CLUP Rodriguez

Municipality of Rodriguez
Comprehensive Land Use Plan

2012-2022
Republic of the Philippines
MUNICIPALITY OF RODRIGUEZ
COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN

(2012-2022)
M unicipality of Rodriguez
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Message from the Municipal Mayor
It is with great pride and honor to

present the Comprehensive Land
Use Plan (CLUP) of Rodriguez
which embodies our Ideals and
Vision as a people and as a
municipality.
In the next ten years (2012 – 2022),

the development framework of our
municipality would be guided by the
CLUP to attain sustainable
economic growth through the
prudent allocation of our municipal
land resources in order to achieve their highest and best use.
The spatial strategy we have chosen, Linked-Nodes Development,

promotes interconnectedness among land uses, infrastructures and
utilities through densification of our existing urban areas to protect and
conserve those lands devoted for agriculture, eco-tourism and forestry.
Thus, we shall endeavor to keep the balance between bolstering the
sustenance of our economic drivers and providing the essential services
to our constituents.
Through our CLUP, we also hope to address prevailing issues, such as

natural hazards, conflicting land uses and ecological wastes. In the same
manner, respond to existing concerns like the provision of livelihood and
generation of additional employment opportunities to cater to the ever –
increasing labor supply due to our growing population.
It is our fervent aspiration to see the concerted efforts of our local officials
and the unwavering support of our constituents, as we stride to move
onward to realize our Vision by 2020.
Mabuhay Rodriguez!
HON. CECILIO C. HERNANDEZ

Municipal Mayor
Chair, Local Development Council
MESSAGE FROM THE MUNICIPAL MAYOR

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Message from the Municipal Vice-Mayor
The Comprehensive Land Use Plan

(CLUP) 2012 – 2022 of Rodriguez is a
collective effort among various
stakeholders and the local government
to chart the prospective sustainable
development for the people of
Rodriguez at the end of the planning
horizon.
The CLUP of our municipality entails

the judicious and efficient manner of
apportioning the land resources of the
municipality among various uses and
requirements to drive future initiatives
aimed at advancing the growth and
development of the municipality.
The Sangguniang Bayan is very keen on supporting any effort of the

incumbent administration in ensuring a secured future of the municipality,
especially in crafting the CLUP. Thus, it expedited the approval of
adopting the CLUP to make it legally enforceable.
We will continue to support the CLUP until the implementation phase and
beyond through the enactment of the Zoning Ordinance which would
regulate future land uses and their accompanying activities in our
municipality.
Thus, we enjoin our constituents and stakeholders of steadfast support as

we traverse the chosen path defined by our land use plan.
Thank you.
HON. JONAS J. CRUZ

Municipal Vice – Mayor
Presiding Officer, Sangguniang Bayan
MESSAGE FROM THE MUNICIPAL VICE-MAYOR

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FOREWORD
The Comprehensive Land Use Plan (2012-2022) of the Municipality of Rodriguez is a product of a
multi-stakeholder effort that seeks to determine the best possible uses of land for the next ten (10)
years.
The primary purpose of this CLUP is to manage growth so that it would enhance overall quality of
life. Such quality of life is defined by residents themselves through a particip atory process. The
plan addresses specific spatial issues concerning the physical, economic, and demographic growth
of the town, namely:
a. chronic vulnerability to multiple natural hazards that pose constraints to overall

development;
b. anticipated physical and economic changes arising from national infrastructure projects
such as the Circumferential Road-6 and the DPWH Flood Control Master Plan 2012-2025;
c. participation of the town in the effort to save shrinking forest cover as expressed in the
Physical Framework Plan of the Province of Rizal for 2008-2013 and the recent
Comprehensive Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape Management Plan; and
d. dramatic leaps in the numbers of relocates originating from the National Capital Region as
a result of the national government’s relocation projects.
After considering some future scenarios, local stakeholders unanimously adopted a Linked Nodes
Strategy that identified several growth points whose strategic connections would lead to
sustainable development.
On built-up areas where the Urban Core Zone is located, settlements and commercial
developments shall be consolidated especially in Barangays San Jose and San Isidro. Land
banking of vacant lands shall be considered. Medium-rise housing on suitable sites and in a
manner compatible with the transformation of chronically-flooded areas into flood control facilities
by the DPWH shall be pursued. Open spaces shall serve as a lifeline zone (evacuation area) in
compliance with PD1566. All types of structures which insist on occupying high-flood-hazard areas
shall be subject to stricter LGU regulation including risk-proportional levies to compensate for LGU
costs and LGU burdens in disaster management.
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The Mixed Use Urban Zone shall consolidate current commercial are as of urban barangays into
one contiguous area, where residential, institutional, educational, medical, recreational and other
compatible uses are permitted side by side with commerce and trade. Urban design of this
‘compact development’ shall consciously foster ‘Pride of Place’. Linking the western and eastern
banks of Marikina River with a high-quality bridge can improve access of low-income groups to the
Urban Core Zone and thus intensify commerce. Mixed Use Development or PUD shall be
expanded to cover commercial areas in the San Jose-San Isidro as possible magnet for new
enterprises seeking to serve the large populations of these two barangays. All firms that will be
located here with a gross area of at least 250-square meters shall be required to adopt ‘green
infrastructure’ features such as porous pavements for groundwater infiltration, rainwater harvesting,
green roofs and green walls.
A Tourism Infrastructure Area where tourism activities shall be unified into an ‘Eco -Tourism
Corridor’ shall integrate into one corridor such travel attractions as Wawa Dam, Avilon Zoo, private
resorts, viewscapes, and the like, to boost visitor travel to Rodriguez. Linear parks and bicycle
lanes shall be created in riverside spaces that will be vacated by informal settlers in Brgys Burgos,
Manggahan, Rosario, Balite, Geronimo, San Jose, San Isidro, and San Rafael. These shall serve
as the “green (tourism) corridor” and open spaces which shall double as levees for flood -
prevention. It shall be complemented by the Eco -Restoration Zone composed of buffers to the
Marikina Watershed Forest Reserves and that of the fault lines, mining and quarrying buffers.
Agriculture cum Agro-industrial and Industrial Area including the CARP and SAFDZ lands in
various barangays of Rodriguez shall serve as the town’s ‘food basket’ in pursuance of ‘food
security’. These zones shall prioritize crop cultivation, backyard fisheries, and agro -processing
industries that add value to farm products. With adequate environmental safeguards, it shall
accommodate piggeries, poultries, and the raising of cattle, goats, other ruminants, free -range
fowls, and the like. Special Economic zones form part and parcel of these areas to expand and
diversify economic activities.
Forest and Watershed Protection shall be relentlessly pursued in this plane especially on critical
slopes and denuded forestlands which dump storm runoff into the Marikina River. Wildlife corridors,
timberland, fruit farms, and tree parks to envelop and protect built-up areas shall be prioritized on
sensitive sites such as sanitary landfills, abandoned mining sites, and existing quarry areas to
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reduce disaster vulnerability of population in low-lying areas. The goals for these areas and zones
shall dovetail with those of EO 26 on National Greening Program 2011-2016.
The CLUP’s total strategy is to combat ‘sprawl’ and to arrest the arbitrary unplanned siting of
homes, firms, and factories in formless scatter. ‘Sprawl’ diminishes ecological security as it pushes
the land frontier farther out and encroaches upon environmentally-critical and naturally-hazardous
sections of territory.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The crafting of this Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) is a multi-sectoral effort and a product
of the collaboration between the local authorities, public and private stakeholders, office chiefs and
personnel, and concerned citizens of the Municipality of Rodriguez.
The framers of this CLUP would like to express gratitude to all the people, agencies, and
organizations who made this document possible:
The Local Chief Executives and Legislative Officers: Hon. Mayor Cecilio C. Hernandez, Hon. Vice
Mayor Jonas J. Cruz, Atty. Pascual De Guzman, Municipal Administrator; Jose Luis Papica,
Administrative Assistant; Municipal Council Members: Hon. Mario Roderick C. Lazarte, Hon.
Emiliano Manuel, ABC Chairman, Hon. Leonilo S. Manuel, Hon. Katrina R. Leyva, Hon. Carmelo
DM. Sta. Isabel, Hon. Mark Anthony C. Marcelo, Hon. Arman Leo H. Angeles, Hon. Rommel C.
Ayuson, Hon. Glenn S. Evangelista, Hon. Mark Randolf Gallanosa, SK Federation President – for
providing significant and essential assistance and meaningful guidance leading to the formulation
of this plan.
The Technical Working Group (TWG): Engr. Alexander N. Almario, Municipal Engineer; Mr.
Anselmo Caparas, Municipal Assessor; Ms. Delilah Chua, MSWD; Ms. Lilibeth V. Delgra, SB
Secretary; Engr. Francisco N. Garcia, Jr., MPDC; Mr. Anson Go, Municipal Agriculturist; Ms.
Romena Grace Hernandez, Infirmary; Ms. Lucila A. Jaime, Tourism; Ms. Linda Maňigo, MEDO;
Dr. Anna Elvira Parreňo, RHU; Mr. Dominic Reambillo, HPDO; Mr. Mir San Juan, Solid Waste
Mgmt. Office; Mr. Rouel Santos, GSO/MDRRMC; Ms. Nemencia Sta. Maria, Municipal Treasurer;
Ms. Julieta C. Teschner, MENRO; Mr. Delfin Borras, PESO; Ms. Marilyn A. Granil, MARO; Mr.
Virgilio Vertudez, IPs; Ms. Morenita Eleuterio, HRMO; Ms. Jocelyn Natividad, Municipal
Accountant; Ms. Nora I. Andrade, Municipal Budget Officer; Ms. Erlinda Alvarez, Municipal Civil
Registrar; Dr. Lilia Abella, Pamantasan ng Montalban, and Ms. Andrea Linco, BPLO; Victorio T.
Tanierla, NGO, Wawa Multi-Purpose Cooperative; Andy Onesa, NGO, Kasiglahan Ville TODA;
Leopoldo Del Prado, NGO, SENCIRO; Carlito Lindio, Farmers’ Association; Editha Inocentes,
Women’s Group – for their systematic, knowledgeable and expert recommendations and sensitive
anticipation and provision of necessary documents, files, records and other pertinent information.
The Barangay Chairpersons and their members: Hon. Mark Ronnil C. Hernandez of Barangay
Balite and Erlinda P. Cardenas; Hon. Rosendo C. Cruz of Barangay Burgos, Yvonne A. Palabrica,
Ed Rones, Jose Tulanda; Hon. Anastacio M. Valdez of Barangay Geronimo and Nenita C. Dela
Cruz; Hon. Federico C. Francisco of Barangay Manggahan, Rommel C. Cruz, Armando A Duran
Jr, and Eugenio G. Cruz; Hon. Judith U. Gandia of Barangay Macabud; Jaime S. Pascual, Juanito
P. Catayoc, Analiza S. Montaño, Rolando Gonzales, and Debbie G. Gacita; Hon. Marianito B.
Nicasio of Barangay Mascap and Marvin Rodriguez; Hon. Piloteo Z. Agudez of Barangay Puray
and Melchor SJ Visda; Hon. Emiliano Manuel of Barangay Rosario and Gregorie R. Halili; Hon.
Antonio Jose Umali of Barangay San Jose; Hon. Edgardo Z. Sison of Barangay San Rafael, Robert
Francisco, Eleanor C. Mortiz, Aniceto A. Bautista Jr, and Serafin M. Gariboy, Kagawad; Hon.
Dennis L. Hernandez of Barangay San Isidro, Henry E. Gavilaga, Leopoldo del Prado, NGO, Brgy
San Isidro – for their committed and effective involvement in the initial and crucial development
phases of the planning process.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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The Departments, Sections, and Units Personnel: Joselito Camagay, Fiscal Examiner I, Municipal
Accounting; Jeffrey Linquico, Asst Head, MEO; Jellette P. Julian, Engineer 1, Mun Engineering;
Eugenio G. Cruz, Asst. Head, DA; Juan Nelson Cruz, MENRO; Dr. Ariel Dulay, Municipal Dentist,
RHU; Estelita G Fernando, Planning Officer IV, MPDO and EnP. Lilia P Padilla, Planning Officer III,
MPDO; Msgr Matthew delos Angeles, Head, RMJSU; Dr. Pastor S. Cruz, Head, Office of Senior
Citizens Affairs and Cooperatives Program; Col. Romulo A. Sagun (Ret.), Head RSD; Manny
Torres, Technical Designer, MTO; Jomelyn M. Abuan, MTO; Merle M. Salgado, Principal Engineer,
NHA; Joselito Camagay, Fiscal Examiner I, Municipal Accounting; Gemma C. Cruz, Administrative
Assistant II, Municipal Treasury; Arnel Bautista, Administrative, VMO; Henry Lopez, Admin Aide,
Slaughterhouse; Bernabe Domingo, Market; Jonathan Edwards Olabre, Executive Assistant II,
MDRRMO; Reynan Panadero, BMP; Giovani Belong, GSO; Lovely F. Persia, Nurse, Municipal
Health Office, RHU; Jemar A Dela Cruz, Dental Aide, RHU; Marie Labudahon, Dental Aide, RHU;
Magie Trinidad, photographer, MPAISO; Dong Arevalo Asst Head, Home Owners Association-
Affairs – for extending valuable support, perceptive and sensitive assistance and their collectively
collaborative involvement in various points during the development stage.
To NGOs and Private Development Partners: Roberto Espano, Project Supervisor, and Abelardo
V. Bautista, Project Engineer, JCR Holdings Corp.; Andy L. Onesa, President, Kasiglahan Village -1
TODA, NGO; Rodrigo Mawili, President, and Edmundo Dumaguit, PRO, Phase 5 EPhase 5 E
Home Owners Association; Arch. Ronald A. Santos, and Engr. Jessie Amayo of Borland
Development Corporation; Engr. Andy Argonza, NSJBI; Victorio Tanierla, NGO Representative to
Municipal Development Council, VerdantPoint Development Corp.; BAQUE Development Corp.;
Pamahay Development Corp.; Montalban Real Estate & Development Corp.; APEC Development
Corp.; JCR Development Corp., Landworks Asia Development Corp.; – for dedicating and
considerately creating precious amounts of their personal time to share their expertise and provide
insightful recommendations and astute viewpoints in this worthwhile endeavor.
To all other people, groups, stakeholders, and organizations not mentioned.
Thank you so much. This is your plan – full of hope and prosperity for the future of Rodriguez.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Message from the Municipal Mayor ii
Message from the Municipal Vice-Mayor iii
Foreword iv
Acknowledgement vii
List of Tables xii
List of Figures xiii
Acronyms xiv
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Legal Basis
1.2 Linkages with Other Plans 2
1.3 Guiding Principles 3
1.3.1 Philippine Agenda 21
1.3.2 National Physical Framework Plan 1993-2022 (NPFP) 4
1.3.3 National Framework for Physical Planning, 2001-2030
(NFPP)
Chapter 2 STUDY APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY 6

2.1 Study Organization
2.1.1 Objectives
2.1.2 Teams 7
2.2 Data and Information Gathering
2.3 Situational Analysis 8
2.4 Analytical Framework
Chapter 3 PLANNING ISSUES AND CONCERNS 10

3.1 Social Sector
3.2 Economic Sector 11
3.3 Environment Sector 12
3.4 Physical and Infrastructure Sector 13
3.5 Institutional Sector
3.6 Land Use Conditions 14
3.6.1 Inventory of Urban Land Uses 15
3.6.2 Urban Land Density 16
3.6.3 Land Use Problems, Natural Hazards and Disaster Risks 17
3.6.4 Development Opportunities 20
Chapter 4 VISION, MISSION AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS 22

4.1 Previous Vision Statements of Rodriguez
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4.2 New Vision Statement of the Municipality of Rodriguez

4.2.1 Vision Elements, Descriptors and Success Indicators
4.2.2 Qualities of the Environment and Natural Resources 23
4.2.3 State of the Local Economy
4.2.4 Attributes of the People 24
4.2.5 Character of the Local Government
4.3 Vision–Goals–Key Results Areas 25
4.4 Sectoral Goals, Objectives and Programs / Projects / Activities 27
4.4.1 Social Sector
4.4.2 Environmental Sector 29
4.4.3 Physical and Infrastructure Sector 30
4.4.4 Economic Sector 31
4.4.5 Institutional Sector 32
4.5 Mission Statement 33
Chapter 5 GENERATION AND SELECTION OF ALTERNATIVE SPATIAL 34

STRATEGIES
5.1 Generation of Spatial Strategies
5.1.1 SCENARIO 1: Uncontrolled (“Do-Nothing”) Development
Strategy–Status Quo
5.1.2 SCENARIO 2. Strip Development in Urban Core Strategy 35
5.1.3 SCENARIO 3. Linked-Nodes Development on Protection 36
Zones Strategy
5.2. Evaluation of the Alternative Spatial Strategies 38
Chapter 6 DETAILING OF THE PREFERRED SPATIAL STRATEGY 43

6.1 Spatial Development Strategy
6.2 Linked-Nodes Growth Area Management Strategies 45
6.3 The Structure Plan 48
Chapter 7 THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN 50

7.1 Rationale of the Plan
7.2 Objectives 51
7.3 Existing Land Use Classification
7.4 Future Land Supply Requirements 52
7.5 Urban Land Supply and Demand Evaluation 56
7.6 The Proposed General and Urban Land Uses 57
7.6.1 Built-Up Area 58
7.6.2 Agriculture cum Agro-Industrial and Industrial Area 61
7.6.3 Special Economic Area 63
7.6.4 Tourism Infrastructure Area 64
7.6.5 Eco-Restoration Area 65
7.6.6 Forest and Watershed Protection Area 66
Chapter 8 LOGICAL FRAMEWORK 69
Chapter 9 LAND USE POLICY FRAMEWORK AND SECTORAL PLANNING 72

IMPLICATIONS
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9.1 Policies on Settlements/Resettlements

9.2 Policies on Production Areas 73
9.3 Policies on Physical and Infrastructure Areas
9.4 Policies on Protection Areas 74
9.5 Planning Implications 75
9.5.1 Social Sector
9.5.2 Economic Sector 76
9.5.3 Environment Sector
9.5.4 Physical and Infrastructure Sector 77
9.5.5 Institutional Sector 78
Chapter 10 PLAN IMPLEMENTATION 79

10.1 Zoning Ordinance
10.2 Other Development Controls 80
10.3 Public and Private Investments
Chapter 11 LAND USE PLANNING OPTIONS AND MEASURES ON NATURAL 82

HAZARDS
11.1 Land Use Planning Options and Measures
Chapter 12 RECOMMENDED URBAN DESIGN GUIDELINES 85

12.1 Environmental Context and Urban Character
12.2 Architectural Features for Urban Design Quality 86
12.3 Pedestrian Concerns 88
REFERENCES 89
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 3.1: General Land Classification in Rodriguez, Rizal, 2012

Table 3.2: Inventory of Urban Land in Rodriguez, Rizal, 2012
Table 3.3: Population Density in Urban Barangays
Table 3.4: Total Area of Barangay Affected by Various Hazards in Rodriguez
Table 3.5: Census of Informal Settlers in Rodriguez, 2012
Table 4.1: Vision-Goal-KRAs Matrix
Table 5.1: The Vision Elements of Rodriguez
Table 5.2: Option Evaluation Result (GAM Approach)
Table 6.1: Spatial Strategy Locations and Management Concerns
Table 7.1: Existing General Land Use Classification, Rodriguez
Table 7.2: Inventory of Urban Land Use
Table 7.3: Projected Demand by Year 2022 by Major Urban Land Use Category, FAO Approach
Table 7.4: Supply of Land in Rodriguez
Table 7.5: Proposed General Land Use, Municipality of Rodriguez
Table 8.1: Logical Framework
Table 11.1: Land Use Planning Options and Measures on Natural Hazards
LIST OF TABLES
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 2.1: Framework for Land Use Plan Analysis

