Zoning Ordinance GSC

ORDINANCE
FOR THE
CITY OF GENERAL SANTOS
2001-2010
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………… 1
ARTICLE 1. TITLE AND

AUTHORITY………………………………………………………………….. 5
Section 1. TITLE OF THE

ORDINANCE………………………………………………………… 5
Section 2.
AUTHORITY…………………………………………………………………………….. 5
ARTICLE II.
INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Section 3. DEFINITION OF
TERMS………………………………………………………………. 6
Section 4. DIVISION INTO ZONES…………………………………………………….. 19
Section 5. ZONING MAPS……………………………………………………………….. 19
Section 6. DISTRICT BOUNDARIES……………………………………………………… 20
Section 7. SUPPLETORY EFFECT OF OTHER LAWS AND DECREES……………… 45
Section 8. EXISTING NON-CONFORMING USES AND BUILDINGS………………….. 45
ARTICLE III. ADMINISTRATION AND

ENFORCEMENT…………………………………………. 47
Section 9. RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT……… 47
Section 10. POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF A ZONING OFFICER……………………. 48
Section 11. POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF A ZONING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: 48
Section 12. RIGHT TO INSPECT PROPERTY AND BUILDINGS………………………… 49
Section 13. INSPECTION OF INACCESSIBLE PROPERTY…………………………….. 49
Section 14. GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR SECURING PERMITS…………………… 49
Section 15. PROJECTS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE…………………………………. 50
Section 16. ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE (ECC)…………………. 50
Section 17. LOCATIONAL CLEARANCE (LC)………………………………………………..

50
Section 18. APPLICATION FEES…………………………………………………………. 50
Section 19. SCHEDULE OF ADMINISTRATIVE FINES AND PENALTIES…………… 54
Section 20. BUILDING PERMIT……………………………………………………………. 56
Section 21. NON-USE OF LOCATIONAL CLEARANCE………………………………… 56
Section 22. COMMUNITY CONSULTATION………………………………………………. 56
Section 23. ACTION ON COMPLAINTS AND OPPOSITIONS………………………….. 57
Section 24. FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CITY ZONING BOARD OF
ADJUSTMENTS AND APPEALS……………………………………………….. 57
Section 25. COMPOSITION OF THE CITY ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT AND
APPEALS (CZBAA)………………………………………………………………… 58
Section 26. INTERIM PROVISION………………………………………………………………

58
ARTICLE IV. DEVELOPMENT CONTROL

SYSTEM……………………………………………… 58
Section 27. OBJECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL SYSTEM………………… 59
Section 28. TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS………………………………….. 59
Section 29. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING CONSENT ON MERIT…………………….. 61
Section 30. CREATION OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE………………. 61
ARTICLE V.
POLICIES…………………………………………………………………………………… 62
Section 31. PURPOSES……………………………………………………………………….. 62
Section 32. CITY-WIDE PLANNING OBJECTIVES……………………………………… 63
Section 33. GENERAL ZONING PRINCIPLE……………………………………………… 67
Section 34. ZONE BOUNDARIES……………………………………………………………. 67
Section 35. INTERPRETATION OF THE ZONE BOUNDARY……………………………. 67
Section 36. GENERAL ZONE REGULATIONS…………………………………………….. 68
Section 37. USE REGULATIONS IN GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (GRZ)……….. 68
Section 38. USE REGULATION IN SOCIALIZED HOUSING ZONE (SHZ)……………. 70
Section 39. USE REGULATIONS IN COMMERCIAL – 1 ZONE (C-1)………………….. 71
Section 40. USE REGULATIONS IN COMMERCIAL-2 ZONE (C-2)…………………….. 73

Section 41. USE REGULATION IN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE (LIZ)………………….. 74
Section 42. USE REGULATIONS IN MEDIUM INDUSTRIAL ZONE (I-2)……………… 76
Section 43. USE REGULATIONS IN INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (INZ)…………………….. 80
Section 44. USE REGULATIONS IN PARKS AND RECREATION ZONE (PRZ)…….. 81
Section 45. USE REGULATIONS FOR TOURISM ZONE(TZ)……………………………. 81
Section 46. USE REGULATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL ZONE (AGZ)……………….. 81
Section 47. USE REGULATIONS IN AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ZONE (AIZ)……………….. 82
Section 48. USE REGULATIONS IN FOREST ZONES (FZ)……………………………… 84
Section 49. REGULATIONS IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND UTILITIES ZONE (IUZ).. 85
Section 50. USE REGULATION WITHIN GENERAL SANTOS CITY INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT……………………………………………………………………………… 85
Section 51. USE REGULATION IN COASTAL ZONE……………………………………… 86
Section 52. HEIGHT REGULATIONS……………………………………………………….. 87
Section 53. EXEMPTIONS FROM HEIGHT REGULATION………………………………. 87
Section 54. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:……………………………………………………. 87
Section 55. AREA REGULATIONS…………………………………………………………… 91
Section 56. ACCESS TO ROAD OR RIGHT-OF-WAY…………………………………….. 91
Section 57. SUBDIVISION PERFORMANCE BONDS……………………………………… 91
Section 58. ROAD SETBACK REGULATIONS……………………………………………. 91
Section 59. CAR PARKING……………………………………………………………………….

92
Section 60. ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS SIGNS………………………………………. 93
Section 61.
ARCADES…………………………………………………………………………….. 93
Section 62. STORMWATER MANAGEMENT…………………………………………….. 93
Section 63. EASEMENT…………………………………………………………………….. 94
Section 64. BUFFER REGULATIONS.……………………………………………………… 94
Section 65. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT REGULATION………………………………….. 94
Section 66. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS IN THE NATIONAL BUILDING CODE…………. 94
Section 67. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS…………………………………………………….. 95

Section 68. INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES OR DESIGNS………………………………….. 97
Section 69.
DEVIATION…………………………………………………………………………… 98
ARTICLE VI. REZONING………………………………………………………………………

98
Section 71.
REZONING……………………………………………………………………………. 98
Section 72. AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE…………………………….. 99
ARTICLE VII. OTHER

MATTERS……………………………………………………………………… 99
Section 73. CERTIFICATE OF NON-CONFORMANCE……………………………………. 99
Section 74. ISSUANCE OF BUSINESS AND OTHER LOCAL PERMITS…………….. 99
Section 75. OWNER / OPERATOR / TENANT RESPONSIBILITIES…………………. 100
Section 76. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE…………………………………………………….. 100
Section 77. REPEALING CLAUSE…………………………………………………………. 100
Section 78. EFFECTIVITY CLAUSE……………………………………………………….. 100
LIST OF ANNEXES
Annex 1. Proclamation No.
2146………………………………………………………………………………. 101
Annex 2. Scorecard in the Evaluation of Consent on Merit Projects……….. 104
Annex 3. Matrix for Development

Applications…………………………………………………………….. 105
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure ZO 1. Proposed General Zoning Map, General Santos City, 2001-
2010…………………….. 108
Figure ZO 2. Proposed Urban Zoning Map, General Santos City, 2001-

2010……………………….. 109
Figure ZO 3. Proposed Barangay Zoning Map, 2001-2010, Barangay

Apopong……………………. 110

Baluan………………………. 111

Batomelong………………… 112
Buayan…………………….. 113

Bula………………………….. 114

Calumpang…………………. 115
Figure ZO 9. Proposed Barangay Zoning Map, 2001-2010, Barangay City

Heights……………….. 116

Conel………………………. 117
Figure ZO 11. Proposed Barangay Zoning Map, 2001-2010, Barangay Dadiangas East……. 118
Figure ZO 12. Proposed Barangay Zoning Map, 2001-2010, Barangay Dadiangas

North………… 119
Figure ZO 13. Proposed Barangay Zoning Map, 2001-2010, Barangay Dadiangas

South………… 120
Figure ZO 14. Proposed Barangay Zoning Map, 2001-2010, Barangay Dadiangas West…… 121

Fatima…………………….. 122

Katangawan………………. 123

Labangal………………….. 124

Lagao………………………. 125

Ligaya……………………… 126

Mabuhay………………….. 127

Olympog………………….. 128
Figure ZO 22. Proposed Barangay Zoning Map, 2001-2010, Barangay San

Isidro…………………. 129
Figure ZO 23. Proposed Barangay Zoning Map, 2001-2010, Barangay San Jose…………….. 130

Siguel……………………… 131

Sinawal……………………. 132
Tambler……………………. 133

Tinagacan………………… 134
Figure ZO 28. Proposed Barangay Zoning Map, 2001-2010, Barangay Upper

Labay…………….. 135
ABBREVIATIONS
AGZ - Agricultural Zone

AIZ - Agro-industrial Zone
CBD - Central Business District
CZ - Coastal Zone
CZBAA - City Zoning Board of Adjustment and Appeals
DAO - Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Administrative Order
DCC - Development Control Committee
DP - Development Permit
EZ - Ecozone
GRZ - General Residential Zone
InZ - Institutional Zone
IUZ - Infrastructure and Utilities Zone
LCZ - Local Commercial Zone
LIZ - Light Industrial Zone
LGU - Local Government Unit
MIZ - Medium Industrial Zone
NEC - Not elsewhere classified
OCPDC - Office of the City Planning & Development Coordinator
OGL - Open Grassland/Pastureland
PALC - Preliminary Approval and Locational Clearance
PDF - Production Forest
PMZ - Protected Marine Zone
PRZ - Parks and Recreation Zone
PTF - Protection Forest
RIC - Regional Industrial Center
SUZ - Special Use Zone
TZ - Tourism Zone
UF - Urban Forest
INTRODUCTION
Zoning is the division of a community into zones (e.g. Commercial, Residential, Industrial,
Institutional, etc) according to present and potential uses of land to maximize, regulate and direct
their use and development in accordance with its approved Comprehensive Land Use Plan. It
takes the form of a locally enacted Ordinance which embodies, among others, regulations
affecting uses in each zone, conditions for allowing them, and deviations which maybe legally
allowed.
Zoning is concerned primarily with the use of land and the control of its development through
imposition of building heights, bulk, noise barriers, open space and density provisions in a given
area.
BENEFITS
The benefits attributed to zoning are as follows:
1. Optimum use of land based on suitability and capability;
2. Promotion of public health and safety through compatible arrangement of various land
uses; e.g. residential area should maintain considerable distance from industries;
3. Preservation of desirable character and real estate values of the zone; and
4. Promotion of the rational and orderly growth of the community.
LEGAL BASIS
The power to zone is derived from the police power of the State which vests in the legislative
body the power to make, ordain and establish reasonable laws, statutes or ordinances which
promote the general welfare. It is specified and defined in a number of laws and directives:
1. 1987 Constitution which provides that
1.a Article III, section 6
“The use of property bears a social function and all economic agents shall contribute to the
common good. Individuals and private groups, including corporations, cooperatives and similar
collective organizations, shall have the right to own, establish and operate economic enterprises
subject to the duty of the State to promote distributive justice and to intervene when the common
good demands.”
1.b Article XIII, Section 1
“the Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures that protect and enhance
the right of all the people to human dignity, reduce social and economic inequalities… to this
end, the State shall regulate the acquisition, ownership use and disposition of property and its
increments.”
2. Section 20 of RA 7160, “The New Local Government Code”.
Reclassification of Lands.
A) A City or Municipality may, through an Ordinance passed by the Sanggunian after

conducting public hearings for the purpose, authorize the reclassification of agricultural lands
and provide for the manner of their utilization or disposition in the following cases: (1) when the
land ceases to be economically feasible and sound for agricultural purposes as determined by the
Department of Agriculture or (2) where the land shall have substantially greater economic value
for residential, commercial or industrial purposes, as determined by the Sanggunian concerned:
provided, that such reclassification shall be limited to the following percentage of the total
agricultural land area at the time of the passage of the ordinance:
(1) For highly urbanized and independent component cities, fifteen percent (15%);
(2) For component cities and first to third class municipalities, ten percent (10%); and
(3) For fourth to sixth class municipalities, five percent (5%): provided, further, that
agricultural lands distributed to agrarian reform beneficiaries pursuant to Republic Act
Numbered Sixty-Six Hundred Fifty-Seven (R.A. No. 6657), otherwise known as “The
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law”, shall not be affected by the said reclassification and the
conversion of such lands into other purposes shall be governed by Section 65 of said Act.
B) The President may, when public interest so requires and upon recommendation of the
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), authorize a City or Municipality to
reclassify lands in excess of the limits set in the next preceding paragraph.
C) The Local Government Units shall, in conformity with existing laws, continue to prepare
their respective Comprehensive Land Use Plans enacted through Zoning Ordinances which shall
be the primary and dominant uses for the future use of land resources: provided, that the
requirements for food production, human settlements, and industrial expansion shall be taken
into consideration in the preparation of such plans.
D) Where approval by a national agency is required for reclassification, such approval shall
not be unreasonably withheld. Failure to act on a proper and complete application for
reclassification within three (3) months from receipt of the same shall be deemed as approval,
thereof.
3. Section 447 A.2 (VII-IX) and Section 458 A.2(VII-IX) of RA 7160.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod, as the legislative body of the City, shall: (a) adopt a
Comprehensive Land Use Plan for the City: provided, that in the case of component cities, the
formulation, adoption or modification of said Plan, shall be in coordination with the approved
Provincial Comprehensive Land Use Plan; (b) reclassify land within the jurisdiction of the City,
subject to the pertinent provisions of this Code; (c) enact integrated Zoning Ordinances with the
approved Comprehensive Land Use Plan, subject to existing Laws, Rules and Regulations;
establish fire limits or zones, particularly in populous centers; and regulate the construction,
repair or modification of buildings within said fire limits or zones in accordance with the
provisions of the Fire Code;
4. P.D. 1396 (amending P.D. 933). Creating the Ministry of Human Settlements, renaming
the Human Settlements Commission as the Human Settlements Regulatory Commission.
“It is hereby declared to be the policy of the government to foster the growth and renewal of our
communities, both rural and urban, in an integrative manner that promotes optimum land use,
adequate shelter, environmental protection, utilization of appropriate technology and rational
interdependence among self-reliant communities.”
5. Letter of Instruction No. 729
“Municipalities shall submit their land use plans, enforcement system and implementing
guidelines, including zoning ordinance to the Ministry of Human Settlements thru the HLURB
for review and ratification.”
Section 5, Executive Order 648, reorganizing the Human Settlements Regulatory Commission.
The HLURB shall:
“a. Promulgate zoning and other land use control standards and guidelines which shall
govern land use plans and Zoning Ordinance of local governments.
“b. Review, evaluate and approve or disapprove Comprehensive Land Use Development
Plans and Zoning Ordinances of local governments.
“c. Issue rules and regulations to enforce the land use policies on human settlements as
provided for in PD Nos. 399, 815, 933, 957, 1216, 1344, 1396, 1517, LOI Nos. 713, 729, 935
and other related laws regulating the use of land.”
7. PD 933 and EO 648 as amended by EO 90, empower the HLURB to review and approve
or disapprove land use plans of cities and municipalities;
The aforesaid laws likewise authorize the HLRB to prescribe the standards and guidelines
governing the preparation of land use plans, to monitor the implementation of such plans and to
adjudicate and settle the disputes among LGUs over their land use plans and zoning programs.
8. Executive Order No. 72
This provides for the preparation, review and approval process and implementation of the
Comprehensive Land Use Plans and Zoning Ordinances of Local Government Units pursuant to
the Local Government Code of 1991 and other pertinent laws.
ZONING ORDINANCE
Republic of the Philippines
OFFICE OF THE SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD
General Santos City
EXCERPT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE 24TH REGULAR SESSION OF THE

SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD, CITY OF GENERAL SANTOS, HELD AT THE SESSION
HALL ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2001.
PRESENT:
Hon. Florentina L. Congson City Vice Mayor and Presiding Officer
Hon. Jose Orlando R. Acharon City Councilor (president Pro Tempore)
Hon. Lourdes F. Casabuena City Councilor (Floor Leader)
Hon. Minda L. Atendido City Councilor (2nd Asst. Floor Leader)
Hon. Cesar B. Bañas City Councilor
Hon. Minardo A. Avila, Jr. City Councilor
Hon. Jose Mari C. Natividad City Councilor (1st Asst. Floor Leader)
Hon. Eduardo D. Leyson III City Councilor
Hon. Ramon R. Melliza City Councilor
Hon. Zoilo C. Abing, Sr. City Councilor
Hon. Orlando A. Oco City Councilor
Hon. Jose Mariano Constantino G. Gonzalez City Councilor
Hon. Jacinto C. Acharon CityCouncilor(Pres.,Liga Ng Mga Barangay)

Hon. Maureen Christy R. Padayao City Councilor (SK Federation Pres.)
ABSENT:
Hon. Franklin M. Gacal Jr. City Councilor
ORDINANCE NO. 10
SERIES OF 2001
AN ORDINANCE REVISING THE ZONING REGULATIONS OF THE CITY OF

GENERAL SANTOS AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION,
ENFORCEMENT AND AMENDMENT THEREOF AND FOR THE REPEAL OF ALL
ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.
Be it ordained by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of the City of General Santos that:
ARTICLE 1
TITLE AND AUTHORITY
Section 1. TITLE OF THE ORDINANCE.
This Ordinance shall be known as the “Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance 2001-2010” of the
City of General Santos and shall be referred to as the Ordinance.
Section 2. AUTHORITY.
This Ordinance is enacted pursuant to the provisions of the New Local Government Code, RA
7160 Sections 458 a.2 (7-9) and 447 a.2 (7-9) dated 10 October 1991, “Authorizing the City
through the Sangguniang Panlungsod to adopt Zoning Ordinance subject to the provisions of
existing laws”, and in conformity with E.O. No. 72.
ARTICLE II
INTRODUCTION
Section 3. DEFINITION OF TERMS
The definition of technical terms used in the Zoning Ordinance shall carry the same meaning
given to them in already approved codes and regulations, such as but not limited to the National
Building Code, Water Code, Philippine Environmental Code and other Implementing Rules and
Regulations, promulgated by the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB). The
words, terms and phrases enumerated hereunder shall be understood to have the corresponding
meaning indicated as follows:
1. Abutment – a structure extended from the main buildings or extension of a building.
1. Accessory use – a use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the
main building. A use which is dependent on or enhances the principal or main use.
1. Additions, Alterations, Repairs – any change, addition, or modification in the

construction of building/structure.
1. Advertising Sign – an advertisement or sign that is visible from a street, road or public
place or by passengers carried on any form of public transport.
1. Agricultural Building – a building designed and constructed to house farm implements,

hay, grain, poultry, livestock or other horticultural products. This structure shall not be a
place of human habitation or a place of employment where agricultural products are
processed, treated or packaged, or shall it be used by the public.
1. Agricultural Zone – an area within a city or municipality intended for cultivation, fishing
and pastoral activities, e. g. fish farming, cultivation of crops, goat/cattle raising,
piggeries, poultries, etc.
1. Agro-industrial Zone – an area within a city or municipality intended primarily for

integrated farm operations and related product processing activities such as packaging for
bananas, packing of pineapple, rice mills, corn mills, slaughter house, dressing plants,
etc.
1. Alley – any public space or thoroughfare which has been dedicated or deeded to the
public for public use as a passageway with a width of not more than three meters, both
ends connecting to a street.
1. Apartment – a room or suite of rooms, designed and intended for, or occupied by one
household for living, sleeping, and cooking purposes.
2. Apartment Hotel/Apartel – an apartment house which may include dining room service
and other services for the exclusive use of its tenants.
1. Apartment House – a building arranged in several suites of connecting rooms, each suite
designed for independent housekeeping, but with certain mechanical conveniences, such
as heat, light or elevator services, in common to all persons occupying the building. A
building containing multiple rental units. Sometimes called a flat or flat house.
1. Bar/Karaoke Bar – an establishment where music is allowed but dancing is prohibited

and alcoholic beverages and short orders may be served. Waiters and waitresses are not
allowed to sit with and entertain the customers. This term includes beer houses, cocktail
lounges and refreshment parlors.
1. Boarding house – a lodging house at which meals are provided.
1. Buffer Area – these are yards, parks or open spaces intended to separate incompatible
elements or uses to control pollution / nuisance and for identifying and defining
development areas or zones where no permanent structures may be built and fencing is
allowed.
1. Buildable Area – the main space in a lot after deducting the required minimum open
space, setbacks, and areas for community facilities especially in subdivisions.
1. Building – structure designed for habitation, shelter, storage, trade, manufacture, religion,
business, education and the like. A structure or edifice inclosing spaces within its walls,
and usually, but not necessary covered with a roof.
1. Building Accessory – a building, subordinate to the main building and located on the
same lot, the use of which is necessary or incidental to the use and enjoyment of the main
building, such as servant’s quarters, guard houses, garages, etc.
1. Building Height – the maximum vertical distance between the natural or finished ground
level at any point of any part of a building and the finished roof height at its highest
point, excluding antenna, chimney, flagpole or the like.
1. Built-up Area – an area designated for urban use where a contiguous grouping of 10 or
more structures are found.
1. Bus Terminal – a station where buses and/or jeepneys discharge and receive passengers.
1. Cemetery – public or private land used for the burial of the dead and other uses dedicated
for cemetery purposes, to include landscaped grounds, driveways, walks, columbarium,
crematories, mortuaries, mausoleums, niches, graveyards and public comfort rooms.
1. Central Business District / CBD – shall refer to areas designated principally for trade,
services and business purposes (Commercial C-1 Zone).
1. Certificate of Non-Conformance – certificate issued to owners of all uses existing prior to

