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    This document summarizes Baguio City's experience with green growth planning. It outlines the city's vision of being progressive, peaceful, clean and green. It then discusses Baguio's geography, population, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The city aims to balance economic growth with environmental protection and human development through various ordinances, institutional changes, and development controls that promote green growth. Key partnerships between different sectors help support initiatives like reforestation, air quality monitoring, and river cleaning.

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    Planning for Green Growth:

    The Baguio City Experience

    Engr/EnP. Evelyn B. Cayat


    City Planning and Development Coordinator

    12 March 2019
    Naga, Camarines Sur
    Outline of Presentation

    01 Vision

    02 Geophysical Characteristics/
    Demography

    03 SWOT

    04 Mainstreaming Green Growth


    “We want a progressive,
    peaceful, clean,
    and green Baguio-
    A center for education,
    trade and family-oriented
    tourism-managed by
    God-loving and
    strong-willed leaders in
    partnership with
    self-reliant and
    disciplined citizenry.”
    General Topography
     78% of the total land area are gentle
    to moderately steep with slope of
    less than 30%

     22% of city’s land area has steep


    slopes greater than 30%

     Nestled 5,000 feet above sea level

     Located in the heart of Benguet


    Province
    Population (2019):
    365,665
    Population growth rate(2010-2015):
    1.54%
    Population density per sq.km.:
    6,360 persons/sq.km.
    SWOT
    STRENGTHS S
    Active tourism sector: core engine of local economy

    W T

    O
    SWOT
    STRENGTHS S
    Active tourism sector: core engine of local economy
    Seat of sub-national government agencies
    Active business sector & export industry
    W T

    O
    SWOT
    STRENGTHS S
    Active tourism sector: core engine of local economy
    Seat of sub-national government agencies
    Active business sector & export industry
    Active civil society groups W T
    Functional city/barangay governance
    Peaceful environment

    O
    SWOT
    OPPORTUNITIES S
     Rich natural environment
    (topography, scenic views, pine trees, historical sites)

    W T

    O
    T
    N
    Watershed/Pine Tree Zone:

    E
    19.04%

    M
    Parks and recreation areas:

    N
    1.05%

    O
    R
    I
    V
    N
    E
    SWOT
    OPPORTUNITIES S
     Rich natural environment
    (topography, scenic views, pine trees, historical sites)
     Rich culture
     Philippines’ first UNESCO creative City
    W T

    O
    SWOT
    OPPORTUNITIES S
     Rich natural environment
    (topography, scenic views, pine trees, historical sites)
     Rich culture
     Philippines’ first UNESCO creative City W T
     Baguio City as gateway to the rest of the Cordilleras
     Education Center of the North
     Top Ten Next Wave Cities
    O
    SWOT
    WEAKNESS
    S
    • Limited city LGU financial resources to
    implement critical projects
    • Congestion/overdevelopment in some areas
    • Presence of physical constraints (sinkholes, steep
    slopes, landslide susceptibility, karst topography)
    W T
    • High cost of solid/liquid waste management system
    • Encroachment of settlements into non-disposable areas
    (road-right-of-way, reservations, watersheds, etc.)
    O
    SWOT
    THREATS
    • Inadequate access facilities to Baguio
    S
    • Need to cope with the requirements
    for rapid urbanization
    • Occurrence of natural calamities
    • Limited areas for habitation/development W T

    O
    GREEN GROWTH
    Sustained FRAMEWORK
    economic
    growth

    Human Green
    development Growth
    Preservation,
    protection of
    natural
    environment
    Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)
    records the fastest economic growth in
    2017

    CAR recorded a growth of 12.1 percent


    Poverty
    incidence
    improved from
    2.4% to 0.9%
    in 2012
    Ordinances Supporting Green Growth

    CLUP/Zoning ordinance
    Environmental code Requiring construction owners to
    Water code plant trees as a condition of
    Clean air ordinance issuance of an occupancy permit

    Institutionalizing the first week Establishing the Anti plastic ordinance


    of June each year as Baguio botanical Garden
    City Environment Week as a tree nursery
    Encouraging all City residents
    to plant fruit bearing trees
    Environmental Development Controls

    Landscape Regulations

    Heritage

    Building Character and Architectural Design

    Reforestation / Tree Cutting

    Air Quality

    Land and Building Management


    PA R T N E R S H I P
    Government International Private
    Agencies
    Academe
    Organizations Sector CSOs

    National Greening Program Regreening efforts and


    (NGP)
    01 02 environmental awareness

    Monitoring of River cleaning and


    ambient air quality 03 04 rehabilitation

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