Figure 5.1: Spatial Strategy 1
Figure 6.1: The Structure Plan
Figure 7.1: Existing General Land Use Map
Figure 7.2: Existing Urban Land Use Map
Figure 7.3: Proposed General Land Use Map
Figure 7.4: Proposed Urban Land Use Map
LIST OF FIGURES
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ACRONYMS
A&D Alienable and Disposable
ADPC Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
AFMA Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act
AIZ Agro-Industrial Zone
AO Administrative Order
C-6 Circumferential Road 6
CALABARZON Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon
CARP Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
CBD Central Business District
CCW Center/Cluster-Corridor-Wedge
CDP Comprehensive Development Plan
CENRO Community Environment and Natural Resources Office
CLUP Comprehensive Land Use Plan
COMELEC Commission on Elections
DAR Department of Agrarian Reform
DENR Department of Environment and Natural Resources
DILG Department of Interior and Local Government
DPWH Department of Public Works and Highways
DRRM Disaster Risk and Reduction Management
ECAs Environmentally Critical Areas
ELA Executive and Legislative Agenda
EO Executive Order
GAM Goals Achievement Matrix
GIS Geographic Information Services
HLURB Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board
HRD Human Resource Development
HUC Highly Urbanized City
IEC Information, Education, and Communication Campaign
IZ Industrial Zone
KRAs Key Result Area/s
LGC Local Government Code
LGPMS Local Governance Performance Management System
LGU/s Local Government Unit/s
LMB Land Management Bureau
MARILAQUE Marikina-Rizal-Laguna-Quezon
MDRRO Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Office
MENRO Municipal Environment & Natural Resources Officer
MGB Mines and Geosciences Bureau
MPDO Municipal Planning and Development Office
MRF/s Material Recovery Facility/ies
MRT Metro Rail Transit
NAMRIA National Mapping and Resource Information Authority
NBC National Building Code
NCR National Capital Region
NGO Non-Government Organization
NGP National Greening Program
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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
The Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) 2012–2022 of the Municipality of Rodriguez presents
the future state of the LGU within the next 10 years. This is contained in the vision statement
reformulated by the municipality’s stakeholders, where its forthcoming directions for the physical
and socio-economic development, as well as the policies that would guide them, are laid out.
The planning preparation entailed processes and procedures guided by the Department of Interior
and Local Government (DILG) and Housing and Land use Regulatory Board (HLURB) guidelines.
This led to the revisiting, reviewing and reexamining of the previous CLUP of the municipality and
its Zoning Ordinance.
There was also a series of stakeholder consultations and field visits / surveys to validate the
obtained data from various municipal offices and departments and to glean for more information.
The updated CLUP of Rodriguez identified the key growth patterns and growth areas to direct local
development priorities. This made local development investment programming within the planning
horizon more strategic. Also, environmentally critical and constrained areas were delineated based
on their hazardous nature that can cause damage to property and los s of lives. Meanwhile, the
directions of future policies are guided by a framework which was primarily designed to respect the
environment and the protected status of the identified areas in the municipality.
In this time of climate change, characterized by highly unusual meteorological patterns that raise
the likelihood of disastrous events, the CLUP 2012–2022 has even become more important to
Rodriguez to institute preventive measures or adjustments in the physical design of its territory
and in the rational arrangement of its households and communities. Land use planning can
reduce overall vulnerability to disaster because of its anticipatory and futuristic nature. In fact,
the CLUP also mainstreamed environmental protection and conservation, disaster risk reduction
and management, sustainable development, inclusive growth and other principles that promote
local development that is more responsive and proactive.
1.1 Legal Basis
The Local Government Code of 1991 of the Philippines (Republic Act 7160) requires all local
government units (LGUs) to prepare a Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) to ratio nalize
allocation and use of land, water, and environmental resources.
Specifically, Section 20 of the Act directs LGUs to “prepare their respective comprehensive
land use plans enacted through zoning ordinances which shall be the primary and dominant
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bases for determining future use of land and other natural resources.” In Section 109, the Act
further directs LGUs to prepare annual, medium-term, and long-term socio-economic plans
and public investment programs.
This mandate is echoed in Section 39 of Republic Act 7279, otherwise known as the “Urban
Development and Housing Act” which sought to address the concerns of housing and
settlement within the broader view of urban development.
1.2 Linkages with Other Plans
In different periods and plans, Rodriguez had been assigned subordinate roles in relation to
the bigger planning regions that encompassed it, namely: MARILAQUE, RIZLAQUE,
CALABARZON, and Mega Manila Extended Urban Region.
The municipality has often served an ancillary role in the ‘grand scheme of things’. In the
Region IV-A Calabarzon Regional Development Plan 2011-2016, Rodriguez was placed in the
regional ‘CCW’ framework under the category of “corridor”, characterized by diversity,
accessibility and connectivity.
Considering the transport network being created, in connection with Circumferential Road-6
(C-6), Rodriguez, would be a ‘pass-through’ town on the road to Central Luzon’s ‘W’ growth
polygon.
A number of years ago, Proclamation No. 1283 dated June 21, 1974, amended by
Proclamation No. 1637 dated 18 April 1977, and reiterated by Executive Order Number 698
dated January 18, 2008, the Municipality of Rodriguez together with Antipolo City and San
Mateo, constitute the 20,312-hectare “Lungsod Silangan”.
“Lungsod Silangan” is envisioned by Law as a “new Townsite for government employees of

Metro Manila and Rizal province....which will make available at an affordable cost, decent
housing and basic services to the underprivileged and the homeless citizens...under the
principles of economic growth and efficiency, social equity, and justice.”
While lying at the ‘last frontier’ and considered an area of environmental conservation,
Rodriguez continues to serve the urban needs of the larger territory. Among the previous roles
given to Rodriguez were:
 Resettlement Townsite for government employees as part of “Lungsod Silangan”;
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 Receiving town of relocation projects from Metro Manila and from the national
government;
 Host of Regional Sanitary Landfill for solid waste disposal;
 Quarrying capital of Rizal to serve urban construction needs;
 Source of water supply for expanding NCR population;
 “Secondary metropolitan center” under the Province of Rizal Physical Framework Plan
2008-2013; and
 Critical component of DPWH Flood Control Masterplan 2012-2035.
Given recent developments, it is important for the Municipality of Rodriguez to actively define its
own ‘niche’ in relation to the greater territory that envelopes it. Being a rapidly urbanizing town,
growing at a rate four-times faster than the national average, Rodriguez has its own
‘momentum of growth’ and cannot simply be an adjunct or passive receiver of impacts brought
about by external stimuli.
The path to sustainable growth of the Municipality of Rodriguez lies, more and more, in striking
a balance between production, settlement, and protection. Rodriguez needs to pursue a mode
of conservation-oriented development that provides high quality of life for its people while also
creating wealth for an expanding population – through an environment-responsive role that can
have long-lasting benefits.
1.3 Guiding Principles
1.3.1 Philippine Agenda 21. The Philippine Agenda (PA) 21 provides for the policy framework
of the country’s strategy for sustainable development rooted in five go als elements:
Poverty Reduction: Poverty is a central concern of sustainable development. Consistent

with this, PA 21 has a poverty reduction agenda that includes measures to create an
enabling economic environment for sustained and broad -based growth; improve
employment, productivity and income; and attain food security.
Social Equity: Social equity should mean allocation of resources on the bases of
efficiency and equity to achieve balanced development. Efficiency and equity mean the
channeling of resources to developing areas where greater economic benefits accumulate
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and where there is greater need, distribution being dependent on the practicality and
urgency of needs.
Empowerment and Good Governance: Empowerment is a precondition of informal

choices. Good governance is a necessary precondition to empowerment, as
empowerment is to good governance. These two are a defining element of each other.
Peace and Solidarity: The cycle of poverty and conflict goes on as the costs of war
escalate in terms of various kinds of destruction while withholding funds for basic services,
resulting in more poverty and underdevelopment.
Ecological Integrity: In general, the path towards enhancing the integrity of the country’s
ecological domain will have to involve heightened and sustained implementation of
environmental laws, as well as the continued pursuit of sustainable development.
1.3.2 National Physical Framework Plan 1993-2022 (NPFP). The national goals in land
development are articulated, as follows:
1. To effect the rational distribution of population;
2. To meet the needs of food sufficiency and food security consistent with the
principles of sound agricultural development and agrarian reform;
3. To ensure orderly economic growth and balanced and dispersed agri-industrial and eco-
tourism development;
4. To ensure sustainable utilization of natural resources;
5. To maintain and preserve the stability and integrity of the environment;
6. To reduce vulnerability of communities to natural and man-made disasters; and
7. To harmonize the rights and varied interests of every Filipino within the framework of
People Empowerment.
1.3.3 National Framework for Physical Planning, 2001-2030 (NFPP). The principles of
physical planning of the Philippines are contained in this updated Plan.
1. “Food Security”. Utilize the country’s land and water resources in a manner that
provides sufficient and affordable food products to all Filipinos of the present and
future generations through local production and/or importation;
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2. “Environmental Stability and Ecological Integrity”. Achieve environmental stability

through the observance of appropriate standards, and ensuring ecological integrity
through effective natural resource management and balancing the demand of land-
using activities with preservation of ecosystems;
3. “Rational Urban Development”. Encourage the sustainable growth of cities and large
towns while complementing the growth of rural areas by adopting alternative urban
development approaches;
4. “Spatial Integration”. Link consumption and production areas to achieve physical and
economic integration through appropriate infrastructure systems;
5. “Equitable Access to Physical and Natural Resources”. Ensure equitable access to

resources through a just distribution of the country’s resources and by providing equal
opportunities to all Filipinos in the use and acquisition of land and other resources;
6. “Private-Public Partnership”. Encourage shared responsibility between the

government and the private sector in the development and management of the
country’s physical resources;
7. “People Empowerment”. Establish appropriate, flexible and dynamic structures or

mechanisms that increase participation of key stakeholders.
8. “Recognition of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. Ensure the indigenous people’s

right to develop, control and use lands within their ancestral domain; and
9. “Market Orientation”. Adopt the interplay of market forces within the framework of
ecological and intergenerational factors as a basic parameter in the allocation and use
of land and physical resources.”
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2
STUDY APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY
The preparation and the consequent formulation the Comprehensive Land use Plan (CLUP) 2012
– 2022 followed an approach and methodology akin to existing guidebooks and land use planning
manuals of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and that of the Housing and
Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB).
2.1 Study Organization
This phase of the preparation included the setting of objectives and organizing the different
teams to undertake the planning activities and provide the necessary administrative and
logistics supports.
2.1.1 Objectives. The specific objectives framed are the following:
a. Identification of key growth patterns and growth areas in the Municipality where local
development priorities shall be directed.
b. Identification of special development areas for strategic program development and

investment planning.
c. Identification of environmentally constrained areas for protection, conservation,

mitigation in compliance with disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation
biodiversity conservation, sustainable development and other relevant policies.
d. Identification of areas where particular types of land use should be allowed,

disallowed, restricted, encouraged and promoted.
e. Develop policies, programs and actions for the protection of the municipality’s built
environment such as residential and institutional areas, tourism sites, etc.
f. Develop strategic program for the conservation of the municipality’s natural
environment.
g. Mainstream Environmental Protection and Conservation, Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management, Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainable Development, Gender and
Development, Poverty Reduction, Inclusive Development and other relevant policies
and principles into its local development and physical planning process.
h. Propose appropriate long-term programs, actions and strategies for the sustainable
growth and development of Rodriguez.

2.1.2 Teams. The following are the organized teams’ functions and their members:
a. Advisory Group. This Group provided policy-level guidance, recommendations,

advice and direction to the planning team. The advisory group is composed of selected
high level municipal officials and chaired by the Municipal Mayor Hon. Cecilio C.
Hernandez. The members Municipal Councilors, heads of the Municipal Departments
and Units and key representatives from civil-society organizations and business
groups operating within Rodriguez completed this group.
b. Technical Working Group (TWG). This team provided information, knowledge and
data needed for the CLUP presentation. A core group from the TWG was formed to
serve as the secretariat and provided the technical and logistical suppo rt for the
preparation activities.
The TWG was further divided into five sub-groups to cover the five sectors that they
represented. These are: Economic Councilor, department heads/Reps from PESO,
Accounting/Business Permits, Agriculture, Assessor’s, NIA, and Tourism; Social-
Councilor, department heads/Reps from Health, Census, COMELEC, Education, PNP,
Urban Poor Affairs, Housing, and Barangay Captain; Infrastructure Councilor,
department heads/Reps from Engineering, MPDO, Building Official, and Barangay
Captain; Physical-Environmental Councilor, department heads/Reps from DRRM,
MENRO, Engineering, NIA, MPDO, etc.; and Institutional sectors’ Council/Sanggunian
Secretary, representatives from Office of the Mayor, Councilors/Local Bodies head and
members, Accounting, Budget, Barangay Captain, etc. Other members came from
heads of different civic and non-government organizations in the municipality.
c. Planning Team. This team was in charge of conducting and validating the results of
the data analysis. They also processed these results, along with those gathered after
public consultations, to formulate, refine and detail the municipal spatial strategies.
The members were the consultant – planners, local municipal planners, the TWG Core
Group, and other municipal personnel and stakeholders as determined by the Advisory
Group.
2. 2 Data and Information Gathering
a. Reconnaissance/Windshield survey. This was conducted on April 25, 2012 the purpose
of which was to visit identified areas of the municipality, particularly the barangays of
Macabud and San Isidro. The activity also enabled the observation of how the settlements
and relocation areas were sited and how the housing development is being undertaken in
the municipality.

b. Secondary data. Electronic files containing relevant data and information of the
municipality were shared to the study team through the Municipal Planning and
Development Office. It also included the provision of flood hazard and detailed landslide
maps. Other secondary data were obtained from the Provincial Government of Rizal,
National Statistics Office, and other institutions.
c. Field Visits. This allowed the observation of the physical characteristics, built environment
and utilities such as road networks, water supply, communication facilities and power
infrastructures. The consultants used a base map to indicate essential information.
d. Public Consultation. Stakeholders of the municipality, including local officials, were

consulted on the municipality’s long-standing history particularly how development evolved
through time. Certain issues and concerns were also generated which were considered
during data analysis.
2.3 Situational Analysis
This phase studied the past, examined the present, and contemplated on the future directions
of Rodriguez based on the processed data and information. It also highlighted the different
futuristic roles that the municipality may play in a bigger picture, considering that it is part of a
bigger spatial scale, as a municipality of Rizal Province and Region IV-A. It was also explored
how it shall influence the proximate Metro Manila and the National Capital Region (NCR) and
vice versa.
There were other tools used to simplify the processes involved in the entire situational
analysis. The problem tree analysis was used to examine issues and problems that beset the
LGU. The SWOT analysis was employed to examine the strength, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats that confronted Rodriguez, and then cross-sectoral analysis was used to determine
the common and overlapping concerns between and among sectors involved. The Situational
Analysis Report (SAR) detailing the sectoral characteristics, various development issues and
concerns, which critically underscore the natural hazards and disaster risks present in the
municipality; and the plan base forms part of this CLUP.
2.4 Analytical Framework
Data analysis was done considering the past, current and projected data on different sectors
such as: social, economic, environment, institutional and infrastructure, were gathered and
computed to obtain relevant information within the planning horizon. These pieces of

information were then analyzed to determine the extent of how developments in these sectors
affect the use of land. This is illustrated in the figure below.
Figure 2.1: Framework for Land Use Plan Analysis

Chapter 3
PLANNING ISSUES AND CONCERNS
Sectoral issues and concerns were cropped during public consultations and validated when field
surveys were conducted. They were considered when the vision statement was made and during
the formulation of development goals, objectives and programs / projects /activities.
3.1 Social Sector
1. Poverty and unemployment. The lack of work opportunities, skills and knowledge and
low educational attainment that characterize both the educational and labor sectors of the
municipality resulted to the municipality’s drawback in its human development effort. This is
more apparent in relocation settlements where almost half of the population there are poor and
unemployed. This can be attributed to the inability of the local government to establish or
facilitate employment opportunities near relocation sites.
2. Low level educational attainment of the population. The 1997 data in education for the
municipality’s population with ages five years and over show that more than half of them have
completed or are still completing the basic education only. In the survey, 30.81% and 37.62%
were bracketed in the elementary education and secondary education, respectively. The
academic degree holder accounted for only 8.25% while 5.6 % of the population has not gone
to school at all.
3. Deteriorating peace and order and rise in crimes. It has been observed that the number
of offenses and crimes increased in recent years. Crimes carried out by gangs, such as ‘akyat-
bahay’ and other similar groups are present in the locality enticing the youths to join them. The
registered crime victims in 2010 alone were recorded at 1,113 but it dropped sharply to 638 in
2011.
4. Highly increasing population growth rate. The historical population growth rates from
selected NSO census years 2000, 2007 and 2010 show that the municipality surged to more
than double the rates of the province and that of other city / municipalities. The highest
recorded rate was in 2007 at 9.94% while the province had only 4.25%. It went down to 7.9%
in 2010 while the province’s rate also dipped to 2.8%. These years also saw some
resettlement activities in the municipality as a strategy to decongest Metro Manila from informal
settlers, over populated areas, and hazard zones, etc. which added to the natural annual
growth.
PLANNING SSUES AND CONCERNS

5. Uncontrolled urbanization which bred housing and job–related problems. It can be

recalled that former President Gloria M. Arroyo issued EO 698 on September 9, 2002 which
strengthened the earlier issued Presidential Proclamation No. 1637 s. 1977 that increased the
reserved area for the Lungsod Silangan Townsite Reservation to 20,312 hectares comprising
portions of Antipolo City, San Mateo and Rodriguez. This spurred the indiscriminate
relocation of settlements from Metro Manila to Rodriguez that made the population of the
municipality to soar at an alarming rate of 9.94% in 2007 from 7.65% in 2000. In 2010, the
computed urbanization level of the municipality stood at a high 86.23% which can be
practically ascribed to the sudden rise of the municipality’s population in a short span of time.
As a result, there are too many unskilled workers which disproportioned the matching between
labor supply and labor demand. In return, this gave rise to unemployment rate at present.
Then, housing development grew uncontrollably to cater the sharp demand for shelter.
All these sector concerns contributed to a low index in social development with 3.06 as
reflected in the results of the Local Governance Performance Management System (LGPMS)
for CY 2012. These issues and concerns should be addressed by the LGU to improve its
overall development index (ODI).
3.2 Economic Sector
1. Declining Support to Agriculture. It is evident that the local government has limited
support to the promotion of agriculture as public spending was spent more on the social and
infrastructure and utilities sectors. To add insult to the injury, land conversions have provided
additional land supply for residential and housing developments at the expense
farmlands. Also, upland farming has contributed to the loss in the municipality’s forest
cover.
2. Lack of entrepreneurial and business promotion. The local government was not able to
promote the potentials of Rodriguez as an economic and tourism destination. The low score it
got
from DILG’s State of Local Governance Performance Report apparently underscored this
weakness by the local government to ‘sell’ Rodriguez to prospective inve stors and
entrepreneurs.
Just like the preceding sector, the municipality of Rodriguez fares low in this sector with only
2.34 based on the 2012 LGPMS results. Economic activities that could generate more jobs and
matched with the competencies and skills of the employment stock of the municipality should
be aggressively pursued.

3.3 Environment Sector
1. Natural Hazard Areas. PHILVOCS reported active faults along the fringes of Marikina
Valley. This Valley Fault System is composed of two major northeast trending faults. The East
Valley Fault extends as far as north of Barangay San Rafael, Gloria Vista Subdivision, eastern
San Mateo Northwest of Antipolo until down south just north of Marvihills Subdivision and
Modesta Village, stretching for at least 8 kilometers. The West Valley fault extends
approximately 23 kilometers from lower Barangay Macabud in the north down near ULTRA in
Pasig City.
2. Human generated hazards. Buffer zones and river banks have become residential areas
and pose hazards during heavy rains. The over spilling of run– offs in the river banks such as
during Typhoon Ondoy resulted to property damage and loss of lives. Also, flood–related
diseases were experienced by the affected families.
3. Occurrence of flooding. Floods occur in the municipality, especially in the low– lying
western
areas, because run–offs from the higher northeastern areas drain through them. However,
constricted and silted waterways are other causes identified in relation to the occurrence of
floods. Throughout the passing of time, waterways in the municipality had become shallow and
narrow that they can no longer accommodate the usual volume of run–offs and over spill of
river banks.
4. Solid Waste Management. Although the municipality had already implemented RA 9003,
also known as the “Ecological and Solid Waste Act of 2009”, it is still a practice in some
households and firms/establishments operating within the municipality to dispose their garbage
illegally.
5. Landslide/mudslide in sloping areas. The loss in land cover and natural vegetation
made these areas unstable and vulnerable to landslide and mudslide. This is even made
worse by natural geologic movements of the East and West Valley faults.
6. Deforestation and decrease in forest cover in upland barangays. The unsustainable

upland farming practices like kaingin and slash and burn, logging (both small and big scales),
charcoal–making, mining and quarrying led to the loss of forest resources.
7. Soil erosion in some parts of the municipality. Eroded portions in varying degrees are
visible in some parts of barangays San Jose, Macabud, San Isidro, Mascap, and Puray; lowest
portion in the eastern boundary of the town within the Marikina watershed; and eastern
boundary of the municipality with Infanta, Quezon.