the approval of the Zoning Ordinance which do not conform in a zone as per provision of
the said Ordinance.
1. Club (night/day) – an establishment where dancing is allowed, often having

entertainment or floor shows, serving alcoholic beverages and short orders. Waiters and
waitresses are allowed to sit with and entertain the customers. This term includes
cabarets.
1. Club House – a place where members of an organization or fraternal society enjoy indoor
activities. This includes barangays and rural meeting halls.
1. Conflicting Uses – uses or land activities with contrasting characteristics sited adjacent to
each other e.g. residential units adjacent to industrial plants.
1. Conforming Use – a use that is in accordance with the zone classification as provided for
in the Ordinance.
1. Community Center – land used for the provision of social, recreational facilities for the
local community, but does not include a pre-school, primary school, or educational
establishment.
1. Commercial zone – refers to areas principally for trade services and business activities.
1. Compatible Use – uses or land activities capable of existing together harmoniously e.g.
Residential use and parks and playground, residential and commercial.
1. Comprehensive Development Plan [CDP] – a document embodying specific proposals

for guiding, regulating growth and /or development. It is synonymous with the
Comprehensive Land Use Plan in this usage and contains the sectoral studies i.e.
Demography, Socio-Economic, Infrastructure and Utilities, Environment, Local
Administration and Land Use.
1. Condominium – a multi-rise structure usually used for commercial or residential

purposes and generally owned by the occupants thereof.
1. Consent on Merit – is a development tool that evaluates allowable uses based on the
planning objective of the LGU.
1. Consulting Room – a building or part of a building (not being a hospital) used in the
practice of a profession by a medical, veterinary or dental practitioner, or a practitioner in
any curative science, in the provision of medical services, mental, moral or family
guidance, but does not include a building or part of a building in which animals are kept
for fee or reward.
1. Coping – a material or units used to form a cap of finish on top of a wall, pier or plaster.
1. Coastal Zone – a band of dry land and adjacent ocean space (water and submerged land)
in which terrestrial processes and uses directly affect oceanic processes and uses, and
vice versa; its geographic extent may include mangrove, swamps, brackish water ponds,
nipa swamps, estuarine rivers, sandy beaches. Land uses may range from fishponds,
mangroves and recreational/tourism provided such uses will not result in environmental
degradation.
1. Cottage industry – an economic activity carried on in the homes or in other places for
profit. With capitalization not exceeding P100, 000 at the time of registration. The
definition provided for in P.D. 817 is hereby adopted for zoning purposes.
1. Court – an occupied space between building lines and lot lines other than a yard; free,
open, and unobstructed by appendages from the ground level.
1. Detached Dwelling – a detached building comprising one dwelling on a site that is held
exclusively with that dwelling and has a frontage to a road.
1. Development – refers to
1. building work; or
2. a change in the use of land; or
3. the subdivision of a lot; or
4. mining operations on land, and
5. development on or under water
1. Development Control System – a tool that encourages community participation thus

enhances relationship between the social and physical amenity of a development area.
1. Development Permit – the permit issued upon compliance of the proposed development
with the approved standards and guidelines applicable for a specific project. A thorough
assessment of the project’s final development scheme, detailed engineering plans such as
road and circulation network, power and distribution system, drainage and sewerage
system, structural plans, parks and open spaces and other documentary requirements is
accomplished prior to issuance. The permit when issued, is an authorization for the
project proponent to proceed with actual physical or land development.
1. Dominant land use – land use which accounts for at least 70% of the area within 1,000
meters radius from the periphery of the lot being applied for.
1. Dormitory – an institutional building where boarders are provided with board and
lodging, sleeping and eating in common halls and consisting of at least ten (10) or more
persons.
1. Dumping site – a lot or land or part thereof used primarily for the disposal by dumping,
burial, burning or any other means and/or whatsoever purpose of garbage, sewerage,
trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles, or parts thereof, or waste materials of
any kind.
1. Easement – open space imposed on any land use / activities sited along waterways, road-
right-of-ways, cemeteries / memorial parks and utilities.
1. Tourism Zone – an area designated for tourism purposes while preserving the ecological
integrity of the land.
1. Electricity Substation – applies to

1. works for the conversion, transformation or control of electricity by one or more
transformers, or by any switch gear or other equipment; or
2. any equipment, building, structure or other works ancillary to or associated with
works referred to in paragraph (a), other than any such works—
1. that are mounted on a pole; or
2. that are wholly enclosed in a weather-proof enclosure not exceeding 8.5
cubic meters; or
3. that are incidental to any lawful use of the land which the works are
situated.
1. Environmentally Critical Areas – refers to those areas which are environmentally

sensitive and are listed in Presidential Proclamation 2146 dated December 14, 1981 (see
Annex 1A.).
1. Environmentally Critical Projects – refers to those projects which have high potential for
negative environmental impacts and are listed in Presidential Proclamation 2146 dated
December 14, 1981 and Presidential Proclamation No. 803, s1986, as well as other
projects which the President may proclaim as environmentally critical in accordance with
Sec. 4 of PD 1586 (DAO 21,s1992 as amended by DAO 96-37, s1996).
1. Exception – a device which grants a property owner relief from certain provisions of a
zoning ordinance where because of the specific use would result in a particular hardship
upon the owner, as distinguished from a mere inconvenience or a desire to make more
money.
1. Farm – any parcel of land used for gain in the raising of agricultural products, livestock,
poultry and dairy products. It includes necessary farm structures within the prescribed
limits and the storage of equipment used.
1. Farm Building – a building used wholly or partly for the purpose of farming, but does not
include a dwelling.
1. Firewall – any wall subdividing the buildings so as to resist the spread of fire, starting at
the foundation and extending continuously through all the storeys to or above the roof.
1. Floor Area Ratio or “FAR” – the ratio between the gross floor area of building and the
area of the lot on which it stands determined by dividing the gross floor area of the
building and the area of the lot. The gross floor area of any building should not exceed
the prescribed floor area ratio (FAR) multiplied by the lot area. The FAR of any zone
should be based on its capacity to support development in terms of the absolute level of
density that the transportation and other utility networks can support.
1. Forest Zone – an area within a city or municipality intended primarily for forest purposes.
1. Fuel Depot – land used primarily for the storage of gasoline, gas, oils or other petroleum
products and within or upon which no retail trade is conducted.
1. Funeral Home or Parlour – an establishment with facilities for the preparation of the dead
for burial or cremation, and the viewing of the deceased by mourners.
1. Garage – a building or portion thereof in which motor vehicles are housed, cared for or
kept for remuneration, hire or sale. No loading and unloading of passengers is allowed in
the area.
1. Gasoline Filling Station – a place where gasoline or any other motor fuel, lubricating oil
or grease for operation of automobile is offered for sale to the public. Gas filling is made
directly into the vehicle. The following services are available at the gasoline filling
station:
 lubrication on the premises

 washing of automobiles where no mechanical conveyor, blower or stream cleaning
device is involved
 such other service and minor adjustments as are customarily permitted at gasoline filling
station.
1. General Residential Zone (GRZ) – an area designated principally for dwelling/housing

purposes.
1. General Zoning Map – a duly authenticated map delineating the different zones in which
the whole city is divided.
1. Gross Floor Area [GFA] – the GFA of a building is the total floor space within the
perimeter of the permanent external building walls, occupied by:
1. Office areas;
2. Residential areas;
3. Corridors;
4. lobbies;
5. Mezzanine;
6. Vertical penetrations, which shall mean stairs, fire escapes, elevator shafts, flues,
pipe shafts, vertical ducts, and the like, and their enclosing walls;
7. Rest rooms or toilets;
8. Machine rooms and closets;
9. Storage rooms and closets;
10. Covered balconies and terraces;
11. Interior walls and columns, and other interior features;
But excluding:
1. Covered areas used for parking and driveways, including vertical penetrations in parking
floors where no residential or office units are present;
2. Uncovered areas for AC cooling towers, overhead water tanks, roof decks laundry areas
and cages, wading or swimming pools, whirlpools or jacuzzis, gardens, court or plazas.
1. Guard House – an accessory building or structure used by the security guard on duty.
1. Home Occupation – occupation conducted within a dwelling and not in any accessory
building, provided no person who is not a resident in the premises is employed, no
mechanical equipment is used, except such as is permissible for purely domestic or
household purposes and not more than one-fourth (1/4) of the floor area of one storey of
the dwelling is devoted to such home occupation does not require internal or external
alteration, or involve construction features or use of equipment not customary in
dwellings. No excessive traffic should be generated or parking of large utility vehicles is
allowed.
1. Hospital – unless otherwise specified, the term “hospital” shall be deemed to include
sanitarium, preventorium clinic, rest house, nursery home, convalescent home and any
other place for the diagnosis, treatment, or other case of ailments, and shall be deemed to
be limited to places for diagnosis, treatment of other causes of human ailment.
2. Hotel – a building or part thereof with rooms occupied or intended to be occupied for hire
as temporary aboding place of individuals with a general kitchen and public dining room
service, but no provisions for cooking in any individual suite or room.
1. HLRB/Board – shall mean the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board.
1. Idle/vacant lands – refer to areas within alienable and disposable lands or human
settlement, which remain uncultivated (for agricultural lands), or no improvements have
been made.
1. Indoor Recreation Center – a building designed or adapted primarily for recreation, but
does not include a stadium or amusement machine center.
1. Industry – the carrying on, in the course of a trade or business, of any process (other than
a process in the course of farming or mining) for, or incidental to—
1. the making of any article, ship or vessel, or of part of any article, ship or vessel; or
the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, assembling, cleaning, washing,
packing, bottling, canning or adapting for sale, or
2. the breaking up or demolition, of any article, ship or vessel; or
3. the getting, dressing or treatment of materials.
1. Industrial Estate – a tract of land, subdivided into plots intended for establishments
engaged in industrial production and services.
1. Infrastructure and Utilities – refers to areas that are utilized for transportation (ports and
piers, terminals and other incidental uses), telecommunications, power generating
stations, reservoir stations, waste disposal plants, etc.
1. Innovative Design – introduction and /or application of new / creative designs and
techniques in development projects e.g. Planned Unit Development (PUD), New Town,
etc.
1. Institutional lands – refers to area principally for general types of institutional

establishments e.g. government offices, schools, hospitals/clinics, welfare homes,
military camps/reservations/bases/training grounds, retreat house or monasteries,
convention centers.
1. Kindergarten – a place primarily for the care or instruction of children younger than 6
years old, not resident on the site, and includes a nursery or child-care center.
1. Light Industrial Zone – a subdivision of an area principally for the following types of
business:
q Non-pollutive/non-hazardous
q Non-pollutive/hazardous
1. Light Industry – an industry where the process carried on, the materials and machinery
used, the transport of materials, goods or commodities to and from the land on or in
which (wholly or in part) the industry is conducted and the scale of the industry does not
—
1. detrimentally affect the amenity of the locality or the amenity within the vicinity
of the locality by reason of the establishment or the bulk of any building or
structure, the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapor, steam,
soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products, grit, oil, spilled light, or otherwise
howsoever; or
2. directly or indirectly, cause dangerous or congested traffic conditions in any
nearby road.
1. Locational Clearance – a clearance issued to a project that is allowed under the provisions
of this Zoning Ordinance as well as other standards, rules and regulations on land use.
1. Lot – a parcel of land on which a principal building and its accessories are constructed.
The lot may be vacant.
1. Lot Depth – the average horizontal distance between the front and the rear property lines.
1. Lot Line – the line of demarcation between either public or private property on all sides.
1. Lot Width – the average horizontal distance between the side lot lines.
1. Market, Public – a building or an area where selling/buying takes place and where stall
owners pay rent to the government for the space they occupy.
1. Memorial Park / Garden – a privately owned cemetery with well kept landscaped lawns
and wide roadways and footpaths separating the areas assigned for ground interments,
tombs, mausoleums and columbariums, with or without a mortuary chapel, and provided
with systematic supervision and maintenance.
1. Minor variation – refers to those projects that are evaluated for consent on merit
approval. Its impact is limited to the barangay.
1. Motel – any structure with several separate units primarily located along the major
highway (National Highway) outside the Central Business District (CBD) with individual
or common parking space, at which motorists may obtain lodging, and some instances,
meal services, with a minimum distance of 200meters from any schools, churches and
such other institutions.
1. New Town – shall refer to a town deliberately planned and built which provides, in
addition to houses, employment, shopping, education, recreation, culture and other
services normally associated with a city or town.
2. Non-Conforming Use – existing non-conforming uses / establishments in an area allowed
to operate in spite of the non-conformity to the provisions of the ordinance subject to the
conditions stipulated in this Zoning Ordinance.
1. Occupancy – the purpose for which a building is used or intended to be used. The term
shall also include the building or room housing such use. Change of occupancy does not
include change of tenants or proprietors.
1. Office – commercial buildings used to house offices for lease or rent. It may concern a
single occupancy use or mixed occupancy uses not involving retail merchandising except
professional services.
1. Open Grassland/Pastureland – lands of the public domain which, due to its topography
and vegetation, have been set aside for pasture.
1. Open Space – an area where no building for human habitation is allowed including, but
not limited to open spaces for parking areas, basements, setbacks, parks and other
recreational areas, idle and vacant lots, etc. wherein no development other than for its use
and maintenance as an open space is allowed. This excludes community facilities such as
water tanks and clubhouses.
1. Open Storage – an enclosure with no roofing used as a depot for unperishable goods.
1. Parks and Recreation Zone (PRZ) – an area designed for diversion/amusements and for
the maintenance of ecological balance of the community.
1. Planned Unit Development (PUD) – it is a land development scheme wherein project site
is comprehensively planned as an entity via unitary site plan which permits flexibility in
planning / design, building siting, complementarily of building types and land uses,
useable open spaces and the preservation of significant natural land features.
1. Production Forest – forest lands intended primarily for the production of timber. This
includes natural and man-made forests. Also includes agro-forested areas.
1. Protection Forest – forest lands which include critical watershed, mossy forests, strips of
specified width bordering rivers, stream, shorelines and reservoir and steep, rocky areas
and other naturally unproductive lands.
1. Public Service Depot – land used for storage and operations connected with the provision
of public services (including gas, electricity, water supply, sewerage, drainage, roadwork
or telecommunication services) by a body responsible for the provision of those services.
100. Residential lands – lands which are intended primarily for human habitation (dwelling or
housing purposes)
101. Restaurant – structure used primarily for the customers consumption of meals on the site.
102. Rezoning – a process of introducing amendments to or a change in the text and maps of the
Zoning Ordinance. It also includes amendment or change in view of reclassification under
Section 20 of RA 7160. Rezoning should be legislated in the form of an ordinance.
103. Right-of-Way – land set aside for free and unfettered public access by pedestrians and
vehicles.
104. Road Transport Terminal – land used primarily for the bulk handling of goods for transport
by road, whether or not the land is used for the loading and unloading of vehicles used to
transport such goods; or the parking, servicing or repairing of vehicles used to transport such
goods.
105. Rural Area – area outside of designated urban area.
106. Semi-detached Dwelling – a dwelling :
1. occupying a site that is held exclusively with that dwelling and has a frontage to a public
road; and
2. comprising one of two dwellings erected side by side, joined together and forming, by
themselves, a single building.
107. Servant’s Quarters – a room or rooms within the dwelling or a necessary building where
servants, maids and domestic helpers of the family are quartered.
108. Service Station – a building or premise where gasoline, oil, batteries, tires and car
accessories may be supplied and dispensed and sales made at retail and where in addition, the
following services may be rendered:
1. sale and servicing of spark plugs, batteries and distribution parts;
2. tire servicing and repair, but not recapping or regrooving;
3. replacement of mufflers and tail pipes, water hoses, fan belts, brake fluids, light bulbs,
fuses, floor mats, seat covers, windshields, wiper blades, grease retainers, wheel bearings,
mirrors and the like;
4. radiator cleaning and flushing;
5. washing and polishing, and sale of automotive washing and polishing materials;
6. greasing and lubrications;
7. emergency wiring repairs;
8. minor servicing of carburetors;
9. adjusting and repairing brakes;
10. minor motor adjustments not involving the removal of the head or crank case or raising
the motor;
11. sale of soft drinks, packaged food, tobacco and similar convenience goods for station
customers as necessary and incidental to the principal operations; and
12. provision of road maps and other information materials to customers, and providing
restroom facilities.
Uses permissible at a service station do not include major mechanical and body work,
straightening of body parts, painting, welding, storage of automobile not in operating condition,
or other work involving noise, fumes, glare, smoke or other similar characteristics to any extent
greater than normally found in a service station. A service station is not a repair or body shop.
109. Service Trade Premises – premises used primarily for the sale, rental or display of basic
plant, equipment or machinery used in agriculture or industry, boats, domestic garages, sheds,
outbuildings, motor vehicles, tents, trailers, building materials, landscaping materials or similar
bulky articles or merchandise.
110. Setback – the open space left between the building and lot lines.
111. Showroom – premises used primarily for the sale, display or offer by retail, of furniture,
floor coverings, household appliances or electronic equipment for domestic use, but does not
include premises for the sale, display or offer by retail of foodstuffs, clothing, sporting goods and
personal effects goods.
112. Significant variation – refers to those projects that are evaluated for consent on merit
approval which impact is citywide.
113. Slaughterhouse – a building or part of a building, or land, used primarily for slaughter of
stock or poultry, or the keeping of stock or poultry prior to slaughter on site.
114. Special Industry – an industry where the processes carried on, the methods of manufacture
adopted or the particular materials or goods used, produced or stored, are likely
1. to cause or create dust, fumes, vapors, smells of gases;

2. to discharge foul liquid or blood or other substance or impurities liable to become foul;
3. to endanger, injure or detrimentally affect the life, health or property of any person (other
than any person employed or engaged in the industry); or
4. to produce conditions which are, or may become, offensive or repugnant to the occupiers
or users of land in the locality of or within the vicinity of the locality of the land on which
(whether wholly or partly) the industry is conducted.
115. Special Use – an area where no building for human habitation is allowed including, but not
limited to cemeteries and dumpsites, etc., wherein no development other than for its use and
maintenance is allowed.
116. Store – a building or enclosed land used for the storage of goods, and within or upon which
no trade (whether wholesale or retail) or industry is carried on, but does not include a junkyard,
timber yard or public service depot.
117. Subdivision –
1. the subdivision or resubdivision of a lot; or

2. the alteration of the boundaries of a lot.
118. Theater – a building or part thereof where motion pictures, theatrical/dance presentation or
concerts are shown and where entrance fees are collected.
119. Urban Area(s) – include all barangay(s) or portion(s) of which comprising the poblacion,
Central Business District (CBD) and other built up areas including the urbanizable land in and
adjacent to said areas and where at least fifty (50%) of the population are engaged in non-
agricultural activities. CBD shall refer to the areas designated principally for trade, services and
business purposes.
120. Urbanizable Land – area designed as suitable for urban expansion by virtue of land use
studies conducted.
121. Variance – a special locational clearance which grants a property owner relief from certain
provisions of Zoning Ordinance where, because of the particular physical surrounding, shape or
topographical conditions of the property, compliance on height, area setback, bulk, and/or
density would result in a particular hardship upon the owner, as distinguished from a mere
inconvenience or a desire to make more money.
122. Warehouse – a building whose primary purpose is the storage of goods, merchandise,
utilities and/or other personal belongings and where industrial activities are not allowed.
123. Watershed – land area drained by a stream or fixed body of water and its tributaries having a
common outlet for surface run-off.
124. Zone – an area within the City designated for specific land use as defined by man-made or
natural boundaries.
125. Zoning Enforcement Officer – a city government employee responsible for the enforcement
of the Zoning Ordinance in a community as embodied in Executive Order No. 71, series of 1993.
126. Zoning Officer – a City government employee responsible for the

regulation/implementation of the Zoning Ordinance in a community.
127. Zoning Ordinance – a local legal measure that embodies regulations affecting land use.
Section 4. DIVISION INTO ZONES
To effectively carry out the provisions of this Ordinance, the City is hereby divided into the
following Zones as shown in the official Zoning Maps.
1. General Residential Zone (GRZ)

