HLURB approves Oro's CLUP

[AdSense01] The city can now lure more foreign and local investors to pour investments here.

This, after the Housing Land Use and Regulatory Board (HLURB) chaired by Vice President Noli De Castro, approved the Cagayan de Oro Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) recently.

The approval came after City Planning and Development Officer Estrella Sagaral recently presented the city?s CLUP together with Cagayan de Oro City Vice Mayor Michelle Tagarda-Spiers in Manila.

Sagaral said that it was the first ever CLUP and Zoning Ordinance the city has presented before top officials from the Department of Interior and Local Government and National Economic Development Authority and other members of the HLURB.

With the approval of the CLUP, investors now have a clearer picture of the city?s developmental plans and its identified growth areas for investment purposes.

She expressed optimism that with the HLURB?s approval of the city?s CLUP, Cagayan de Oro becomes a globally-competitive and investor-friendly city where investors can easily access vital information such as the cost of commercial space, presence of required labor, access to medical facilities and services and access to potable water, among others.

Sagaral said that the approval eventually help sell the city?s investment potentials to prospective investors, especially among realtors and industrialists.

The CLUP is a set of specific goals for the city?s development in the next ten years as envisioned and crafted by all the sectors in the city. A product of a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholders consultations, the CLUP envisions to transform Cagayan de Oro into a cosmopolitan capital of Northern Mindanao where business, trade, financial, educational and medical services go hand in hand with the needs of the people.

CID conducted coop seminar, CBMS

In order to encourage the people in the barangays to be active in their community, the Community Improvement Division (CID) of the Mayor?s Office conducted series of seminars on cooperative and monitoring system.

Norma Sabacajan, city population officer and CID head said that her office conducted a cooperative pre-membership education seminar in barangay Puntod, this city recently.

The said seminar was participated in by 31 community leaders with the sponsorship of city councilor Alexander Dacer, chair on barangay affairs, labor and cooperatives committee of the City Council.

In related development, CID conducted a total of 52 trainings on community based monitoring and information system in 52 different barangays of the city from April to November, this year.

Of the total areas, 33 are urban barangays and 19 are rural barangays wherein a total of 354 participants have undergone training on how to conduct demographic surveys in their respective barangays.

As a result, nine barangays applied the method while the rest are still conducting surveys. Barangays Bonbon, Canitoan, San Simon and Pagatpat will undergo the same training on December 13 and 15 respectively while other remaining barangays will be trained next year.