This sector got the lowest rating in the 2102 LGPMS results for Rodriguez with 2.33. This has
been given the most consideration in this CLUP, where the environment and natural resources
of the municipality shall be utilized and protected espousing it as the foundation of all the
development sectors.
3.4 Physical and Infrastructure Sector
1. Indiscriminate conversion of farm land into urban residential areas. Some creeks and
other waterway easements and even drainage canals were filled up with land. Thus, converting
their natural purpose for residential purposes.
2. Traffic is congested in the municipal commercial district. The E. Rodriguez Road

which gives access to this district is too narrow for a highly – concentrated and commercial
area. Besides, it also serves as passage to other important institutions such as churches, the
municipal hall, gymnasium, etc.
3. No cadastral surveys in two barangays and territorial conflicts. Internally, barangays

San Isidro and Macabud have no cadastral survey which makes important physical data and
boundaries unavailable. Municipal and barangay officials failed to differentiate the official
boundaries of the baragays. These conflicts on barangay boundaries may also affect the
territories close to or bordering these barangays. Externally, there are existing territorial
conflicts between Rodriguez and Norzagaray, Bulacan and between Rodriguez and San Jose
del Monte City, Bulacan regarding the demarcation of boundaries.
4. Some barangays are not energized. There are 278 combined numbers of households in
Barangays Puray and Macabud that still grapple with the lack of electricity.
5. Poor drainage system. Canals and creeks which have been filled–up with land and
converted to residential use decreased the capability of natural waterways to drain run–offs.
3.5 Institutional Sector
1. Too much dependent on IRA and other locally – generated funds. The LGU is rather
meek in its effort to launch aggressive business promotion showcasing the investment
opportunities of the municipality.
2. Lack of needed promotional facilities. Communication initiatives are not carried out
effectively when needed support facilities are inadequate. The municipal government needs

more internet access and communication landlines, fax machines, etc. It is also noted that the
LGU lacks road – worthy vehicles to promote mobility and access in the municipality.
3.6 Land Use Conditions
Significant changes in Rodriguez’ land uses and growth patterns are caused by the
considerable growth of real estate developments in the last two decades coupled by the
housing programs of the national government for the relocation of informal settlers from
various sites of Metro Manila from 1980 up to the present. The operation of sanitary landfills,
establishment of agro-industrial businesses, and the continued mining and quarrying activities
in the municipality also affects the distribution of land uses.
With 36, 307.31 hectares of total land territory, the general classification of lands in the
municipality are forestland (75.04%), agricultural (9.31%), built-up (5.13%), agro-industrial
(0.13%), mining and quarrying (0.84%), tourism (1.67%) among other uses. The Marikina
Watershed takes up a substantial portion of the municipality’s land area with 22, 693.32
hectares or 62.50% inclusive to the forestland area.
Table 3.1: General Land Classification in Rodriguez, Rizal, 2012

CATEGORY TOTAL Distributed % to
LAND AREA Land Area TOTAL
Forestland 27243.87 75.04
Watershed 22693.32
Agricultural Land 3381.34 9.31
Agricultural (CARP) 1432.37
Agricultural (SAFDZ) 1549.96
Agricultural (Rice Land) 399.02
Built-up Areas 1862.76 5.13
Commercial 66.59
Industrial 38.04
Institutional 39.67
Major Road 22.40
Residential 1696.07
Others 2790.78 7.69
Cemetery 17.95
Landfill 33.02
Agro-Industrial 45.81 0.13
Mining/Quarrying 304.13 0.84
Tourism 606.49 1.67
Water 72.12 0.20
TOTAL 36307.31 100.000
Sources: GIS Generated based on NAMRIA, MPDO, DENR, LMB & Google Earth (2010)

All lands with a slope of 0% to 18% in Rodriguez combine for 8,300 hectares. Based on slope,
elevation, landform, soil quality, and geology, previous CLUP do cuments identified only 6,211
hectares in Rodriguez as ‘developable’ or fit for human settlement. The rest of the territory
was deemed suitable for conservation in its original state as ‘forestland’ primarily because of
ecologic constraints such as steep slopes, unsuitable soils, geologic hazards, difficult access,
etc.
3.6.1 Inventory of Urban Land Uses
Urban land is only of 5, 346.56 hectares combined area of the seven (7) urban barangays
namely Balite, Burgos, Geronimo, Manggahan, Rosario, San Jose and San Isidro.
Although total A&D land was originally estimated at 6,211 hectares, its actual extent at
present has more than doubled simultaneous with the fast pace of urbanization. Built-up
areas have crept up into bare land and abandoned farms. Conversion of agricultural land
into non-farm uses has been rampant between 1995 and 2012. From 505.8 hectares of
urban built-up in 1980, it has constantly grew to 791.00 hectares in 1995 (ELA 2011-2013),
and presently at 1,862.76 hectares, with 63% and 43% increase respectively. Urban lands
were largely devoted for residential, commercial, institutional, major roads and industrial
activities. Between 2007 and 2012, Brgy San Isidro turned from being predominantly
agricultural to being predominantly residential.
Table 3.2: Inventory of Urban Land in Rodriguez, Rizal, 2012

Major
BARANGAY Commercial Industrial Institutional Residential TOTAL
Roads
Balite 3.56 - 3.461 0.839 14.568 22.43
Burgos 8.844 1.606 6.484 1.327 185.714 203.98
Geronimo 1.023 - 1.236 0.361 25.651 28.27
Macabud - - - 0.651 113.727 114.38
Manggahan 9.769 2.618 1.922 1.84 68.706 84.86
Mascap - - - - 48.583 48.58
Rosario 2.831 - - - 19.033 21.86
Puray - - - - 26.295 26.3
San Isidro 8.57 6.749 2.393 1.604 661.798 681.11
San Jose 23.516 24.711 22.412 11.135 377.582 459.36
San Rafael 8.476 2.359 1.758 4.639 154.411 171.64
TOTAL 66.6 38.04 39.67 22.4 1696.07 1862.76
Sources: 2012 GIS Generated based on NAMRIA, MPDO, DENR, LMB & Google Earth (2010)
Barangay San Isidro has the largest share in the urban land use inventory with an
aggregate of 681.11 hectares. Brgy San Jose comes next with 459.36 hectares and the
largest area for industrial, commercial, and institutional areas. Brgy Manggahan has the

second largest commercial area while Brgy Burgos has the second largest institutional
area. In contrast, Barangays Puray and Rosario have the least accounted built-up portion,
not having adequate infrastructure.
The combined area of present residential subdivisions has already exceeded the prev ious
1998-2003 CLUP’s ten-year projection. The spread of residential communities –
particularly in Brgy Isidro, the fastest growing barangay population – is expected to rise
even more, as strong demand for urban housing has invariably turned to Rodriguez to host
the transfer of informal settlers from Metro Manila.
3.6.2 Urban Land Density
In its entirety, Rodriguez has an average population density (2012) of 901 persons per km 2
and can now be considered an ‘urban’ municipality. Gross population density is based on
total territory including restricted lands and inhabitable areas. The net population density
that considers only the permitted developable areas of 6,211 hectares is 53 persons per
hectare.
The historic old urban district or ‘poblacion’ remains small at 4.28% of the total town area.
This urban core straddles the six oldest barangays that have comprised the CBD since
1916, namely, Balite, Burgos, Geronimo, Manggahan, Rosario and San Jose. Brgy
Rosario is the most densely populated barangay at 272 persons per hectare. The
population densities of Balite, Burgos, Geronimo, Manggahan, and San Jose are well
above 150 persons per hectare, and comparable to metropolitan population densities in
NCR. Brgy. San Isidro, whose total size is equivalent to the combined areas of 6 out of 11
barangays, has turned ‘urban’ between 2007 and 2012 with density of 19 persons per
hectare or 1,900 persons per square kilometer. The urban area now comprises 14.73
percent or a total of 5, 346.52 hectares.
Table 3.3: Population Density in Urban Barangays

Population Density Population Density
Land Area (per Has) (per Has)
BARANGAY
(Has)
2010 2012
Balite 53.88 169 197
Burgos 276 140 163
Geronimo 36.5 147 172
Manggahan 117.44 107 124
Rosario 25.17 234 272
San Jose 1,045.28 104 121
San Isidro 3,792.00 16 19
TOTAL 5,346.52 31 53

3.6.3 Land Use Problems, Natural Hazards and Disaster Risks
Competing and Conflicting Land Uses. Competitions for land uses somehow manifest
the stirrings of positive growth. However, the resources and time wasted as well as
opportunities lost due to intense conflicts can be counter-productive. In Rodriguez, among
these conflicts are farms vs quarrying/mining sites in rural areas, farms vs resorts in view
shed locations, farms vs subdivisions in urbanizing areas, quarrying/mining vs tourism in
high-amenity areas, residences vs piggeries/poultries because of nuisance caused by
agribusiness, subdivisions versus quarry sites in the high-amenity areas, quarrying vs
transport and aquaculture in rivers, industries vs tourism along waterways, subdivisions vs
commercial firms in the poblacion, informal settlers vs public uses along waterway
easements, among others. To pre-empt resolution of land use conflicts, certain land -users
‘load the dice,’ in a manner of speaking, in order to stage -manage the future types of land
use. This is done by premature urbanization, by hoarding of idle land for speculative
purposes, by fragmenting land use, by building in calibrated increments to choke open
productive land, by deliberately making farmland unproductive for easier process of
conversion, and similar strategies.
Boundary Disputes. Several boundary disputes and property claims remain unresolved,
among these are CARP vs Hacienda Remedios in Brgy Macabud, San Jose Del Monte
and Norzagaray, Bulacan boundaries with the northernmost portions of Brgys Macabud,
Puray and San Isidro, Brgy Puray with General Nakar, Quezon; and Brgy San Rafael with
Antipolo City. Internal unresolved territorial boundary issue between Brgy Macabud and
San Isidro is also present.
Natural Hazards. Three (3) major natural land use hazards are identified in Rodriguez,
these are flooding, landslide (erosion), and fault. Flooding covers a combined area of 1,
049.76 hectares with 966.32 hectares and 83.44 hectares covering “high” and “low to
moderate” flood risks respectively. Fault hazards cover a total of 27.42 and landslide or
erosion hazards combined for a hefty 20, 684.83 hectares. Table 3.4 summarizes the total
area per Barangay Affected by the Various Hazards in Rodriguez.
Table 3.4: Total Area of Barangay Affected by Various Hazards in Rodriguez

HAZARD
FAULT FLOOD LANDSLIDE
BARANGGAY (w/in 5 TOTAL
Low to
m High High Moderate Low
Moderate
buffer)
Balite 38.06 18.47 56.53
Burgos 0.06 161.39 1.22 7.83 2.98 180.29 353.78
Geronimo 27.22 21.92 49.14
Macabud 5.09 538.94 87.36 1280.61 1912.00
Manggahan 39.86 69.81 109.67
Mascap 4.09 1290.80 3.17 350.79 1648.86

HAZARD
FAULT FLOOD LANDSLIDE
BARANGGAY (w/in 5 TOTAL
Low to
m High High Moderate Low
Moderate
buffer)
Puray 6.84 2501.50 27.06 2535.41
Rosario 13.04 14.21 27.25
San Isidro 2.65 327.83 9.21 2752.71 246.50 655.69 3994.60
San Jose 4.10 236.59 73.01 98.20 374.39 217.36 1003.65
San Rafael 4.59 82.94 1379.24 116.65 156.26 1739.48
Watershed 39.39 8168.32 123.77 8331.48
16, 21,
TOTAL 27.42 966.32 83.44 737.54 954.82 2, 992.47 761.85
Source: DENR-MGB (GIS Generated Map)
Table 3.5 on the other hand shows the recent census of informal settlers in the
municipality. There are about 7,344 informal settlers in Rodriguez which scattered in every
barangay. Moreover, they have become vulnerable to hazards brought about by the nature
of their settlements. Most of them are at risks of being flooded because some of them
settled along waterways and flood – prone areas which constitute almost 52% of the total
informal settlements.
About 7.8% are also vulnerable to fire hazard due to the types of their house structure.
Nearly 4.31% of the informal settlers are also located near the fault line which made them
inherently unsafe when earthquake occurs. The remaining 4.8% of them are also
threatened to landslide since they settled in landslide prone areas.
Table 3.5: Census of Informal Settlers in Rodriguez, 2012

Number of Number of Number of informal Settlers in Vulnerable Areas
Informal Informal
BARANGAY Settlers TOTAL
Settlers Flood- Fire- Earthquake- Erosion-
along
Municipality Prone Prone Prone Prone
Waterways
Burgos 2108 570 464 55 66 0 3263
Balite 910 915 85 20 0 0 1930
Geronimo 546 353 66 25 0 0 990
Macabud 816 0 0 45 0 86 947
Manggahan 238 155 256 66 0 0 715
Mascap 796 0 0 50 0 15 861
Puray 120 0 0 15 0 42 177
Rosario 271 126 130 30 0 0 557
San Isidro 434 299 396 96 136 105 1466
San Jose 556 89 206 56 115 59 1081
San Rafael 549 127 365 115 0 76 1232
TOTAL 7344 2634 1968 573 317 383 13219
Source: Housing and Peoples Development Office, Rodriguez

Aside from the above-mentioned natural calamities and hazards present in the
municipalities, “urban and forest fires” are also impending calamities and disasters that can
be experienced by Rodriguez in the future due to the worsening impact of climate change.
Forested lands in the municipality account for 75.04% of the total land area or 27, 243.87
hectares. These vast lands if not properly protected and guarded for the incidence of forest
fires will generally affect its production capacity. Forest fires are normally generated by the
carelessness of people through unattended open fire during camping, indiscriminate slash-
and-burn activities, and extreme temperature due to the effects of climate change.
On the other hand, urban areas are also vulnerable to the occurrence of fires especially in
areas where the materials used in the construction of houses and buildings do not conform
to the fire-rating standards set by the National Building Code (NBC), and the proper
firewall in-between establishments are neglected, more so on the informal settlements
where light materials are easily consumed when fire occurs because of its low-fire
retarding capacity.
Urban congestion and unregulated development. In the town’s poblacion, residents

continue to complain about traffic congestion that slows down local commerce and
dampens business climate. Daily traffic flow encounters several chokepoints along arterial
roads particularly around big malls and public market. Rodriguez public market or
‘Pamilihang Bayan’ is jammed and overcrowded on every side. With an estimated 7,000
local vehicles (4,500 private, 1,094 PUVs, 1,631 tricycles), and given total ro ad length of
53.26 km, the ratio of passenger car units PCU) to pave road length is computed at 131
vehicles per linear kilometer regardless of lane width.
Traffic congestion is principally due to lack of parking space, i.e. non-compliance with
universal standard of 1 parking slot for every 110 sq. m. of commercial space. It can be
attributed to the lack of adequate property setbacks in commercial areas (5 meters from
RROW). These conditions are aggravated by the large number of freely -moving tricycles
and by the toleration of street side parking along main roads.
Over-population, Disorder and Crime. The issue of overpopulation is a recurring worry

among local stakeholders. It raises the possibility that Rodriguez might be reaching its
‘carrying capacity’ in terms of people, space, food supply, and public resources to care for
its constituents. The fact that Rodriguez has 36,307.31 hectares total land area does not
mean that it can grow its population ad infinitum. Rodriguez’s habitable area based on
previous studies is only over 6,211 hectares. To utilize ecologically-constrained or
hazardous lands for settlement expansion despite scientific warning can have severe
implications, in terms of lives and money.

The huge amount of land area covered by hazards in the municipality is a clear sign that
municipality should plan for an environmentally sound and sustainable physical
development. At a high population density of 150 persons per hectare, Rodriguez will pass
the one-million population mark. But it will also suffer the costs of congestion and
overconcentration- poor circulation, more accidents, lost productivity, more damage to
environmentally critical areas more disasters and deaths, increased incidence of
criminality, increased police protection costs, psycho-social stress, and decline of
community spirit. To avoid such scenario, Rodriguez has to manage its urbanization
process very well – it has to know its urban limits.
Rodriguez is somewhat ill-positioned to become a Highly Urbanized City (HUC). Its

relatively narrow topography of a riverine strip valley hardly permits it to ‘sprawl’ or expand
widely unlike other LGUs sitting on plains and plateaus.
Already, Rodriguez has lost much of its farmland to subdivision development and to
commercial development, and the consequences showed too quickly – shortage of locally-
produced grains and vegetables, hence higher cost of imported food products because of
rise in transport costs. Costly food can impoverish the poor even more; and can possibly
lead them to desperation.
3.6.4 Development Opportunities
 The proposed P351.7-billion Flood Control Master Plan of DPWH 2012-2025 will likely
use Rodriguez land and resources and improve drainage of the entire twn.
Construction and maintenance of DPWH infrastructure will likely use some local labor.
In addition, numerous economic benefits are expected to be realized from the multi -
functional uses of flood retarding basins.
 The proposed MRT Line 7 would have an endpoint or terminal near Tungko in San
Jose Del Monte City, Bulacan. Connection to metropolitan light trail would
tremendously improve movement from Rizal to the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX)
via the Balagtas exit. Rail terminal or an intermodal facility in this area would most
benefit commuting students and workers to Metro Manila, and businesses are
expected to sprout in the nearest barangays of Macabud, San Jose and San Isidro.
 Completion of the Circumferential Road 6 (C-6) national highway to San Jose del
Monte City will attract new firms to this area in Brgy. Macabud and bodes well for agro-
industrial firms (poultries and piggeries) in San Isidro and Puray which are seeking
bigger markets in Bulacan and the rest of the NLEX growth corridor.

 The interest of big-capital in the fertile lands of Hacienda Remedios in Brgy Macabud
will hopefully bring fresh investments related to food production and agri-processing,
benefitting marginal farmers and rural producers in the area.
 A proposed 8-km road linking Puray with Hacienda Remedios and eventually with C-6
will improve access of farmers and upland-dwellers to lowland markets and will likely
bring new investments to flatland areas around Rizal Peak and Mount Balagbag.
 The Wawa River Watershed Tourism Master Plan currently being completed will
identify key investments to the PPL area that will affect Brgys. Mascap and San
Rafael. Mount Irid and Puray Falls are also promising sites for new tourism
developments.
 A proposed 3-km road connection from Sitio Kayropa in Brgy. San Rafael with Brgy
Inarawan in Antipolo City will paved for a new way to the Pamitinan Protected
Landscape and will bring more travelers and visitors in the area.
 A proposed 4-km bicycle-lane from Gethsemane Prayer Mountain to Wawa dam using
80% of existing roads can improve tourism, through such activities as an annual Wawa
Festival and Gethsamane-to-Wawa bikathon event.

Chapter 4
VISION, MISSION AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS

The new vision statement of Rodriguez as resources–endowed and as a first class municipality
elevated the aspirations of this generation and for later generations to come into a desired future
state in terms of the qualities, character, and attributes of its people, local economy, environment
and local government from its Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) 1998 – 2003.
4.1 Previous Vision Statements of Rodriguez
The previous vision statements of Rodriguez were as follows:
CLUP 1998-2003: “balanced sustainable spatial development as a bedroom community

and receiving area to accommodate overspill of population and of industries from the
national capital region.”
ELA 2011-2013: “A modern, progressive, dependable, and self-sufficient community

propelled by enlightened and empowered citizenry committed to sustainable growth and
development.”
4.2 New Vision Statement of the Municipality of Rodriguez
After prolonged discussion on word meanings and similarities of ideas, participants’ responses
were woven into a rational statement that would encapsulate their image of the municipal’s
future. After considering numerous draft formulations, participants arrived at substantial
agreement on the following vision statement:
“A scenic, verdant town of God-fearing and empowered citizens with leaders, who are
competent and morally-upright, united to enjoy and share the benefits
of sustainable economic growth in harmony with Nature.”
4.2.1 Vision Elements, Descriptors and Success Indicators
The vision statement of Rodriguez exemplifies the desired state of the municipality in
terms of these elements, namely: the qualities of its environment and natural resources,
along with the state of the local economy, the attributes of its people as individuals and as
members of the community, and the character of the local government.
VISION, MISSION, AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS
4.2.2 Qualities of the Environment and Natural Resources
The municipality foresees that its environment and natural resources are scenic and
verdant. Rodriguez has a potential to be a tourist haven with its possession of natural and
synthetic beauties such as the Montalban gorge, Pamintian cave, Wawa dam and Avilon
zoo. Its rugged hills and mountains are also inherent scenery when it can bring back their
once green forest resources which are now critically degraded due to man – made
activities.
a. The environment of Rodriguez is scenic. This translates to the municipality’s ability to

sustain its natural gift of beauty for the eyes to behold. This quality is said to be
attained only when its natural beauty can be enhanced further without infringing its
innate characteristics.
b. A verdant municipality means the lushness of its milieu. This condition is said to be
achieved only when that its hills and mountains shall abound, again, with trees and
replenished with vegetation.
4.2.3 State of the Local Economy
a. Rodriguez’s local economy is envisioned to have sustainable economic growth. This

means that the local economy would continue to maintain its first class status which is
attainable by generating more income through conceptualizing and launching more
aggressive revenue – generating schemes and activities. Since, the local economy
also depends on its resources to generate income, it should have a stable resource
stock to ensure that resource – dependent economic activities are sustained for the
future generations to come. Thus, the present rate of extraction of minerals and other
resources of the municipality must be regulated and balanced with the present
requirements to attain a stable economy that can support the present needs.
Excessive exploitation of renewable resources and depletion of non–renewable
resources must be avoided to ensure that future generations that would inhabit in
Rodriguez would still live in a balanced environment.
b. An envisaged sustained economic growth should also be in harmony with Nature for
the local people to live in an ecologically–balanced environment. This can be achieved
when economic activities that take place in the municipality are environment–friendly
and mitigation measures are always undertaken to safeguard the environment. The
condition to meet the necessary needs of the local economy must be balanced with
the need to protect nature to ensure both economic growth and environmental
sustainability.