2. Socialized Housing Zone (SHZ)
3. Commercial Zone
4. Commercial –1 Zone (C-1) or Central Business District (CBD)
5. Commercial –2 Zone (C-2)
1. Institutional Zone (InZ)
2. Industrial Zone
3. Light Industrial Zone (LIZ)
4. Medium Industrial Zone (MIZ)
1. Parks and Recreation Zone (PRZ)
2. Infrastructure and Utilities Zone (IUZ)
3. Agricultural Zone (AGZ)
4. Production Forest (PDF)
10. Protection Forest (PTF)
11. Ecozone (EZ)
12. Regional Industrial Center (RIC)
13. Agro-industrial Zone (AIZ)
14. Coastal Zone (CZ)
15. Special Use Zone (SUZ)
16. Open Grassland/pastureland (OGL)
17. Tourism Zone (TZ)
Section 5. ZONING MAPS
The designation, location and boundaries of the districts herein established are shown in the
official zoning map of the city as prepared by the Office of the City Planning & Development
Coordinator, and hereby adopted as an integral part of the Ordinance. (Figure ZO.1 and ZO.2)
The zoning map shall be signed by the City Mayor, attested by the Secretary of the Sangguniang
Panlungsod and shall bear the seal of the City of General Santos.
In the event that the zoning map is damaged, destroyed, lost or becomes difficult to interpret, the
Sangguniang Panlungsod may, by resolution, adopt a new official zoning map, which shall
supersede the prior official zoning map.
All prior maps or significant part thereof remaining shall be preserved, together with all the
available records pertaining to their adoption or amendment. Any rezoning by the Sangguniang
Panlungsod should be accompanied by a corresponding revision in the Zoning Map.
Section 6. DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of any of the aforesaid districts as shown
on the zoning map, the following zone boundaries shall be observed:
6.1 Barangay Apopong
6.1.1 General Residential Zone (GRZ)

GRZ-1 An area in Barangay Apopong, bounded on the north by Marcos Avenue, on the east
by a 100m lot deep of commercial area, on the south by the boundary of Barangay Labangal and
Makar River, on the west by SHZ-1 which is traversed by Sinawal River.
GRZ-2 A trapezoidal shape of land bounded on the north by SHZ-1, on the east by Barangay
Labangal, on the south by Makar River and on the west by FLGLA 103 and proposed Ecozone
(EZ-1).
GRZ –3 An area in Barangay Apopong bounded on the north by Psu-139268, a buffer strip and
Plan F-11-03-011077, on the east by Silway River, on the south by a 350-meter deep of industrial
area and on the west by the 100-m strip of commercial land.
GRZ-4 An area identified as Lot No. 458 and 459, Pls-356 known as DARBCI Subdivision.
GRZ-5 A rectangular shape of land bounded on the north, east and south by GIZ-1 and on the
west by Makar-Tupi Road (Bayhomes).
6.1.2 Socialized Housing Zone (SHZ)
SHZ-1 A triangular-shaped land bounded on the east by GRZ-1, on the south-west by GRZ-2
and the north-west by FLGLA 103.
SHZ-2 A rectangular shaped land identified as Lot No. 8-A to F, Psd-11-020181.
6.1.3 Commercial –2 Zone (C-2)
C-2-1 A 100m lot-deep of commercial area along the western side of Makar-Tupi Road
bounded on the north by Marcos Avenue and on the south by Lot 1-A-2-B.
C-2-2 A 100-meter strip commercial land on the eastern portion of Makar-Tupi Road
bounded on the north by PSU-139268, on the east by GRZ-2, on the south by a 350-meter strip
of industrial land and on the west by the National Highway (Makar-Tupi Road).
6.1.4 Institutional Zone (InZ)

InZ-1 An area located in Barangay Apopong, identified as Lot Nos. 503-A and 503-B, 504
and 491, Pls –356.
6.1.5 Industrial Zone
LIZ-1 A 350 meters strip of industrial area along the National Highway in Barangay
Apopong, bounded on the north by a barangay road, on the east by Silway River, on the south by
the National Highway and on the west by the National Highway (Makar-Tupi Road).
MIZ-1 An area located in Barangay Apopong bounded on the north by the boundary of the
Municipality of Polomolok, on the east by Silway River, on the south by Lot No. Psu-139268
(SOCOTECO II) and GRZ-2 and on the west by Makar-Tupi Road.
6.1.6 Parks and Recreation Zone (PRZ)
PRZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. F-11-03-011077 and Plan F-37-611.
6.1.7 Special Use Zone(SUZ)
SUZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 1-A-2-B, (LRC)Psd-40132 and Lot 1-A and 1-B (San
Carlos Cemetery).
6.1.8 Infrastructure and Utilities Zone (IUZ)
IUZ-1 An area covering Lot No. Psu-139268 (SOCOTECO II).
6.1.9 ECOZONE (EZ)
EZ-1 An area covering portion of FLGLA 542 bounded on the northwest by FLGLA 103, on
the east by the New Town Development Zone and on the south by Makar River.
6.1.10 Protection Forest (PF)

PF –1 A 10-m lot deep of land along the stretch of Makar River and Silway River.
6.2 Barangay Baluan
GRZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 1and 2 along Amao Road, 2, 3, 4, 143, 114, 115, 116, 117,
159, 160, 13, 14, 24, 20, 126, 120, 48, 123, 53, 54, 134 and 135.
6.2.2 Commercial-2 Zone (C-2)
C-2-1 A 50-meter lot deep of commercial land along both sides of Lagao-Buayan Road.
C-2-2 A 50-meter lot deep of commercial land along both sides of Bula-Amao Road.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 1, Ccn-11-000011-D and Lot No. 61-A.
6.2.4 Agro-Industrial Zone (AIZ)
AIZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 5, 6, 157, 158, 163, 96, 154, 187, 83, 186, 153, 462, 466
and 100.
6.2.5 Parks and Recreation
PRZ-1 A rectangular shape of land within the barangay site utilized as the barangay parks and
recreation.
6.2.6 Agricultural Zone (AGZ)

AGZ-1 An area located in Barangay Baluan, bounded on the north by the barangay boundary
of Ligaya, on the east by Barangay Buayan, on the south by Bula-Amao Road.
AGZ-2 Aquaculture
An area bounded on the north by Bula-Amao Road, on the east by Barangay Buayan, on the
south by the coastal zone and on the west by Barangay Bula.
6.2.7 Protection Forest (PTF)
PTF-1 A 10-m lot deep of land along the stretch of Baluan Creek.
6.3 Barangay Batomelong
GRZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 201, 202, 480, 489, 804, 801, 495 and 665.
InZ 1 An area covering Lot Nos. 496 and 671.
6.3.3 Agro-industrial Zone (AIZ)
AIZ 1 An area covering Lot Nos. 802 and 803.
PRZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 657, 658, 659, 660, 661and 662 .

AGZ-1 An area bounded on the north by the Municipality of Malungon, on the east by
Buayan River, on the south by Barangay Tinagacan and on the west by the Makar-Digos Road
and Tinagacan River.
PTF-1 A 10 meter lot deep of land along the stretch of Buayan River.
6.4 Barangay Buayan
GRZ-1 An area identified as Lot Nos. 89 and 90.
GRZ-2 An area bounded on the north by Lot No. 106, 107, 108, 211, on the east by Buayan
River, on the south by Agricultural Zone (aquaculture) and on the west by Barangay Baluan
which is traversed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration land (Formerly Buayan Airport).
C-2-1 A 50-meter lot deep of commercial land along both sides of Lagao-Buayan Road.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 132, Pls-423, Lot Nos. 4 and 83 (within Buayan Townsite).
InZ-2 An area identified as the Civil Aeronautics Administration formerly Buayan Airport,
bounded on the north by Lagao-Buayan Road, on the east by GRZ-2, on the south by
Agricultural Zone (aquaculture)/ Sarangani Bay and on the west by Buayan Barangay Site.

AIZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 93, 94, 95 and 222.
6.4.5 Parks and Recreation Zone(PRZ)
PRZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 1 and 3 (within Buayan Townsite).
AGZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Barangay Ligaya, on the east by the Buayan River,
on the south by GRZ-2 and on the west by Barangay Baluan.
AGZ-2 Aquaculture
An area bounded on the north by GRZ-2, on the east by PTZ-1, on the south by Coastal Zone
and on the west by Barangay Baluan.
6.4.7 Protection Forest (PTZ)
PTZ-1 A 10-m lot deep of land along the stretch of Buayan River.
6.5 Barangay Bula
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Barangay Lagao, on the east by Lot No. 1924
(industrial lot) and on the south and west by a 1-lot deep of commercial area.
GRZ-2 An area bounded on the north by Barangay Lagao, on the east by 1-lot deep of
commercial land (along Bula-Lagao Road), on the south by a 1-lot deep of commercial area and
on the west by Lot No. 1924.
GRZ-3 An area bounded on the north by Barangay Lagao, on the east by Barangay Baluan, on
the south by 1-lot deep of commercial land and on the west by a 1-lot deep of commercial area
(along Bula-Lagao Road).
GRZ-4 An area bounded on the north by a 1-lot deep of commercial area, on the east by
Barangay Baluan, on the south by Coastal Zone (Sarangani Bay) and on the west by parcels of
commercial land.(Lot 2,SGS-180-D).
C-1-1 A 1-lot deep of commercial area along Santiago Blvd. and on both sides of P. Acharon
Blvd. Extension up to Bula-Lagao Road.
C-2-1 A 1-lot deep of commercial land along both sides of Lagao-Bula Road.
C-2-2 A 1-lot deep of commercial area along both sides of P. Acharon Blvd. Extension from
Bula-Lagao Road up to boundary of Barangay Bula .
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 161, Ts-11-000013-D, Lot No. 943-B-1-B and the
Barangay Site.
PRZ–1 n area identified as Lot No. 6002-A (Old Cemetery Site).
6.5.5 Medium Industrial Zone (MIZ)
MIZ-1 An area covering Lot No. 1924 (Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation).
6.5.6 Agricultural Zone (AgZ)-Aqua culture

AgZ-1 An area bounded on the north by GRZ-4, on the east by Barangay Baluan, on the south
by Coastal Zone (Sarangani Bay), and on the west by GRZ-4.
6.6 Barangay Calumpang
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Makar River, on the east by a 100-meter deep of
commercial area along Makar-Siguel Road and on the south west by Barangay Fatima, Lot 1 and
FLGLA No. 504.
SHZ-1 A trapezoidal shape of land bounded on the north by Makar River, on the east by GRZ-
1, on the south by Public Cemetery and on the west by Barangay Fatima.
C-2-1 A 100 meter-deep of commercial land along the western side of Makar-Siguel Road.
C-2-2 A 100m lot deep of commercial strip along both sides of Fatima Road.
InZ-1 An area identified as Romana Acharon Elementary School, Cahilsot Elementary

School and the Gen. Santos City High School, bounded on the north, south, east and west by
residential zone.
6.6.5 Special Use Zone (SUZ)
SUZ-1 A lot identified as the city’s public cemetery bounded on the north, east and south by
residential areas and on the south-west by Lot 1.
MIZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Makar River, on the east by Coastal Zone (Sarangani
Bay), on the south by Barangay Tambler and on the west by Makar-Siguel Road.
6.7 Barangay City Heights
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Yumang Street, on the east by a 1-lot deep of
commercial area (along Leon Llido Street), on the south by 1-lot deep of commercial area (along
National Highway) and on the west by Protection Forest (Silway River) which is traversed by
Aparente Street (LCZ-3).
C-1-1 A one-lot deep of commercial area on both sides of Leon Llido Street up to crossing
Tiongson Street.
C-1-2 A one-lot deep of commercial area along both sides of the National Highway.
C-1-3 A one-lot deep of commercial area along both sides of Aparente Street, bounded on the
north by Yumang Street and on the south by the National Highway.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 908-B-G-M, Blk. 10 (LRC) Pcs-7304, 890-B-5-A, 887-B-1
and 888-A.

PTF-1 A 10-m lot deep of land along the stretch of Silway River.
6.8 Barangay Conel
GRZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 6201, 1038, 1037, 1033, 1034, 1032, 1125, existing barangay
site, F-116303-000067-D, 3-Ccs-11-000638-D, Ccs-11-000638-D
InZ-1 An area covering Lot No. 14 and within F-116303-000067-D.
AiZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 989, 990 and 991.
AGZ-1 An area located in Barangay Conel, bounded on the north by production forest, on the
east by Barangay Olympog and Katangawan, on the south by Barangay San Isidro
(circumferential road), and on the west by Barangay Mabuhay.
AGZ-2 (Livestock) An area bounded on the north and south by Production Forest, on the east by
Protection Forest and on the west by Barangay Mabuhay.
PTF-1 An area bounded on the north by Municipality of Malungon, on the east by Production
Forest –1, on the south by Agricultural Zone and on the west by Production Forest 2.
6.8.6 Production Forest (PDF)
PDF-1 An area bounded on the north by Municipality of Malungon, on the east by Barangay
Olympog, on the south by Agricultural Zone and on the west by Protection Forest (PTF-1).
PDF-2 An area bounded on the north by Municipality of Malungon, on the east by Protection
Forest (PTF-1), on the south by AGZ-1 and on the west by Barangay Mabuhay.
6.8.7 Tourism Zone (TZ)
TZ-1 An area particularly described as Claja Cave situated at the mouth of Claja River
surrounded by the Protection and Production Forest Zone.
6.9 Barangay Dadiangas East
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Rambutan Street, on the east by Ilang-ilang Street, on
the south by a commercial strip of land along Laurel Avenue and on the west by another
commercial strip of land along Roxas Avenue.
GRZ-2 An area bounded on the north, east, south and west by a commercial strip of land along
Laurel Avenue, Quirino Avenue, Lapu-lapu Street and Roxas Avenue.
GRZ-3 An area bounded on the north, east, south and west by another commercial strip of land
along Laurel Avenue, Ilang-ilang Street, Lapu-lapu Street and Quirino Avenue.
C-1-1 A one-lot deep of commercial land along Roxas Ave., National Highway, Santiago Blvd.
and on both sides of Laurel and Quirino Ave.
C-1-2 A block of commercial land bounded on the north by Lapu-lapu St., on the east by
Waling-waling Street, on the south by Osmeña Ave., and on the west by Roxas Ave.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot No. 4928 (Dadiangas East Elem. School) and another area
identified as the City Government Center (Lot No. 5758).
PRZ-1 An area known as Oval Plaza and Carlos Garcia Park.
6.10 Barangay Dadiangas North
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Durian Street, on the east by a 1-lot deep of commercial
area along Pendatun Avenue, on the south by another one-lot deep of commercial area along
Laurel Avenue and on the west by another one-lot deep of commercial strip along Bulaong
Avenue.
GRZ-2 An area bounded on the north by a one-lot deep of commercial strip along the National
Highway, on the east by another commercial land and on the south-west by Eco-tourism Zone
(Tree Park along Silway River).
GRZ-3 An area bounded on the north by a lot-deep of commercial strip of land along Laurel
Ave., on the east, south and west by another strip of commercial land along the streets of
Pendatun Avenue, Daproza Avenue and Bulaong Ave. which is traversed by a one lot-deep of
commercial land on both sides of Quezon Avenue.
C-1-1 A one-lot deep of commercial land along both side of the streets of Laurel Avenue,
Quezon Avenue, Bulaong Avenue, Daproza Street and along Pendatun Avenue and the National
Highway.
C-1-2 An area covering Lot No. 6243-A (DBP).
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 5748 A and B, 6242-A, B and C, Psd-11-025893 and 7041 –
A and B, Csd-11-002205-D.
IUZ-1 An area covering Lot No. 12-A and B, Psd-11-016414 (Bulaong Terminal).
6.10.5 Tourism Zone (TC)
TZ-1 An area along the stretch of Silway River to be developed for eco-tourism purposes.
6.11 Barangay Dadiangas South
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north and east by a one lot deep of commercial area along
Osmeña Street and Quirino Avenue, on the south by Nuestra Sra. De la Paz Street and Niyog
Street and on the west by Biateles street and another commercial and institutional parcels of land.
GRZ-2 An area bounded on the north by a one lot deep of commercial land along Osmeña and
Lapu-lapu Street, on the east by another one-lot deep of commercial land along Ilang-ilang Street
, on the south by another commercial land along Magsaysay Avenue and on the west by another
one-lot deep of commercial land along Quirino Avenue.
C-1-1 A block of commercial lands bounded on the north by Magsaysay Avenue, on the east
by Santiago Blvd., on the south by P. Acharon Blvd. and on the west by Pioneer Avenue.
C-1-2 A block of commercial land bounded on the north by Roxas Avenue, on the northeast by
an institutional zone (Lot No. 4025) and GRZ-1, on the east by another institutional zone
particularly described as Ireneo Santiago High School, on the south by Magsaysay Avenue and
on the west by Pioneer Avenue.
C-1-3 One lot deep of commercial lots along Marang Street, Osmeña Avenue, Lapu-lapu Street,
Quirino Avenue and Santiago Blvd.
C-1-4 One lot deep of commercial lots in the northern portion of Magsaysay Avenue.
C-1-5 A block of commercial lands bounded on the north by P. Acharon Blvd., on the east by
Parks and Recreation Zone, on the south by eco-tourism zone and on the west by Barangay
boundary of Barangay Dadiangas West.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 4012 A South Elem. School & B (Ireneo Santiago Elem.
School) and 4025 (Roman Catholic Church and Notre Dame for Girls Site).
InZ-2 A rectangular shape of land within Magsaysay Park utilized as Barangay Site of
Barangay Dadiangas South.
6.11.4 Parks and Recreation
PRZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. Y-1-A, Y-1-B and Lot X, Mr-1660-D (Magsaysay Park).

TZ –1 An area along the coastline of Sarangani Bay, bounded on the north by PRZ-1, LCZ-5.
6.12 Barangay West
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north, east and south by a one-lot deep of commercial area
(National Highway, Quezon-Magsaysay Avenue, Atis Street and P. Acharon Blvd. Extension) and
on the west by eco-tourism zone and tree park along Silway River Bank.
GRZ-2 An area bounded on the north by a one-lot deep of commercial area along P. Acharon
Blvd. Extension, on the east by Eco-tourism Zone (GSC Park), on the south and west by Eco-
tourism Zone and Sarangani Bay and Silway River respectively.
C-1-1 An area bounded on the north by Daproza Street, on the east by Pendatun Avenue and
Pioneer Avenue, on the south by eco-tourism zone and on the west by Quezon Avenue and Atis
Street Extension.
C-1-2 A one-lot deep of commercial strip along Daproza Street, Quezon Avenue and on the
both sides of P. Acharon Blvd. Extension.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 5741 to 5746, 4392 A and B, Lot 1, 2 and 3 IR-1007.
PRZ-1 An area identified as General Santos City (GSC) Park (Proposed Marina).

