry and exit points.

- Parking spaces shall have distinct entry and exit points and shall, to the
extent possible, be buffered from the sidewalk by visual barriers such as
planting strips.

- There shall be a distinct delineation between sidewalks and parking spaces

and the latter shall in no case occupy space allotted to the former.

- Open and non-landscaped parking lots are discouraged. Should open-lot

parking be provided, these shall be so landscaped to have a park-like
character.

b. Landscaping

- All large-scale development proposals shall be accompanied by a

landscaping plan for review and approval of the City Planning & Development
Coordinator / Zoning Administrator.
Each development is required to comply with the applicable provisions of the
Batangas City Environmental Code.

c.. Fencing

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 - Undeveloped properties may be fenced-off by concrete, hollow block or
similar materials having a maximum height of 2.40 meters from the sidewalk
level.

- Fences shall in no manner obstruct the flow of pedestrian traffic along the
sidewalk.

d. Skywalks

- The construction of skywalks linking major development is encouraged.

Planning and design shall, however, put an important consideration on
possible view obstructions which shall be avoided.

e. Abutments

- No abutments on property lines fronting any street are allowed

ZONE/DISTRICT AREA COVERAGE

ZONE AREA SHARE (%)

(HAS)

1. Primary Urban Core Zone

a. PUCZ - 1 589.10 2.06

b. PUCZ - 2 263.40 0.92

2. Secondary Urban Core Zone 1,268.50 4.44

Special Entertainment Zone 5.88 0.02

3. General Development Zone

a. GDZ - 1 978.90 3.43

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 b. GDZ - 2 2,070.55 7.26

c. GDZ - 3 1,026.20 3.60

4. Socialized Housing Zone 35.59 0.13

5. Light Industrial Zone 736.52 2.58

6. Heavy Industrial Zone 1,549.45 5.43

7. Port Zone 161.80 0.56

8. Eco-Tourism Development Zone 1,054.00 3.70

9. Agricultural Development Zone 7,743.75 27.13

10. Agro-Industrial Zone 486.30 1.70

11. Agro-Forestry Zone 5,523.00 19.35

12. Forest/Watershed Management Zone 4,125.18 14.46

13. Swamps/Marshes Zone 144.48 0.51

14. Special Land Use Zone 20.18 0.07

15. Infrastructure (Road/Bridges) 634.96 2.22

16. Calumpang River, other River and 123.70 0.43

their Tributaries Zone

TOTAL 28,541.44 100.00

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4.11 Population Composition

For this planning exercise, the projected population for 2010 is 91,641 for the

municipality of San Juan, Batangas.The local government agreed to use the growth

rates between censal years 1995 and 2007 and derived a growth rate of 1.64%.

Age Dependency Ratio

Age dependency ratio indicates the extent to which those who are too young or

too old to earn a living depend for support on those who earn. In San Juan, total

dependency ratio is 79.16%. Young dependency ratio is 69.96% while old

dependency ratio is 9.20%.

4.12 Surface Drainage

Several rivers drain the municipality. These are: Malaking Ilog Lawaye River,

Calubcub River and Abung River, Bolbok River, Putingbuhangin River, Quipot River

and Laiya River. Laiya River empties at Sigayan Bay on the Verde Island passage,

northern tip of the municipality. Creeks branch out from these water bodies to drain to

other parts of the municipality. The most notable of which are Libato and Mapagong

Creeks. These waterbodies aid very much in the agricultural activities of the

municipality.

4.13 Population Structure

For the year 2016, the projected population of Batangas City based from CY
2010 POPCEN of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is 346,756 with a
population growth rate of 2.13%. By referring to Table 1, it can be noted that
Brgy. Sta. Rita Karsada has the biggest population with 19,254 while
Barangay 17, an urban barangay has the smallest population of 118.

