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Greetings. We hope to embark on a series of future posts/exchanges in these e-groups to cover the following inter-related planniing subjects:
1) land reclamation as both a bane and a boon;
2) possible causes of landside flashflooding (especially at coastal communities);
3) initial measures to possibly address food security concerns;
4) differentiating developmental (green) and redevelopmental (brown and gray) programs and projects;
5) institutionalizing congestion controls;
6) increasing land use efficiency; and
7) revisiting and relearning from our past plans and programs e.g. the 1970s MMETROPLAN.
To roll out these e-group discussions much earlier, all contributions from the member-EnPs are welcome e.g. articles, papers, links, musings, etc. Much thanks. Regards to everyone.
IS LAND RECLAMATION A BANE OR A BOON?
1) land reclamation is BOTH a bane and a boon (with disadvantages and advantages) and if not planned/managed properly, it easily tends to become much more of a bane (disadvantageous) to its setting/host community, viz:
A) among the readily identifiable disadvantages are:
i) the destruction of the sources of armor rocks and fill materials;
ii) damage to infrastructure during the period of reclamation (chiefly to the roads if material sources are at landside);
iii) destruction of fisheries and coral areas (if thriving);
iv) congestion at the host coastal community (especially during the implementation period); and
v) social issues, etc.; and
B) among the generally perceived advantages are:
i) land reclamation may partially serve to offset the runaway agricultural land conversion (a food security issue, and may even be considered a possibly positive development if the intended land reclamation site is not a productive fishing ground/coral area i.e. heavily polluted coastal waters);
ii) land reclamation may partially serve to offset very low land use efficiency along coastal areas as its high density, high-intensity development characteristics may over time, directly result in attaining higher land use efficiencies at its counterpart coastal areas;
iii) land reclamation creates a new development potential for portions of coastal municipal water areas (MWAs);
iv) potentially perpetual open spaces;
v) potential for providing some form of coastal protection;
vi) general employment generation;
vii) opportunity of generating funds for the potential redevelopment at coastal areas and at inland areas;
viii) increase in the LGU land area (including the converted municipal water areas/MWAs); and
ix) creation of a new tax base for the LGU.
2) the concept of sustainable land reclamation must always strive to attain that delicate balance between conservation and development.
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WHICH COULD BE WORSE (FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND FOOD SECURITY CONCERNS)? LAND RECLAMATION OR LAND CONVERSION?
1) The runaway conversion of productive agricultural land (please refer to future posts/articles at the PEPtalk chatgroup on Facebook) purposely made to lie fallow to serve the ends of speculators only to later host low-efficiency land uses i.e. we all know of instances of low-density land developments that have arisen out of the conversion of several thousand hectares (has.) of erstwhile productive agricultural land, including viable grazing land; OR
2) land reclamation at heavily polluted coastal waters, where the largest reclaimed island in the Philippines may possibly average only two hundred hectares (200.0 has.) over heavily polluted municipal waters.
Some Notes:
a) Land reclamation has limits in surface area due to costs arising from the depth of the seafloor, amount of unsuitable organic materials needing to be removed or reused, containment design, the sources/conveyance of armor rocks and fill materials (if so required), fill methodology, surface drainage, settlement and related concerns.
b) Land reclamation may not be the proximate cause of land subsidence (often attributed to excessive groundwater extraction), saltwater intrusion nor of sea level rise.
c) Landside flashflooding (especially at coastal communities) often occur when storm runoff originates from higher landside elevations and brought to lower landside elevations/coastal areas at a very fast rate (please refer to future posts/articles at the PEPtalk chatgroup on Facebook).
3) Who is looking at the massive land reclamation occurring continuously at our inland waterways, particularly at the mandated legal easement (MLE) areas that have been fenced in and titled by private landowners? The DPWH? The DILG through its LGUs? Presumably, the total area of these potentially illegal inland waterway MLE reclamations now total in the thousands of square kilometers (sqkm) and has been largely contributory to flooding at coastal/low-lying areas nationwide.
4) All of the foregoing could probably be addressed in the crafting of the proposed National Land-Water-Air-Subsurface Use Act (NLWASUA). A bill introduced to the 18th Congress may be read/downloaded at https://hrep-website.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/legisdocs/basic_18/HB02892.pdf. Thanks.
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Hi Boie,
We live an imperfect world. Each option has its pros and cons. There is no perfect solution. I would rather step backward before considering the mode of getting large tracts of land by looking at the objective. Is the acquisition of large tract of land either from private and public sources for speculation or in developers euphemism “land banking” , is it to stimulate gentrification or urban renewal, or is it develop a compact city or is it just for an integrated development of limited but compatible land uses or is it just to provide some vehicle for egoistic leaders to build a monument for himself that will last longer than the pyramids--? Then what are the resources available not just on the existing land or coastal land but also on the capabilities of the proponent ? Most reclamation projects are accompanied with glitzy models but what is the capacity of the developer ? Will the models just remained as models once the developer got his profit? What is the market or the demand?
We talk of Singapore but the Philippines is not Singapore. Singapore give some ideas but the ideas that must be evaluated in the context of the Philippines economic, social and cultural conditions. To put a law modelled or worst copied from Singapore is a sure recipe for disaster.
