• PLANNED CITY EXTENSION

Achieving Sustainable Urban Development (ASUD) planned city extension Sustainable urbanization: planning for urban growth, resilience, and economic development

Urbanization Scenario Iloilo City is highly urbanized and is the government center of the Western Iloilo City Profile region, providing an important function in trade and commerce, education and land area: 78.34 square kilometers research, and tourism. All barangays () in Iloilo have been classified as urban. Since this intermediate city is a fast-growing one, a planned city extension population: 424,619 (2010) (PCE) approach plays a crucial role in managing its anticipated growth and urban annual population growth rate: development, making it more livable, attractive, competitive, and sustainable. 1.86% Challenges In City Planning & Management number of households: 90,681 • Limited availability of public land to for existing planning tools like the density (citywide): 5,420 persons per absorb projected growth in population Comprehensive Land Use Plan and square kilometer and economy Zoning Ordinance density continuous urban zone: • Gaps in integrated planning and local • Unmaximized participation of the 10,489 persons per square kilometer legislation to regulate urban expansion urban poor in development planning street density: 18.06 kilometers per and infills • Need to strengthen the city’s overall square kilometer • Need to find a way to influence or urban fabric and the old and existing regulate land owners and developers town centers intersection density: 78 per in following a guided city extension • Uncontroled sprawling development square kilometer process when development is largely driven by the private sector • Absence of a comprehensive number of barangays (districts): 180 transport plan • Limited financial and technical capacity economy: Commercial, service centers, • Absence of land speculation of city in planning and implementation tourism, BPOs, industrial management • Lack of implementation mechanisms internal revenue allocation share: PHP 525.2 million (USD 12 million) Strategic Response: Planned City Extensions local sourced revenue: UN-Habitat’s Achieving Sustainable Urban Development (ASUD) programme PHP 849.6 million (USD 19.3 million) seeks to address urban development issues affecting today’s cities. It integrates three pillars—governance and legislation, finance and economy, and planning and total revenue (2012): design—in developing planned city extensions (PCEs). PCEs represent an alternative PHP 1.4 billion (USD 31.3 million) to unplanned urban expansion characterized by sprawling, segregated, and poorly city expenditure per person per year: connected developments. The PCE for Iloilo pursues and promotes the following: PHP 3,263 (USD 74.72) • adequate space for streets and • a shared vision for the internal revenue allocation mobility development of the extension site dependency rate: 38% by all stakeholders • expansion of mixed housing ecosystem type: Ridge to reef with river • disincentivization of exclusionary • synergy and connectivity of the site system (gated) developments with the existing city city/regional role: Government • policy advocacy for the protection • sustainable density center, education hub, trading center, of public spaces and land • engagement of city stakeholders employment, convention area, management in planning cultural heritage • improved social integration. PHOTO: UN-HABITAT/ T. STELLMACH T. UN-HABITAT/ PHOTO: September 2014 City Extension Site Profile

Iloilo Province Iloilo City City Extension Site: Jaro

Site: Jaro Road Network: Traversed by four major Vision: Location: Northeastern part of the city, roads which include the Circumferential ÂÂ Mixed-use community to include 6.5 kilometers from the core of the city; Road and three radial roads that run in a residential subdivisions for low- adjacent to Leganes municipality on the north-south direction income families Terrain: north Generally flat, not flood-prone, ÂÂ Reclamation of the coastal area on Land Area: 360 hectares (mostly with a number of small creeks; adjacent the eastern side of the site fronting privately owned) to a coastal area ( Strait) to accommodate Existing infrastructure: Curent Land Use: Residential and Residential light industrial and warehousing commercial as per city zoning ordinance subdivisions, a few schools, some facilities commercial establishments (mostly along ÂÂ Development of a special economic Current Zoning: Residential and MacArthur Road), a city slaughterhouse, commercial zone with the support of public- grains warehouse, and a few memorial private partnerships. parks

Benefits of Planned City Extensions

• Improves local revenue generation • Better regulates land development • Connects the old city with the and local economic development and optimizes land value through extension site, resulting in better • Improves efficiency of services mixed-use development economic development and social mix and avoids unregulated sprawling • Enhances technical and institutional • Addresses the housing backlog development capacities of cities • Supports the city’s vision of attaining a • Introduces a good entry point for • Increases city wealth and identity and “livable city” long-term climate change planning provides sustained growth for local • Provides services for Metropolitan Iloilo and disaster preparedness economic development • Addresses congestion within the old city center

UN-Habitat Philippines Activities & Milestones

• Created the local project management structure • Completed city data profiling and mapping • Completed the city’s climate change and vulnerability and adaptation assessment report • Built partnerships with government line agencies • Conducted policy/legal mapping and assessment • Conducted technical coaching and • Managed boundary mapping and land • Assessed municipal finances and mentoring owner inventory listing within the city financial capacity • Facilitated planning workshops on city extension site (ongoing) • Facilitated knowledge sharing with extensions other pilot cities

Scenario if urbanization continues Satellite map image of the city at current rate and direction extension site (business as usual)

The city extension area can absorb

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Waterways Scenario of urbanization with guided development from the city extension plan Road network

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September 2014 What We Have Accomplished • Introduced ASUD concepts implementation of the ASUD • Formulated the city extension and approaches which the project conceptual plan with the city team, which was then city embraced to guide their • Enhanced the capacitiesof development plans henceforth presented to the city mayor and technical working groups for local partners • Inculcated ownership of ASUD urban planning, urban economy, • Assessed the financial capacity principles and standards in local and municipal finance and legal of the city leaders support through sustained • Saw through the passage of technical mentoring and • Scaled up advocacies for mixed , especially among Executive Order (EO No. 49 coaching land uses land owners Series of 2014) creating the • Completed climate change Project Steering Committee vulnerability and adaptation • Extended the urban planning and the Technical Working assessment horizon to 30 years from the Group charged with the current 5- to 10-year paradigm among city planners

Next Steps: Moving the PCE Forward • City stakeholder recommendations • Capacity consultations on how to enforce building for and consensus and regulate the the local city building development of the planners • Completion site • Enhancement of the legal and local • Financial modeling to identify of the city extension legislative framework investment options and conceptual plan assessment to provide specific programmes ICONS: WWW.FLATICON.COM ICONS:

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