Urban – Rural Distribution

In addition to the 24 barangays in the Poblacion are the 18 urbanizing barangays,
namely; Alangilan, Balagtas, Banaba South, Bolbok, Calicanto, Cuta, Gulod
Itaas, Gulod Labac, Kumintang Ibaba, Kumintang Ilaya, Libjo, Malitam,

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Pallocan Kanluran, San Isidro, Sta. Clara, Sta. Rita Aplaya, Sta. Rita Karsada and
Wawa. These barangays are situated within the immediate periphery of the
poblacion. 

Urban population is 193,292 while rural population is 151,496 representing 56.06%

and 43.94% respectively of the total city population.

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Birth and Death
As per the record of the Office of the City Civil Registrar, a total of 9,227 babies were
born and 4,106 persons died in CY 2016. Statistics showed that in both birth and
death registries, the males have always the higher number. In the case of fetal death,
out of 74 fetal deaths, male were 48 and female 26.

Table 12 shows that for all age brackets; ages 0 to 80, male death is dominant over
the female with a total of 2,239 or 61.17%. While in age brackets of 81 to 110,
females has the highest number of death with the total of 282 or 63.23%.

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Fertility Rate
The total fertility rate or the number of children born to a woman was projected to
decrease from 3,230 children per thousand women or 3.23 children per thousand
women in 1995 to 2.81 children per thousand women as of the year 2000.

Life Expectancy at Birth

As of year 2000, the estimated life expectancy at birth for most Batangas City
residents is 66 years for male and 73 years for female.

4.14 Social Sector

Solid Waste Facilities

The City’s Solid Waste Management Program has an annual budget of about
P71,496,400 for CY 2007. Its service income in 2007 from garbage fee was
P5,650,875. Total expenditure on waste management and garbage disposal
program for the same year was reported at P64,222,922.
Solid wastes collected in the City are disposed in the controlled dumpsites located
in San Jose Sico. The recyclable materials are sorted out and stored in the MRF
of the dumpsite. The dumpsite is run and managed by the San Jose Sico Landfill
Multi-Purpose Cooperative, which is registered with the Cooperative Development
Authority (CDA). Each member of the cooperative pays annually an amount of
P2,000 for membership and they receive dividends at the end of the year based
on the earnings of the cooperative. The Sico Cooperative has 106 members in
2007.
As of 2009, the Sico dumpsite has the following equipment and machines:

1) Hammer Mill Machine - one is working while the other one needs repair
because of oil leak.
2) Conveyors are working.
3) Trommel Screen is working.
4) Composters - 14 out of 28 are working
5) Hollow Block Molder is working but is currently not being used.
6) Bailing Machine is working but is not used because of low power supply in
the area.
The PSMU has 11 dump trucks that are used for collecting solid wastes in the City
(Table 1). These trucks with capacities ranging from 2 to 25 cu.m. were donated
by the Japanese Government. The PSMU also employed, on a contractual basis,
100 street sweepers, 61 truck helpers/crew, and 26 drivers. These personnel work
in three shifts with 8 working hours a day throughout the week.

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WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL
About 52% of the barangays in the City are not covered by its waste collection
service. This means that the solid wastes generated by about half of the
barangays are not collected by the City’s garbage trucks and there is no
information on how the uncollected wastes are disposed by the households. Some
unverified reports say that the households in these barangays either bury, burn or
dump their wastes in their backyard or nearby open spaces.
The wastes disposed in the controlled dumpsite were noted to be not segregated
or sorted. This confirms the information obtained by the study from various