One of the objections I raised on the format of the recently concluded Coastal Reclamation Discussion is the focus on coastal reclamation. If the objective and the alternatives are not analysed first then we have the typical anti-developmental attitude.
Should be talk of reclamation vs conversion ? Reclamation is anchored on “recent”. To a person with Alzheimer recent is a few minutes back, to a person with low foresight it could be a few days back, to a planner it could be 5 to 10 years or even 30 years, to a geologist it could be a million years (one of the very recent geologic event and that is 10,000 years ago the earth sea level rose by approximately 50 meters submerging the land bridges connecting the Philippines to Asian mainland), to an astronomer it could be billion years (one galactic year is 364 million years the time it takes our solar system to complete one revolution around our galaxy
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PIEP NATIONAL CONVENTION (NATCON) 2022
For its 2022 NatCon, the Philippine Institute of Environmental Planners (PIEP) offers FREE REGISTRATION for all Environmental Planners (EnPs) in celebration of PIEP’s 53rd Anniversary, and in thanksgiving to all its Members who sustained the Institute for over a half century.
The Co-Convenor is the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD), with blended virtual and face-to-face (F2F) activities at the DHSUD Auditorium in Quezon City, NCR.
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Good pm Boie and Patrick,
I might have been very busy that I am completely in the dark as to what happened in November 2021 or to the events leading and the consequences of the event or events in November 2021. The problem must be very serious that it is going to the courts.
For one I don’t want to get involved and perhaps it is to my interest and may be some members interest to know what happened so we could steer clear from getting involved.
Just a backgrounder. No comment please as to who is right or wrong.
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Hi Boie and Patrick,
If there is already a complaint before the court, the complaint is a public document. May be it is easier to circulate the complaint for the interest of the members. Normally the defendants are allowed to answer within 30 days after receiving the court summons with the complaints. If the dependants wanted to circulate their answer that will be greatly appreciated.
After receiving the contents of the complaints and the answer, I don’t think additional information will be of interest for us to steer clear of the controversy until the court decides. Some members may be aware of the issues from conversations or more appropriately in legal context heresies. Heresies will be detrimental to our profession. We are all Environmental Planners and colleagues of the same profession.
Whoever wins in the court case, it is our profession who will be the loser.
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Good pm Boie,
Thanks for the information. If I got it right we will have two national conventions and within those two national conventions we will have an election of the national officers resulting to two sets of national officers.
If your lawyers gives you the greenlight , a copy of the complaint is highly appreciated. I also hope the answer from the defendant will be also made available to us,==== the spectator members.
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I hope the case does not go all the way to the supreme court and like most civil cases ( I know of one that took 70 years to resolve from the Court of first Instance--- to the Supreme Court) may take a long time . In the mean time----what will the professional members do? Just wait , watch and cheer both parties in the Filipino tradition of the cockfight--- to goad the parties to keep fighting on and on—pouring amor propio and then amor tribo into the fight –it is the pride of the family and the group to fight on, long after the fogs of history has muddled or made the real issues irrelevant.
Now I see the wisdom of the Cebu Institute of Technology Alumni association mother constitution. It required the organizations to split once the membership reaches 50 members. From the oral history I gathered the provision is even redundant as the chapters tend to split long before the maximum membership of 50 is reached.
Is this a reflection of things to come with our nation? We are licensed professionals, with graduate and post graduate degrees, we are planners who looks takes long term views and perspective, we have taken oaths to serve society, we are intellectuals, we are the elite. How did things come into this state? Should there have been an internal review or mediation especially from neutral parties within PIEP---appoint mediators acceptable to both parties (Trump and the DOJ were able to find one in spite of their animosity )? Administrative review –PRC, SEC? Looking at the perspective of current legal procedures used in most countries ( may be not for the Philippines), is to exhaust all mediation channels and administrative review before the courts of law.
(Humpty dumpty) PIEP sat on the wall.( Humpty dumpty) PIEP had a big fall, All the King’s men could not make (Humpty dumpty) PIEP whole. PIEP is broken.
I don’t know the background and I will have nothing to do with PIEP or any of the PIEPs the winners and the losers will put up.
This is not a message interfering with the court case or even giving any hint of siding with one group or another. This is my farewell message to my fellow EnPs.
Good bye
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Greetings! These were the information received from the 2022 PIEP NatCon organizers as of yesterday, 9 Nov 2022. Please be advised that I am not part of the organizing committee. I am only sharing the information I received to all EnPs who may be interested in attending the scheduled webinars. Thanks. Regards to everyone.
Welcome to our 31st Blended National Convention on November 10-12, 2022, with the theme: “Towards a Sustainable Recovery: The Challenges and Opportunities for Planners”.
This year’s convention will tackle recovery initiatives by the national and local governments, the private sector, various institutions, and other countries. We will likewise elect the next leaders
of our organization and major issues to be discussed in the General Membership Assembly.
The REGISTRATION is FREE in celebration of PIEP’s 53rd Anniversary, as a tribute to all its members for sustaining the institute for over half a century.
Attached are the PIEP NatCon 2022 General Program, zoom background, and the registration zoom links:
Day 1 Thursday, November 10, 2022
Academic Assembly: Zoom link sent to SUCs
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Day 2 Friday, November 11, 2022: Webinar & Fellowship Night
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