4.2.4 Attributes of the People (as individuals and as members of the community)
The municipality has a foresight to be a community of God–fearing and empowered

citizens. This is nurtured through preserving a healthy relationship between the local
government and local churches. At the same time, the local government also maintains a
strong relationship with the people for the former to know more the needs of the people
and for the latter to contribute more productively to the different sectors of the community.
a. Rodriguez shall be a dwelling place for God–fearing residents. This means the people
learn to develop and lead lives with virtues and values. This can be achieved when
freedom to express faith and respect for religious beliefs, as individuals and as a
group, are guaranteed by the local government.
b. In order to have empowered citizens, local governance must be imbued with the
concept of a broadened participation and sectoral representation. It can be
accomplished when community people are consulted on various issues and concerns,
especially those that require critical decisions.
4.2.5 Character of the Local Government
Rodriguez, which is endowed with rich natural resources, envisioned to be governed with
leaders who are competent and morally – upright and united to enjoy and share the
economic growth of the municipality. The municipality is a first class LGU in terms of
income. This means that it has the financial resources to spend for projects and services
that would benefit the community people. However, having access to avail of them is a
challenge for the local government. The burgeoning local population brought about by
natural propagation and the relocation of families to the municipality from the congested
Metro Manila made it more challenging how the delivery of services and promoting the
welfare of its people would remain adequate and more accessible, especially to the
disadvantaged and the vulnerable.
a. For the local government to have competent leaders and morally - upright, capacity –
building programs for local officials must be designed to include trainings on public
policy formulation, local planning, investment programming, zoning implementation,
transparency and good governance.
b. A strong and established relationship between local officials and its people is an
important ingredient to be united in mutually sharing the benefits of a sustained local
economy and toward pursuing mutually – desired aspirations for the common good of
all.

4.3 Vision–Goals–Key Results Areas
The vision statement is further expounded through the matrix below where the local
government can anchor on its development goals through se tting Key Result Areas (KRAs) for
its programs, projects and activities, in the pursuit of realizing the vision set within the planning
horizon.
Table 4.1: Vision-Goal-KRAs Matrix

VISION
ELEMENTS Broad Goals KRAs
Perpetual enjoyment of nature’s Preservation of natural resources.

goods and services.
Biodiversity conservation.
‘Scenic,
Ecologically balanced and
Verdant Town’
secured. Protection of ecologically-critical areas.
(Un-built
environment)
Environmental amenities for future Promotion of sustainable eco-tourism.
generations
Reforestation and vegetation of
mountains and hills.
Green-design of built environment Mainstreaming climate change

– green infrastructure, green adaptation / disaster risk reduction and
buildings, green roofs, green walls. management.
‘Development Natural safeguards against Open space - linear parks and green
in harmony disasters and calamities. buffers around sensitive and critical
with Nature‘ sites.
(Built Community preparedness and
environment) resilience in relation to natural Clean and green public sanitation and
catastrophic events. environmental
Environment –friendly economic

projects and activities.
Food security and sustained water ‘High Quality of Water, Air and Soil
‘Sustainable supply.
economic Balanced agro-industrial economy.
growth’ High quality of life for all
households. Organic farming and food production.
Mitigated and remediated nature- Eco-preneurship – reuse, reduce,

VISION
damaging activities. recycle and re-manufacture
Contribute economically to overall Zero Waste Management.

progress of province, region and
country.
Transparent and accountable People’s representatives in Local

public servants. Special Bodies under RA 7160 (Local
Government Code of 1991).
Strong–willed leaders in enforcing
all laws and policies. Engagement of NGOs, POs, academes
and civil society groups in governance.
Foresight of local officials attuned
to the vision of the municipality. Continuous education and training for
citizens, municipal personnel and local
‘Empowered
People participation in governance officials.
citizens and
and decision – making processes.
competent
Competitive scholarship programs in all
leaders’
Public-Private Partnership – education levels.
market confidence in government
Multi-skills for modern economy.
Practiced excellent work and
professional ethics. Increase in industrial –agricultural
productivity.
Employer-worker harmony or
‘industrial peace’.
Enhanced access to education in

all levels.
Live a culture of discipline and Values education at school and at work.

honesty.
Responsible parenting.
Protected family and cultural
Values Conscientious initiatives of households,
‘God-fearing
schools, Churches, and mass media.
and morally
Freedom of religious beliefs and
upright
practices. Volunteerism of youth in helping solve
citizens’
environmental problems.
Respected rights and privileges for
indigenous peoples. Reduction in criminality, vice, sex-
related misdemeanours and social-
Multi-stakeholder collaboration on behavioural deviance.
major events & crises

VISION
Promoted bayanihan (‘social
capital’) among community people.
4.4 Sectoral Goals, Objectives and Programs / Projects / Activities
The vision statement is subsequently fleshed out into sectoral g oals, objectives and programs/
projects/ activities and dovetailed with those already drawn out in the Executive - Legislative
Agenda (ELA) 2011 – 2013.
4.4.1 Social Sector: Education, Social Welfare, Healthcare, Safety and Protection and
Housing.
Goals:
1. Developed social welfare and healthcare services made accessible to all,
especially to the vulnerable and disadvantaged sectors.
2. Improved people protection and safety.
3. Enhanced quality education at all levels through faculty development, promotion of
favorable classroom learning and improved educational facilities.
4. Effective and efficient delivery of public safety and protection by improved job
performance.
5. Provision of decent housing and living quarters to both formal and informal
settlers, including those who have relocated to Rodriguez.
Objectives:
1. To augment the local board funding which will enable additional financial support
to educational services delivery.
2. To encourage teachers to pursue graduate studies and professional growth.
3. To expand access to poverty–related government programs such as the
conditional cash transfer (4 Ps).
4. To intensify education, literacy, values formation programs.
5. To improve protection and safety for community people.
6. To implement sustainable preventive healthcare programs to lessen incidence of
diseases caused by unhealthy lifestyle.
7. To make education from all levels accessible to all especially to the poor but
academically deserving students.
8. To augment the number of police and fire protection personnel in accordance with
the rise of local population.

9. To decrease the incidence of drug – related crimes and offenses.

10. To strictly implement national and local laws on illegal drugs.
11. To effectively enhance fire prevention, fire protection and fire suppression and
rescue services.
12. To encourage housing developers to invest in low – cost and affordable housing.
13. To relocate the municipality’s informal settlers and squatters to government –
donated area for resettlement and relocation.
Programs / Projects / Activities:
1. Construction and provision of educational – support facilities.

2. Alternative Learning Center.
3. Teacher and Student Scholarship Program.
4. Organize at least four job fairs annually for various levels of job.
5. Municipal Health Office to conduct at least one symposium monthly conducted to
different schools throughout the year.
6. Establish one desk intended for livelihood and employment opportunities for those
who are not beneficiaries at PESO.
7. Establish at least one ‘basahan – making’ and other craft – making training centers
in strategic barangays annually within five years.
8. Coordinate with TESDA to conduct not skills and livelihood trainings for those who
are unskilled and unemployed.
9. Establish a scholarship program that can benefit students from the elementary,
secondary and tertiary levels.
10. Formulate a resettlement plan to improve the existing relocated/ resettled
condition and to accommodate future relocations/ resettlements in a logical way.
11. Formulate a municipal densification with local transportation plan to maximize
space for various activities to take place simultaneously but to regulate circulation
and transportation movement that maybe generated through this spatial
concentration strategy.
12. Establish a youth center to education the youth with moral values and instill in
them traits of being ideal residents.
13. Seminars on fire prevention and protection and conduct fire – fighting drills and
exercises.
14. Intensify IECs on fire prevention and protection and strictly implement PD 1185
(Fire Code of the Philippines).
15. Barangay Tanod skills–enhancement program.
16. Establish Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Office (MDRRO).
17. Peace and Order Management Plan.
18. Health Services Development Program.
19. Reproduction Health Program.

20. Hiring of additional doctors and medical – support staff.

21. Rehabilitate and renovate barangay health centers.
22. Gawad Kalinga housing program.
23. Community mortgage program.
24. DSWD core shelter program.
25. Habitat for humanity project.
26. Survey of squatters and informal settlers.
4.4.2 Environmental Sector: Natural Resources, Ecosystem and Ecology.
Goals:
1. Sustainable forest, freshwater, mineral resources and other natural resources
development that are found in the municipality.
2. Ecologically – balanced ecosystem that promotes viable healthy living in harmony
with nature.
3. Effective and efficient implementation of eco–waste management promoting clean
environment and healthy community living.
4. Improved protection and safety from disaster risks and natural hazards.
5. Increased forest cover and vegetation in sloping, landslide and mudslide–
vulnerable areas.
Objectives:
1. To provide for the establishment of mechanisms to maintain and protect the

natural state of environment.
2. To strengthen the participation of stakeholders and civil society organizations in
maintaining and protecting the sustainable use of the natural resources for
economic benefits.
3. To effectively implement the locally – crafted solid waste management plan.
4. To establish and maintain the condition of material recovery facilities (MRFs) in
barangays.
5. To enact local laws on environmental management.
6. To increase people participation in protecting and managing the inherent
resources of the locality.
7. To promote disaster risk mitigation and reduction measures and initiatives on the
identified natural hazards, i.e. flooding, urban and forest fires, etc.
8. To disseminate massive information and education campaigns on the sustainable
use of natural resources.

Programs / Projects / Activities
1. Rehabilitation and protection of freshwater ecosystem program.

2. Training for farmers on fish culture and production.
3. Distribution of fingerlings to beneficiaries.
4. Construction of MRF in barangays.
5. Enactment of Environmental Code.
6. Tree planting and reforestation project.
7. Empowering the members of the Solid Waste Management Board.
8. Greening and beautification project.
9. Development of Wawa Forest Park.
10. Formulate a disaster risk and reduction management plan.
11. Conduct quarterly inspections and hazard assessments to critical areas,
floodplains and waterways.
12. Formulate hazard and flood maps identifying and indicating critical and hazardous
areas.
13. Capacitate local personnel involved in disaster preparedness and risk reduction
14. Conduct IECs on disaster risk reduction and management.
15. Construct flood controls and other mitigating infrastructures in critical and
hazardous areas.
16. Build infrastructures to prevent landslides / mudslides in susceptible areas.
17. Coordinate with the regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) to conduct National Greening Program (NGP) ctivities in the
municipality.
18. Craft a local Forest Management Plan to be dovetailed with the National Greening
Program of the DENR.
19. Establish and maintain nurseries for endemic trees for tree –planting and
reforestation activities.
20. Delineate and demarcate buffers and boundaries of protected areas to prevent
further encroachment by illegal tree poachers.
21. Organize a competent Bantay Kalikasan (Forest Guards) to safeguard forest lands
located in the municipality as well as to identify and monitor forestlands p rone to
forest fires and other related hazards.
4.4.3 Physical and Infrastructure Sector: Transportation, Power and Communication Utilities
and Land Use Control.
Goals:
1. Improved safety, mobility and less circuitous access routes leading to important
locations and institutions.
2. Enhanced and effective land uses.

Objectives:
1. To decongest the E. Rodriguez road from heavy traffic and poor circulation of
vehicles.
2. To promote suitable and compatible land uses.
3. To formulate a traffic analysis plan to ease traffic flow in all bottlenecks and
congested roads in the municipality.
4. To propose re–routing and alternate roads giving direct access to other locations
bypassing E. Rodriguez road.
5. To encourage densification and compact development backed up traffic analy sis
plan.
6. To coordinate with the Community Environment and Natural Resources (CENR)
Office, DENR – Land Management Bureau and Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG) pertaining to matters that involved internal and external
territorial disputes, the grant of land patents, titles, etc.
1. Traffic Analysis Plan

2. Drainage Master Plan
3. Zoning Ordinance and Implementation Plan
4.4.4 Economic Sector. Agriculture and Food Production, Employment, Mining and Tourism
Goals:
1. Implement plans and programs on crops and food production to uplift the living
condition of local farmers.
2. Increased number of employment – generating establishments doing business in
the municipality.
3. Decreased unemployment rate of the local labor force.
4. Developed and transformed mining industry that exercised regulated mineral
extractive activities.
5. Enhanced image of the municipality as a business and tourist haven.
6. Showcase of good governance and transparency.
Objectives:
1. To increase the planting area and production of hybrid rice and high value crops.
2. To increase the number of livestock through artificial insemination and maintain
regular vaccination to animals.
3. To encourage participation of local investors in the local economy.

4. To pursue local – government initiated investment drives through adopting the

Investment and Incentive Code.
5. To encourage establishment of micro–finance facilities in the municipality.
6. To transform the present mining industry into a sector that promotes health and
safety better.
7. To properly delineation of land uses.
8. To promote the business and tourism potentials of Rodriguez.
1. Capital assistance program.

2. Farmers’ livelihood and training program.
3. Livestock dispersal and livelihood program.
4. Job/trade fairs.
5. Mineral resources plan.
6. Update the existing zoning ordinance.
7. Formulate municipal business plan.
8. Partner with the private sector to develop tourism potential.
9. Formulate tourism development and management plan.
4.4.5 Institutional Sector. Public Accountability and Transparency, Competent Leadership

and Financial Security.
Goals:
1. Strengthened human resource development through the organization, formulation
and implementation of a Personnel Grievance Committee and HRD Plan.
2. Enhanced fiscal autonomy and improved tax administration system that would
raise LGU revenues.
3. Effective allocation and optimized utilization of LGU funds by strengthening the
coordination between local budgeting and accounting.
4. Improved local legislative system and competent Sangunian Bayan members who
are informed and aware of national laws and policy – making.
5. Effective and participatory local development planning through established
database system.
Objectives:
1. To improve the delivery and quality of personnel services by capacitating them

with skills and knowledge that needed in their jobs.
2. To boost the employee’s morale and to develop in them a positive attitude towards
work.

3. To create a conducive workplace that promotes employees’ security of tenure and

breeds transparency and public accountability.
4. To establish a tax map for real properties in the municipality.
5. To improve efficiency in the collection of fees and local taxes.
6. To enhance the functions and tasks of the Financial Management Committee.
7. To rationalize the allocation and utilization of LGU funds attaining equitable
distribution to all sectors of the municipality.
8. To implement the enact policies and legislative measures supportive of
sustainable local initiatives and quality services delivery.
9. To update the existing mandated local government plans.
10. To establish and maintain a well – coordinated database system containing all
data that are essential in local development planning.
1. Promote and practice 5S philosophy in the workplace.

2. Formulate and adopt a HRD Plan.
3. Capability and competence – building program.
4. Revenue generation Plan.
5. Real property records, information and collection management system.
6. Trainings and regular meetings of the Municipal Budget Officer and Acc ountant
and the members of the Financial Management Committee.
7. Legislative Information and Performance Monitoring Project.
8. Lakbay Aral Program.
9. Seminar – workshops on legislation and policy formulation.
10. Local development plans – Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) and
Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP)
11. Local Development Investment Programming
12. Zoning Ordinance
13. GIS Mapping
4.5 Mission Statement:
“The LGU shall try to advocate transparency, efficiency and good governance in the utilization
of government resources, promote peace and order through the imposition of discipline, order
and rule of law, promote eco-tourism taking into consideration the ecological balance,
encourage participation of the private sector in development efforts and adopt integrated and
sustainable development”.

Chapter 5
GENERATION AND SELECTION OF ALTERNATIVE SPATIAL STRATEGIES
5.1 Generation of Spatial Strategies
Considering the present land use problems and new development opportunities as well as the
established trends in land use, several scenarios shape varying images of Rodriguez by 2022.
These future scenarios differ from each other because of these underlying assumptions:
 Degree of freedom of market forces to shape the town

 Drivers of economy: location of propulsive or expansive economic activities
 Magnitude of interference or regulation from the National Government
 Pace, location, and direction of population growth
 Quality of LGU intervention whether ‘reactive’ vs. ‘proactive’
 Stability or predictability of the external environment
5.1.1 SCENARIO 1: Uncontrolled (“Do-Nothing”) Development Strategy–Status Quo
This scenario is basically the continuance of the present development trend in the
municipality. This is characteristic of the excessive real estate developments and
accommodations of the Metro Manila “spill over” residents and emphasizes the limited
control or light-mannered local government intervention and unresponsive priority
developments. Built-up area in the urban core, significantly for residential and commercial
uses spread out and directed towards prior reserved production and protection lands
manifest in the town’s northern periphery of Barangay San Isidro and easterly -wedged
section of San Rafael. San Isidro being prematurely set as an expansion of the urban core
supported the proliferation of real estate developments. Almost 8% of San Isidro’s land
area is already covered with subdivisions. Riversides, abandoned quarry sites, and
mountain slopes such as those in Brgy. San Isidro in-between Mascap, Puray and Tanag
rivers and those at the foot of Mount Lucutan, on the slopes of Mounts Oro, Malagia,
Malac, Caypipili, Ayaas, Haponang Baboy, Rizal Peak and of Mount Parawagan has
already been used for residential purposes.
These uncontrolled land developments further compromised the safety of the residents.
More obviously, this pattern leads to more serious social, economic, environment and
other sector developments’ consequences. Satellite offices and facilities were already set
up to offer public services such as those in Brgy. San Jose (infirmary, public market,
municipal annex) that counter the imbalance in the delivery of public services thus, a
dispersed distribution of land uses occur.

This spatial development scenario if not regulated will burden local government resources
and infrastructure, heavily tolls the environment, which in turn will negate improvements on
social well-being (See Figure 5.1: Scenario Map 1).
5.1.2 SCENARIO 2. Strip Development in Urban Core Strategy
Regulated expansion for the urban built-up presents an alternative to the previous
strategy. This promotes a more compact form of development, preserves open spaces and
productive agricultural land.
The present built-up areas in Rodriguez are mainly concentrated in the urban barangays,
at least 2 to 4 km. radius from the junction of J. P. Rizal Avenue and Montalban Highway.
These major thoroughfares are host to most of the commercial activities and where all
other municipal roads are linked. They are the only means of acces s to and from
neighboring San Mateo and Quezon City. The thriving settlements produced by the rigid
real estate investments and resettlements further extend it to the fringes of San Jose and
outlying areas of San Isidro on the other side of Montalban River and to San Rafael
through Mayon Street and M.H. Del Pilar Street.
These expanded CBD, in time, will exhibit economic potential. The tendency of a
dispersed linear development due to the profitable promise of establishing business along
these primary streets is highly possible. If that happens, these major road links will bear
the burden of heavy vehicular traffic and urban congestion. Built-up on both sides of the
urban areas will produce an alienated core. Without an alternative route to connect the
expanded CBD, there is a high probability of a bi-polar core as physically dissected by the
river. This will result to underdevelopment of rural areas since priority will be focused to the
cores established and planned transport routes for these cores.
In the same manner, sprawl is more likely to happen. Roads linking other areas in the
municipality are already planned out and these are directed towards the hinterlands of
Brgy Macabud, Puray and Mascap. Urban design quality is likely to deteriorate due to the
resultant intermittent restructuring of the urban facilities.
Effective control mechanism and development priority should be formulated and strictly
enforced by local authorities to curtail this spatial pattern. The extent of urban expansion
should be established and integrated in a master planned development manner that will
address the needed facility improvements, offer alternative transport modality, mitigate
urban hazards, enhance urban design, promote sense of place, and establish a
sustainable and inter-connected transportation and infrastructure network to other prio rity
areas to optimize growth (See Figure 5.2: Scenario Map 2).