sources that households do not sort their wastes before giving them to the
garbage collectors.
Garbage truck collectors sort out some of the wastes in the truck and collect for
themselves the recyclables. Sorting is also done in San Jose Sico MRF mainly for
the processing of biodegradable wastes. The sorted recyclables in the MRF are
sold to the Sico Cooperative. The sorters at MRF earns at an average of P500 per
month from these recyclables.
The volume of solid wastes disposed on the existing dumpsite is a mixture of
biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. The waste characterization study
conducted in 2006 by the City ENRO revealed that about 56% of the total volume
of solid wastes disposed in the dumpsite was mainly comprised of a large amount
Of biodegradables consisting of yard, food and wood waste. Only a small volume
Of plastic, metals, bottles and papers was found. Hard plastics, bottles and metals
Are sorted out and collected by the personnel of the Sico Cooperative and sold to
Junkshops.
There is presently no close monitoring done in the handling and disposal of
Special wastes such as toxic and hazardous wastes generated by industries and
Hospitals. Many of the industries and few hospitals are reported to have their
Private contractors that collect and treat their toxic and hazardous wastes. Private
Haulers of industries dispose their regular solid wastes in the Sico dumpsite.
However, it was reported that a number of hospitals/clinics dispose their toxic and
Hazardous wastes together with their ordinary wastes in the Sico dumpsite.

4.16 User’s Analysis

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User’s Demography

Demography is concerned with the collection and analysis of data relating to

population indicators and interpretation of these data against social, biological,

economic, political, geographical, ecological and historical background. The size,

structure and distribution of the population must be considered in prospective

planning. Therefore, the study of population is very important in any planning

exercise.

4.17 Site Selection

The researcher have studied and choose the best project site in able to

sustain the needs of the future “Hotel and Adventure Park Resort”

Site Criteria

General Criteria

Orientation – The site must be oriented the way the proposed structure and

the user may benefit a comfortable way like sun path and

prevailing winds.

Accessibility – The site must be capable of being reached.

Vegetation– The site must have an existing plant life or total plant cover.

Availability – The site must deal with the presence of important utilities like,

water supply, power supply, existing drainage and mobile

phone or telephone connections.

Flexibility – The site must have sufficient size and space which can adapt

changes for future expansions or redevelopment.

Visibility – The site must be capable of being readily noticed and the place

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 must be well-known.

Security and Safety – The site must have the capability to safeguard life

from hazard risks of accidents and natural calamities.

Feasibility – The site must be capable of assuring the developments to

Generate income.

System of Evaluation and Rating

Table 17.0 Site Selectin

RATE
Factors
SITE
Orientation 3

Accessibility 3

Vegetation 3

Availability 3

Water Supply 3

Power Supply 3

Existing Drainage 3

Telephone Conn 3

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 Flexibility 2

Visibility 2

Security & Safety 3

Feasibility 3

Total 38

Legend: 3 – Perfect 2 – Good 1 – Poor

4.18 Site Justification

After a certain studies and observation the proponent have proven that the

Site A which is located at Barangay Tabangao Aplaya, Batangas City will be a

perfect location for the project “Disaster Training Center”, for having the most of the

criteria needed.

The selected site is efficient access at the Batangas City main road which

can only takes for about 2 Hours and 30 minutes of travel from Star Tollway. The

area also have nice views of mountains which can see the Island of Isla Verde and

