Vice President Jejomar Binay said the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) will lead a study that will look into the prospect of establishing new settlements that would encourage economic opportunities outside Metro Manila.
“The inclusive growth that everybody wants to happen will be best realized through the creation of new investor-friendly and safe settlements all over the country,” Binay said in a statement issued Sunday.
“This study will entail a long and very comprehensive urban planning but I believe that it is doable,” he added.
Binay noted that many Filipinos believe that the best opportunities only thrive in the country’s capital, a misconception he says, that made Metro Manila reached its carrying capacity in a short period.
“We need to reverse this trend. Instead of people going to one location to seek for greener pastures, we should bring the opportunities to them through these new settlements,” Binay stressed.
According to Binay, the Cabinet Cluster on Climate Change chaired by Secretary Ramon Paje of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) already approved the study on the establishment of new and safer settlements.
“Sec. Paje asked HUDCC to lead the proposed study group and we have accepted the challenge,” he said.
“We shall identify future settlements using new technologies on climate change, such as geohazard maps and LiDAR, to protect our people and ensure that our communities would be out of danger from the effects of climate change,” he added.
LiDAR or Light Detection and Ranging is the country’s first three-dimensional mapping technology that gives accurate topographical information.
Binay said the proposed study will also support the initiative of certain national government officials to find new locations that would promote economic development citing Metro Manila’s very limited space.
Binay is the concurrent chairman of HUDCC, a member-agency of the Cabinet Cluster on Climate Change.
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