5.1.3 SCENARIO 3. Linked-Nodes Development on Protection Zones Strategy
This development strategy sets straight the development path that Rodriguez should have
conscientiously taken in the past. This will broadly capitalize on its inherent natural
physical characteristics for agro-economic and tourism development, huge government
infrastructure investments, environmentally-critical areas protection, conservation and
management while looking at essential opportunities and trends in the continuum of
regional development. Pushing into new heights existing growth nodes through an
infrastructure-economic system will bring about integrated and harmonized development.
In this spatial strategy, the effect of dispersed development in San Jose and San Isidro
which has the tendency to polarize the centrally-clustered urban area on the other side of
Montalban River will be addressed by the construction of an “arterial road-linear park”
along Marikina River from San Mateo bridge passing thru San Jose bridge up to Eastwood
bridge in Brgy San Isidro through the Puray River. This arterial road -linear park” which will
function as a “green corridor” or “linear greenway” will open up new sites for (agro -
commercial) industries, complement and decongest the existing CBD. It will bridge and
encourage the formation of a compact urban growth area on the other side of the river
which will include, among others, the establishment of recreation and tourism facilities,
water and land transport terminals, commercial complexes and other institutional
facilities. This master planned development will create and improve the urban area and is
anticipated to regenerate municipal character set by the adapted urban design standards.
The system will have a major impact on the economies of both urban and rural areas. It
will reinforce the already established agro-industrial zone in the perimeter of Brgys San
Isidro and Macabud. The “linear greenway” itself will serve as a huge open space and new
tourism activity site in the municipality by promoting tourism activities such as bike -a-thon,
marathon, local products, cultural promotion and festivities.
A special development zone (PUD) for prime agricultural estate developments and
municipal enterprises will be set in Barangay Macabud. This will be complemented by
a low density mixed-use and support service industry to a highly-restrictive, compact-
medium density, mixed-use development. The very high speculative prospects of real
estate and other economic investments in the unspoiled barangay of Macabud, which at
present is the subject of boundary disputes and private ownership claims is due to its
strategic location to the proposed MRT 7 intermodal terminal in San Jose Del Monte,
Bulacan.
Productive lands in Barangays Puray, Mascap, San Rafael, and portions of San Isidro in
the system-periphery will continue to be devoted for agricultural production. Open lands in
the uppermost part of San Isidro that were already classified as part of the urban built-up
area has to be reallocated for agricultural use. These areas as much as possible will be

“cushioned” for conversion. Renewed agricultural and industrial production will create
additional services and spice up commercial activities. Transfer and delivery of goods can
be easily made through water transport that will be developed in relation to the arterial -
linear road park system.
The Pamitinan Protected Landscape (PPL) already geared for tourism development in
Barangay San Rafael and Puray will in time be fully established. This development will
generate employment opportunities that could trigger the area into another growth node. A
strict protection and management policy should be framed for this. Among the policies that
can be considered is by letting the visitors be briefed first and informed by an
Environmental Officer (ENRO) of the Municipality on the regulations to be observed in
visiting the said protected area. Accordingly, the newly drafted management plan for the
Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape where the PPL is included is a timely
agreement to that effect. A linear “buffer zone” will be marked to protect the watershed.
Areas surrounding all the other growth nodes as well as environmental critical areas will be
highly protected and provided with definite “buffer zone”. All these can be directed towards
an integrated tourism-led economic development in the municipality that can offer divers e
environmental, educational, cultural, and recreational tourism activities from guided field
trips, product marketing and development, event promotion, cultural presentations to group
and corporate leisure and entertainment affairs.
The activity nodes or areas emphasized in this strategy are: (1) Special Economic Node
(PUD) for municipal enterprise and highly-restrictive real estate development cum agro-
commercial and agro-industrial zone in Barangays Macabud, San Isidro, and San Rafael
(2) Agricultural cum Agro-industry and Industry Node in Barangays Puray, Mascap,
and part of San Isidro, (3) Mixed-Urban (Built-Up) Node in the existing CBD that will be
complemented by a compact mixed-use area along Montalban River and in areas not
affected by hazards, (4) Integrated Tourism Infrastructure Node in San Rafael with its
Wawa and Pamitinan Protected Landscape Tourism Development complementary to the
existing tourism and recreational sites in San Isidro and other areas, (5) Eco-Restoration
Node and (6) Forest and Watershed Protection Node.
These nodes form a comprehensive but highly distinctive zone highlighting the new
development orientations of Rodriguez. The “linear greenway” of interconnected parkland
and buffers from the urban core to the protected land scape which double as a huge open
space, flood control and an interior circumferential road and future water transport
infrastructure as the building block for this strategy will integrate and harmonize these
development zones. Existing and proposed road links to these areas should also be
upgraded and additional investments on infrastructure to improve accessibility into the
isolated area and linked up with the interconnected “linear greenway” system is just but
necessary. (See Figure 5.3: Scenario Map 3)

5.2. Evaluation of the Alternative Spatial Strategies
The Goals Achievement Matrix (GAM) was used to evaluate the acceptability of the spatial
alternatives simply because of its highly participatory attribute. Different community sector
stakeholders were able to express their respective interests. The elements of the 2022 Vision
for Rodriguez, as shown in Table 5.1 became the basis for the GAM evaluation. These
elements provided the criteria for the assessment of the alternative spatial strategies using the
standard procedure and scoring system for this method.
Table 5.1: The Vision Elements of Rodriguez

VISION ELEMENTS
A Scenic Verdant Town
Empowered, Competent, God-fearing and morally upright Citizenry and Leaders
Sustainable Economic Growth
Development in Harmony with Nature
Table 5.2: Option Evaluation Result (GAM Approach)

Stakeholders’ Score
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
Stakeholder Evaluation “Do-Nothing” Regulated Dispersion Linked-Nodes

Scenario and Strip Development on
(Unregulated Development in the Protection Zones
Development) Urban Core Strategy
Group 1
(Farmers) 0.00 2.75 3.00
Group 2
(Business) 1.00 2.50 3.00
Group 3
(Women and NGO) 2.80 2.80 3.00
Group 4
(Youth & Brgy. Officials) 2.00 2.35 2.50
Grand TOTAL 5.8 10.4 11.5
RANK 3 2 1
Based on the results, option 3, that of Linked-Nodes Development on Protection Zones

garnered the most points. It was given highest value by most of the groups present in the
workshop representing the youth, barangay officials, business, women and farmers. These
numbers, however, did not take into account the actual size of affected stakeholders in terms
of population and resource use, or their equitable representation in the GAM exercise.
Aside from the vision elements that were used to select the preferred spatial strategy,
stakeholders’ options are guided and cognizant to the following selection criteria:

Sectoral and Social Criteria
 Location of jobs, accessibility and proximity of labor resources

 Circulation of people, goods, and services
 Time and costs spent on trips to work
 Cost of land (lease, acquisition, expansion) water, and other production inputs
 Infrastructure for commerce, industry, and basic utilities, i.e. power, water supply, flood
control, drainage and sewerage, solid waste collection
 Access to markets, workplaces, health centers, institutions, learning centers
 Access to environmental amenities, open space, recreation and wilderness,
 Venues for community-building and people participation
Technical Considerations
 Protection and safety of inhabitants from natural and man-made hazards

 Deliberate withdrawal of land from, and avoidance of natural hazards
 Degree of public control over land use and water use
 Future density and congestion
 Quantity of agriculture lands to be converted or reclassified
 Possible fiscal impacts in local government revenues
 Governability and ease of administration
 LGU’s contribution to higher-level plans and goals
 Spatial congruence with national and sub-national plans
Design Criteria
 Town image and general attractiveness

 Legibility of urban form coherence, integrity
 Vitality of street life
 Socio-cultural meaning of urban design elements




Chapter 6
DETAILING OF THE PREFERRED SPATIAL STRATEGY
6.1. Spatial Development Strategy
The spatial strategy selected, Linked-Nodes Development is premised on creating a rigid inter-
connected infrastructure on recognized land areas for settlement, production, protection and
conservation uses, areas to improve urban and other socio -economic activities. This will
capitalize on the protection and conservation of key areas in the municipality such as those
devoted for agricultural activities, hazard areas, and forest reserves to be transformed into
decisive growth zones that will be connected by an efficient infrastructure system not only
serving as a transportation network but a “buffer” to extensively preserve the land development
zones and a “linear greenway” to enhance mobility and foster the “sense of place”. Resulting
land use configuration of this strategy will bring about improved urban design, efficient mobility
and accessibility within and outside the municipality, augmented open spaces, compact land
uses and well-connected barangays. This option will encourage in-fill development,
densification in the urban and expanded urban core zones specifically in Barangays San Jose,
San Isidro and San Rafael.
This can only be achieved through land use restructuring, consolidation and intensive
regulation on all physical developments, and massive infrastructure investments. More
regulated development will be placed on areas for protection such as those along Montalban
River and other inland tributaries since these areas will be consigned for the planned arterial
road and linear park (greenway) to accomplish the inter-connectivity system. The system will
also act as flood-control to the already disaster-threatened urban core. Mining and quarry sites
will be subject to stricter environmental regulation, quarry area limitation and the compulsory
allocation and maintenance of ‘green buffers’. All existing quarry operations and sites outside
the proposed quarry area in the land use and zoning map are now classified as non-
conforming uses.
New development areas that will be generated along the arterial road will permit for new
economic activities and invigorate the already established built-up in the urban core. They can
be set for new and integrated master planned development to include among others medium -
rise housing, mixed-use commerce and trade, tourism, institutional and social facilities such as,
schools and parks for recreation. It can be transformed and be part of a unified tourism corridor
(linear greenway) linking and stimulating the existing travel attractions in Rodriguez such as
Wawa Dam, Avilon Zoo, Noah’s Park, private resorts, view corridors as well as creating new
tourism opportunities in the area and in the municipality as a whole.
DETAILING OF THE PREFFERED SPATIAL STRATEGY

A proposal to build a new bridge to connect Barangay Balite and the eastern segment of San
Jose passing through JP Rizal Street will compatibly link the growing residential areas in Brgy
San Isidro. This will improve movement to and from these areas but will impact on the traffic or
circulation in these highly built-up areas. Traffic rerouting, one-way traffic scheme, assigning
interior streets and the use of access roads of subdivisions for alternate routes will decongest
the traffic along JP Rizal Avenue. The introduction of this new circulation system can
encourage land consolidation for urban redevelopment. The Mixed Urban Development
Concept being advanced in this strategy will encourage the nodal pattern.
These developments will further boost tourist arrivals, diversify the local economy, and spur
aggressive urban redevelopment. Essentially, since these new development areas are in the
inner urban core where old growth enterprises and residential areas are located, broad land
using policies to advance urban design and safety in the urban communities need to be
established. These will include among others the relocation of informal settlers along
riverbanks, regaining and maintenance of river easements, expropriating lands of affected
businesses and households, ‘performance based’ development, and limiting density on
disaster and hazard-prone areas.
Special economic zones as identified and exclusively provided for economic development
activities such as the planned unit development (PUD) areas in Brgy Macabud for municipal
enterprise promotion (trade and business centers), highly restrictive real estate and agro -
commercial developments will be established as part of the urban expansion areas. This will
complement the restructured agro-industrial and agriculture segments on the outskirts and in
the fringes of San Isidro (western side of Mt. Lukutan). Zone de lineation will be located on
barely developed, large tracts of grasslands and shrublands lying idle or in marginally
cultivated areas and those lands that are currently under adverse proprietary claims. One vital
selection criterion is its adjacency and inter-connectivity of infrastructure to the proposed MRT
7 Intermodal Terminal in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. Other land uses surrounding the PUD
will be highly controlled and regulated encompassing all environmental and urban design
standards.
The Patrimonial land in San Rafael which has already been designated as special use area
prior to this plan will retain its official designation and is now categorized as a special economic
area.
Tourism-led economic development will take center stage in this strategy. With the established
arterial road and linear park system, a consolidated tourism package can be offered by the
municipality. The Pamitinan Protected Landscape (PPL) tourism development which is now
being primed as a new economic driver for the municipality will be complemented by existing
tourism and recreational facilities in the Municipality such as the Avilon Zoo, p anoramic resorts,
and the linear-arterial road-park itself. The configuration can be transformed into a tourism

corridor promoting other tourism cum-recreational, environmental, cultural, and educational

activities such as biking, jogging, and hiking that can attract more visitors and investors in the
municipality. Mt. Irid can be fully integrated into the tourism package. Also, support economic
programs such as product development; marketing and promotion should be created.
The agriculture production and forest protection zones will be restored and maintained. These
are areas in Barangays San Isidro, San Rafael, Macabud, Mascap and Puray. Buffers on these
zones will be established as these areas are proposed for exclusive production and strict
protection zones. Barangays Macabud and the north-easterly most part of San Isidro as well
as those in San Rafael will be devoted for agriculture and production forest. The Upper
Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape (UMRBPL) newly-crafted management plan that
assigns a “green buffer” outside of the watershed will also be delineated in the south-easterly
portion of Brgy San Rafael and Mascap. Areas in these rural barangays as well as that of
Barangay Puray are consigned for extensive reforestation (Eco -restoration Area).
The old-growth center of Rodriguez generally comprising the 7 clustered urban barangays in
the south-western part including the fractional annexation of Brgy San Isidro will remain to be
its urban heart or CBD. Development in this core zone will be restructured to be more compact
allowing for medium-density mixed-use residential and commercial developments. Urban areas
subjected to recurrent flooding during the rainy seasons shall be designated with a low-density
development cap. Residential areas and subdivisions adjacent to waterways shall be subject to
stricter environmental regulation.
The areas along Montalban River especially those in San Isidro and San Rafael can be
suitably restructured to serve as protective buffers to minimize impacts of flooding as well as to
provide inner-linked network that will consolidate efficient access to tourism areas. Mixed -use
i.e. commercial-residential developments in these areas will support the tourism-oriented
services. Development of an auxiliary urban core to serve the expanding built-up activities in
San Isidro is a precursor to a polycentric but concentrated urban area. This strategy does not
only curb urban expansion but will efficiently manage peripheral growth.
6.2. Linked-Nodes Growth Area Management Strategies
The linked-nodes growth areas and their identified locations will be guided by the following
spatial management strategies. Detailed discussions of these areas are provided in the
succeeding chapters.

Table 6.1: Spatial Strategy Locations and Management Concerns

Linked-Nodes Growth Area Area Management
Built-Up (Mixed-Urban) o Harmonize and standardize land uses with emphasis
on compatibility and conformity principles
Residential Zone
o Protect hazard-prone areas through the planned
Commercial Zone infrastructure development
General Institutional Zone o Designate low-density developments on high-risk

flood and landslide hazards
Open Space Zone
o Optimize land use through area redevelopment and
Linear Greenway/Buffer Zone adoption/application of urban design guidelines
anchored on sustainable buildings (smart growth)
and green infrastructure principles
Locations: 6 clustered-urban barangays
and lower part of Brgy San Isidro o Implement appropriate measures for disaster risk and
reduction management (low-density on disaster-
prone areas, compact and medium-density on safe
urban settlement)
o Effect development controls and building policies

aimed at preventing sprawl and the breeding of
informal settlers
o Manage future urban growth and residential

development so as to maintain the appropriate
housing density and provide adequate urban facilities
and social services.
Agricultural/Agro-Industrial and o Define areas declared as agricultural lands under

Industrial the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
(CARP) of the government, irrigated agricultural
Agricultural (Riceland) Zone lands, and other suitable agricultural lands to form
part of a production and protection network in
Agricultural (CARP) Zone Rodriguez which shall be strictly restricted for
conversion to other land uses.
Agricultural (SAPD) Zone
o Recondition the soil and increase productivity of
Agro-Industrial Zone farms and rice fields
Industrial Zone o Diversify agriculture production through high-value

crops
Landfill Zone
o Increase capacity and technical assistance to
Mining Zone farmers
Locations: Brgy Macabud, Upper Limits o Remove and reallocate non-conforming and
of San Isidro, San Rafael, Puray, Mascap incompatible land uses
o Strict compliance to environmental laws and

implementation of the buffer zones in industrial,


landfill and mining areas
Special Economic (Planned Unit o Designate and effect a land development scheme on
Development) a site in Barangay Macabud to attain the goals of
municipal enterprises. ICT /BPO business offices
Special Economic Zone complemented with compact mixed-use and other
economic activity to support the potential urban
Special Economic Agro-Commercial expansion are suggested.
Zone
o Strictly confine the master plan for this zone in the
Locations: Brgy Macabud, NW and upper designated area. Further expansion is strongly
portions of Bgy San Isidro, and Brgy San discouraged.
Rafeal (near PP L – Patrimonial land)
o Ensure environmental protection measures in all
projects in the PUD and the sustainable use of land
in adjacent areas.
o Dedicate PUD projects that will capitalize on the

future establishment of MRT 7 intermodal terminal in
San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan.
Tourism Infrastructure o Promote ecological tourism activities consistent with

the character of the landscape, the overall
infrastructure development, and tourism
Tourism Zone management plan of the Municipality
o Involve community, NGOs, and private (business)

Locations: Brgys Puray, San Isidro, San sectors in implementing and staging tourism
Rafael, Urban Barangays enterprise to intensify people’s enjoyment,
appreciation and support for nature conservation.
o Enhance economy of the local community through

employment, patronage of local products and
services, and skills development support
o Harmonize conservation and recreation activity

through the unified tourism network which will
improve mobility and access
o Maintain the integrity of the municipality’s

environmental landscapes for its distinctive tourism
character (low-impact nature oriented development).
Eco-Restoration o All denuded forests and disaster-prone sites within

the Municipality should be inventoried, mapped and a
Linear Greenway/Buffer Zone database created towards establishing a restoration
and protection plan.
Locations: Brgys San Isidro, San Rafael, o Restoration should take into account the natural
Puray, Mascap (around abandoned environment and the retention of the ecological
quarrying sites, landfill, ECAs) functions of rivers and production lands (forest).

o Recondition soil for possible expansions of

agricultural lands.
o Natural, physical remediation on critical areas such

as steep slopes and riverbanks (slope rehabilitation
for soil erosion) should be prioritized. Engineered
remediation can be considered as an alternative.
o Manage all and every effort for the reforestation of

denuded forests through proper coordination and
collaborative endeavors.
o Demarcate and create buffer zones in all eco-

restoration sites
Forest/Watershed Protection o Designate and demarcate settlements in the
watershed forest reserves as a multiple use area
Production Forest/Orchard Zone
o Highly restrict activity and protect areas on the
Protection Forest Zone designated buffer zones
Watershed Zone o Implement programs in promoting stewardship and

values that will result in sense of responsibility and
sustained care for the forest.
Locations: Brgys San Rafael, Puray,
Mascap, Macabud, San Isidro o Rehabilitate and increase forest cover
o Strengthen partnership and collaboration with other

LGUs for resources and technology sharing, and
harmonization of protection and conservation
initiatives.
o Recognize and abide by the commitments and

planned undertakings provided in the
Comprehensive Upper Marikina River Basin
Protected Landscape Management Plan
(CUMRPLMP)
6.3. The Structure Plan
The Structure Plan illustrates the overall physical development direction of Rodriguez towards
2022 based on the selected Linked-Node Development on Protection Zone spatial strategy.
This is dependent on the massive infrastructure investments, development and regulatory
policies both from the national and local governments to support the plan (See Figure 6.1:
Structure Plan).

Figure 6.1: The Structure Plan

Chapter 7
THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN
7.1. Rationale of the Plan
The criteria set to generate the spatial structure for Rodriguez in 2022 generally takes into
consideration its distinctive natural physical capacities and constraints, economic activities with
reference to the provincial and regional framework and development trends, as well as the
considerable growth prospects posed by inter-regional spatial agglomerations thus, this
comprehensive land use plan:
 highlights urban redevelopment to accommodate urban expansion
 balances and concentrates growth into areas with the highest development potentials
while conserving, protecting and regulating areas not suited for development.
 emphasizes climate change adaptation measures, disaster risks reduction and

environmental management,
 sets and links agricultural and related agri-industrial production, industry, tourism and
special development zones to complement economic and environmental activities
across the municipality.
Appropriate and desirable pattern and direction for Rodriguez’ spatial growth for the next
decade should rest broadly on its natural physical characteristics, inherent economic potentials
and the likely realization of huge government infrastructure projects, strict natural reserves
management protection as well as new trends covering not only the region but a much larger
spatial agglomeration of a spawning inter-regional megalopolis.
Rodriguez’s ten-year plan en route to a “scenic verdant town” can only be achieved through a
development paradigm shift from over exploitation of natural resources and uncontrolled
developments, to a subtle and regulated developments given their inherent physical and
environmental characteristics, special economic, tourism and agricultural related industrial
activity potentials.
To advance the general well-being (in terms of public health and safety, convenience,
economy and amenity) of Rodriguez’s populace consistent with its 2022 vision, development
context and land use framework is the overarching goal of this land use plan.

