By IAN JOHN M. LAGARE
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (5 December 2014) - The city government is now preparing the City’s Land Use Plan (CLUP) as an added adaptive measure to mitigate disaster risks.
Engr. Nael Cruspero of the City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) and Dr. Bong Dacera of the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (CDRRMC) presented to City Mayor Ronnel Rivera on November 26 several maps that indicated different projections for the city’s land use.
Among these are the Population Density Map, Critical Point Facilities Map, Agriculture and Fisheries Exposure Map, Built-Up Exposure Map, and the General Hazard Map.
According to Dr. Dacera, the current update of the CLUP is in the coordination with the CDRRMC to create more disaster-resilient communities in the city.
“This CLUP is also necessary for us to orient the future investors on where they will put up their establishments, as well as in helping to strategically place them so that they will be close to their support facilities,” Dacera said.
Cruspero also told the mayor that they will conduct a series of consultations with the identified risk-prone barangays, especially those near the coastal lines so that they can discuss to these communities their status and possible preventive response.
Mayor Rivera lauded the update of CLUP and expressed to Cruspero and Dacera that he will give the necessary support for whatever programs that will come out as a result of the full study. (Gensan CPIO/ Ian John M. Lagare)
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