TZ-1 An area bounded on the north by GRZ-2 and LCZ-2, on the east by Barangay Dadiangas
South, on the south by Sarangani Bay and on the west by Eco-tourism Zone (Silway River).
6.13 Barangay Fatima
SHZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Makar River, on the east by Barangay Calumpang
and Tambler, on the south by FLGLA No. 618 and on the west by GSC International Airport.
C-2-1 A one-lot deep of land along the stretch of Fil-Am Friendship Highway within Lot 1.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot No. 2 (Mindanao State University) of Proclamation No. 887 and
lots identified for school purposes within the subdivision plan of Lot 1 of the same proclamation.
IUZ-1 An area identified as the GSC International Airport bounded on the north by SHZ-1
and Makar River, on the east by Lot 4 & FLGLA No. 618, on the west by the proposed Ecozone
area and on the south by Banwalan Creek.
6.13.5 Parks and Recreation (PRZ)
PRZ-1 Pockets of land within the subdivision of Lot 1 and 3 identified for parks and recreation
purposes.
6.13.6 Ecozone(EZ)
EZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Makar River, on the east by GSC International Airport,
on the south by Banwalan Creek and on the west by Production Forest.
6.13.7 Special Use (SUZ)
SUZ-1 A trapezoidal shaped land utilized as public cemetery (portion only) bounded on the
north and east by Barangay Calumpang, on the south and west by SHZ-1.
PDF-1 An area bounded on the north by Makar River, on the east by the Ecozone, on the
south by Banwalan Creek and on the west by Barangay San Jose.
AGZ-1 An area bounded on the northeast and on the east by Production Forest, on the south by
Banwalan Creek and on the west by Barangay San Jose.
PTF-1 A 10-m lot deep of land along the stretch of Makar River and Banwalan Creek.
6.14 Barangay Katangawan
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Lot Nos. 1070, 1071, 1072, 1073, 891, 240, 231, on
the east by Baluan Creek, on the south by Lot Nos. 2038, 1048, 1263 and on the west by Lot
Nos. 1044, 1050, 1053, 1056.
GRZ-2 An area covering Lot Nos. 1040, 2191 and 2219.
GRZ-3 An area bounded on the north by the circumferential road, on the east by the National
Highway going to Davao, on the south by Barangay Lagao and west by Barangay San Isidro.
C-2-1 A 50m lot-deep of commercial land along both sides of Digos-Makar Road.
6.14.3 Institutional Areas (InZ)
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 1048 and 1046.
6.14.4 Agro-industrial Zone (AiZ)
AiZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 275, 279, 247, 1073, 891and 240.
AGZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Barangays Conel and Tinagakan, on the east by
Buayan River and Barangay Ligaya, on the south by Barangay Lagao and on the west by
Barangay Conel.
6.15 Barangay Labangal
GRZ-1 An area identified as Doña Soledad Subdivision

GRZ-2 An area bounded on the north by a 350-meter strip of industrial area, on the east by
Protection Forest, on the south by Labangal Road and on the west by a one lot-deep of
commercial land along Makar-Kiamba Road.
GRZ-3 An area bounded on the north and north-west by the Regional Industrial Center, on the
east by Agro-industrial Zone, on the south by Protection Forest.
GRZ-4 A triangular shaped land bounded on the north by Regional Industrial Center, on the east
by 100-m commercial zone, on the south west by Protection Forest (Silway River).
C-2-1 A 100m lot deep of commercial land along both sides of Makar- Kiamba Road.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. E-3, Psd-28341 (Holy Trinity College), E-13, Psd-28341
(Mindanao Polytechnic College), G-G-C-8-C and G-G-2-8-B, Lot No. 2-G-2, Psd-141674 Amd.
2 and Lot MR-11-000017.
6.15.4 Light Industrial Zone (LIZ)
LIZ-1 A 350-meter deep of industrial land bounded on the north by the National Highway, on
the east by Silway River, on the south by GRZ-2 and on the west by the National Highway.
LIZ-2 An area bounded on the north by Labangal Road, on the east by Silway River, on the
south by Infrastructure Utilities Zone (Proposed Makar Wharf Expansion) and on the west by C-
2-1
MIZ-1 An area bounded on the northwest by GRZ-3, on the east by a commercial strip of land
and IUZ-1 (Makar Wharf) and on the south by Makar River .
TZ-1 An area surrounded by the regional industrial center and on the northwest portion by an
institutional area.
IUZ-1 An area designated as the Makar Wharf
6.15.8 Regional Industrial Center (RIC)
RIC-1 An area bounded on the northwest by Barangay Apopong, on the northeast by a 100-m lot
deep of commercial area along Makar-Kiamba Road, on the south by Makar River and on the
southwest by Barangay Apopong.
AIZ-1 An area bounded on the north by C-2-1, on the east and south by Makar-Kiamba Road
and on the west by GRZ-3.
6.16 Barangay Lagao
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north by the proposed diversion road (Barangay
Katangawan), on the east by Baluan-Lagao Road, on the south by Barangay Bula and on the west
by Barangays San Isidro and City Heights which is traversed by a strip of commercial land.
SHZ-1 An area identified as Lot No. 16-B-4-B, Psd-11-032967.

6.16.3 Commercial –1 Zone (C-1)
C-1-1 A one-lot deep of commercial strip along both sides of J. Catolico Avenue towards
Lagao-Digos Road and Lagao-Buayan Road.
C-1-2 An area covering Lot Nos. 1338, 1339, 1340, 1341, 1342, 1339, 1346, 1345, 1344 and
1353.
C-1-3 A one lot-deep of commercial area along both sides of Bula-Lagao Road and Leon
Llido Street.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 322, 1328, 4000-C, 9041-A, 1622, 1333, 941 and 1338-A-
2-B.
PRZ-1 A triangular shaped land along the junction of Lagao-Buayan Road and Lagao-Digos
Road.
6.17 Barangay Ligaya
GRZ-1 An area, which is the barrio site of Barangay Ligaya (Lot No. 2204), lot Nos. 1683,
6285, 238 and 234.
GRZ-2 A rectangular shape of land bounded on the north and west by Barangay Lagao, on the
east by AGZ-1 and on the south by Barangay Baluan.

C-2-1 A 50-m lot deep of commercial land along the stretch of Lagao-Digos Road.
AIZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 243, 245 and 246.
AGZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Barangay Katangawan, on the east by Buayan River,
on the south by Barangay Baluan and on the west by Barangay Lagao and Katangawan.
PTF-1 A 10-m lot deep of land along the stretch of Buayan River and Baluan Creek.
6.18 Barangay Mabuhay
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Lot Nos. 963, 703, 702, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710,
711, 712and 713, on the east by Mabuhay-Klinan Road, on the south by Barangay San Isidro, on
the east by Silway River.
SHZ-1 An area bounded on the north and west by the proposed circumferential road, on the east
by Mabuhay-Klinan Road and on the south by Barangay San Isidro.
AIZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 810 and 811.

IUZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 1007 and 1008.
AGZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Production Forest, on the east by Barangay Conel, on
the south by GRZ-1 and on the west by Silway River.
AGZ-2 (Livestock Area) An area bounded on the north and west by Municipality of Polomolok,
on the east by Brgy. Conel and on the south by PDF-1.
AGZ-3 (Livestock Area) An area bounded on the north and east by PDF-1 and south and west
by AGZ-1.
PDF–1 An area bounded on the north by AGZ-2, on the east by Barangay Conel, on the south
by AGZ-1 and on the west by Municipality of Polomolok.
6.19 Barangay Olympog
GRZ-1 An area designated as barrio site of Barangay Olympog, Lot Nos. 527, 821, 820, 728,
729, 21,752, 753, 755, 756, 757, 758, 628 and 630.
SHZ-1 An area identified as Lot Nos. 732, Pls-553 dubbed as the Lingap para sa Mahirap site.
AIZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 743 and 744.
AGZ-1 An area located in Barangay Olympog, bounded on the north by a production forest, on
the east by Barangay Tinagacan, on the south and west by Barangay Conel.
AGZ-2 (Livestock Area) An area identified as FLGLA No. 288.
PDF-1 An area bounded on the north by Municipality of Malungon, on the east by Barangay
Upper Labay, on the south by AGR-1 and on the west by Barangay Conel.
6.20 Barangay San Isidro
GRZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Proposed Circumferential Road, on the east by
Nopol Road, on the south by Yumang Street and on the west by Protection Forest (Silway River)
and Barangay Mabuhay.
SHZ-1 An area identified as Lot No. 789.

C-1-1 A one-lot deep of commercial strip bounded on the north by Guinto Street and on the
south by Yumang Street.
InZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 863-B-8-E and D.
6.20.5 Light Industrial Zone (LIZ)
LIZ-1 An area covering Lot Nos. 927, 928, 929.
6.21 Barangay San Jose
GRZ-1 An area designated as the barrio site of Barangay San Jose bounded on the north, south
and east by an agricultural zone and on the west by an agro-industrial zone.
AIZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Makar River, on the east by the Barangay Site of
Brgy. San Jose, on the south by Makar Creek and on the west by Agricultural Zone.
AGZ-1 An area located in Barangay San Jose, bounded on the north by Molok Creek, on the
south by a Banwalan Creek, on the east by the barangay boundary, and on the west by production
forest.
6.21.4 Open Grass Land/Pastureland (OGL)
OGL-1 An area identified as Project 47-C-2.
PDF-1 An area bounded on the north by Brgy. Sinawal, on the east by Agricultural Zone, on the
south by OGL/Pastureland and Banwalan Creek and on the west by Municipality of T’boli and
Maasim.
6.21.6 Ecozone (EZ)
EZ-1 A triangular shaped land bounded on the north and east by Barangay Fatima, on the south
by Protection Forest and on the west by agricultural zone.
PTF-1 A 10-m strip of land along the stretch Makar River and Banwalan Creek.
6.22 Barangay Siguel
GRZ-1 An area designated as the barrio site of Barangay Siguel, bounded on the north by
London Creek, on the east by the National Highway (Makar-Siguel Road) on the south by
Bawing Creek and on the west an open grass land (OGL) / pasture land.
SHZ-1 An area identified as B’laan Village and Lot 11.
SHZ-2 An area bounded on the north by Bawing Creek and on the east, south and west by
OGL/Pastureland.
InZ-1 An area bounded on the north by London Creek, on the east and south by the Coastal
Zone and on the west by Makar-Siguel Road.
MIZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Barangay Tambler, on the east by Sarangani Bay, on
the south by Balnubo Creek and on the west by Makar-Siguel Road.
6.22.7 Coastal Zone (CZ)
CZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Balnubo Creek, on the east by Sarangani Bay, on the
south by Siguel River and on the west by Makar-Siguel Road.
OGL-1 An area bounded on the north by Balnubo Creek, on the east by Makar-Siguel Road, on
the south by Siguel River and on the west by Municipality of Maasim.
SUZ-1 A trapezoidal shape of land bounded on the north, east, south and west by an open
grassland/pastureland utilized by the city as a controlled dumping site.
PTF-1 A 10-m strip along the stretch of Balnubo Creek, London Creek, Bawing Creek and
Siguel River.
6.23 Barangay Sinawal
GRZ-1 An area designated as the barrio site of Barangay Sinawal bounded on the north by open
grassland (OGL) / pasture land, on the east by an agricultural land, on the south by Antamosing
Creek, and on the west by Municipality of T’boli .
GRZ-2 An area bounded on the north by Sinawal Road, on the east by a one-lot deep of
commercial area along Makar-Tupi Road, on the south by Marcos Avenue and on the west by
Antamosing Creek.
SHZ-1 A trapezoidal shape of land bounded on the north and east by an agricultural zone, on
the south by Antamosing Crrek and Residential zone and on the west by OGL/pastureland.
InZ-1 An area within the barangay site of Barangay Sinawal, bounded on the north and east
by GRZ-1, on the south by Antamosing Creek and on the west by Municipality of T’boli.
C-2-1 A 100 m lot deep of commercial area along the western side of the Makar-Tupi Road.

AIZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Municipality of Polomolok, on the east by a one-lot
deep of commercial area, on the south east by Lot Nos. 130, 131, 132 and on the south west by
Lot Nos. 209, 210, 157, 156, 149, 146 and 141.
IUZ-1 Areas identified as Lot Nos. 63, 64 and 65 all of Pls-356 for the Proposed Integrated
Transport Terminal Commercial Complex.
AGZ-1 An area bounded on the north by AIZ-1, on the south-east by Sinawal Road, on the west
by Agricultural-Livestock Zone and OGL/Pastureland.
AGZ-2 An area bounded on the north by OGL-1, on the east by PSLA No. 1024 and FLGLA no.
552, on the south by Sinawal Creek and on the west by Municipality of T’boli.
AGZ-3 (Livestock) A trapezoidal shaped land, bounded on the north by Silway River, on the
east by AGZ-1, on the south and west by OGL-1.
SUZ-1 An area bounded on the north, east, west and south by FLGLA No. 552.
TZ-1 A trapezoidal shape of land bounded on the north and northwest by the circumferential
road and on the southeast by Barangay Apopong.
6.23.10 Ecozone (EZ)
EZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Sinawal River, on the east by Eco-tourism Zone, on the
south by Barangay Apopong and on the west by FLGLA No. 103.
OGL-1 An area covering FLGLA Nos. 552, 103 and 534 and PSLA No. 1024.
PDF-1 An area bounded on the north by Municipality of Polomolok, on the east and south by
OGL-1 and on the west by Municipality of T’boli.
PTF-1 A 10-m strip of land along the stretch of Silway River, Antamosing Creek and Sinawal
River.
6.24 Barangay Tambler
GRZ-1 An area which is the barrio site of Barangay Tambler, bounded on the north by
Barangays Calumpang and Fatima, on the east by the Friendship Highway (Makar-Siguel Road)
on the south by the proposed circumferential road and on the west by Lot 2 and 3 and SHZ-1.
SHZ-1 A trapezoidal shape of land bounded on the north by Barangay Fatima, on the east by
GRZ-1, on the south by the proposed circumferential road and on the west by GSC Airport.
C-2-1 A 100 meter strip of commercial land along the western side of the Makar-Siguel
Road.
MIZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Barangay Calumpang, on the east by Sarangani Bay,
on the south by Balnubo Creek and on the west by Makar-Siguel Road.
6.24.5 Ecozone (EZ)
EZ-1 An area bounded on the north by GRZ-1 and SHZ-1, on the east by Makar-Siguel
Road, on the south by Balnubo Creek and on the west by OGL/Pastureland and GSC Airport.
AGZ-1 An area identified as FLGLA No. 85.
PDF-1 An area bounded on the north by Banwalan Creek, on the east by FLGLA No. 85, on the
south by Balnubo Creek and on the west by FLGLA No. 386.
OGL-1 An area identified as FLGLA No. 386.
OGL-2 An area bounded on the north by Balnubo Creek and on the south by Barangay Siguel.
OGL-3 An area bounded on the north by Banwalan Creek, on the east by Ecozone, on the south
by Balnubo Creek and on the west by FLGLA No. 85.
PTF-1 A 10-m strip of land along the stretch of Banwalan and Balnubo Creek.
6.25 Barangay Tinagacan

GRZ-1 An area designated as barrio site of Barangay Tinagacan, covering Lot Nos. 173, 174,
177, 178, 179, 186, 187, 188, 192, 193, 194, 198 , 199, 462 and 210.
SHZ-1 A rectangular shaped land on the southern portion of Lot 186.
C-2-1 A 50 m strip of commercial land along the National Highway fronting Lot Nos. 174 and
173.
InZ-1 An area identified as Lot Nos. 175 and 176.
AIZ-1 Areas identified as Lot Nos. 172, 922, 923, 920 921, and 828.
TZ-1 Areas identified as Lot Nos. 166, 167, 168, 169, 170 and 171.
SUZ-1 An area on the northern portion of Lot 175, as Barangay Public Cemetery Site.

AGZ-1 An area bounded on the north by Barangay Upper Labay, on the east by Barangay
Batomelong and the National Highway, on the south by Barangay Katangawan and on the west
by Barangays Conel and Olympog.
PTF-1 A 10-m strip of land along the stretch of Buayan and Tinagacan River.
6.26 Barangay Upper Labay
GRZ-1 An area designated as barrio site of Barangay Upper Labay, bounded on the north,
south, east and west by an agricultural zone and portion of Lot No. 466.
SHZ-1 A rectangular shape of land bounded on the northeast and north west by agricultural
zone, on the southeast and southwest by residential zone and barangay government site.
InZ-1 A rectangular shpae of land within the Barangay Site of Upper Labay utilized as school
and government site of the barangay.
AIZ 1 An area located in Barangay Upper Labay, covering Lot Nos. 399, 401, 402, 403 and
412.

PRZ-1 An area within the Production Forest utilized as the Girl Scout and Boy Scout Camp.
AGZ-1 An area bounded on the north by the Municipality of Malungon, on the east by
Tinagacan River, on the south by Barangay Tinagacan and on the west by Production Forest.
PDF-1 An area bounded on the north by the Municipality of Malungon, on the east and south
by AGZ-1, on the west by Barangay Olympog.
PTF-1 A 10-m strip of land along the stretch of Tinagacan River.
Section 7. SUPPLETORY EFFECT OF OTHER LAWS AND DECREES.
The provisions of this Ordinance shall be without prejudice to the application of other laws,
Presidential Decrees, letters of instructions and other executive or administrative orders vesting
national agencies with jurisdiction over specific land areas, which shall remain in force and
effect, provided that land use decisions of the national agencies concerned shall be consistent
with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan of the city.
Section 8. EXISTING NON-CONFORMING USES AND BUILDINGS.
The lawful uses of any building, structure or land at the time of adoption or amendment of this
Ordinance may be continued, unless disallowed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod, although such
uses do not conform with the provision of this Ordinance, provided that:
1. No such non-conforming use shall be enlarged or extended to occupy a greater area of

land than that already occupied by such use at the time of the adoption of this Ordinance
or moved in whole or in part, to any other portion of the lot or parcel or land where such
non-conforming use exists at the time of the adoption of this Ordinance.
1. No such non-conforming use which has ceased operation for more than one (1) year may
be revived as non-conforming use from the time of approval of the Zoning Ordinance.
1. An idle/vacant structure may not be used for non-conforming activity.
1. Any non-conforming structure, or structures under one ownership, which has been
damaged maybe, reconstituted and used as before provided that such reconstruction is not
more than fifty percent (50%) of the replacement cost.
1. Should such non-conforming portion of structure be destroyed by any means to an extent

of more than fifty percent (50%) of its replacement cost at the time of destruction, it shall
not be reconstructed except in conformity with the provisions of this Ordinance.
1. No such non-conforming use maybe allowed to displace or replace any conforming use.
1. No such non-conforming structure may be enlarged or altered in a way, which increases

its non-conformity, but any structure or portion thereof may be altered to decrease its
non-conformity.
1. Should such structure be moved for any reason to whatever distance, it shall thereafter
conform to the regulation of the Zone in which it is moved or relocated.
In addition, the owner of a non-conforming use shall program the phase-out and relocation of the
non-conforming use within the prescribed number of years as enumerated herein reckoned from
the date of approval of the Sangguniang Panlungsod of this Ordinance:
q Piggeries/ poultries - 10 years
q Machine shops – 3 years
q Night clubs/day clubs - 3 years
q Rice/corn mills - 3 years
q Repair shops - 3 years
q Billiard halls - 1 year
q Massage parlors - 3 years

q Foundry/tinsmithry shops - 3 years
q Lumber yards - 1 year
q Manufacturing industries - 3 years
q Motels - 3 years
q Depot - 5 years
However, the following non-conforming uses maybe allowed in the area subject to the following
provisions/criteria which shall be posted visibly in front of the establishment:
1. Piggeries/poultries – maybe allowed in a non-conforming area, provided that 50% of the

neighborhood or a radial distance of 500 meters from the property is not yet developed
and not occupied by human habitation and the owner of the said establishment has to
provide a concrete buffer and lagoon or waste water treatment facilities. Further, the
following provisions shall likewise be observed:
1. Alterations maybe allowed to decrease non-conformity of the use;

2. Waste water treatment facilities shall be provided;
3. Use of environmental friendly chemicals to minimize/eliminate odor.
d. The piggery owner shall likewise sign a Memorandum of Agreement with the Sangguniang
Panlungsod that they will relocate to a conforming area after the 10-year relocation period.
1. Machine shops, foundry/tinsmithry and repair shops - maybe allowed in a non-

conforming area subject to the following provisions:
1. Operator must provide their own transformer to abet electrical nuisance;

2. Enclose the whole property with concrete fence to a reasonable height to minimize noise
emitted during the course of operation;
3. No loading/unloading and parking along the road and city’s road right-of-way;
4. Clients should not occupy the road right-of-way during repair and maintenance of
vehicle;
5. Operator must provide ample space for clients to park their vehicles within the property;
6. Spraying of paint should not be conducted within the area;
7. Operation should start at 8:00 o’clock in the morning and to terminate at 5:00 o’clock in
the afternoon;
8. Proper disposal of wastes such as oil and grease, steel etceteras should be strictly
observed; and
9. Vehicles that can no longer be repaired should not be allowed to park or placed along the
road right-of-way.
1. Rice/corn mills – maybe allowed in a non-conforming area, provided that the area is fully
enclosed by a concrete fence to a height that would help minimize or eliminate pollution
emitted in the neighborhood. An environmental clearance must be secured and a permit
to operate must be presented. An annual clearance must be secured from the
Environmental Management Bureau to ensure that the operation is free from any
pollution. Likewise, owner/operator shall see to it that waste generated during/after
operation is properly collected and disposed to the city’s landfill.
1. All non-conforming uses shall be subject to monthly monitoring by the zoning

enforcement officer and the inspectorate team of the city to be formed by the City Mayor.
1. Non-compliance to any of the provisions/criteria herein setforth would automatically

cancel the permit to operate granted to the establishment.
ARTICLE III
ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Section 9. RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADMINISTRATION AND

ENFORCEMENT.
This Ordinance shall be enforced and administered by the Office of the City Planning &
Development Coordinator through the Zoning Officer who shall be appointed by the Local Chief
Executive in accordance with existing rules and regulations on the subject.
Section 10. POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF A ZONING OFFICER.