7.2 Objectives:
 To redistribute and restructure land uses taking in the value of protection, production and
harmonious settlement regulations for optimum and safe urban growth.
 To induce new economic developments and infrastructure investments for the “sense of
place” promotion and generation of employment opportunities
 To support rural developments for improved production and maintenance of environmental

integrity.
7.3 Existing Land Use Classification
The recent GIS generated map revealed the existing land use structure of the municipality
(See Figures 7.1 and 7.2: Existing General and Urban Land Use Maps). It revealed the general
land uses and classification and the area occupied by the various land using activities as can
be seen from the table below. The available land supply can be derived from this existing and
actual land uses (Table 7.1).
Table 7.1: Existing General Land Use Classification, Rodriguez

LAND USE CATEGORY AREA (has) (%) to
TOTAL
Forestland 27, 243.87 75.04
Production Forest/Orchard Zone (PDFZ) 2, 272.45
Protection Forest Zone (PTFZ) 2, 278.09
Watershed 22, 693.33
Angat Watershed 2, 522.90
Forest Reserve 3, 650.92
Marikina Watershed 12, 970.23
Watershed Forest Reserve 3, 549.27
Agricultural 3, 381.34 9.13
Agricultural Zone CARP 1, 432.37
Agricultural Zone SAFDZ 1, 549.96
Agriculture Land 399.02
Built-up Areas 1, 862.76 5.13
Commercial 66.59
Industrial 38.04
Institutional 39.67
Major Road 22.40
Residential 1, 696.07
Others 2, 790.78 7.69
Cemetery 17.95
Landfill 33.02
Raw Land 2, 739.82
Agro-Industrial 45.814 0.13

LAND USE CATEGORY AREA (has) (%) to

TOTAL
Mining/Quarrying 304.13 0.84
Tourism Zone 606.49 1.67
Wawa Dam/ Pamitinan (PPL) 561.09
Avilon Zoo 13.87
Others 31.52
Water 72.13 0.20
TOTAL 36, 307.31 99.83
Sources: GIS-generated tabulation based on data from: NAMRIA, MPDO, DENR, LMB,
& Google Earth (2010). NOTES: Exact locations of CARPable lands are not pinpointed.
38.91 has of PPL is occupied by other uses
Table 7.2: Inventory of Urban Land Use

BARANGAY LAND Commercial Industrial Institutional Major Residential Raw land Agricultural TOTAL
AREA Roads
Balite 53.88 3.56 - 3.46 0.84 14.57 23.66 - 46.1
Burgos 276.00 8.84 1.61 6.48 1.33 185.71 80.45 57.583 342.01
Geronimo 36.75 1.02 - 1.24 0.36 25.65 8.06 - 37.9
Macabud 1,886.00 - - - 0.65 113.73 1,155.53 13.91 1,283.8
Manggahan 117.44 9.77 2.62 1.92 1.84 68.71 14.70 9.605 109.156
Mascap 7,576.41 - - - - 48.58 263.92 226.721 539.226
Rosario 25.17 2.83 - - - 19.03 5.28 - 27.146
Puray 15,457.69 - - - - 26.30 - - 26.295
San Isidro 3 792.00 8.58 6.75 2.39 1.60 661.80 611.14 45.209 1,337.46
San Jose 1,045.28 23.52 24.71 22.41 11.14 377.58 421.87 881.22
San Rafael 6,061.45 8.48 2.36 1.76 4.64 154.41 155.18 59.808 386.63
TOTAL 36,307.31 66.59 38.04 39.67 22.40 1,696.07 2,739.82 399.017 5, 001.59
Sources: GIS-generated tabulation based on data from: NAMRIA, MPDO, DENR, LMB, & Google Earth
(2010).
7.4 Future Land Supply Requirements
The need for land to accommodate the expected growth of the population, the increase in the
social services provisions, proposals for public facility improvements and the shift to a more
aggressive economic driver of development for Rodriguez toward the year 2022 would mean
additional urban land to carry out these changes.
Rodriguez is estimated to have at present a population of 327, 040 persons. This was
estimated using the 2010 NSO Census base population. With an estimated annual growth rate
of (4.6%), the projected population in 2022 will be 699, 544 persons. This entails an addition of
372, 504 persons to the present population.

Computation of the future land demand for Rodriguez, the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (UN-FAO) regression range derived formula of 9.00 hectares for every
1000 population (medium development) was used, thus an additional of 3, 352.54 hectares of
land are needed to supply the residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, agricultural and
other land using activities in Rodriguez until 2022. This is computed as follows:
FUTURE LAND DEMAND = Projected Additional Population by 2022 = 372, 504/1000 population
= 372.504 (x) 9.0 = 3, 352.54 hectares
Within the FAO standards, these lands will be distributed to the following land uses:
Table 7.3: Projected Demand by Year 2022 by Major Urban Land Use Category, FAO
Approach
Land Use FAO Standard Area
Category Allocation (in hectares)
Residential 47% 1, 575.69
Industrial 8% 268.20
Commercial 12% 402.30
Institutional (Admin, Educ., Health) 10% 335.25
Open Space 23% 771.084
TOTAL 100% 3, 352.52
The FAO approach was used in projecting the future land requirements of the municipality
because it is very straightforward and it embodies sound land use planning and management
principles centered on food production and land conservation. FAO ensures that the production
lands are conserved through the allocation of minimal lands for other development uses while
anticipating optimum results through the efficient utilization of the land. This is highlighted in
the use regulations (zoning ordinance) for the agricultural cum-agro-industrial zones where
“agricultural lands covered by DAR AO No. 02, series of 2002, section 4, which provides that
irrigated and irrigable lands are non-negotiable for conversion to other uses”. Although major
land uses allocations are standardized in the UN-FAO derived formula, these allocations can
be redistributed to the land use category that requires the most land based on the urban
development scenarios and dynamics observed and documented in the municipality.

Figure 7.1: Existing General Land Use Map

Figure 7.2: Existing Urban Land Use Map

7.5 Urban Land Supply and Demand Evaluation
Table 7.4: Supply of Land in Rodriguez

Land Use Category Area (in hectares)
TOTAL Land Area 36, 308.07
LESS:
Forestland (including watersheds, production & protection) 27, 243.872
Agricultural (including CARP and SAFDZ) 3, 381.343
Built-up 1, 862.760
Water and River Network 72.125
Pamitinan Protected Landscape (PPL–NIPAS) 606.485
Others (Cemetery and Landfill) 50.963
Mining and Quarrying 304.127
Agro-Industrial 45.814
Fault Line Buffer 27.41
Upper Marikina River Basin Buffer (CUMRBPLMP) 66.01
TOTAL Deductions 33, 660.91
NET Available Area for Urban Development 2, 647.16
Using simple land accounting, there are still 2, 647.16 hectares or 7.30% of land in the
municipality available for urban development. These lands remain idle as part of the
substantial grassland, shrubberies and bare soil whose locations are spread all over the
municipality.
Rodriguez, with the projected population which will require additional service -facility areas is
physically and environmentally constrained in its capacity to support and accommodate future
urban development. Meaning, the present land supply is not enough to cover the projected
land demand of 3, 352.54 hectares for the municipality in the year 2022 as shown in the
preceding table.
As earlier discussed in the land use framework, future deve lopment can be through the means
of land restructuring by regaining and redistributing already set land uses for residential areas
into a mixture of uses to increase (densification) the use -capacity of lands in Rodriguez.
Densification should only be made on identified areas not affected by the perennial flooding
and other natural hazards.
Commercial zones can be mixed and/or complemented by residential units which can also be
harmonized with open spaces and institutional facility upgrades. Land use polic y on
subsequent residential and commercial developments can be directed towards “smart growth”
principles which encourage compact and mixed-use developments to counter sprawl and the
conversion of agricultural and forest lands. Agricultural lands as much as possible should not
be subject to land conversion.

An extensive inventory of the municipality’s available housing units and the total area that it
actually occupies should be made. This could result to finding that some of these relocation
housing projects and subdivision developments are actually empty or unoccupied.
Table 7.5: Proposed General Land Use, Municipality of Rodriguez

AREA (ha) INCREASE/
LAND USE PERCENT (%)
EXISTING PROPOSED (DECREASE)
Forestland 27243.87 28671.70 INCREASE 5.24
Production Forest/Orchard Zone (PDFZ) 2272.45 2738.73 Increase 20.52
Protection Forest Zone (PTFZ) 2278.09 2686.48 Increase 17.93
Special Economic Development Zone 553.17 Increase -
Watershed 22693.32 22693.32 - -
Agricultural Land 3381.34 3442.07 INCREASE 1.80
Agricultural (CARP) 1432.37 1425.87 Decrease 0.45
Agricultural (SAFDZ) 1549.96 1852.68 Increase 19.53
Agriculture (Rice Land) 399.02 163.52 Decrease 59.02
Built-up Areas 1862.76 2975.62 INCREASE 59.74
Commercial 66.59 135.78 Increase 103.91
Industrial 38.04 191.95 Increase 404.61
Institutional 39.67 56.90 Increase 43.43
Major Road 22.40 42.82 Increase 91.15
Residential 1696.07 2548.17 Increase 50.24
Others 2790.78 178.36 DECREASE 93.61
Cemetery 17.95 17.95 - -
Landfill 33.02 67.43 Increase 104.22
Raw Land 2739.82 Decrease 100
Buffer Zone 92.98 Increase -
Agro-Industrial 45.81 113.65 INCREASE 148.09
Mining/Quarrying 304.13 191.99 DECREASE 36.87
Tourism Zone 606.49 661.81 INCREASE 9.12
Wawa Dam/ Pamitinan/Mt. Irid 561.09 600.00 Increase 6.93
Avilon Zoo 13.87 13.87 - -
Others 31.52 31.52 - -
Tourism Greenway 16.42 Increase -
Water 72.12 72.12 - -
TOTAL 36307.31 36307.31
7.6 The Proposed General and Urban Land Uses
Relative to the development vision that Rodriguez would like to achieve in the next decade,
this proposed land use plan features an overall increase in the natural and built-up areas. This
plan manifests a considerable shift from the traditional market-based development to an
environmentally sound sustainable development. (See Figures 7.3 and Figure 7.4: Proposed
General and Urban Land Maps).

7.6.1 Built-Up Area
Existing and proposed built-up (residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, open

spaces) shall fall under this general category. The seven (7) urban barangays still remains
the principal zone in the municipality because of the customary attachment and familiarity
of the people to these central places.
Residential Zone
The present residential density structures in the seven (7) urban and in the rural barangays
are restructured to define the settlements prone to hazards for protection and safety
purposes. The housing units in the municipality are mostly provided by subdivision
developers and that of socialized housing as part of the local and national government
programs for relocation. Several old residential buildings especially those along major
thoroughfares have already been used for commercial activities but their physical
appearance are still that of a residence.
The proposed residential area are in those lands already allocated for housing
developments but have not yet started or have not been fully developed which are
confined in the urban areas. From the present 1, 696.07 hectares of residential land use, it
shall be increased to 2, 548.17 hectares with an addition of 852.10 hectares or 50.24%
increase.
Only two (2) residential types have been classified in this zone – R1 (low rise and low-
density) and R2 (medium rise and medium-density). The basis for this classification is the
coverage of hazards (flood and erosion) as revealed by the GIS hazard generated map.
Lands affected by the hazards (flood high-risk and high-landslide) are designated R1 with
a total area of 865.46 hectares. These R1 zones are disaggregated and dispersedly
located west of Gen. A. Luna Street in Brgys Balite, Rosario, and Manggahan, south-east
San Jose, southern San Isidro, northern San Rafael, and other areas . R2 zones are
assigned in flood low-risk and low-moderate landslide hazards with a total area of 1,
682.71 hectares in all barangays except Brgy Rosario.
Although not provided with a specific zone in this plan, high-density residential
development is only encouraged on areas adjacent to the proposed LRT-7 intermodal
terminal and to the proposed arterial road and linear park subject for evaluation on the
area covered by the natural hazards, carrying capacity of roads and utilities, parking, and
other factors.

Informal Settlers Relocation and Municipal Housing Sites
Lands for the relocation of informal settlers and the sites for municipal housing are
incorporated in the residential zones. The unoccupied housing units in South Ville
Subdivision, Brgy San Isidro presently used for priority relocation shall continue to be the
site for relocation. The subdivision has a total area of 50.51 hectares with available areas
for expansion. At least 20.00 hectares additional area for relocation and low-cost housing
is needed to accommodate the 3, 212 households situated in the municipality’s vulnerable
areas (flood, fire, landslide, and earthquake prone) spread all over the municipality. This
will be spearheaded by the local government in partnership with non-government and
government organizations.
The informal settlers which already encroached the PPL in the Wawa area will also be
provided with a descent relocation and housing in Brgy San Rafael with a total area of 7.55
hectares. The municipal housing and relocation plans will be in accordance with BP 220
(Rules and Standards for Economic and Socialized Housing Projects) standards.
Commercial Zone
The existing commercial activities in the municipality are dispersed in an area of around
66.59 hectares. The central business district (CBD) which accommodates the bulk of
Rodriguez’ commercial establishments include among others the public market, new
commercial buildings, and business establishments. These firms and shops which vary
from small neighbourhood (sari-sari) stores, convenience shops, groceries and department
stores and hypermarkets provide for the daily trade of goods and services in Rodriguez.
Two storey-to-three storey high buildings lined-up and dominate the main streets of the
municipality.
Entrepreneurial retailers and home-based business shops have developed (residential

houses converted into commercial space) in recent years within the confines of the CBD
and along transport routes going to San Mateo and Quezon City (JP Rizal and Montalban
Highway), in Mayon Avenue and MH Del Pilar Streets because of the “sprawling” growth of
settlements. Properties along these roads are now being transformed into new commercial
and retail establishments.
The Municipality should intensify the commercial activities in the CBD by enhancing the
physical set-up in the district. The existing public market should be revitalized to allow for
additional commercial spaces and attractive structures to improve the economic activities
in the area making it more efficient and profitable for businesses. The informal economy
(sidewalk vendors) around the vicinity of the public market should be formally given a
space for their trades and goods. This should be guided by the Mixed Urban Development

Concept – a consolidated and compact commercial activities through cluster development.

Unifying sites and enhancing physical planning can be a strategy for the revitalization of
the blighted commercial area. This scheme will encourage a concentrated nodal pattern of
commercial development specifically in the already established settlements in Brgys San
Jose and San Isidro. Other mixed-use establishments are expected to develop in the old -
growth areas in relation to the proposed arterial road.
The newly-built Casimiro Ynares Memorial Medical Center in the outskirt of Rodriguez in
Brgy Burgos can attract the establishment of hospital related business establishments
such as drugstores, clinics, lodging houses and convenience stores. The area can become
one of the commercial nodes in the municipality in the future. If this happens, commercial
stores and offices will line-up along JP Rizal that will worsen the traffic situation in the
area. The arterial road-linear park which is seen to traverse in the rear portion of this new
facility can address this future scenario by providing easy access to and from the medical
center particularly during emergencies.
An additional 69.19 hectares of land in the built-up urban core to support and organize the
business and commercial establishments to increase its present land area to 135.78
hectares are allocated. This will also cover for the other local retail commercial
establishments located outside the CBD, although within the urban area including the
proposed commercial strip (C-1) alongside the arterial road-linear park in the Montalban
River which is part of the tourism corridor proposed for this plan.
The strip-linear commercial developments that normally generate traffic should be

discouraged and should be subjected to stricter road-right-of-way and easement
regulations if not avoided. Service and repair shops such as motorcycle and car shops,
vulcanizing, car wash and the like should be have a service repair yard of at least 100
square meters to avoid the use of sidewalks.
General Institutional Zone
Institutional facilities of Rodriguez are largely dispersed in the urban area because of its
geographical conditions. It has a 2.13 % share or 39.67 hectares in the existing urban
built-up. This will be increased to 56.90 hectares or 1.91 % in the proposed urban built-up
configuration. The proposed 17.23 hectares additional land will cater and cover all the
associated institutional uses such as schools, health centres, police and protective
services site upgrading, recreational facilities, disaster response operation center, and
other social services proposed in this comprehensive land use plan.
Rodriguez has about 2.00 hectares of land holdings that can be used for the provision of
new institutional facilities. These land holdings are spread all throug hout the municipality

on meager sizes. The residual areas to cover for this plan’s institutional needs can be
accomplished by acquiring private lands and land banking. Land banking will keep the
needed areas to realize and provide for the proposed institutional facility in the future.
Open Spaces (Parks and Recreational) Zone
Open spaces usually are allotted for parks and recreational activities. These are the
faciltitis for public recreations, resorts, playgrounds, scenic areas, amusement centers, and
the like. The municipal and barangay parks as well as recreational areas and playgrounds
in schools comprise some of the open spaces in Rodriguez. Destination resorts with facility
for recreation such as pools and open grounds complement this open spaces z one.
Memorial Parks/Cemetery
Public and private cemeteries account to these spaces. The present municipal cemetery
containing 4, 600 square meters (0.46 has) is complemented by the Forest Lawn
Cemetery with 16.755 hectares. Public and private cemetery accounts for 17.95 hectares.
Linear Greenways and Buffers Zone
A total of 92.98 hectares of space is allocated to serve as buffers to the watershed and
forest areas and for the tourism infrastructure zone (arterial road-linear park) corridor or
linear greenway. The linear corridor which will function as a major arterial road to
decongest and improve transport circulation in the CBD, will also serve as an alternative
linear park site (open space) for the benefit of the people. The proposed infrastructure
(arterial road-linear park) is the building block of this plan.
The linear greenway is also seen as an adaptation strategy to climate change and to
minimize disaster risk simply because it will negate (function as a flood protection
infrastructure) the impact of flooding that hounds the municipality occasionally. This also
supports the creation of compact or mixed-use urban development on areas that will be
opened up by this new infrastructure.
7.6.2 Agriculture cum Agro-Industrial and Industrial Area
Agriculture Zone
Rodriguez’s present agricultural land has an aggregate of 3, 381.34 hectares. This

includes the identified CARP and SAPDZ, and agricultural-rice lands. Agricultural CARP
Zone and Agricultural SAPDZ have a combined land area of 2, 982.33 hectares with
1432.37 and 1549.96 hectares land allocation respectively. There is a slight decrease in

the Agricultural CARP Zone of 0.45% or 13.00 hectares simply because of a categorization
shift (from CARP to SAPDZ). Agricultural SAPDZ shall increase by 19.53% or 302.72
hectares.
In line with preserving Rodriguez’s agricultural lands in accordance with this plan, prime
rice lands will be preserved from further encroachment. The agricultural (rice land) in San
Isidro, which corresponds to 45.21 hectares (part of 399.02 hectares agricultural-rice
lands), will be added and included to the Strategic Agricultural and Fishery Development
Zone (SAFDZ) as mandated by RA 8435. The remaining parcels of rice lands with
combined area of 163.52 hectares shall as much as possible be preserved and not be
subject to land conversion. These lands aside from its productive uses can serve as
breathing space in the crowded urban area of Rodriguez.
However, with the increasing demand for land, some less productive agricultural lands and
those located in the urban barangays will be subjected to reclassification, provided that the
process will bring about greater benefits to the municipality and provided further that it is
within the limitations prescribed in Section 20 of RA 7160.
Agro-Industrial Zone (AIZ)
The disperse location of livestock and poultry farms in Rodriguez is a major concern due to
the negative externalities it incurs. By designating a zone specifically for raising livestock
and poultry, managing these negative externalities will be more effective. Foremost, the
foul odor caused by these businesses will be easier to control and will not create
unnecessary annoyance to residential and commercial areas. Effective waste
management and sanitary standards can also be easily implemented and monitored. In
addition, transportation costs can be minimized as the processing and manufacturing sites
are also located in the same zone. New piggeries and poultry farms will only be permitted
and constructed in this zone. Agriculture-related industries that will be located into this
zone will only be allowed to develop seventy (80%) percent of their total area, the
remaining twenty (20%) percent shall be committed for property buffer-easements.
Aside from the abovementioned agro-related industries, manufacturing and processing

sites shall also be located in the AIZ. These sites will serve as the intermediate consumers
of agricultural products by producing processed goods ready for local consumption and
export. These sites may include slaughterhouses, organic fertilizer manufacturing facilities,
etc. These are to be integrated in 113.65 hectares of land proposed to cover the existing
45.81 hectares of dispersed agro-industrial activities. Location of this zone remains in area
previously identified in the 2001 CLUP in the northwest potion of the poblacion in Brgy San
Isidro adjacent to the boundaries of Brgy Macabud.

Location clearance for building and business permit applications for facility expansion,
renovation, rehabilitation, repair of existing livestock and piggery farm facilities and
business operation will no longer be granted. Violation of such shall be imposed with the
strictest fines and penalties to be determined by the municipal council.
Land swapping or tax breaks are viable options for the local government to implement for
the gradual phasing-out of existing piggeries and poultry farms located outside of the
identified agro-industrial zones. Ten years is the maximum period for their eventual phase -
out provided in the guidelines of HLURB.
Industrial Zone (IZ)
Industrial sites are proposed in Brgy San Jose with 107.83 hectares and in southern
Macabud with 78.45 hectares for a total of 191.95 hectares. This zone largely increased by
404.61% from an existing 38.04 hectares. It can be recalled that in the previous regional
and provincial development plans, Rodriguez has been eyed to be the “catchment” of
industry spillover from the Metropolis. Although this was not realized in the past, recent
development trends and derived opportunities in the economic sector could reinforce those
plans to materialize. Existing and new industrial activities that shall be established in
Rodriguez within this planning timeframe shall be subject to stricter environmental
regulatory compliance.
The existing landfill area operated by Rizal Provincial Government and the mining &
quarrying sites are also included and classified in this zone. Sanitary landfill area shall be
increased by 104.22% or an addition of 34.41 hectares inclusive of the “buffer” required for
this industry. In contrast, mining and quarrying sites shall be decreased by 36.87% or
112.14 hectares from the existing 304.13 hectares mining and quarrying zone.
7.6.3 Special Economic Area
There are three (3) proposed sites for this zone. The first site (SEZ 1-BUA) is located in
central Brgy Macabud with land allocation of 50.59 hectares. This site is proposed in
anticipation of the opening of the MRT-7 inter-modal terminal in Brgy. Tungko, San Jose
Del Monte, Bulacan and the proposed Circumferential Road (C-6) that will traverse tin the
municipality. These two (2) grand infrastructure proposals by the national government will
open remarkable socio-economic opportunities for Rodriguez. This site is most appropriate
for the establishment of municipal enterprises to serve the business locator demands that
will be generated by the new transport network. A public-private partnership (PPP) scheme
to implement the planned municipal enterprise should be studied.

