SIMPLE Phases
Phase 2:
Linking Provincial with Municipal or City Development Strategies
1
Review of the physical framework aspect
2
Review of the development aspect
3
Filling up of the Strategic Physical Plan matrices
4
Defining an indicative land use and development strategy
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This crucial step links local land use with the wider provincial physical framework and regional considerations. It is important for Municipal governments to gain a good perspective of how the province lays out its physical framework and development direction as this will serve as guidepost for the individual Municipal governments’ preparation of their comprehensive land use and development trajectory. The Municipal Planning and Implementing Team is best equipped to facilitate the SIMPLE approach with a full knowledge of the watersheds and sub-watersheds that a town belongs to, the critical catchment areas and the extent of their current social and economic vulnerabilities to climate change and disasters. It will also help to understand the specific provincial strategies for the municipality and the corresponding role that the municipality or city has been assigned to within the overall physical framework of the province.
A review of the Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plan will help understand the impacts of the development interventions of the province on the specific municipality. It provides local development planning at the barangay and municipal levels with the basis for identifying programs, projects and activities (PPAs) as well as investments and budget linking them to the objectives and priorities at the provincial level.
From the big picture, the planning team fills in the strategic ecosystem spatial matrices, which aids them in closely looking at the character of the watershed. This will enable the team to draw an indicative land use and development strategy.
The analysis of the summed up matrices results to a clear picture of the disaster vulnerabilities as well as the potentials and limitations of each major ecosystem in a municipality within a broader watershed. The municipal planning team will then draw an initial development concept with the help of initial maps and findings from the steps 1-3. This will guide the municipal team when it moves on the next phase that starts at the barangay level, where it will validate and adjust the concept prior to the actual CLUP visioning exercise.