Pursuant to the provisions of EO 72 implementing RA 7160 in relation to Sec. 5, Paragraph a and
d, and Section 7 of Executive Order No. 648 dated 07 February 1981, the Zoning Officer shall
perform the following functions, duties and responsibilities:
I. Administration:
a. Issue Locational Clearance for projects that are listed as Allowable Uses in a Zone;
b. Evaluate, report on, and recommend decisions to the Development Control Committee (DCC)
regarding Consent on Merit (neither allowable nor prohibited) proposals, and allowable uses that
fail to meet any standards specified in the Zone or in another Section of this Ordinance;
c. Undertake required referrals and consultations;
d. Present the case for the City at appeal hearings;
e. Issue Certificate of Non-Conformance for non-conforming projects lawfully existing at the

time of the adoption of the Zoning Ordinance, including Clearances for repairs/renovations on
non-conforming uses consistent with the guidelines therefore;
1. Rezoning
Report on proposed or requested amendments to the Zoning Ordinance to the Sangguniang

Panlungsod and subsequently prepare revisions on the Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map.
Section 11. POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF A ZONING ENFORCEMENT

OFFICER:
Pursuant to Section 7 of Executive Order No. 71 series of 1993, the Zoning Enforcement Officer
shall have the following functions:
1. Investigate and enforce compliance with provisions of PD 957, as amended, B.P. 220 and
related laws as well as their standards, rules and regulations;
1. Issue Notice of Violation to owners/developers who started development without

clearances issued by the Office of the City Planning and Development Coordinator;
1. Issue Cease and Desist Order (CDO) for violation of the Zoning Ordinance. Upon
receipt of the CDO, the owner/developer shall within 7 days present its proof of
application or secure from the OCPDC the necessary permits needed as stated in the
order. If owner/developer refused to answer the CDO, a 2nd notice will again be served
and he/she will be given another 7 days to answer the summon/order. If despite the time
given and notices issued, said owner/developer will not answer, a 3rd notice will be
served before appropriate charges can be filed by the zoning enforcement officer.
1. Monitor on-going /existing projects within their respective jurisdictions and issue notices
of violation and show cause order to owners, developers, or managers of projects that are
violative of Zoning Ordinance and if necessary, pursuant to Sec. 3 of EO 72 and Sec. 2 of
EO 71 refer subsequent actions thereon to the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board
(HLURB);
1. Recommend to the Office of the City Mayor appropriate sanctions in the enforcement of
all orders and processes issued in the implementation of this Ordinance; and
1. Coordinate with the City Fiscal/Attorney for other legal actions / remedies relative to the
foregoing.
Section 12. RIGHT TO INSPECT PROPERTY AND BUILDINGS.
The Zoning Officer and Zoning Enforcement Officer, shall be authorized to enter private
property and buildings to inspect for compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
Section 13. INSPECTION OF INACCESSIBLE PROPERTY.
Where a property is unable to be accessed due to locks or the like, the owner shall provide access
within one week of receiving a notice in writing from the Office of the City Planning &
Development Coordinator.
Section 14. GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR SECURING PERMITS.
Any of the permits cited in this Ordinance may be applied for guided by the procedures given
hereunder.
1. The applicant shall properly accomplish the appropriate application or request form in
duplicate copies, which shall then be filed with the Office of the City Planning and
Development Coordinator;
2. The application or request shall be accompanied by supporting documents to include but
not be limited to the following:
1. A complete description of the activity or project for which a permit is being sought with
information, such as, nature of operation or use, location, boundaries, size and volume of
operation, waste disposal system and others which may be applicable;
2. Vicinity map in a scale of 1:1,000 or other scale acceptable to the OCPDC, and providing
such details as may be pertinent or prescribed, including the exact location of the project
and other uses within the vicinity;
3. Three sets of site analysis and building plans drawn to scale showing the actual size and
locations of existing and proposed buildings and their relationship to the lot boundaries;
4. Payment of fees as prescribed in this Ordinance, and its amendments; and
5. Other reasonable and pertinent requirements to be determined by the OCPDC and those
required under existing national laws and local Ordinances.
Section 15. PROJECTS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE.
Projects may be declared by the NEDA Board as Projects of National Significance pursuant to
Section 3 of EO 72. When a project is declared by the NEDA Board as a Project of National
Significance, the proponent is required to secure an Environmental Compliance Certificate.
DAO-96-37 outlines the scope for projects of national significance.
Development plan of the ECOZONE shall be submitted to the Sangguniang Panlungsod for its
approval to attain the planning objectives of Section 32 – City wide Planning Objectives.
Section 16. ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE (ECC).
Notwithstanding the issuance of Locational Clearance, no environmentally critical projects nor

projects located in environmentally critical areas shall be commenced, developed or operated
unless the requirements of ECC have been complied with. Non-compliance shall be treated as a
violation in the conditions of the locational clearance (see Annex 1).
Section 17. LOCATIONAL CLEARANCE (LC).
All owners / developers shall secure Locational Clearance (LC) from the Zoning Officer for
Allowable Uses, or the Development Control Committee through the Office of the City Planning
& Development Coordinator for Consent on Merit proposals, prior to conducting any activity or
construction on their property / land. Said clearance is valid for one (1) year only from date of
issue.
Section 18. APPLICATION FEES.
The following fees are payable on lodgment of an application, without which the application is
deemed to be not lodged. Likewise, if upon evaluation the proposed project is non-conforming
or denied, fees are non-refundable:
A. Locational Clearance
Type of application/Project Cost Rate (Php)

A.1 Residential
1. P 100,000.00 and below 100.00
2. P 100,001 to 500,000 200.00+1/10 of 1% of building cost
3. P 500,001.00 to 999,999.00 500.00+1/10 of 1% of building cost
3. P 1,000,000.00 to 4,999,999.00 800.00 + 1/10 of 1% of building cost
4. P 5,000,000.00 and above 1,000.00 + 1/10 of 1% of building cost
A.2 Institutional
1.P 100,000.00 and below 400.00
2. P 100,001.00 to 499,999.00 400.00+1/10 of 1% of cost in excess of P
100,000.00
3. P500,000.00 to 999,999.00 600.00 + 1/10 of 1% of cost in excess of
P100,000.00
4. P 1,000,000.00 and above 800.00 + 1/10 of 1% of cost in excess of
P100,000.00
A.3 Commercial this includes

apartments, dormitories, boarding houses
1.P 100,000.00 and below 500.00
2 P 100,001.00 to 999,999.00 1,000.00+1/10 of 1% of building cost
3. P 1,000,000.00 to 4,999,999.00 1,500.00 + 1/10 of 1% of building cost
A.4 Industrial
1.P 100,000.00 and below 1,000.00
2.P 100,001.00 to 999,999.00 2,000.00+1/10 of 1% of building cost
A.5 Agro-industrial
1.P 100,000.00 and below 800.00
2.P 100,001.00 to 999,999.00 1,000.00+1/10 of 1% of building cost
A.6 Special Uses / Special Projects

including Memorial Parks , open shed,
garage
1.P 100,000.00 and below 400.00
2.Over P 100,000.00 400.00+1/10 of 1% of building cost
A.7 Signage, Billboards 200.00/sq.m.
A.8 All government projects/ structures exempted

(non-income generating institutions) – to
be processed by the contractor
A.9 Government projects/ structures 50% of fees imposed for institutional
(Income generating institutions) – to be structures
processed and paid by the contractor
A.10 Alteration / Expansion (affected same as original application

areas / cost of expansion only
B. Subdivision and Condominium Projects
B.1 Projects under PD 957 and simple subdivision

applications
B.1.1 Preliminary Approval
 For every hectare or a fraction thereof
200.00B.1.2 Final Approval
 Subdivision having a density of 66 and above families/gross hectare, per hectare or a

fraction hereof
600.00
 Subdivision having a density of 21 to 65 families/ gross hectare per hectare or a

fraction hereof
800.00
 Subdivision having a density of 20 and below families / gross hectare, per hectare of a
fraction hereof
1, 200.00
 Additional fee on floor area of houses / buildings Sold with the lot, per sq.m
5.00
B.1.3 Inspection (per request)150.00 B.1.4 Alteration of Plans (affected areas only)
same as final approvalB.1.5 Certificate of Completion (per hectare)
 High density
500.00
 Economic Subdivision
750.00
 Open Market
1,000.00
B.2 Projects under BP 220
B.2.1 Preliminary approval

 For every hectare or a fraction thereof 150.00
B.2.2 Final approval (per hectare) 500.00
B.2.3 Inspection (per request) 150.00
B.2.43 Alteration of plan (affected areas only) 200.00
B.2.4 Building permit (per sq. m. of the floor area of housing 5.00
unit)
B.2.5 Certificate of Occupancy (per sq.m.of the floor area of 3.50

housing unit)
B.3 Approval of Industrial Subdivision
B.3.1 Preliminary Approval and locational clearance

B.3.2 Final approval (per hectare) 2,000.00
B.3.4 Alteration of plan (affected areas only) same as final approval
B.4 Approval of Commercial Subdivision
B.4.1 Preliminary approval and locational clearance

B.4.2 Final approval (per hectare) 7,000.00
B.4.4 Alteration of plan (affected areas only) same as final approval
B.5 Approval of Farmlot

B.5.2 Final approval (per hectare) 1, 500.00
B.5.4 Alteration of plan (affected areas only) 500.00
B.6 Approval of Memorial Park Project

 For every hectare or a fraction thereof 1,000.00
B.6.2 Final approval (per sq. m. of saleable lots) 2.00
B.6.4 Alteration of Plan (affected areas only) same as final approval
C. Other Transactions
Zoning Certification 75.00

Business Location Clearance 75.00
Section 19. SCHEDULE OF ADMINISTRATIVE FINES AND PENALTIES
A. Violation of Locational Clearance/ Development Permit
Violation as to use 15,000.00

Violation as to location 15,000.00
Violation as to area 12,000.00
B. Violation of terms and conditions of locational clearance/ development permit
Lacking clearance from EMB-DENR 10,000.00

Lacking permit from Dept. of Health (DOH) 10,000.00
Non-compliance with other government requirements 10,000.00
Misrepresentation 8,000.00
Expansion, alteration, improvement, etc. 10,000.00
Violation as to easement/setback 8,000.00
Expiration of Temporary use Permit 10,000.00
C. Violation for constructing without locational clearance
1. For residential structure or detached other than

apartments/ Townhouses/ dormitories and
subdivision projects:
100,000 and below 10% of project cost
100,000 to 499,999.00 7.5% of project cost
500,000.00 to 999,999 5% of project cost
1,000,000 and above 3% of project cost
2. For institutional buildings

3. For commercial buildings

4. For agro-industrial projects
500,000 to 999,999.00 5% of project cost
5. For industrial projects
1,000,000.00 and above 3% of project cost
6. Special uses/special projects

7. For government projects (to be paid by

contractors for constructing without locational
clearances
Section 19.A Administrative Procedures
1. For all fees/charges, except for subdivision processing, the client shall lodge an
application to the Office of the City Planning & Development Coordinator through the
Land Use and Zoning Administration Division;
2. An order of payment shall be issued by the LUZAD upon ensuring that documentation
requirements have been complied by the clients;
3. Upon presentation of the City Treasurer’s official receipt of payment, the LUZAD shall
begin processing the required services paid for;
4. For subdivision processing, application shall be submitted to the SP, which shall forward
the same to CPDO. From thereon, procedures b to c shall be followed.
Section 20. BUILDING PERMIT.
No building permit shall be issued by the Local Building Official without a valid Locational
Clearance.
Section 21. NON-USE OF LOCATIONAL CLEARANCE.
Upon issuance of a Locational Clearance, the grantee thereof shall have one year within which to
commence or undertake the use, activity or development covered by such Clearance on his
property. Non-use of said Clearance within said period shall result in its automatic expiration,
cancellation and the grantee shall not proceed with his project without applying for a new
Clearance.
Section 22. COMMUNITY CONSULTATION.
An application for any Consent on Merit proposal within any Zone hereof shall require the
applicant to involve the community as follows:
1. For Type 1 (Minor Variation to Zoning Provisions):

1. Notify:
2. all land owners and tenants abutting the site in writing;
3. the barangay captain;
4. the barangay residents through a notice posted on the barangay hall notice board
one week before the scheduled meeting;
1. barangays within 200 meters of the site
2. Posting of notice board 1.2m x 0.9m project board on poles 1.2m high
placed on all road frontages to the site describing the proposed project.
1. For Type 2 (Significant Variation to Zoning Provisions);
1. Two notices in local print media one week apart to notify:
1. all land owners and tenants abutting the site in writing;

2. all barangay captains;
1. all barangay residents through notices on all barangay hall notice boards
d. CDC members
2. A 1.2m x 0.9m project board on poles 1.2m high placed on all road frontages to the site
describing the proposed project.
A satisfactory proof of posting of a notice(s) on the project site attesting, in essence, to the fact
that an application has been filed with the CPDO specifying:
q the date of such an application;
q the nature and expected level of operation of the establishment;
q the name of the project owner/proponent;
q his/its exact address and telephone number; and
q other important information.
Section 23. ACTION ON COMPLAINTS AND OPPOSITIONS.

A complaint for violations of any provision of the Zoning Ordinance or of any Clearance or
permits issued pursuant thereto shall be filed with the CPDO. Oppositions to application for
Clearance, variance or exception shall be treated as a complaint and dealt with in accordance
with pertinent provisions of this Ordinance.
Section 24. FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CITY ZONING

BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS AND APPEALS.
There is hereby created a CZBAA, which shall perform the following functions and
responsibilities:
1. Act on applications of the following nature:

2. Variances
3. Exceptions
4. Non-conforming uses
1. Act on appeals on grant or denial of Locational Clearance, by the Zoning Officer or

Development Control Committee.
Decisions of the CZBAA shall be final and executory and shall be based on provisions of this
Ordinance. Approvals for rezoning should be made by the Sangguniang Panlungsod thru an
Ordinance that will serve as an amendment to this Ordinance. The zoning map shall then be
correspondingly revised.
Section 25. COMPOSITION OF THE CITY ZONING BOARD OF

ADJUSTMENT AND APPEALS (CZBAA).
The CZBAA shall be composed of the following members:
1. City Mayor as Chairman;

2. Vice Mayor, or a member of the Sanggunaing Panlungsod (SP) to be selected by the SP
as Vice-Chairman; and the following as members:
3. City Legal Officer;
4. Three (3) representatives (appointed by the SP for three years co-terminously with the
Mayor), at least one from the private sector, or non-government organizations
(NGOs)and preferably representing an environmental organization and a community
development/social welfare organization; and
5. City Planning & Development Coordinator
Section 26. INTERIM PROVISION.

Upon approval by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of this ordinance, the City Mayor shall
immediately cause the organization of the new City Zoning Board of Adjustments and Appeals to
become operational upon HLURB approval of the Comprehensive Development Plan and
Zoning Ordinance. The Development Control Committee shall provide technical advice to the
CZBAA.
ARTICLE IV
DEVELOPMENT CONTROL SYSTEM
The Development Control System is a tool that encourages community participation in the
development of the area. It reinforces relationship on the sustainability of the project and its
physical and social amenity in consonance with the over-all goal of the land use plan and the
general welfare of the constituents.
Section 27. OBJECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL SYSTEM
27.1 Provide all stakeholders in the development process with a clear
understanding of what is required and how they fit into the system;
27.2 Provide the developer with certainty about the decision making process;
27.3 Enable the community to have a voice in key decisions;
27.4 Have simple, non-controversial proposals dealt with expeditiously;
27.5 Retain a degree of flexibility for proponents to seek approval for innovative projects; and
27.6 Improve the quality of decisions.
Section 28. TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS
28.1 Zoning Certificates and Locational Clearances

Generally, issuance of zoning certifications and locational clearances are lodged with the Zoning
Officer of the Office of the City Planning and Development Coordinator.
Basis of decision is the approved Comprehensive Development Plan and Zoning Ordinance of
the city.
The zoning certificate does not confer any rights to alter the land use or develop the property
without any locational clearance.
Locational Clearances are either for an allowed use application as listed in the zone regulations
or Consent on Merit application
28.2 Preliminary Subdivision Development Plan
Preliminary Subdivision Development is the first approval that a project proponent has to secure
if he/she intends real estate development for a piece of land such as residential subdivision,
industrial subdivision, commercial subdivision, memorial parks or farm lot subdivision.
The focus of assessment at this stage is the proposed location or site of the project, whereby
zoning officer will determine the compatibility of the project against the zone classification of
the site. Further, an initial assessment of the preliminary site development scheme is likewise
accomplished.
All subdivisions are Consent on Merit applications. Referrals to various agencies particularly
engineering and planning and non LGU agencies involved on electricity, water, sewer and
telecommunications is vital, to generate recommendations on the planning aspects of the
proposed subdivision.
28.3 Development Permit
An application for development permit is the second approval that a project proponent has to
secure prior to actual development for a specific real estate project. The project proponent will
submit the final site development plan for review/evaluation by the Development Control
Committee (DCC). Other design and engineering plans, such as road section, circulation plan,
water distribution system and drainage plan are likewise submitted at this stage for assessment.
Since development permit is technical in nature, and DCC has technically evaluated the
subdivision application, and recommended for its approval with conditions they find necessary, it
is expected that Sangguniang Panlungsod will approve the application within 60 days from date
of receipt inclusive of processing/evaluation, committee hearings and referrals. After lapse of 60
days without action application for development is deemed approved.
28.4 Land Reclassification or Rezoning
Requests or applications for rezoning or land reclassification from agricultural land use/zone to
urban use is lodged with the Office of the City Planning & Development Coordinator (OCPDC).
Before submission of its recommendation to the Development Control Committee, the OCPDC
will conduct a study to determine the viability of the request. The evaluation is normally based
on the city’s land use plan and zoning ordinance and the trend of development.
The OCPDC will then indorse the request to the Development Control Committee for
deliberation whether said request is in accordance with the objectives of the zoning ordinance.
Based on the scorecard in the evaluation of Consent on Merit applications, the DCC will
recommend to the City Zoning Board of Adjustment and Appeals for its appropriate action.
CZBAA will then convene to look into the merits presented. If found valid, said application
would be forwarded to the Sangguniang Panlungsod for the approval of rezoning.
28.5 Building Permit/ Certificate of Occupancy
These applications are lodged with the City Engineer’s Office/ (Office of the Building Official).
The Certificate of Occupancy is required prior to use of the new structure. An inspection is
required to check if the structure has been built according to the approved plans.
Periodic inspection by the Office of the Building Official during crucial stages of construction
shall be conducted to ensure that the structure has been built appropriately.
Section 29. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING CONSENT ON MERIT.
These are land uses that might be approved in certain circumstances and restrictions. The criteria
will refer to matters such as:
q Carparking
q Setbacks
q Storm drainage
q Height
q Environment (air and noise pollution)
q Traffic amenity/aesthetics
q Landscaping
q Land use
q Infrastructure
Section 30. CREATION OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE.
The Development Control Committee is a separate institutional body comprised of technical staff
from various departments of the city including an NGO representative. They will have the
decision making powers to approve or refuse Consent on Merit applications and impose
conditions if necessary. The committee includes the following:
1. City Planning & Development Coordinator; as the chairman

2. ABC President;
3. City Building Official;
4. NGO representative from the City Development Council (specifically chairman on the
committee of infrastructure and planning);
5. City ENRO;
6. City Assessor; and
7. Zoning Officer
The City Mayor, upon HLRB approval of this ordinance shall issue an Executive Order creating
the Development Control Committee.
The Development Control Committee (DCC) will have the power to use its discretion and submit
a position paper to the Sangguniang Panlungsod if it feels that the proposal has complex political
and community issues to deal with. The Zoning Officer will be responsible for conducting the
evaluation and consultation regarding the proposal and submitting a report on recommendations
and possible conditions to the DCC.
The DCC may, if it desires, entertain a presentation by interested parties. If this occurs, the DCC
must allow the proponent the opportunity to respond to issues raised prior to making a decision.
The costs of the consultation process should be borne by the proponent, in terms of the
following:
q Advertising costs in the print media
q Letters to adjoining owners and tenants
q Notices on barangay hall notice boards
q Project board (1.2m x 0.90m) placed on poles 1.2 meters high
The Zoning Officer should collate the submissions, analyze the comments and issues, and take
into account the consultation process when recommending a course of action to the DCC on the
proposal. It must be remembered that consultation is not necessarily about gaining consensus,
rather it is about asking people what their views are and taking their responses into account
during assessment and decision making process.
A decision made by the committee is appealable to the City Zoning Board of Adjustment and
Appeals.
ARTICLE V
POLICIES
Section 31. PURPOSES.
This Ordinance is enacted for the following purposes:
1. Guide, control and regulate future growth and development of the City of General Santos in
accordance with its Comprehensive Development Plan that embodies its sectoral and land use
plan;
2. Protect the character and stability of residential, commercial, industrial, institutional,

forestry, agricultural, open space and other functional areas within the locality and promote the
orderly and beneficial development of the same;
1. Promote and protect the health, safety, peace, comfort, convenience and general welfare
of the inhabitants in the locality;
2. Prevent undue congestion or concentration of population in a particular area and promote
the equal spread of urbanization;
3. Regulate the location and use of buildings and lands adjacent to streets and thoroughfares
in such manner as to obviate danger to public safety caused by undue interference with
the existing or prospective traffic movement on such streets and thoroughfares; and
4. Insure the rehabilitation/preservation of the environment while promoting maximum
utilization of land resources for improved productivity.
Section 32. CITY-WIDE PLANNING OBJECTIVES
The following Objectives shall be used to assess the appropriateness of Allowable Uses (column
1) and ‘Consent on Merit’ uses listed in Column 2 in Section 36 (General Zone Regulation):
Form of Development
Objective 1: The development of the City in accordance with the Spatial Strategy Map and
land use development plan.
Objective 2: Orderly and economic development.
Objective 3: A proper distribution and segregation of living, working and recreational

activities by the allocation of suitable areas of land for those purposes, and the proper location of
public and community facilities by the reservation of suitable land in advance of need.
Objective 4: Maintenance of the long-term operational, safety and commercial aviation

requirements.
Land Division
Objective 5: Land in appropriate localities divided into allotments in an orderly and economic
manner.
Residential Development
Objective 6: A compact urban area.
Objective 7: A variety and choice of dwelling types to meet the needs and preferences of all
sections of the community.
Objective 8: Containment of housing costs through the encouragement of a full range of
design and development techniques.
Objective 9: Safe, pleasant, convenient and efficient residential zones.
(a) Residential development in residential zones adjacent to non-residential zones should be

designed and sited to protect residents from any adverse effects of non-residential activities.
(b) Non-residential development in residential zones should provide adequate protection for
residents from air and noise pollution, traffic disturbance and other harmful effects on health or
amenity;
(c) Residential buildings should be located and designed so as not to unreasonably impair
privacy and access to incident solar radiation:
(i) for adjacent properties; and
(ii) for each dwelling and private open space.
(d) Landscaping of development in residential zones should:
(i) enhance residential amenity;
(ii) screen storage, service and parking areas;
(iii) provide protection from sun and wind; and
(iv) not unreasonably affect adjacent land by shadow.
(e) Within residential zones, open space should provide for recreational activities, pedestrian
links, and the preservation of natural features.
(f) Dwellings should be supplied with adequate energy, water, waste disposal and drainage
facilities to serve the needs of the prospective users.
(g) Residential development should minimize the potential for personal and property damage
arising from natural hazards including landslide, bushfires, and flooding.
Centers and Commercial Development
Objective 10: Shopping, administrative, cultural, community, entertainment, educational,

religious, and recreational, facilities located in integrated centers which are distributed rationally
throughout the urban area that are appropriately designed and landscaped to blend with the
natural environment.
Objective 11: Centers established and developed in accordance with a hierarchy based on
function, so that each type of center provides a proportion of the total requirement of goods and
services commensurate with its role.
Objective 12: A hierarchy of centers located in center or commercial zones.
Centers within the urban area are of the following type:

(a) The Central Business District; and
(b) Major Commercial Areas.
Objective 13: The Central Business District to provide the principal focus for the economic,
social and political life of the City.
Objective 14: Major Commercial Areas to function as the main centers outside the Central
Business District for a full range of shopping, administrative, cultural, community,
entertainment, education, religious and recreational facilities, as public transport interchanges
and focus of public transport networks and public and private office development.
Community Facilities
Objective 15: Appropriate community facilities conveniently accessible to the population they
serve.
Transportation
Objective 16: A comprehensive, integrated, and efficient, public and private transport system,
which will:
(a) provide access to adequate transport services for all people, at an acceptable cost;
(b) effectively support the economic development of the City;
(c) ensure a high level of safety in terms of design and ancillary facilities; and
(d) maintain the options for the introduction of suitable new transport technologies.
Objective 17: A road hierarchy to form the basis of development controls and serve as a guide
to the investment of road funds in order to ensure a safe and efficient traffic flow and to promote
the saving of fuel and time.
Objective 18: A network of roads, paths and tracks, to accommodate satisfactorily a variety of
vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
Objective 19: A compatible arrangement between land uses and the transport system, which
will:
(a) ensure minimal noise and air pollution;
(b) protect amenity of existing and future land uses;
(c) provide adequate access; and
(d) ensure maximum safety.
Objective 20: A form of development adjoining main roads, which will:

(a) ensure traffic can move efficiently and safely;
(b) discourage commercial ribbon development in new development areas such as the New
Town Zone;
(c) confine large traffic generating uses within designated zones;
(d) provide for adequate off-street parking; and
(e) provide limited and safe points of access and egress.
Industrial Development
Objective 21: Industrial development located in suitable areas.
(a) Industrial development adjacent to residential zones should be designed and sited to protect
residents from any adverse effects of non-residential activities.
(b) Residential development in industrial zones should provide adequate protection for residents
from air and noise pollution, traffic disturbance and other harmful effects on health or amenity.
Infrastructure
Objective 22: Economy in the provision of infrastructure while enhancing functionality of

design for the welfare of children, disabled persons and women.
Mining
Objective 23: The continued availability of metallic, industrial and construction minerals by
preventing development likely to inhibit their exploitation.
Objective 24: The protection of the landscape from undue damage from quarrying and similar
extractive and associated manufacturing industries.
Conservation
Objective 25: The conservation, preservation, or enhancement, of scenically attractive areas,

including land adjoining coastal and river water, and scenic roads.
Objective 26: The preservation of buildings or sites of architectural, historical, or scientific

interest.
Objective 27: The retention of environmentally significant areas of native vegetation.
Objective 28: The retention of native vegetation where clearance is likely to lead to problems
of soil erosion, soil slip, flooding or a deterioration in the quality of surface waters.
Objective 29: The retention of native vegetation for amenity purposes, for livestock shade and
shelter and for the movement of native wildlife.
Open Space
Objective 30: Adequate public parks and recreation areas conveniently located and accessible
to residential sites.
Appearance of Land and Buildings
Objective 31: The amenity of localities not impaired by the appearance of land, buildings and
objects that combine aesthetics with functionality.
Coastal Areas
Objective 32: Preserve and manage coastal areas to sustain or enhance the remaining natural
coastal environment.
Objective 33: Maintain and improve public access to and enjoyment of, the coast in keeping
with other objectives.
Objective 34: Due recognition of, and allowance for hazards to coastal development such as
inundation by storm tides or combined storm tides and storm water, coastal erosion and sand
drift, including an allowance for changes in sea level due to natural subsidence and predicted
climate change during the first 100 years of the development.
Objective 35: To avoid the community incurring cost for the protection of private development
or the environment from the effects of coastal processes.
Objective 36: To use urban coastal zones only for development appropriate to a coastal
location.
Outdoor Advertisements
Objective 37: An urban environment and rural landscape not disfigured by advertisements.
Objective 38: Advertisements in commercial and industrial urban areas, and center zones,
designed to enhance the appearance of those areas.
Heritage
Objective 39: Places and buildings of historical importance protected.
Section 33. GENERAL ZONING PRINCIPLE.
These Zoning Regulations are based on the approved Comprehensive Development Plan per
Resolution No. 381 series of 2001 dated December 31, 2001 for the City of General Santos.
Section 34. ZONE BOUNDARIES.
The locations and boundaries of various Zones into which the City has been divided are hereby
identified and specified in Section 6 – District Boundaries based on the Barangay Zoning Maps.
Section 35. INTERPRETATION OF THE ZONE BOUNDARY.
In the interpretation of the boundaries for any of the Zones indicated on the Zoning Map, the
following rules shall apply:
1. Where zone boundaries are so indicated that they approximately follow the center of
streets or highway, the street or highway right-of-way lines shall be construed to be the
boundaries.
2. Where zone boundaries are so indicated that they approximately follow the lot lines, such
lot lines shall be construed to be the boundaries.
3. Where zone boundaries are so indicated that they are approximately parallel to the center
lines or right-of-way lines of streets and highways, such zone boundaries shall be
construed as being parallel thereto and at such distance there from as indicated in the
zoning map. If no distance is given, such dimension shall be determined by the use of the
scale shown in said Zoning Map.
4. Where the boundary of a zone follows approximately an inter-modal transport line , such
boundary shall be deemed to be the inter-modal right-of-way.
5. Where the boundary of a zone follows a stream, lake or other bodies of water, said
boundary line shall be deemed to be at the limit of the political jurisdiction of the
community unless otherwise indicated. Boundaries indicated as following shorelines
shall be construed to follow such shorelines and in the event of change in the shorelines,
shall be construed as moving with the actual shorelines.
6. Where a zone boundary line divides a lot of one ownership as of record at the effective
date of this ordinance, the lot shall be construed to be within the zone where the major
portion of the lot is located. In case the lot is bisected by the boundary line, it shall fall in
the zone where the principal structure falls;
7. Where zone boundary is indicated as one-lot-deep, said depth shall be construed to be the
average lot depth of the lots involved within each particular city block. Where, however, any lot
has a depth greater than said average, the remaining portion of said lot shall be construed as
covered by the one-lot-deep zoning district provided the remaining portion has an area less than
50% or more of the total area of the lot. If the remaining portion has an area equivalent to 50%
or more of the total area of the lot, then the average lot depth shall apply to the lot which shall
become a lot divided and covered by two or more different zoning districts, as the case maybe.
In case of any remaining doubt as to the location of any property along zone boundary lines, such
property shall be considered as falling within the less restrictive zone; and
8.The textual description of the zone boundaries shall prevail over that of the official zoning
maps.
Section 36. GENERAL ZONE REGULATIONS
Each zone lists land uses that are, may, and may not be, considered appropriate, i.e. lists of
allowable, consent on merit and prohibited uses, as follows:
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Allowable Uses, i.e. will Consent on Merit Uses Prohibited Uses, i.e. will
be approved with or not be approved and cannot
without conditions be appealed
List of the uses that are Everything else not listed List of the uses that are
considered to be as ‘allowable’ or considered to be
appropriate in the zone. ‘prohibited’. inappropriate in the zone.
The aim of the Ordinance is to give certainty to developers. Too much flexibility creates
uncertainty and is therefore not going to encourage economic activity, or a reasonable standard
of development.
Section 37. USE REGULATIONS IN GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (GRZ).
A GR zone shall be used principally for dwelling / housing purposes so as to maintain peace and
quiet of the area within the zone. The following are the use regulations:
Allowable Uses, i.e. will be approved with or Consent on Merit Uses Prohibited Uses, i.e.
without conditions will not be approved
and cannot be
appealed
1. Apartment Everything else not IndustryCommercial
listed as ‘allowable’ or larger than 20 square
2. Boarding House ‘prohibited’ that is meters in floor area
compatible with
3. Branch libraries and museums
residential uses and that Agro-industry
4. Clinic, nursing and convalescing home, do not create noise, or
health center other pollution, or Main transmission
major traffic lines
5. Customary accessory uses like: congestion.Subdivision,
Motels, Hotels
a) Servants quarter Communication towers,
b) Private garage Barangay hall

Elementary and High
c) Guard house School
1. Detached dwelling Malls

2. Dormitory
3. Home occupation for the practice of
one’s profession or for engaging home
business such as dressmaking, tailoring,
baking, running a sari-sari store and the
like provided that:
a) The floor area of the business shall not

exceed 10 sq.m.;
b) The number of persons engage in such

business shall not exceed five (5), inclusive of
the owner;
c) There shall be no change in the outside

appearance of the building premises
d) No home occupation shall be conducted in

any customary accessory uses cited above;
e) No traffic shall be generated by such home

occupation in greater volume than would
normally be expected in a residential
neighborhood and any need for parking
generated by the conduct of such home
occupation shall be met off the street and in a
place other than the required front yard;
f) No equipment or process shall be used in

such home occupation which creates noise,
vibration, glare, fumes, odors and electrical
interference detectable to the normal senses
and visual or audible interference in any radio
or television receiver or causes fluctuations in
line voltage off the premises
g) Home industry classified as cottage

industry provided that:
h) Such home industry shall not occupy more

than thirty (30%) percent of the floor area of
the dwelling unit. There shall be no change or
alteration in the outside appearance of the
dwelling unit and shall not be a hazard or
nuisance.
i) Allotted capitalization shall not exceed the

capitalization as set by the Department of
Trade and Industry;
j) Such shall consider same provisions as

enumerated in letters d, e and f number 9,
home occupation, this section.
1. Hotel apartment or apartel

2. Multi-purpose hall
3. Nursery School
4. Pension House
5. Plant nurseries
6. Recreational facilities for the exclusive
use of the members of the family
residing within the premises, such as:
a) swimming pool
b) pelota court
c) parks and playground
d) others
1. Religious Use such as:
a) chapels
b) churches
1. Residential Condominium
2. Row-houses, apartments
3. Socialized Housing
4. Sports Club
5. Vocational School
6. Vulcanizing shops
Section 38. USE REGULATION IN SOCIALIZED HOUSING ZONE (SHZ)
A Socialized Housing Zone shall be used principally for dwelling / housing purposes. The
following are the use regulations:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be approved with or Consent on Merit Uses Prohibited Uses, i.e.
without conditions will not be approved
and cannot be
appealed
1. Boarding House Everything else not IndustryCommercial
listed as ‘allowable’ or larger than 20 square
2. Clinic, nursing and convalescing home, ‘prohibited’ that is meters in floor area
health center compatible with
residential uses and Agro-industry
3. Detached dwelling
that do not create
4. Dormitory noise, or other Main transmission
pollution, or major lines
5. Home occupation for the practice of traffic
one’s profession or for engaging home congestion.Subdivision Motels
business such as dressmaking, tailoring,
baking, running a sari-sari store and the Communication towers
like provided that:
Religious Use such as:
a) The floor area of the business shall not
exceed 10 sq.m.; 1. chapels
2. churches High
b) The number of persons engage in such School
business shall not exceed five (5), inclusive of
the owner; barangay hall
c) There shall be no change in the outside Nursery / Elementary

appearance of the building premises School
d) No home occupation shall be conducted in

any customary accessory uses cited above;
e) No traffic shall be generated by such home

occupation in greater volume than would
normally be expected in a residential
neighborhood and any need for parking
generated by the conduct of such home
occupation shall be met off the street and in a
place other than the required front yard;
f) No equipment or process shall be used in

such home occupation which creates noise,
vibration, glare, fumes, odors and electrical
interference detectable to the normal senses
and visual or audible interference in any radio
or television receiver or causes fluctuations in
line voltage off the premises
g) Home industry classified as cottage

industry provided that:
h) Such home industry shall not occupy more

than thirty (30%) percent of the floor area of
the dwelling unit. There shall be no change or
alteration in the outside appearance of the
dwelling unit and shall not be a hazard or
nuisance.
i) Allotted capitalization shall not exceed the

capitalization as set by the Department of
Trade and Industry;
j) Such shall consider same provisions as

enumerated in letters d, e and f number 9,
home occupation, this section.
1. Multi-purpose hall
2. Row-houses
3. Vulcanizing shops
Section 39. USE REGULATIONS IN COMMERCIAL – 1 ZONE (C-1).
Referred to as the Central Business District (CBD), a C-1 zone shall be principally for trade, services and
business activities. Enumerated below are the use regulations:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be approved Consent on Merit Uses Prohibited Uses, i.e.
with or without conditions will not be approved
and cannot be
appealed
1. Banks and other financial Everything else not Heavy and medium
institution listed as ‘allowable’ or industry
‘prohibited’.
2. Building garage Agro-industry
Subdivision, Storeroom
3. Clinic
and warehouse but only Regional
4. Commercial job printing as may be necessary for Commercial Uses
the efficient conduct of
5. Commercial condominium (with the business Motels
residential units in upper floors)
6. Commercial housing like:
Filling station/service Machine shops
a. Hotel station except in Pioneer
Avenue, Roxas East and Repair shops
b. Apartment West
c. Apartel Food markets and shops

like:
d. Boarding house
a. Bakery and bake
e. Dormitory shop
f. Pension house b. Wine store
g. Club house c. Grocery
1. Convention center and related d. Supermarket

facilities
2. Embassy/consulate
11.General retail stores and shops like:
1. Department store/shopping center

2. Book store and office supply shop
3. Car shop
4. Home appliance store
5. Photo shop
6. Flower shop
7. Janitorial service
8. Library, museum
9. Offices like:
a. Office building
b. Office condominium
15. Printing of insignia, badges and

similar emblems except metal
16.Messengerial service
17.Personal services shops like:
a. Beauty parlor
b. Barber shop
c. Sauna bath and massage clinic
d. Dressmaking and tailoring shops

18.Plant nurseries
19.Radio and television station
20. Restaurants and other eateries
21. Repair of clocks and watches
22. Repair of optical instruments and

equipment and cameras
23. Security agency
24.Short term special education like:
a. Dancing schools
b. Schools for self-defense
c. Driving schools
d. Speech clinics
25.Typing and photo engraving services
26.Vocational/technical school/
elementary and high school
27. Vulcanizing shop
Section 40. USE REGULATIONS IN COMMERCIAL-2 ZONE (C-2).
A C-2 zone shall be for quasi-trade, business activities and service industries performing
complimentary/supplementary functions to C-1 for the CBD and District Center area. The use
regulation within the C-2 zone are:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be approved with Consent on Merit Uses Prohibited Uses,
or without conditions* i.e. will not be
approved and
cannot be
appealed
1. Casket/coffin display Everything else not General Industry
listed as ‘allowable’ or
2. Clinic ‘prohibited’. Agro-industry
3. Commercial condominium (with
Lumber / hardware
residential units in upper floors)
Subdivision
4. Commercial housing like:
Transmitters/antenna
a. Hotel Building garage,
b. Apartment Machine shop service

operation
c. Apartel /repairing/rebuilding, or
custom job orders),
d. Boarding house malls, motels,
Transportation
e. Dormitory terminal/garage
f. Pension house Bus terminal
g. Club house Motel
1. Commercial job printing Food Terminal

2. Filling station/service station
Funeral parlors,
3. Furniture showrooms mortuaries and
crematory services and
4. Gravel and sand
memorial chapels
5. Janitorial service
Junk shops
6. Lechon or whole pig roasting
Manufacture of ice, ice
7. Machinery display shop/center blocks, cubes, tubes,
8. Printing of insignia, badges and crush except dry ice, ice
similar emblems except metal plant
9. Printing of signs and advertising Day and night club

displays
Stadium , coliseum,
10. Messengerial service gymnasium
11. Offices like:
Other sports and
recreational
a. Office building
establishments
Storeroom and
b. Office condominium
warehouse
1. Parking lots, garage facilities
Underground parking
2. Plant nurseries
structures and facilities
3. Publishing house
4. Radio and television station
5. Repackaging of food products e.g.
Fruits, vegetables, sugar and other
related products
6. Repair of clocks and watches,
7. optical instruments and equipment
and cameras display center
8. Repair shops like:
a. House appliances
b. Home furnishing
c. Motorcycles
1. Recreational center/establishments
like:
a. Movie house/theater
b. Playcourt e.g. Tennis, bowling, billiard
c. Swimming pool
1. Restaurants and other eateries

2. Security agency
3. Short term special education like:
a. Dancing schools
b. Schools for self-defense
c. Driving schools
d. Speech clinics
1. Small scale junk shop

2. Typing and photo engraving services
3. Vocational/technical school
4. Welding shops
q Development adjacent to a residential area should provide protection from the adjoining
residences by constructing a solid concrete wall to a height equivalent to the highest peak of the
building plus 0.30 meter on the common boundary and introducing abatement measures.
Section 41. USE REGULATION IN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE (LIZ).
An LIZ shall be for non-pollutive/ non-hazardous and non-pollutive/hazardous

manufacturing/processing establishments, compatible with adjoining residential areas.
Enumerated below are the regulations:

Allowable Uses i.e. will be approved with Consent on Merit Prohibited Uses, i.e.
or without conditions Uses will not be approved
and cannot be
appealed
1. Accessory structures such as guard Everything else not Residential
house and caretaker’s house listed as developments not
‘allowable’ or part of the industrial
2. Biscuit factory – manufacture of ‘prohibited’. development,
biscuits, cookies, crackers and
other similar dried bakery products Subdivision,
Lumberyard,
3. Doughnut and hopia factory
plastic crusher,
4. Life belts factory junk shops,
electronic
5. Manufacture of animal drawn assembly;
vehicles manufacture of tin
can
6. Manufacture of assembly of
electronic organs
7. Manufacture of brooms, brushes
and fans
8. Manufacture of buttons except
plastic
9. Manufacture of children vehicles
and baby carriages
10. Manufacture of eyeglasses and
spectacles
11. Manufacture of footwear parts
except rubber and plastic
12. Manufacture of furniture/wood
13. Manufacture of gym and
playground equipment
14. Manufacture of insignia, badges
and similar emblems (except
metal)
15. Manufacture of laboratory and
scientific instruments, barometers,
chemical balance, etc.
16. Manufacture of luggage, handbags,
wallets and small leather goods
17. Manufacture of macaroni,
spaghetti and vermicelli and other
noodles
18. Manufacture of measuring and
controlling equipment, plumb
bomb, rain gauge, taxi meter,
thermometer, etc.
19. Manufacture of medical/surgical
supplies: adhesive tapes, antiseptic
dressing, sanitary napkins, surgical
gauge, orthopedic and prosthetic
appliances (abdominal supporter,
ankle supports, arch support,
artificial limb, kneecap supporters,
etc.) etc.
20. Manufacture of miscellaneous
products of leather and leather
substitute, N.E.C.
21. Manufacture of needles, pens,
fasteners and zippers
22. Manufacture of optical lenses
23. Manufacture of other sporting and
athletic goods, N.E.C.
24. Manufacture of pens, pencils and
other office and artist materials
25. Manufacture of photographic
equipment and accessories
26. Manufacture of pianos
27. Manufacture of rowboats, bancas,
sailboats
28. Manufacture of shoes except
rubber, plastic and wood
29. Manufacture of signs and
advertising displays
30. Manufacture of slipper and sandal
except rubber and plastic
31. Manufacture of sporting balls (not
of rubber or plastic)
32. Manufacture of sporting gloves
and mitts
33. Manufacture of sporting tables
(billiards, Ping-Pong, pool)
34. Manufacture of string instruments
35. Manufacture of toys and dolls
except rubber and mold plastic
36. Manufacture of umbrella and canes
37. Manufacture of watches and clocks
38. Manufacture of wind and
percussion instruments
39. Manufacture or assembly of
electronic data processing
machinery and accessories
miscellaneous office machines and
those N.E.C.
41. Manufacture or assembly of optical
instruments
surgical, medical, dental equipment
and medical furniture
typewriters, cash registers,
weighing, duplicating and
accounting machines
44. Other bakery products NEC
45. Popcorn/rice factory
46. Printing, publishing and allied
industries and those N.E.C.
47. Quick freezing and cold packaging
for fish and other seafoods
48. Quick freezing and cold packaging
for fruits and vegetables
49. Renovation and repair of office
machinery
50. Small scale manufacture of ice
cream
Section 42. USE REGULATIONS IN MEDIUM INDUSTRIAL ZONE (I-2).
An I-2 zone shall be for manufacturing and processing establishments of pollutive/non-

hazardous and pollutive/hazardous industries.. Enumerated below are the regulations:
Column 2 Column 3
Column 1
Allowable Uses, i.e. will be approved with Consent on Merit Prohibited Uses
or without conditions Uses i.e. will not be
approved and
cannot be
approved
1. Drying fish All forms of
2. Manufacture and canning of ham, residential
bacon and native sausages and other development
poultry products.
Special Industry
3. Soft drinks and carbonated water
industry.
4. Corn /rice mills
Manufacture of
5. Manufacture of chocolate, cocoa, explosives
sugar confectioneries and chewing
gums
6. Manufacture of pianos, wind
percussion, string and miscellaneous
musical instruments
7. Peanuts and other nut factories
8. Manufacture of flavoring extracts
9. Manufacture of food products, n.e.c.
(vinegar, vetsin)
10. Manufacture of fish meal
11. Oyster shell grading
12. Manufacture of medicinal and
pharmaceutical preparations
13. Manufacture of statuary, art goods,
cut stones and marbles
14. Manufacture of abrasive products
15. Manufacture of miscellaneous non-
metallic mineral products, n.e.c.
16. Manufacture of cutleries, except
table flatware and miscellaneous
cutleries, hand tools, and general
hardwares, n.e.c.
17. Manufacture of general hardwares
18. Manufacture of household metal
furniture
19. Manufacture of furnitures and fixture
and other products primarily of metal
and other architectural and
ornamental metal works, wood
20. Manufacture of fabricated wire and
cable products
21. Manufacture of heating, cooking and
lighting equipments, candles and
inks except electricals
22. Sheet metal works generally of
manual operation
23. Manufacture of other fabricated
metal products except machineries
and equipments, n.e.c.
agricultural machineries and
equipments
25. Native plows and harrows factories
26. Repair of agricultural machineries
27. Manufacture or assembly of service
industry machines
elevators and escalators
29. Manufacture or assembly of sewing
machines
30. Manufacture or assembly of cooking
ranges
31. Manufacture or assembly of water
pumps
32. Refrigeration industries
33. Manufacture or assembly of other
machines and equipments except
electricals, n.e.c.
34. Manufacture or assembly and repair
of other electrical industrial
machineries, equipments and
apparatus, n.e.c.
35. Manufacture or assembly of radio
and television transmitting, signaling
and detection equipments
36. Manufacture and assembly of
telephone and telegraphic
equipments
37. Manufacture of other equipments
and electronic apparatus
38. Manufacture of industrial and
commercial electrical appliances
39. Manufacture of electrical appliances
and house wares
40. Manufacture of other electrical
appliances, n.e.c.
41. Flour mills
42. Cassava flour mills
43. Manufacture of coffee
44. Manufacture of unprepared animal
feeds, other grain milling, n.e.c.
45. Production of prepared feeds for
animals
46. Manufacture of mineral products,
n.e.c.
47. Tobacco manufacturing
48. Weaving hemp textiles
49. Miscellaneous knitting mills
50. Manufacture of mats, matting,
carpets and rugs
51. Manufacture of related products
from abaca, sisal, hemequen, hemp,
cotton, paper, etc.
52. Manufacture of cordage, rope and
twine
53. Manufacture of linoleum and other
surface covering
54. Manufacture of artificial leather, coil
cloths, and other fabrics except
rubberized
55. Manufacture of coir
textiles, n.e.c.
57. Sawmills, planing and other wood
mills
58. Manufacture of veneer, plywood and
hardwood
59. Manufacture of doors, windows and
gaskets
60. Treating and preserving of wood
61. Manufacture of charcoal
62. Manufacture of wood and cane
blinds, screens and shades
63. Manufacture of containers and boxes
of paper and paper boards
64. Manufacture of miscellaneous pulp
and paper products, n.e.c.
65. Manufacture of perfumes, cosmetics,
and other toilet preparations
66. Manufacture of wares and polishing
preparations
chemical products, n.e.c.
68. Tire retreading and rebuilding
69. Manufacture of rubber shoes and
slippers, industrial and molded
rubber products
70. Manufacture of fabricated plastic
products, n.e.c.
71. Manufacture of table and kitchen
utensils
72. Manufacture of potteries, china and
earthenware, n.e.c.
73. Manufacture of miscellaneous glass
and glass products, n.e.c.
74. Manufacture of clay bricks, clay
tiles, and hollow clay tiles and other
clay structured products
structural clay products, n.e.c.
76. Manufacturing of structural metal
products
77. Manufacture of asbestos products
78. Manufacture of engines and turbines
except motor vehicles, marine and
aircrafts
79. Manufacture of metal and wood
working machineries
80. Manufacture, assembly, rebuilding
and repair of paper industry
machineries
81. Manufacture, assembly, rebuilding
and repair of printing, trade
machineries and equipments
82. Manufacture of rice mills
83. Manufacture of machines for leather
and leather products
84. Manufacture of construction
machineries
85. Manufacture of machines for clay,
stove, and glass industries
86. Manufacture of electrical industrial
machineries and equipments
87. Manufacture of dry cells, storage
batteries and other batteries
88. Manufacture of railroad, street cars
equipments
automobiles, cars, buses, trucks and
trailers and other motor vehicles
90. Manufacture of wood furnitures
including upholstery
91. Manufacture of transport equipment,
n.e.c.
92. Manufacture of rattan furnitures
including upholstery
93. Manufacture of box beds and
mattresses
94. Manufacture of motorcycles and
bicycles
95. Spinning, weaving and finishing
textiles/fabrics
96. Tanneries and leather finishing plants
97. Manufacture of paper board articles,
fiber board, pulp paper board and
paper
98. Manufacture of inorganic salts and
compounds
99. Manufacture of soaps and cleaning
preparations, perfumes, cosmetics
and other toilet preparations
100. Manufacture of products of
leather and leather substitutes except
footwear and wearing apparels
101. Manufacture of cement lime
and plaster
102. Blast furnaces, steel works
and rolling mills
103. Manufacture of smelted and
refined non-ferrous metals
104. Manufacture of rolled, drawn
or astruded non-ferrous metals
105. Manufacture of non-ferrous
metal based industries
106. Oil depot
107. Manufacture of paints,
varnishes and lacquers
108. Manufacture of organic
fertilizers and pesticides
109. Manufacture of matches
Section 43. USE REGULATIONS IN INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (INZ).
In the InZ zone, the regulations are:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be approved with Consent on Merit Prohibited Uses,
approved and
cannot be
appealed
1. Colleges, universities, professional Everything else not Potentially
business schools, vocational and listed as ‘allowable’ pollutive or
trade schools, technical schools and or ‘prohibited’. hazardous
other institutions of higher learning Subdivision. General industry.
hospitals, medical
2. Convention centers and related centers, multipurpose Special Industry.
facilities clinics Scientific,
cultural and academic Special Industry.
3. Embassies/consulate
centers and research
4. Government center to house facilities except Nuclear,
national, regional or local offices in nuclear, radioactive, radioactive and
the area chemical and chemical
biological warfare research centers
5. Museums facilities
6. Religious structures e.g. Church,
seminary, convents, mission houses,
monasteries
7. Student housing e.g. Dormitories,
boarding house
8. Ecological and other research centers

1. Military camps / reservations/ bases
and training grounds
2. Penitentiary and correctional
institution
3. Rehabilitation and vocational
training center for ex-convicts, drug
addicts, unwed mothers, physically,
mentally and emotionally
handicapped, ex-sanitary inmates
and similar establishments
4. Scientific, cultural and academic
centers and research facilities
except nuclear, radioactive,
chemical and biological warfare
facilities
5. Welfare homes, orphanages, boys
and girls town, home for the aged
and the like
Section 44. USE REGULATIONS IN PARKS AND RECREATION ZONE

(PRZ).
The following are the use regulations:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be Consent on Merit Uses Prohibited Uses,
approved with or without i.e. will not be
conditions approved and
cannot be
appealed
1. Camping Grounds Cockpits, Golf courses, ball Everything else
courts, race tracks and similar not listed as
2. Memorial shrines uses, Marina, floating ‘allowable’.
monuments, kiosks and restaurants
Subdivision
3. Open air or outdoor sports
Resort areas e.g. Beaches,
activities and support
facilities, including low rise including accessory uses such
stadia, gyms, amphitheaters as hotels, cottages, pools,
and swimming pools
Underground parking
4. other park structures structures/facilities
5. Parks/gardens
6. Sports club
Section 45. USE REGULATIONS FOR TOURISM ZONE(TZ)
In the Tourism Zone, the following uses are allowed and prohibited:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be Consent on Merit Uses Prohibited Uses, i.e.
approved with or without will not be approved
conditions and cannot be
appealed
1. Camping Grounds Cockpits Everything else not
listed as ‘allowable’.
2. Marina Golf courses, ball courts,
race tracks and similar Subdivision.
3. Memorial shrines
uses, Resort areas e.g.
monuments, kiosks and
Beaches, including
4. other park structures accessory uses such as
hotels, cottages, pools,
5. Parks/gardens floating restaurants
6. Sports club Underground parking
7. Mini-zoo structures/facilities
8. Botanical Gardens
9. Mini-forest
10. Nature Parks
Section 46. USE REGULATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL ZONE (AGZ).
In AG Zone the regulations are:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be approved with Consent on Merit Prohibited Uses,
approved and
cannot be
appealed
1. Agricultural research and Everything else not Residential
experimentation facilities such a listed as ‘allowable’ development not
breeding stations, fish farms, or ‘prohibited’. directly associated
nurseries, demonstration farms, with an allowable
etc. Subdivision, use.
Cemetery
2. Ancillary dwelling Subdivision into
units/farmhouses for tillers and Mission houses, residential sized
laborers monasteries lots smaller than 1
hectare in area.
3. Cultivation, raising and growing of
staple crops such as rice, corn, Sewerage Treatment
camote, cassava and the like Plant Extraction,
excavation or
4. Customary support facilities such Radio transmitting other mining
as palay dryers and rice treshers stations/transmitters, activity not
and storage barns and warehouses transmission towers undertaken in
accordance with
5. Growing of diversified plants and the Mining Code
trees, such as fruit and flower and its
bearing trees, coffee, tobacco, etc. implementing
rules and
6. Silviculture, mushroom culture, regulations.
fishing and fish culture, snake
culture, crocodile farm, monkey
raising and the like
7. Pastoral activities such as goat raising

and cattle fattening
1. Piggeries
2. Poultries
Section 47. USE REGULATIONS IN AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ZONE (AIZ).
In the AI zone the following uses shall be allowed and prohibited:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be approved with or Consent on Merit Prohibited Uses,
without conditions Uses i.e. will not be
approved and
cannot be
appealed
1. All uses allowed in agriculture Everything else not Residential
listed as ‘allowable’ development not
2. Bagoong factory , Patis factory or ‘prohibited’. directly
associated with
Subdivision. an allowable use.
3. Banana chips factory Slaughterhouse
4. Butter and cheese processing plants
5. Canning and preserving of vegetable
sauces
6. Canning and preserving of fruits and
fruit juices
7. Canning and preserving of fruits and
vegetables
8. Canning and preserving of vegetable
and vegetable juices
9. Cassava flour mill
10. Cigar and cigarette factory
11. Cotton textile mill
12. Curing and redrying tobacco leaves
13. Drying, cleaning, curing and
preserving of meat and its by products
and derivatives
14. Drying, smoking and airing of
tobacco
15. Fish canning
16. Flour mill
17. Jute spinning and weaving
18. Malt liquor and malt
19. Manufacture / processing of other
plantation crops e.g. Pineapple,
bananas, etc.
20. Manufacture of starch and its
products
21. Manufacture of charcoal
22. Manufacture of coffee
23. Manufacture of dairy products
24. Manufacture of desiccated coconuts
25. Manufacture of distilled, rectified and
blended liquors, n.e.c.
26. Manufacture of fish, marine and other
animal oil
27. Manufacture of instant beverages and
syrup
28. Manufacture of non-alcoholic
beverages, n.e.c.
29. Manufacture of refined cooking oil
and margarine, vegetable/coconut oil
30. Manufacture of starch and its
products
31. Manufacture of unprepared animal
feeds, other grain milling, N.E.C.
32. Manufacture of vegetables and animal
oil and fats, n.e.c.
33. Manufacture of wines from juices of
local fruits
34. Milk processing plants
(manufacturing filled, reconstituted or
recombined milk, condensed or
evaporated)
35. Miscellaneous canning and preserving
of fruit and vegetables N.E.C.
36. Miscellaneous canning and preserving
of fruits
37. Miscellaneous processing tobacco
leaves, N.E.C.
38. Muscovado sugar mill
39. Natural fluid milk processing
(pasteurizing, homogenizing,
vitaminizing, bottling of natural
animal milk and cream related
products)
40. Other accessory uses incidental to
agro-industrial activities
41. Other commercial handicrafts and
industrial activities utilizing plant or
animal parts and/or products as raw
materials, N.E.C.
42. Other dairy products, N.E.C.
43. Palay/corn/copra dryers/warehouse
44. Processing, preserving and canning of
fish and other seafoods
45. Processing, preserving and canning of
fish and other seafoods N.E.C.
46. Production of prepared feeds for
animals
47. Rice/corn mills (single pass/multi
pass)
48. Slaughtering, preparing and
preserving meat products
49. Sugar factories and refineries
50. Sugar refining
51. Sugarcane milling (centrifugal and
refines)
52. Vegetable oil mills, including
coconut oil
53. Weaving hemp textile
Section 48. USE REGULATIONS IN FOREST ZONES (FZ).
No development use, or activity shall be allowed in forest zones unless consistent with the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR) development regulations for Forest
Zones and a permit, lease or license is issued by the DENR. In the FZ zone the following uses
apply:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be Consent on Merit Prohibited Uses, i.e. will not be
approved with or without Uses approved and cannot be appealed
conditions
1. Commercial tree Everything else not 1. Residential development not
plantation and Industrial listed as directly associated with an
Forest Plantation [IFP] ‘allowable’ or allowable use.
‘prohibited’.
2. Community Based Subdivision. 2. Extraction, excavation or other
Forest Management mining activity not undertaken in
(CBFM) accordance with the Mining Code
and its implementing rules and
3. Contract reforestation
regulations.
with Forest Land
Management Agreement
[FLMA] 3. Fishing activities not
undertaken pursuant to the
4. Ecological Revolution provisions of the Fisheries Code
programs [ECOREV] and its implementing rules and
regulations and the revised
5. Reforestation Forestry Code of the Philippines
compliance by forest as amended.
users by temporary lease
agreement 4. Infrastructure
development and resettlement
6. Reforestation undertaken within Forest Zones
compliance by pasture inconsistent with the provisions
lease agreement of the revised Forestry Code of
8. Urban Forest as parks
the Philippines, as amended, and
subject to an Environmental
Impact Assessment, prior to the
approval of such projects in order
to determine their environmental
impacts and social acceptability.
5. Subdivision into
residential sized lots smaller than
5 hectares in area.
Section 49. REGULATIONS IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND UTILITIES

ZONE (IUZ).
The IUZ is for transportation uses including airports, sea ports and bus/jeepney terminals. The
following are the regulations:

Allowable Uses, i.e. will be Consent on Merit Uses Prohibited Uses, i.e.
approved with or without will not be approved
conditions and cannot be appealed
1. Airport Everything else not All forms of residential
listed as ‘allowable’ or development.
2. Bus Terminal ‘prohibited’.]Depot
3. Jeepney Terminal
4. Communication facilities
5. Road Transport Terminal
6. Sea Port
7. Ancillary facilities related
to the operation of a
transport terminal
8. Power stations
9. Water system
Section 50. USE REGULATION WITHIN GENERAL SANTOS CITY

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
1. The airport reservation shall be designated as transportation/utilities zone. As such, it
shall be used exclusively for airport operations. The following airport structures and
facilities are allowed to be constructed inside the reservation:
a. Runway f. Parking spaces
b. Terminal Building g. Utilities
c. Taxiways h. Cargo Area
d. Crash, Fire and Rescue Building
1. No structure other than the needed airport structures and facilities shall be built inside the
reservation area. The structures not allowed include buildings intended for residential,
commercial, institutional, industrial and other uses.
2. There shall be a Runway Protection Zone (RPZ) designated around the runway. The RPZ
shall extend 820 meters from the end of the runway and 245 meters from the edge of the
runway. Its purpose is to protect the runway from any obstacle or impediment. No
structure of any kind shall be allowed within the RPZ.
1. There shall be an Airport Buffer Zone surrounding the airport reservation property. Its
perimeter shall be defined as 1,600 meters from the centerline and 1,600 meters from the
end of the runway.
The area between the limits of the airport reservation and the limits of the Buffer Zone shall have
one or a combination of the following land uses:
a. Agriculture
b.Pastureland
c. Agroforestry
5. The airspace around the airport shall be protected from obstacles. The protected airspace is
made up of five (5) imaginary surfaces through which structures and other objects should not
project in order to ensure safety of aircraft operations during take-off and landing.
These surfaces include the approach, inner approach, inner horizontal, transitional and conical
surfaces. An airspace map based on standards from the International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) shall be the basis for determining the location, dimensions and slopes of these surfaces.
6. Land uses and activities within 2 kilometer radius of the airport that may create smoke, dust,
glare or electromagnetic emissions detrimental to aircraft operations shall be subject to review by
the Zoning Officer prior to issuance or denial of locational clearance and certificate of zoning
compliance.
In the review process, the zoning officer shall confer with specialists from the Department of
Transportation and Communication (DOTC) and Air Transportation Office (ATO).
7. The area along the 50:1 and 40:1 approach surface shall not be zoned as built-up. Land uses
preferred within this area include:
1. Agriculture
2. Pastureland
1. Agroforestry
This zoning is intended to free the approach from obstacles and minimize danger to population.
Section 51. USE REGULATION IN COASTAL ZONE.
In the Coastal Zone only the following uses shall be allowed:
a) Banca making/repair
b) Beach resorts (Hotels, swimming pool, cottages, canteen, recreational facilities)
c) Ecological reservations
d) Fish Net making
e) Fishponds/prawnponds
f) Nature resorts
Section 52. HEIGHT REGULATIONS.
Building height must conform to the height restrictions and requirements of the Air
Transportation Office (ATO) as well as the requirements of the National Building Code, the
Structural Code as well as all laws, ordinances, design standards, rules and regulations related to
land development and building construction and the various safety codes. Building heights shall
be based on the prescribed Floor Area Ratio [FAR].
Section 53. EXEMPTIONS FROM HEIGHT REGULATION.