The second site which is located on the northernmost part of Brgy Macabud and San Isidro
is delegated to complement the Agro-Industrial Zone (AIZ). It will serve as an economic
agro-commercial cum industrial zone. Production and processing of products from the AIZ
can be done in this SEACZ 2. The site is very adjacent to the identified AIZ which can be
well integrated into a unified zone in the future. The zone is purposely located in the area
where an on-going land claims or boundary disputes with the adjoining municipality of San
Jose Del Monte and Norzagaray, Bulacan to strongly establish the position of Rodriguez
on its rightful claim to this property.
The third site, SEACZ 3 is an existing one with 113.36 hectares deeded as patrimonial
land in Bgy. San Rafael.
7.6.4 Tourism Infrastructure Area
Tourism zone includes the various local tourism attractions in the municipality including
the existing resorts and recreational sites frequented by local and foreign tourists such as
the Avilon Zoo, Noah’s Park, Gethsemane Prayer Mountain, etc.
Very significant in this zone is the 600 hectares Pamitinan Protected Landscape (P PL)
whose natural attractions include the Wawa Dam and the Pamitinan Caves. The
development for these sites, in which the details are specified in the Municipal Tourism
Master Plan carries the concept of eco-tourism aligned with the primary policy advocated
by DOT and DENR, which is “a low-impact environmentally sound and community
participatory tourism activity in a given natural environment that enhances the conservation
of bio-physical understanding and education and yields socio -economic benefits to the
concerned community”, more specially since the sites are NIPAS declared. Tourists can
perform diverse activities in this area such as hiking, trekking, rock climbing, spelunking,
swimming, and camping. This plan emphasizes the promotion of eco-tourism activities
especially in this NIPAS declared area. Other potential sites for new tourism development
include that of Mt. Irid in the Sierra Madre Mountain Range with peaks of 1, 448 meters or
4, 751 feet above sea level and the Puray Falls and caves in Brgy Puray. The cool and
rustic but verdant character of these sites make it appropriate for family picnics, adventure
and tour camping, and religious retreats.
Arterial road and linear park (green corridor)
The proposed arterial road and linear park will become a linear greenway that will link up
all existing attractions in this zone. A new bridge to connect the northeastern part of Balite
to southeastern part of San Jose, northwest of Geronimo and south of San Isidro will open
up new commercial and business activities in the tourism linear corridor along Montalban

River. This would also clear and improve the visual aesthetics of the municipality and
tremendously improve the inter-and-intra accessibility and mobility.
The massive infrastructure projects being planned by various national agencies such as
the DPWH River rehabilitation and flood-control and the proposed circumferential road 6
will be the key source of funding for this zone to be realized. Tremendous improvements in
all aspects of developments for the municipality are expected to be generated by these
new infrastructure developments. This zone has been assigned 661.81 hectares in this
land use plan with an aggregated increase of 9.12 %.
7.6.5 Eco-Restoration Area
This zone includes the proposed protection and restoration areas on denuded areas
brought by mining and quarrying and industrial activities, lands occupied by informal
settlers along disaster-prone areas such as flooding and the buffer zones of the
municipality. This area shall be used primarily for open spaces, reforestation, and low-
impact economic activities.
Buffer Zones
Buffer zones shall be established in strips of land along the edge of normal high waterline
of rivers and streams with channels of at least five (5) meters wide, and the shores of lakes
throughout their entire length and within a zone of three (3) meters in urban areas; 20
meters in agricultural areas; and 40 meters in forest areas for purposes of recreation,
navigation, fishing and salvage (Administrative Order No. 13 of DENR dated 30 March
1992).
For this plan, all existing water bodies, rivers and streams shall have an easement of at
least three (3) meters on both sides of the water bodies. The buffer zone along the
identified stretch in Montalban River which shall be consigned for the proposed arterial
road and linear park shall be increased to 20 meters. This corresponds to 16.42 hectares.
This road link will serve as the tourism corridor or linear “greenway” and open space that
will inter-connect or link the tourism areas in the municipality.
The 66.01 has specified linear buffer zone (100 meter deep) running from the edge of the
Marikina Watershed shall be established in Brgy San Isidro, Mascap and Puray
(CUMRBPLMP, 2012).
A combined 26.97 hectares of 5.00 meter buffer from the fault lines stretching across
Barangays San Jose,Macabud, Pury, Mascap, San Rafael and parts of San Isidro shall
also be consigned to this zone. The remaining sites for mining and quarrying shall have a

buffer area of 39.03 hectares. The RPSL shall likewise be surrounded by a total of 8.28
hectares buffer.
Buffer zones shall also be established in areas between incompatible land uses and other
industrial activities.
7.6.6 Forest and Watershed Protection Area
This area in the proposed land use plan embraces most of the territorial land of Rodriguez.
The zones indicated in the plan overlap with each other thus, it is hard to pinpoint the exact
locations of these zones. It would be best to regard this zone in an integrative manner as
forestland so as not to be confused on the scope of its coverage.
Production Forest/Orchard Zone (PFOZ)
This zone is largely located in Brgy San Isidro, Mascap, Puray and San Rafael. The
existing land use map reveals a 2, 272.45 hectares coverage of this zone primarily
devoted for orchard and forest product cultivation, and whose slopes range between 18 to
50 percent. Areas in this zone that have been occupied and used for mining and quarrying
are suggested to be regained and restored. An increase of 20.52% or 466.28 hectares for
a total 2, 738.73 hectares of production forest-orchard is proposed in this plan.
Protection Forest Zone (PFZ)
As identified in the existing general land use map there are 2, 278.09 hectares of land
classified as protection forest. This will be augmented by an addition of 408.39 hectares or
an increase of 17.93% or a total of 2, 686.48 hectares.
Watershed Zone (WZ)
The watersheds that are within the territorial jurisdiction of Rodriguez comprise about 22,
693.32 hectares. This zone straddles between Angat watershed with 2, 522.90 hectares,
Marikina watershed with 12, 970.23 hectares and the forest reserves with 7, 200.19
hectares. These watersheds have to remain intact and vigorously protected to ensure the
continued supply of clean water not only for the province and the town but for the growing
Mega Manila and the future generations as well.

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Figure 7.3: Proposed General Land Use Map

Figure 7.4: Proposed Urban Land Use Map

M unicipality of R odriguez
Chapter 8
LOGICAL FRAMEWORK
A rational-adaptive logical framework is a structured way to link CLUP’s higher-level aspirations

and goals with more detailed “doables” at ground level. Goals and objectives state the desired end-
results or outcomes. Goals are defined as "ends to be aimed at", or "desires" or "ambitions."
Objectives are defined as "specific purposes to achieve broad goals."
The Indicators or Means of Verification are parameters that quality or quantify the fulfillment of the
objectives, as far as the goals are concerned. The targets are qualifiers or quantifiers that are set
as measures of the objectives.
Monitoring and assessment of indicators is necessary to determine if goals and objectives are
being met. Strategies can be adjusted in response to changing status of indicators.
Table 8.1: Logical Framework

Broad Goals SMART Objectives Indicators/MOVs 2022 Targets
Enforce legal restrictions Forest canopy density 50% forest cover in
particularly in NIPAS and Marikina River
non-NIPAS areas Areas of severe soil Watershed
Ecological security
erosion
Undertake reforestation Mining and Quarrying
on at least 10,000 Number of environment sites reduced
Preservation of
hectares with 2.5M trees restoration activities
Natural Resources
Provide incentives to Activities of watershed
deforesters thru councils & their
Conservation and
Payment to Ecosystem federation
Protection of ECAs
Services (PES) scheme
Control human-caused
disturbance and
alteration of forests
Disapprove further Grains production Households hunger

Food and conversion of farmland increased to 50% of incidence reduced to
Water security into non-farm uses such local consumption 1%;
as single-detached
Community housing Extent of water projects 1000 MLD water
Preparedness and supplied to NCR
Resilience to Natural Hasten efficient market Garbage collection
Hazards linkages of farmers with efficiency 50% of the Linear
dependable buyers Greenway constructed
Rate of organic
Open Space-Linear Protect water quality composting Waterways and critical
Greenway and Buffer through efficient areas cleared of
LOGICAL FRAMEWORK

around sensitive site management of solid Number of STPs of obstructions
wastes & liquid waste firms
Green Design of 100% of the identified
Buildings Enforce appropriate buffer zones are
protection and established
Natural Safeguards conservation measures
Against Disaster to identified critical areas 75% reduction on
in the municipality property damages
caused by disasters
Set carrying capacity of Occupied home lots per Overall Crime reduced
barangays by means of village and density per to 2%;
residential density hectare
controls Efficiency of barangay
Community Peace Crimes against persons services at 80%
and Harmony Increase security visibility and property reported
by doubling the number
Multi-Stakeholder of policemen and their Conflicts resolved by
Collaboration force multipliers barangay
Promote cooperation Civic cooperation

between LGU, civil activities
society, private business,
church and religious
organizations, and
academe
Stimulate new Value of investments Unemployment reduced
investments in per year to 3%
agribusiness & related
agro-commercial trade, LGU revenues from Average rate of savings
Environment-
ecotourism, municipal municipal enterprise at 30% in local banks
Friendly Economic
enterprise (ICT/BPO), & undertaking and financial institutions
Activities
green industries (solar,
wind, thermolysis). Poverty incidence of Average per capita
Balanced Agro-
households income raised by 30%
industrial economy
Promote redevelopment
of the town center. Access rate of 80% increase on tourist
‘Green’ Jobs,
households to power arrivals
‘Healthy Lifestyle’
Improve connectivity supply and potable
and QOL for all
among households and water
households
communities through
inter-linked land uses, Tourism activities
Mitigation and
infrastructure promoted
remediation of
development, i.e.
nature damaging
circulation along arterial Number of tourist
activities
roads in town center, arrivals
access to potential tourist
sites, production forests Reduced damage of
and agricultural lands seasonal disasters
Increase local
employment through
LOGICAL FRAMEWORK

municipal enterprise
Expand access of low- High school completion 30% preparation for ISO
Transparency and income households to rate accreditation for LG
Accountability of social programs and services
Public Officials services Licenses and
certifications issued to 25% increase in
Strong Political Will Increase peoples’ TESDA trainees peoples’ participation in
representatives in Local LGC and special bodies
Peoples Special Body Mortality and morbidity
Participation in rates 50% increase
processes of Engage POs, NGOs, participation of volunteer
Governance academe and civil Functional literacy and organizations in
society groups numeracy watershed protection
Public-Private participation in local and other social-
Partnerships-Market governance environmental activities
Confidence in
Government Sustain capability 80% licensing rate of
building programs for TESDA trainees
Capability Building public officials
Undertake multi-skill
manpower for modern
economy
LOGICAL FRAMEWORK
Chapter 9
LAND USE POLICY FRAMEWORK AND SECTORAL PLANNING IMPLICATIONS
Local policies and legislations should not only be created to suit the needs only of Rodriguez but
they should also support the national laws, policies and codes, whose consequent effective local
implementation, may mean a significant contribution to the nation’s interest. This has also a benefit
to the locality since local policies can anchor on higher level legislations which make it more legally
implementable. The sectoral planning implications likewise look at the micro level of development
plans to be undertaken in connection with this CLUP.
9.1 Policies on Settlements/Resettlements
Housing development should adhere to follow the regulations of relevant local and national
laws. Relative to relocations and resettlements which are a common settlement concern of
Rodriguez, relevant executive directives, such as Memorandum Order No. 72 and Executive
Order No. 698 should guide decisions related to this concern.
A law is also appropriate regarding relocation and resettlement. Section 16 of the Urban
Development and Housing Act of 1992 (RA 7279) specifies the criteria for socialized housing
program beneficiaries that include Filipino citizenship, being underprivileged and homeless
citizen, no owned real property and must not be a “professional squatter or a member of
squatting syndicates”.
In the same manner, housing development of the municipality should be guided on Sections 18
and 21 of the Act which provide that developers of subdivision projects are required to develop
an area for socialized housing equivalent to at least 20% of the total subdivision project cost,
“within the same city or municipality, whenever feasible” and that basic services such as
potable water, power and electricity sewerage facilities and “access to primary roads and
transportation facilities” are provided.
Further, Section 31 of PD 1216 should be observed by housing developers. It states that

subdivision projects that are more than one hectare shall allocate 30% of the gross area for
open spaces. They are areas used for parks, playgrounds, recreational uses and other similar
amenities.
BP 220 also sets the technical guidelines subdivisions and economic and socialized housing.
They should conform to the Zoning Ordinance or Land Use Plan of the municipality / city and
they should be located away from critical areas which are subjected to flooding, landslides,
stress, etc.

Local policies should also be formulated to restrict housing development and constructi on of
residences in identified critical and hazardous areas in support of the foregoing guidelines.
All types of structures which insist on occupying high-flood-hazard areas shall be subject to
stricter LGU regulation including risk-proportional levies to compensate for LGU costs and LGU
burdens in disaster management is among the policies that shall be framed to limit occupation
of high-risk areas in the municipality. New subdivision developments as well as expansions in
San Rafael especially those near the Eastern Fault should not be allowed. Structures
constructed near fault lines should be made and retro-fitted to withstand an earthquake
magnitude of 8.0 in the Richter scale. A safe evacuation area shall have to be designated on
high-density settlements as mandated by PD 1566.
Specifically, to mitigate flooding impacts on critical and hazardo us areas, flood control
structures must be constructed along Montalban River that traverses along low-lying
settlements. Also, drainage construction/rehabilitation projects shall be prioritized in Barangays
San Isidro, San Jose, and Burgos.
9.2 Policies on Production Areas
Republic Act 8435 or the Agricultural Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) of 1997, serves as a
vehicle to modernize the Philippine agriculture for the country to compete in the global market.
It identifies and establishes the Strategic Agriculture and Fisheries Development Zone
(ZAFDZ) within the Network of Protected Areas for Agriculture and Agro -Industrial
Development (NPAAD) and ensures that lands are efficiently and sustainably utilized for food
and non-food production and agro-industrialization.
SAFDZ shall serve as center where development in the agriculture and fisheries are catalyzed
in an environmentally and socio-culturally sound manner. Since, Rodriguez has a SAFDZ
(including CARP) area of 4,983.89 hectares, local policie s can hinged on the principles and
legal mandates stipulated in this law when crafting related local policies.
9.3 Policies on Physical and Infrastructure Areas
The physical development and infrastructure expansion of Rodriguez should be guided by

policies whose precepts are carved out from relevant national codes or laws.
Local policies aimed at preventing water use–related conflicts should be directed to refer to the
country’s Water Code (PD 1067). As provided by Articles 44, and 46, “Drainage systems shall

be so constructed that their outlets are rivers, lakes, the sea, natural bodies of water, or such
other watercourse as may be approved by the proper government agency” and that “When
artificial means are employed to drain water from higher to lowe r land, the owner of the higher
land shall select the routes and methods of drainage that will cause the minimum damage to
the lower lands, subject to the requirements of just compensation”. Article 51 also specifies
that “The banks of rivers and streams and the shores of the seas and lakes throughout their
entire length and within zone of 3 meters in urban areas, 20 meters in agricultural areas, and
40 meters in forest areas, along their margins are subject to easement of public use in the
interest of recreation, navigation, floatage, fishing and salvage. No person shall be allowed to
stay in this zone longer than what is necessary for recreation, navigation, floatage, fishing, or
salvage or to build structures of any kind.”
With regard to the disposal of solid waste, local legislation can strictly enforce Sections 21, 22
and 28 of RA 9003 ( Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000) to ensure a physical
environment that is sanitary and healthy. These sections outline the mandatory segregation of
wastes, requirements for the storage of solid waste and the establishment of a Materials
Recovery Facility (MRF) by an LGU and its barangays.
Presidential decree 856 or the Sanitation Code also rules out “burial ground should be at least
25 meters distant from any dwelling house and no house shall be constructed within the same
distance from any burial ground” and that “No burial ground shall be located within 50 meters
from either side of a river or within 50 meters from any source of water supply”.
Local policies can also be enacted to rationalize and then strictly implement land conversion
laws formulated at the national level. Zoning ordinance should also be implemented to avoid
incompatible land uses.
9.4 Policies on Protection Areas
According to Republic Act 7586 (National Integrated Protected Areas System) areas under
this Act are those “outstandingly remarkable areas and biologically important public lands that
are habitats of rare and endangered species of plants and animals, biogeographic zones and
related ecosystems, whether terrestrial, wetland or marine, all of which shall be designated as
protected areas.” Section 8 of the Act stipulates that buffer zones should be established in
each protected area “to protect the same from activities that will directly and indirectly harm it.”
As such, the local government shall create a policy that would ensure this law is observed and
strictly implemented.
Because of its physical characteristics, PD 705 or the Revised Forestry Code can also be an
appropriate guide for protected area policies in Rodriguez, particularly Sections 15 and 16.

They required that “no land of the public domain eighteen percent (18%) in slope or over shall
be classified as alienable and disposable, nor any forest land fifty percent (50%) in slope or
over, as grazing land” and that lands even below 18% cannot be classified as alienable and
disposable if they “less than 250 hectares which are far from or not contiguous with, any
certified A&D land”. The Decree further “prohibits mere squatting in public forests and more so
illegal logging, kaingin, creating structures and other forms destruction of public forests.”
Latest data revealed that the municipality has 4,358.91 hectares classified as protection forest
zone and production forest / orchard zone. It has also a total area of 23,311.73 hectares,
covering portions of Barangays Mascap, Puray and San Rafael, under Marikina Watershed.
9.5 Planning Implications
9.5.1 Social Sector
Poverty and unemployment can be addressed by the local government through investing
in development projects that can create and multiply more jobs in the future. These jobs
can be translated to incomes for people who shall be hired. Subsequently, it shall also
make an impact to the local economy due to increased consumer spending as more
people shall already have purchasing power to buy more goods and products.
The growing population of Rodriguez, which is quite high compared with other LGUs in
Rizal Province, shall need more classrooms and teachers to accommodate future growth
in the education sub – sector. Also, the low level of educational attainment by municipal
residents can be addressed by giving more college scholarships to poor but academically
– deserving students. Actually, making education as one development priority in the social
sector can simultaneously tackle other social issues like low participation rate in schools
and rise in crimes committed by the juvenile.
Linked to high population growth are high demands for land and social welfare services.
There shall be more housing unit requirements, wider range of economic activities,
additional infrastructure and utilities provision, more open spaces and recreational
facilities, new day care and healthcare centers, etc. as there shall be more people in
Rodriguez in the future.
Population management can help restrain future population growth. In this way, the local
government can manage to meet future demands at its own pace and coping capability.
Densification scheme can also be applied to areas where high concentration of people and
activities are expected to take place in the future.

As some portion of the municipality is part of the Lungsod Silangan Townsite Reservation,
the local government can rationalize the reception of future resettle ments and relocations
of informal settlers from other LGUs to Rodriguez.
9.5.2 Economic Sector
The Mining and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Region - IVA, in its 2008 profile of mineral
resources in Rizal Province, showed that Rodriguez has both the metallic and non –
metallic mineral resources such as basalt, rock aggregates, copper, gold, limestone and
shale.
In consonance and attuned with Republic Act No. 7942, otherwise known as the
“Philippine Mining Act of 1995”, the local government can legislate a mineral extraction
and investment code to regulate the extraction rate of its minerals resources while at the
same time maximize its economic contribution to the local coffers.
Aside from the mining industry, Rodriguez has tourism potentials which can be future
engines for economic growth. Foremost of these potentials are the Pamitinan Protected
Landscape and Puray Falls. Similarly, tourism code must be drafted in order for Rodriguez
to harness and possibly amplify the benefits it can derive from these assets.
9.5.3 Environment Sector
The municipality has identified natural hazards that could endanger lives, especially if
existing settlements within danger zones would be allowed to stay there. The Valley Fault
System which has one trending fault that runs through a portion in San Rafael should be
delineated so that settlements within its hazardous parameter would not be permitted.
There are also human generated hazards that were clearly observed in Rodriguez such as
human settlements found in buffer zones and river banks. Similarly, those settlements
found in eroded portions in Barangays San Jose, Macabud, San Isidro, Mascap and
Puray. These settlements should be relocated to safer areas to prevent further damage to
properties or loss of lives.
The Ecological and Solid Waste Act of 2009 (RA 9003) should be properly implemented to
avoid clogged canals and waterways. Illegal disposal of solid wastes to waterways and
drainage can cause floods during heavy rains and typhoons. Better, the municipality shall
craft its environment management plan incorporating appropriate ecological and solid
waste management strategies to address problems related to environment and solid
wastes.