other mountain view of Mindoro and Marinduque. The site also has an existing

supply of water and power and telephone connections

Technical Description

Table 18.0

STATION DIMENSION ANGLE

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1-2 1002.57 m S 28O 51’ W

2-3 115.00 m S 55O01’ E

3-4 110.87 m S 55O01’ E

4-5 50.00 m S 55O01’ E

5-6 35.89 m S 54O30’ E

6-7 7.19 m S 37O22’ E

7-8 20.84 m S 0O15’ W

8-9 37.02 S 31O02’ E

9-10 15. 63 m S 42O15’ E

10-11 35.28 m N 78O32’ E

11-12 26.85 m S 38O37’ E

12-13 19.36 m S 15O35’ W

13-14 44.00 m S 11O17’ E

14-15 37.79 m S 41O40’ E

15-16 29.84 m S 46O23’ E

16-17 21.74 m S 72O08’ E

17-18 24.62 m S 54O25’ E

18-19 3.19 m S 09O01’ W

19-20 194.74 m S 21O19’ W

20-21 36.12 m S 24O28’ W

21-22 20.93 m S 22O42’ W

22-23 32.52 m N 68O51’ W

23-24 26.93 m N 62O05’ W

24-25 32.09 m N 45O30’ W

25-26 27.87 m N 54O55’ W

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26-27 18.64 m N 51O12’ W

27-28 37.54 m N 42O04’ W

28-29 24.57 m N 27O59’ W

29-30 29.05 m N 31O59’ W

30-31 15.14 m N 13O34’ W

31-32 40.48 m N 37O38’ W

32-33 27.81 m N 38O33’ W

33-34 23.26 m N 61O59’ W

34-35 26.84 m N 58O44’ W

35-36 46.10 m N 62O57’ W

36-37 14.27 m S 89O38’ W

37-38 21.21 m N 29O21’ W

38-39 10.78 m N 49O17’ W

39-40 7.39 m S 86O49’ W

40-41 19.66 m N 42O23’ W

41-42 9.96 m N 28O02’ W

42-43 32.14 m N 23O16’ W

43-44 13.48 m N 05O35’ W

44-45 27.79 m N 24O03’ W

45-46 25.28 m N 34O55’ W

46-47 32.11 m N 45O14’ W

47-48 34.14 m N 56O25’ W

48-49 46.02 m N 63O12’ W

49-50 8.10 m N 61O20’ W

50-51 46.36 m N 43O20’ W

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 51-52 17.16 m N 35O44’ W

52-53 19.26 m N 41O52’ W

53-54 13.48 m N 32O09’ W

54-55 28.37 m N 74O13’ W

55-56 16.23 m N 75O22’ W

56-57 36.31 m N 53O49’ W

57-58 14.17 m N 37O59’ W

58-59 18.79 m N 43O41’ W

59-60 41.22 m N 50O53’ W

60-61 16.99 m N 41O35’ W

61-62 14.62 m N 43O35’ W

62-63 21.14 m N 30O09’ W

63-64 18.41 m N 35O35’ W

64-65 118.09 m N 44O32’ E

65-66 65.74 m N 35O04’ E

66-67 10.00 m S 54O59’ E

67-68 70.00 m S 54O59’ E

68-69 83.00 m S 54O59’ E

69-1 163.08 S 54O59’ E

TOTAL sqm: 224,958 sqm

4.19 Site Location

4.20 Site Pictures

4.21 Site Data

 Size of the Lot

The lot area of the selected site is 224,958 sq. meters.

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 Shape of the Lot

The lot is in irregular shape but almost trapezoidal.

 Topography

The site is a flat level type of land in near beach and slightly slope after the road.

 Bounding Streets

The northern part of the site is creek. Verde Island passage at its coast line in the

North East side of it.

 Existing Features

A view of mountains of Mindoro and the island of Verde Island.

There’s a road that donated by the owner of it and abandoned resort.

4.22 Site Analysis

Figure 17 Wind and Sun path Analysis

4.23 SWOT ANALYSIS

Strength

 It is near at Manila where foreign customers can easily get into its

location.

 The soothing climate of Batangas.

 The flat level of land of the site in near beach.

 The mountain views of the near provinces and islands.

Weakness

 Possible environmental degradation and disturbance during the

development.

Opportunities

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 It will provide jobs for Batangas resident.

 It will increase local revenues due to the number of tourists to visit.

 It will promote the current level of Rescuer and disaster awareness in the

Philippines.

 The opportunity to be a well-known tourist attraction due to its unique

services and facilities.

Threat

 The traffic in Don Ramos, near at SM City Batangas.

4.24 Summary of Site Analysis

The site’s perfect weather, views and topographic settings made the project

more feasible for the “Disaster Training Center”. The Project will provide more

opportunities, jobs and increase local awareness for the residents of the area. Its

local revenue will increase. It will increase the possibility to be a well-known tourist

destination for a Disaster Training Center all in one package that will promote tourism

and awareness of disaster in the Philippines.

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