Correspondingly, former waterways such as creeks or smaller bodies of water that have
been converted into residential use by filling them with land should be reverted to being
waterways again. This will help prevent flooding and improve the natural drainage system
of the municipality.
Reforestation must also be undertaken to recover lost forest cover due to unsustainable
upland farming practices, timber poaching, charcoal making and even mining and
quarrying. Restrictive zones must be created and delineated to regulate or prohibit such
practices and activities causing deforestation.
9.5.4 Physical and Infrastructure Sector
A well – planned transportation system that provides access and linkage and that
promotes mobility is needed by a landlocked municipality like Rodriguez. Parallel to this,
its rapid urbanization level is expected to generate additional private vehicles and public
transport vehicles due to increased population.
Traffic congestion felt at present is predicted to worsen if the same road network capacity
is not augmented. Thus, a municipal transport plan should be crafted, along with the strict
enforcement of traffic rules and regulations, as part of soft measures to address this traffic
condition.
Hard measures would entail the local government to invest in constructing arterial roads
that would divert certain routes away from the congested highways like E. Rodriguez and
A. Mabini Streets. These arterial roads can also be designed to align Rodriguez with the
major axes and arteries that could spur further economic growth.
Better and faster links should be established to growth zones within the region including
nearby central business districts or booming commercial centers like the North Triangle of
Quezon City and Araneta business center in Cubao, Quezon City to facilitate economic
spillovers into Rodriguez.
Investments in infrastructures and utilities are important to support sectoral development

efforts. To this effect, the local government must set priority investments for each sector to
be pursued in the future.
Forthcoming infrastructure and utilities investment must include, but not limited to,
enhanced social services delivery like building of more classrooms both for basic and
tertiary education. Health centers must also be increased in number and beds in the
infirmary must be added to accommodate more in – patients. Centers for the youths and
senior citizens alike must be rehabilitated / constructed to promote the welfare of these
groups.
9.5.5 Institutional Sector
The fulfillment of the vision that Rodriguez hopes to attain in 2022 lies in the institution that
has the legal mandate to shape its future, reinforced by exemplary local governance,
sound fiscal management and competent local government personnel.
Transparent and excellent local governance may be ambitious to be attained within the
next ten years, but it is not impossible to be achieved by the municipality of Rodriguez
based on ratings it obtained in the State of Local Governance Report electronically
published by DILG.
It showed that the local government did excellently in some identified performance areas
such as revenue generation, human resource management and development, support to
education services and support to housing and basic utilities. However, its excellent
performance in forest ecosystems management and freshwater ecosyste ms management
still remain in question due to the municipality’s observed forest cover loss and increased
grasslands.
However, the same report also revealed a low score for development planning by the
municipality. This means that Rodriguez has to update those legally mandated plans in
compliance with RA 7160 and formulate those plans which are not still put in place. It is
important that development directions in the next ten years should be anchored on these
plans so that investment spending and legislations must be properly directed.
Local legislations are important to effect policy changes to guide newly introduced
strategies and mechanisms and to ensure strict reinforcement of existing policies.
Development strategies set within the planning horizon may not be achieved if they lack
legislative support, especially in the allocation of funds. Also, the strict implementation of
the zoning ordinance, as the teeth of the municipal Comprehensive Land Use Plan
(CLUP), needs legislative support for adoption and implementation.
Sound fiscal management should be a continued desired state of the municipality ten
years henceforth and beyond in order to provide better sectoral services and promote
desirable welfare goals. A financial plan is a pre – requisite to realize this fiscal condition.
Moreover, an investment code must be crafted also to lead future public – private
partnerships entered by the municipal government with any private entity.
It is also equally important, as well, that the municipality must create a human resource
and development plan to upgrade the skills and competence of the local government
personnel to effectively discharge their duties and responsibilities.

Chapter 10
PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
The CLUP is the local government’s guide for the management of its territorial jurisdiction.
Implementing the CLUP can be done by regulatory and development policies. The zoning
ordinance is the basic tool for implementing this plan but is normally supplemented by other
regulatory measures enacted by the SB and subsequent memoranda and executive issuances by
the Municipal Mayor. Public and private investments are also effective means to implement this
plan.
10.1 Zoning Ordinance
Zoning is the guide to the proper location of activities in space. Given the importance of the
CLUP and Zoning Ordinance (ZO) for the Municipality of Rodriguez, a number of steps are
required for the review and ratification of the CLUP/ZO by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of
Rizal.
1. The LGU, through the Sangguniang Bayan (SB), endorses and transmits the final draft
CLUP/ZO, together with the supporting documents for review and subsequent
approval to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.
2. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan, through the Provincial Land Use Committee,
conducts review, approval and ratification of the CLUP/ZO.
3. The LGU revises the plan consistent with the recommendations of the reviewing body,
if any.
4. If no revisions were recommended or upon compliance with the review
recommendations, the SB conducts the third final reading to adopt the CLUP and
enact the ZO.
5. SB submits adopted CLUP and enacted ZO to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan for
approval/ratification.
6. The LGU publishes the approval/ratified CLUP and ZO consistent with Section 59 of
the Local Government Code.
Certain features that should be included in the zoning ordinance for this plan are the density
limits in residential and commercial areas. This is primarily attributed to the coverage of natural
hazards in the municipality. Easements along major waterways such as that in Montalban and
Puray rivers should be recovered and expanded to allow for the arterial road and linear park as
part of the proposed tourism infrastructure development (linear greenway). Incompatible and
non-conforming uses should also be restructured to its most productive and protection uses.
PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
‘Form’ zoning to create a distinguishable character of Rodriguez on areas that will be subject
for redevelopment are also called for in this plan. This can also enhance the visual landscape
and attractiveness of the urban area. A recommended urban design guidelines is included in
this CLUP to attain this particular concern.
10.2 Other Development Controls
All property and development located in the identified hazard-prone areas should as much as
possible be strictly regulated in the form of density control, setbacks, and easements. A ‘no -
build’ policy shall be imposed on the property setbacks and easements. Property owners and
developers may also be required to contribute in managing the risks posed by the hazards to
their development by providing property protection such as river embankments on flooded
areas. Specific land use planning options and measures on the three (3) identified hazards in
the municipality – flooding, landslide (erosion), and fault are adopted for this plan from the
RCC Guide of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC).
Taxation is among the inherent functions of the local government that can be used to generate
funds for the provision of other key social services. Developers and property owners can also
be made to pay for risk-related development fees if they insist on building or maintaining their
property in the identified hazard areas. Incentives can also be given to property owners and
developers who will comply and participate on sustainable environmental and disaster
mitigation and adaptation practices as well as congestion minimization measures. These
measures and practices can be in the form of green building promotion (green roof, water
harvesting), construction of treatment plants and allocation of parking and open spaces for
public use.
The power to take back private property for public purposes is also an inherent function of the
LGU. LGUs must exploit on the use of their eminent powers to acquire more private lands for
future urban development. Land banking which is the acquisition of land in advance of actual
need for the purpose of lands at existing use value and disposing of them in a manner which
would influence land price formation and promote planned development is suggested.
10.3 Public and Private Investments
Investment in public infrastructure such as the construction of arterial road and linear park
along Montalban River, and bridges to connect this linear corridor is a more compelling tool to
direct the spatial strategy in this CLUP. Once these major infrastructures are set in place,
private investments can follow to achieve the desired urban form and growth.
PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
In order to realize the crucial element of this CLUP which is the construction of the arterial road
and linear park, national, regional, provincial and local government projects and programs that
are earmarked for the physical development of the region, province and the municipality of
Rodriguez such as the DPWH multi-billion flood control and the C-6 projects, should be
reprogrammed to consider this CLUP. Funding and resources that can be allocated for
Rodriguez as part of these plans should be pooled and integrated into one investment fund
that will physically manifest in the municipality. After all, investments on this arterial road and
other infrastructure will improve the quality of public service and at the same time encourage
private investments not only in the locality but also in the growth corridor areas of the region.
Aside from this strategy, Rodriguez can pursue the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) thrust of
the national government to encourage more infrastructure investments in the municipality.
Infrastructure is capital-intensive and cannot be built unilaterally by any institution.
PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Chapter 11
LAND USE PLANNING OPTIONS AND

MEASURES ON NATURAL HAZARDS
11.1 Land Use Planning Options and Measures
The land use planning options and measures (Table 11.1) as adopted from the Regional
Consultative Committee on Disaster Management: Promoting Use of Disaster Risk Information
in Land Use Planning “provide a wide array of options on how to treat risk and address
vulnerabilities to the identified hazards” (RCC, n.d.) in the municipality -flooding, landslide
(erosion) and fault. It is hereby adapted in this plan to address the said hazards.
Table 11.1: Land Use Planning Options and Measures on Natural Hazards
Specific
Land Use Specific Structural and Non-Structural
Description Hazard
Planning Options Land Use Measures
Applicability
Limit occupancy load and floor area ratios
(FAR) in higher population density
Applying Flooding exposed to flooding (the higher the
occupancy and
population density, the potential for
Density Control density ceilings
for allowed land property damage is greater)
uses Allow only low density, single family
Fault residential land use in buffer zone (usually
5 m to the left and right of fault line)
Avoiding areas where development will
increase the likelihood of risk or level of
impact.
Flooding Keeping development out of high-risk and

extreme risk zones.
Flood proofing in medium-to-high risk

Keeping areas.
Site
inappropriate
Selection and Restrict any new construction within the
land use and
Development surface faulting zone.
development out
Controls
of hazard areas
Require geologic studies and foundation
designs for proposed structures within fault
Fault zones
Mandate abatement or retrofitting of

existing buildings within surface zones
Encourage voluntary retrofitting as one
LAND USE PLANNING OPTIONS AND MEASURES ON NATURAL HAZARDS

Specific
Description Hazard
Applicability
goes farther away from the fault zone
Allow only low-intensity land uses in high

risk areas where there is potential for land
failure due to landslide
*Ground Restrict high-rise and high-occupancy

Shaking residential buildings and offices in high risk
areas underlain by soft soils
Require special geological studies, site
investigations and special foundation
designs
Slope stabilization with protective
structures and natural means such as
covering the slope with vegetation.
Landslide
Engineered retaining walls with drainage
built in front of houses.
Adequate surface drainage.
Building controls in terms of elevation (e.g.
lowest floor of residential structures must
Flooding be above the 100-year flood level), high
foundation walls, stilts, pilings, setbacks,
minimum lot size depending on risk levels.
Enact and adopt building code regulations
that adequately represent the seismic
hazards.
Design Application of
and Building appropriate Building code provisions should encourage
Regulations building controls *Ground regular building shapes, which minimize
Shaking torsional effects in the building.
Limit building appendages or reinforce
them, if constructed.
Limit signs and billboards or require

reinforcements, if constructed.
Foundations founded on bedrock should
Landslide
be required
Legally require retrofitting for high-risk
Strengthening Reinforcing areas and highly vulnerable buildings due
and Retrofitting existing buildings *Ground to intense ground shaking
of Existing and structures in Shaking
Buildings hazard areas Promote voluntary retrofitting of identified
hazardous buildings.

Specific
Description Hazard
Applicability
Construct overhead service lines
Flood Protect water and sewer lines
Critical facilities
are ensured Electric meters placed above flood line
Protection for Move highly vulnerable emergency
of their
Lifelines facilities, hospitals, and schools out of
functionality
during disasters *Ground high-risk areas
Shaking
Provide redundancy in emergency services
distributed throughout the planning unit.
Specified areas Flood plains used only for agricultural use
used for low
Open Space intensity and low Maintain riparian vegetation to prevent
Preservation density use to Flood
erosion
minimize
property damage Wetlands created as a means to absorb
peak flows from floods
Purchase by Buy out of existing critical facilities
government of Fault (schools, hospitals) within fault zones and
land in hazard convert to low risk land use
Land Acquisition areas and
provide *Ground Purchase high risk lands and use for open
alternative Shaking spaces and areas for emergency
locations operations
Mandatory or Landslide Relocating families and communities at
voluntary
Relocation relocation of risk to landslides, flooding and fault would
Flooding be the ideal option to eliminate the risks
affected families
to safe areas Fault
Scheme for risk
Financial sharing through Fault Real estate tax holidays to owners who do
Incentive tax incentives not develop their lands within fault zones
Owners are
compelled to Fault Require property owners and developers
Public reveal who are selling land on the hazard zones
Disclosure information Flooding
to disclose the risk of fault rupture to the
related to
property in question
hazards in their Landslide
property
Source: RCC Guideline 3.2, page 22-23.
* Ground Shaking is related to fault hazards

Chapter 12
RECOMMENDED URBAN DESIGN GUIDELINES
To warrant the full attainment of this CLUP in Rodriguez in the coming years, appropriate land use
management plans for all the identified development areas should be operationalized and urban
design guidelines should likewise be promoted and adopted. They are expected to promote a well -
planned development, oriented towards the achievement of social, economic, infrastructure,
environmental, and institutional goals.
These urban design guidelines are aimed at achieving the physical development goal of creating a
contemporary mixed urban growth concept to foster a “sense of place” adaptive to Rodriguez.
These guidelines encourage the creation of a well-balanced and harmonious urban fabric in all its
public spaces more specifically for its buildings, infrastructure, landscape, streetscapes, parks, and
open spaces through the integration of public facilities and uses that emphasize safety, beauty and
general appreciation of the people. Basically, these guidelines consider existing conditions and
anticipate changes within the municipality as part of the overall design for development especially
in the urban core area (CBD) and more particularly on the areas adjacent to the proposed arterial
road and linear park area (linear greenway).
These are general guidelines and do not in any way provide for a rigid structure that would limit the
physical development dynamics of the municipality and the well-meaning and sound development
and the mandatory urban design guidelines which has to be developed specific to areas for urban
development.
12.1 Environmental Context and Urban Character
Environmental Landscapes
 The most sensitive landscape areas in Rodriguez, both environmentally and visually,
are its forests and mountainous areas, steep slopes and river’s edges. The forests and
mountains provide a scenic and verdant background to the urban areas of Rodriguez.
 These environmental landscapes should be preserved and developments that will

decrease the environmental value of these areas should be avoided.
 Development within and along rivers particularly those parallel to the proposed arterial
road and linear park (linear greenway) shall be pursued making use of the built-up

(mixed-urban), eco-restoration and tourism infrastructure area management and shall

be guided by these urban design policies.
Urban Landscapes
 The present municipal urban landscape is comprised of low-rise, discontinuous

commercial intermingled with residential settlements entrenched on blocks traversed
by street patterns that connect to significant residential areas and the community at
large.
 Major thoroughfares in the urban core are Rodriguez Highway, M. H. Del Pilar, A.
Bonifacio Avenue and a series of inter-connected minor streets that provide for the
general circulation network in Rodriguez.
 The proposed arterial road and linear park will open opportunities for redevelopment
and realignment of blocks and street networks towards this new infrastructure system.
 Public and private properties along this system shall be relatively affected. Other
physical urban developments are likely to be reestablished and shall be oriented to
this new infrastructure system.
12.2 Architectural Features for Urban Design Quality
Enhancement of Architectural Design Quality
 New buildings and developments should respect the existing organization of the
municipality and the street and block patterns that exist and will be developed.
 Large developments are encouraged to integrate into its plan and design the existing
and proposed municipal organization.
 New building designs should display architectural prominence (creative designs) and
as much as possible follow sustainable building design principles.
 New buildings and developments should follow defined architectural features and
coordinated design elements such as signage, colors and façade treatments to display
a sense of character and enhance street level views.

 Building connectivity should be encouraged and as such arcades and awnings should
be designed not only to provide shelter to pedestrians but should also be visually
integrated.
 Provide medium-rise floors for mixed-use buildings and create opportunity for retail
and/or restaurant uses to interact with the pedestrian street and amenity area through
sidewalk café seating or product displays
Views and Gateways
 Buildings and new developments should be sensitively designed and sited so as to

preserve the key views and gateways present.
 Buildings and other structures should not obstruct the major visual gateways into the
municipality or prominent views into or out of the urban core.
 Key visual vantage points such as the approach from Payatas Road in Quezon City,
which provides view of Rodriguez’s mountain ridges should be capitalized upon and a
site should be selected and developed for a municipal gateway park.
 New buildings should not block the view corridors that will be defined and opened by
the arterial road and linear park (linear greenway).
Enhanced Public Spaces Through Public Art, Landscape and Infrastructure
 Encourage public art and landscape elements to be included in new projects and
developments
 New public spaces and infrastructure improvements should have a significant

component of public art to the project that has a visible presence.
 All new public infrastructure projects (bridges, flood-retaining ponds) should meet high
standards of design quality and should provide value-added benefits in the form of
major public space improvements such as parks and recreation, and tourism
attractions.
 Urban design standards for streetscape elements such as streetlights, trees, paving,
commuters’ terminals should be maintained.
 Public art projects should be incorporated into every major p ublic infrastructure project
such as bridges, arterial roadways and parks

 Local conditions of site should be expressed in the design of new buildings,

landscapes and infrastructure.
12.3 Pedestrian Concerns
Pedestrian Friendly Designs
 The objective is to enhance the quality of the pedestrian environment in all built-up
(mixed urban) developments
 Mixed urban developments that do not segregate uses within easily walkable areas
adjacent to major social and economic activity and centers such as markets, office
buildings, municipal hall, and churches should be supported.
 Sidewalks should be widened where possible and necessary to accommodate

pedestrian volumes. Sidewalk vending should be discouraged.
 Streetscape improvements should be a continuous goal.
 Pedestrian connections to other parts of the urban core area should be developed and
strengthened. New or improved streets in other parts of the urban core area should be
modeled on the existing pattern of streets and blocks.
 Develop internal roads and provide direct transit, bicycle and pedestrian connections
to, and through various urban and tourism sites
 Provide pedestrian connections within subdivision developments. Pedestrian ways

should not be separated from streets and sidewalks.
 Provide bicycle racks at strategic locations and major public activity areas.
 Promote the use of landscaping, canopies and overhead structures to provide shade
and shelter for pedestrians and commuters. Parking areas should likewise be
landscaped.

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Municipality of Rodriguez

Comprehensive Land Use Plan

COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN

Message from the Municipal Mayor

It is with great pride and honor to

In the next ten years (2012 – 2022),

The spatial strategy we have chosen, Linked-Nodes Development,

Through our CLUP, we also hope to address prevailing issues, such as

HON. CECILIO C. HERNANDEZ

MESSAGE FROM THE MUNICIPAL MAYOR

Message from the Municipal Vice-Mayor

The Comprehensive Land Use Plan

The CLUP of our municipality entails

The Sangguniang Bayan is very keen on supporting any effort of the

Thus, we enjoin our constituents and stakeholders of steadfast support as

HON. JONAS J. CRUZ

MESSAGE FROM THE MUNICIPAL VICE-MAYOR

a. chronic vulnerability to multiple natural hazards that pose constraints to overall

To all other people, groups, stakeholders, and organizations not mentioned.

Message from the Municipal Mayor ii

Message from the Municipal Vice-Mayor iii

List of Tables xii

List of Figures xiii

Chapter 2 STUDY APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY 6

Chapter 3 PLANNING ISSUES AND CONCERNS 10

Chapter 4 VISION, MISSION AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS 22

4.2 New Vision Statement of the Municipality of Rodriguez

Chapter 5 GENERATION AND SELECTION OF ALTERNATIVE SPATIAL 34

Chapter 6 DETAILING OF THE PREFERRED SPATIAL STRATEGY 43

Chapter 7 THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN 50

Chapter 8 LOGICAL FRAMEWORK 69

Chapter 9 LAND USE POLICY FRAMEWORK AND SECTORAL PLANNING 72

9.1 Policies on Settlements/Resettlements

Chapter 10 PLAN IMPLEMENTATION 79

Chapter 11 LAND USE PLANNING OPTIONS AND MEASURES ON NATURAL 82

Chapter 12 RECOMMENDED URBAN DESIGN GUIDELINES 85

Table 3.1: General Land Classification in Rodriguez, Rizal, 2012

Figure 2.1: Framework for Land Use Plan Analysis

1.1 Legal Basis

1.2 Linkages with Other Plans

“Lungsod Silangan” is envisioned by Law as a “new Townsite for government employees of

 Resettlement Townsite for government employees as part of “Lungsod Silangan”;

 Host of Regional Sanitary Landfill for solid waste disposal;

 Quarrying capital of Rizal to serve urban construction needs;

 Source of water supply for expanding NCR population;

 Critical component of DPWH Flood Control Masterplan 2012-2035.

1.3 Guiding Principles

Poverty Reduction: Poverty is a central concern of sustainable development. Consistent

Empowerment and Good Governance: Empowerment is a precondition of informal

1. To effect the rational distribution of population;

4. To ensure sustainable utilization of natural resources;

5. To maintain and preserve the stability and integrity of the environment;

6. To reduce vulnerability of communities to natural and man-made disasters; and

2. “Environmental Stability and Ecological Integrity”. Achieve environmental stability

5. “Equitable Access to Physical and Natural Resources”. Ensure equitable access to

6. “Private-Public Partnership”. Encourage shared responsibility between the

7. “People Empowerment”. Establish appropriate, flexible and dynamic structures or

8. “Recognition of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. Ensure the indigenous people’s

STUDY APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY

2.1 Study Organization

2.1.1 Objectives. The specific objectives framed are the following:

b. Identification of special development areas for strategic program development and

c. Identification of environmentally constrained areas for protection, conservation,