Exempted from the imposition of height regulations in residential zones are the following:
towers, church, steeples, water tanks and other utilities and such other structures not covered by
the height regulations of the National Building Code and/or the Air Transportation Office.
Section 54. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
The following must require a Locational Clearance from the Zoning Officer of the Office of the
City Planning & Development Coordinator, in accordance with the prescribed criteria:
1. Dumping Sites
1. They must be at least 1,000 meters from any bodies of water;
2. Adequate fencing shall be put up to prevent undue scattering of wastes;
3. Poisoning of rats, spraying of flies, and the general maintenance of the site shall
be the sole responsibility of the applicant;
4. The dumping site shall not be located outside of the applicant’s premises, if
private, and shall be located within a reasonable distance from residential zone, if
public;
5. Buffering of trees by 10 meters in the periphery;
6. Other sanitary requirements of the city shall be complied with.
1. Cemeteries
1. All new cemeteries shall observe as easement, a buffer zone of 50 meters from the
banks of the rivers and other bodies of water traversing or adjoining the same. A
memorial type of development with trees planted around the perimeter is
encouraged in the development of cemetery;
2. Their proper maintenance shall be the conclusive responsibility of the applicant or
the persons running them.
3. A barangay resolution interposing no objection to the proposed project is
required. The resolution shall form part of the application for the issuance of
locational clearance and development permit.
3. Funeral Homes/Memorial Chapels
1. They shall be located 200 meters away from any private or government hospital;
2. No emission of foul odor and obnoxious gases deleterious to public health will be
permitted;
3. Their sound maintenance shall be the exclusive responsibility of the persons running
them;
4. Provide septic tank to avoid the throwing of solid and water wastes to city storm drainage
or irrigation canals;
5. A system of disposing solid and liquid waste should be a part of the application for
approval of the project; and
6. Sworn statement of the owners of the adjoining lands specifying their conformity or non-
conformity to the proposed funeral homes shall be obtained. The statement shall form
part of the application for locational clearance.
4. Private Landing Strips, Runways, Heliports and Helipads
1. They must be at least 200-300 meters from the nearest residential zone or residences;
2. A written authority to construct/operate shall be obtained from the Air Transportation
Office /Civil Aeronautics Administration before construction/operation, and notice should
be published in at least one of the daily newspaper for 2 consecutive weeks to determine
public opposition to the proposed landing site;
3. Sworn statement of the owners of the adjoining lands specifying their conformity or non-
conformity to the proposed landing site shall be obtained by the applicants. The
statement shall be an integral part of the application for locational clearance as well as the
permit to operate.
5. Service Stations/ Gasoline Filling Station
1. They shall be located within a reasonable distance from churches, hospitals, schools, and
other such institutional buildings;
2. They shall not constitute safety hazards in a community developed entirely for residential
purposes within the 200 meter radius.
6. Slaughterhouse
1. They shall be located only in agro-industrial zones and other less restrictive districts;
2. Sanitary requirement of the city shall be complied with;
1. Buffering of trees by at least 10 meters along the periphery;
2. Provide solid and liquid waste disposal system to avoid throwing of wastes to
storm drains or irrigation canals.
7. Open Storage
1. They shall be located at least on the average of 200 meters from schools, churches,
hospitals and the like;
2. Their sound maintenance shall be the sole responsibility of the applicant.
8. Radio Transmitting Stations, Transmitter, and Transmission Towers
1. They shall be located within agricultural, pasture or less populated areas;

b. Their sound maintenance and safety devices shall be the exclusive responsibility of the
applicant and/or persons running them;
1. Where the public welfare demands, they may not be denied location in some residential
zones, provided that a sworn statement of the owners of the adjoining property with a
radius equivalent to the height of the tower signifying their conformity or non-conformity
to the proposed project is secured. These statement shall form part of the application for
locational clearance as well as the permit to operate;
2. That the location of their power transmitter and tower or antenna must be within a clear
distance with a radius equivalent to the height of the tower from residential and
commercial zones;
3. They shall comply with the requirements of the Department of Transportation and
Communication and other agencies concerned and observe maximum safety measures;
and
4. Approval of these projects shall be based on the recommendation of the Development
Control Committee.
9. Cockpits
a. They shall be located at least 1,000 meters radial distance from the nearest residential or
institutional zones in the community;
1. They shall be located in a recreational zone so as not to cause undue noise, annoyance,
traffic hazard or any danger to the safety and order of the community nor disturb the
undertaking of the allowed uses in the vicinity, however, they may not be denied location
in industrial zone areas provided that distance requirements from residential and
institutional areas are complied;
2. They must have adequate parking spaces, noise reducing facilities, and buffer area made
of concrete hollow blocks and trees to abet nuisance.
1. Billiard/billiard pools shall be located at 200-meters radial distance from all institutional
establishments;
1. Disco houses, pub houses and saunas are allowed in commercial districts, provided they
are 200 meters away from schools and churches. Entertainment establishments (day/night
clubs, saunas, etc) shall install signages (clear and readable) that minors (below 18 years
of age) are not allowed inside;
1. Night clubs/day clubs, cabarets shall be located along the National Highway (50-meters
commercial strip) at Barangay Apopong going to Marbel and in Lagao after the check
point along National Highway going to Davao City;
1. No gasoline filling station shall be granted a permit to operate or be established along

Pioneer Avenue, Roxas East and Roxas West, respectively;
14.Junk shops, repair shops, body building shops, machine shops, lumber yards with sawing
activities, upholstery shops, furniture making, hollow block making, rattan crafts, rice mills and
corn mills shall be located after the Upper Silway Bridge, along the National Highway going to
Marbel and to Siguel as well as in Lagao going to Davao City and to Buayan, along Lagao-Bula
Road and Bula-Amao Road, within 50-meters lot depth of commercial areas;
1. Piggeries and poultries shall be located in agricultural zones. It should be at least one (1)
kilometer from the existing National Highway, 500 meters from rivers, creeks and other
bodies of water and at least one (1) kilometer from residential areas with appropriate
ancillary facilities for solid and liquid waste disposal to prevent the use of storm drains
and irrigation canals for disposal.
1. Setbacks along road right-of-way of major streets at the CBD should be uniform at 3.00
meters from property line and should be appropriately landscaped (Santiago Blvd., J.
Catolico Ave., Pioneer Ave., Magsaysay Ave., P. Acharon Blvd., Roxas Ave, Laurel Ave.,
National Highway, etc.)
1. Bars, hotels, motels and restaurants and other entertainment establishments should bear
the sign that serving alcoholic drinks to minors is not allowed.
1. Warehouses shall be regulated in the Central Business District, Barangays Bula, Lagao,
Katangawan, Buayan, Baluan, Tinagacan. Upper Labay, Ligaya, Conel, Olympog,
Mabuhay unless it is an ancillary facility of a commercial activity. Height and area
limitations shall be imposed.
1. Construction of warehouses shall only be allowed within the industrial zone in Barangay
Tambler, Calumpang, Labangal and Siguel,
1. Public commercial and institutional developments should be designed in such a way to

make them disabled and child friendly.
1. Loading and loading of goods and services and display shall be strictly prohibited along
roads, road right-of-way, sidewalks, walkways and footpaths.
Section 55. AREA REGULATIONS.

Area regulation in all Zones shall conform to the minimum requirement of the existing codes
such as:
1. P.D. 957 – the “subdivision and condominium buyers’ protective law” and its revised
implementing rules and regulations
2. B.P. 220 – “promulgation of different levels of standards and technical requirements for
economic and socialized housing projects” and it’s revised implementing rules and
regulations.
3. P.D. 1096 - National Building Code
4. Fire Code
5. Sanitation Code
6. Plumbing Code
7. Structural Code
8. Executive Order no. 648
9. Other relevant guidelines promulgated by the national agencies concerned.
Section 56. ACCESS TO ROAD OR RIGHT-OF-WAY.
Every lot shall have direct access to a public road or right-of-way as indicated on the Certificate
of Title at least 3 meters wide for pedestrian and vehicular access.
Section 57. SUBDIVISION PERFORMANCE BONDS.
A performance bond in the form of a binding and secure Bank Guarantee equivalent to the full
cost of construction of the subdivision (or a stage thereof) including all approved roadwork and
infrastructure shall be lodged with the City to enable it to complete the works in the event that
the developer fails to do so. Such bond shall be returned to the bank on satisfactory completion
of the works.
Section 58. ROAD SETBACK REGULATIONS.
The following minimum building and structure setbacks from roads shall be applied:
Minimum Road Setback
Zoning Classification Major Secondary Road Local Road

Thoroughfare (between 8 & (8m wide)
(20m wide & 20m wide)
above)
Residential 10m 3m 1.50m
Industrial, Agriculture, 10m* 10m* 10m*
Agro-industrial, Forest
Parks & recreation 10m 10m 3m
* 20m if car parking is proposed in front of the building.
Section 59. CAR PARKING.
Development shall provide adequate on-site car parking to meet the needs of residents,
employees, customers and visitors. The following spaces shall be complied with:
1. Low-income single detached living units in Pooled parking at 1 slot/8

housing projects with individual lots not more living units
than 100 sq.m. –
1. Multi-family living units regardless of number
of stories with an average living unit floor area
of :
q Up to 50 sq.m. 1 slot/ 5 living units
q Above 50 sq.m. to 100 sq.m. 1 slot/ 2 living units
q More than 100 sq.m. 1 slot/ living unit

1. Hotels 1 slot/ 6 rooms
1. Residential hotels and apartels 1 slot/ 3 units
1. Motels 1 slot/unit
1. Neighborhood shopping centers 1 slot/80 sq.m. shopping area
1. Markets 1 slot/100 sq.m. shopping floor
area
1. Malls 1 slot/20 sq.m. rentable area
1. Restaurants, fast food centers, bars and beer 1 slot/25 sq.m. customer area
houses
1. Night clubs, super clubs and theater restaurants 1 slot/15 sq.m. customer floor
area
1. Office buildings 1 slot/100 sq.m. gross floor
area
1. Pension/boarding/lodging houses 1 slot/15 beds
1. Other buildings in business/commercial zones 1 slot/100 sq.m. gross floor
area
1. Public assembly buildings such as theaters, 1 slot/40 sq.m. spectator area
cinemas, auditoria, stadia, etc.
1. Places of worship and funeral parlors 1 slot/50 sq.m. congregation
area
1. Schools 1 slot/8 classrooms
1 slot/3 classrooms
q Elementary, secondary, vocational and trade schools
q Colleges and universities

1. Hospitals 1 slot/20 beds
1. Recreational facilities 1 slot/ alley
q Bowling alleys 1 slot/25 sq.m. gross floor area
q Amusement centers 1 slot/75 sq.m. gross floor area
q Clubhouses, beach houses and the like

1. Factories, manufacturing establishments, 1 car slot/1,000 sq.m. gross
mercantile buildings, warehouses and storage floor area
bins
1. Tourist bus parking areas 2 bus slots/hotel or theater
restaurants
1. Golf courses 1 slot/20 sq.m. of bldgs.
1. Cockpit 1 slot/20 sq.m. of gross floor
area
Section 60. ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS SIGNS.
Advertising and business signs to be displayed or put to the public view, in any of the districts
herein enumerated, must comply with existing rules and regulations or those which may later on,
be enacted by the city/national government. They shall in no way obstruct the road right-of-way
and parking spaces. They shall be within the property line not causing disturbance to the line of
sight of vehicles.
Section 61. ARCADES.
For buildings located along P. Acharon Avenue, Santiago Blvd., Laurel Avenue, Pioneer Avenue,
Roxas Avenue, Osmeña Avenue, Magsaysay Avenue and the National Highway and other major
commercial areas, a minimum of 3 meters arcade shall be observed.
Section 62. STORMWATER MANAGEMENT.

Stormwater shall be disposed from the site in a manner that will not increase the risk of flooding
to downstream properties.
Section 63. EASEMENT.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Water Code the banks of rivers and streams and the shores of
the seas and lakes throughout their entire length and within a Zone of three (3) meters in urban
areas; twenty (20) meters in agricultural areas and forty (40) meters in forest areas, along their
margins, are subject to easement of public use in the interest of recreation, navigation, floatage,
fishing and salvage. Furthermore in accordance with the Fisheries Code thirty (30) meters from
the shore seawards may be developed for piers, etc. and for restaurants.
No person shall be allowed to stay in this area longer than what is necessary for space or
recreation, navigation, floatage, fishing or salvage or to build structures of any kind. No
residential facility shall be allowed therein.
Section 64. BUFFER REGULATIONS.
A buffer of 3 meters shall be provided on each side along the entire zone boundary length
between two or more conflicting zones. Such buffer strip should be open and not encroached
upon by any building or structure and should be a part of the yard or open space, and include a
solid concrete or masonry wall on the boundary at least three (3.0) meters high and constructed
as part of the industrial or other conflicting development.
Section 65. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT REGULATION
In order to address the pressing problems caused by traffic, the following regulations shall be
observed:
1. Provision of jeepney and taxi stop bays in commercial establishments, malls, hotels and
restaurants, markets, terminals, schools and hospitals;
2. Limit stopping of vehicles along busy streets and other major thoroughfares;
3. Provision of adequate parking spaces along major thoroughfares;
4. Provision of traffic control system along intersections;
5. Provision of pedestrian lanes and other facilities; and
6. Controlling growth of traffic generation by putting up a density cap in development areas.
Section 66. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS IN THE NATIONAL BUILDING CODE.

Specific provisions stipulated in the National Building Code (P.D. 1096) as amended thereto
relevant to traffic generators, advertising and business signs, erection of more than one principal
structure, dwelling or rear lots, access yard requirements and dwelling groups, which are not in
conflict with the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance, shall be observed.
Section 67. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS.
All owners and/or developers or subdivision projects shall in addition to securing a Locational
Clearance be required to secure a Development Permit pursuant to provisions of PD 957 and its
implementing rules and regulations or BP 220 and its implementing rules and regulations, and in
the case of socialized housing projects in accordance with the procedures laid down in EO 71,
series of 1993.
All subdivisions are to be treated as Consent on Merit proposal. Type 1 notification is required
for less than 20 lots and Type 2 for 20 or more lots.
For subdivision projects located in areas with irrigation facilities, they will not be allowed to
develop the area until such time that the irrigation would have become dilapidated, closed or
channeled to other service areas.
However, the following minimum standards and implementing guidelines in the development of
BP 220 projects shall be adopted by the city in the review and processing of subdivision
applications:
Civil Works
1. Foundation/Footing
Minimum dimension - 50 cm. width x 200 cm. thick
Minimum bar - 4 – 12 mm dia. def. bars both ways
Minimum depth - 70 cm. from natural ground
b. Columns
Minimum dimension - 15 cm. with a min. area of 300 sq.cm.
Minimum bar - 4 – 16 mm dia. def. bars with 8 mm dia. ties

c. Zocalo/wall footing
Minimum dimension - 20 cm x 20 cm thick
Minimum bars - 1-10 mm dia. Def. Bars
Minimum depth - 50 cm. from natural ground level
d. Walls
Concrete hollow block (CHB) – 10 x 20 x 40 cm
Minimum bar (vertical) – 10 mm spaced @ 60 cm. on center
(horizontal) – 8 mm spaced every three layers
I. Concrete mixture for footings, columns and zocalo::

Class A – 1:2:4
q Pouring permit for footing, columns, and zocalo is a requirement to be issued by the City
Engineers Office with concurrence by the Office of the City Planning & Development
Coordinator.
1. Pre-fabricated housing type
Random testing to be conducted by the Office of the City Engineer per specification submitted.
1. Plumbing Works
1. Wastewater from kitchen sink, lavatory and floor drain will flow directly to the drainage.
2. Sanitary line to septic tank.
1. Electrical Works
1. Main power panel – circuit breaker

2. Other works must conform to the latest edition of the National Electrical Code of the
Philippines
1. Specifications
1. Brand name and kind of materials to be used must be specified properly
1. Land Development
1. Lot elevation should be at least 30 cm. higher that the road elevation.
2. Minimum road width should be 8.00 meters.
3. Minimum thickness of road sub-base (optional) – 15 cm. subject for testing to be
conducted by the Office of the City Engineer.
4. Minimum thickness of road base – 15 cm. (Item 201) subject for Field Density Test
(FDT) by City Engineers Office.
5. Minimum thickness of pavement for concrete – 15 cm. (mixture should be 1:2:3)
q Pouring permit from CEO is required with concurrence by OCPDC.
1. Depressed portion of the subdivision that requires filling materials will be required to
pass a California Bearing Ratio test (CBR) to be conducted by the CEO.
1. Monitoring and Inspection
1. The assigned inspectorate team under the Development Control Committee will be
monitoring the project for the whole duration of the development.
2. Inspection will be conducted prior to issuance of pouring permit.
3. The inspectorate team shall conduct a monthly monitoring to check compliance with the
provisions/conditions in the approval of development permit.
For simple subdivisions:
Drainage plan and material specifications on detail will be submitted.
q A minimum of 3.00-m. chaplan will be required for road intersections.
Privately Developed Subdivisions

Commercial lots equivalent to 1.5 to 3% of the subdivision area shall be identified in a
subdivision project in consonance with the Neighborhood and Garden City Model of the city.
Said area shall be centrally located within the subdivision. The cost of said lot allocated for
commercial purposes should not be more than 6 to 15% of the cost for residential uses.
The following are the allowable uses in the commercial lot identified in subdivision:
1. convenience stores
2. mini-market that would cater to the needs of the subdivision homeowners;
3. clinics;
4. mini-eatery provided that wastes generated is properly contained by the operator.
For lots identified for institutional purposes, pre-school (kindergarten level) and privately run;
churches with a height of not more than one-story building may be allowed.
Water system and terminal for the use of the homeowners may be allowed within the community
facilities site.
Government initiated and developed subdivision:
Subdivision projects to be initiated by the city government should be developed in consonance

with either the Neighborhood Model or Garden City Model
Using subdivision roads as basketball courts shall be strictly prohibited.
The developer may allocate an area for public parking to serve the residents and to ensure that
there will be no parking along the road right-of-way of the subdivision. The developer may
collect reasonable fees for the maintenance of the said area.
Section 68. INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES OR DESIGNS.
For projects that introduce flexibility and creativity in design or plan such as but not limited to
Planned Unit Development, housing projects covered by New Town development under RA
7279, BLISS commercial complexes, Landfill and Sewerage Facilities, etc., the Development
Control Committee shall treat them as Consent on Merit proposals.
Section 69. DEVIATION
Deviations from the provisions of this Ordinance may be allowed by the City Zoning Board of
Adjustment and Appeals (CZBAA) only when the following terms and conditions are existing:
1. The deviation is limited to design standards and not to land use;

2. The deviation will be in harmony with the objectives listed in this Ordinance;
3. Conforming to the provisions of the Ordinance is unreasonably difficult due to physical
conditions of the property (topography, shape, etc.) which is not self created;
4. The proposed deviation is the minimum deviation necessary to permit reasonable use of
the property;
5. The deviation will not adversely affect the appropriate use of adjoining properties;
6. The exception will not alter the essential character and general purpose of the Zone where
the deviation sought is located;
7. The deviation will not weaken the general purpose of the Ordinance and will not
adversely affect the public health, safety or welfare;
8. The proposed project shall support economic based activities/provide livelihood, vital
community services or facilities.
Section 70. VIOLATION AND PENALTY.
Persons who violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall, be meted with fines and
penalties as provided in Section 19, of this Ordinance. In case of violation by a corporation,
partnership or association, the penalty shall be imposed upon the erring officers thereof.
ARTICLE VI
REZONING
Section 71. REZONING.

All proposals for rezoning or changing this Zoning Ordinance in any way shall be considered by
the Sangguniang Panlungsod. Matters that the proposed changes shall be assessed against are
the following:
1. Will the proposal’s negative aspects outweigh its benefits?

1. What will be the impact of the project on the environment and surrounding uses
within 1,000 meters radial distance ?
2. Can the site be adequately serviced by physical infrastructure – power, water,
stormwater drainage, sewerage, telecommunications, and transportation?
3. Do community facilities and services adequately service the site – eg: schools,
childcare, health services, recreation facilities, religious facilities, community
welfare services, etc.?
4. The Development Control Committee, Zoning Officer, Zoning Enforcement
Officer, City Zoning Board of Adjustment and Appeals shall provide technical
assistance to the Sangguniang Panlungsod on rezoning matters.
Section 72. AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE.
Changes in the Zoning Ordinance shall be treated as an amendment, provided that any
amendment to the Zoning Ordinance or provisions thereof shall be subject to public hearing and
shall be carried out through an ordinance of three-fourths vote of the Sangguniang Panglungsod.
ARTICLE VII
OTHER MATTERS
Section 73. CERTIFICATE OF NON-CONFORMANCE.
Upon approval of the Zoning Ordinance, all land uses that do not conform in a zone as provided
for by the Ordinance shall be considered non-conforming. The Zoning Officer shall immediately
notify in writing owners of all uses considered as non-conforming. The owner of the structure or
operator of the activity involved shall apply for a Certificate of Non-Conformance within six (6)
months from the ratification of the Zoning Ordinance by the HLURB. Failure on the part of the
owner to register/apply for a certificate of non-conformance shall be considered in violation of
the Zoning Ordinance and is subject to fines/penalties/closure.
Upon granting of Certificate of Non-conformance, such shall be subject to monitoring.

Expansion of a Non-conforming use is prohibited as provided for in Section 8 and will be
considered as grounds for Sangguniang Panlungsod to disallow continued operation of the same.
Section 74. ISSUANCE OF BUSINESS AND OTHER LOCAL PERMITS.
Subject to the pertinent legalities, business license, mayor’s and other local permits may only be
issued upon compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance or satisfactory proof of non-
coverage thereof, including but not limited to payment of fees, surcharge, fines and compliance
with sanctions which may have been properly imposed.
Section 75. OWNER / OPERATOR / TENANT RESPONSIBILITIES.
At all times the owner of a property is responsible for activities undertaken on said property.
Operators or Tenants are also responsible for activities undertaken by them.
Section 76. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.
Should any section or provision of this Ordinance be declared by the courts to be

unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a whole
or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.
Section 77. REPEALING CLAUSE.
All ordinances, rules or regulations in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby
repealed; provided that the rights that are vested upon the effectivity of this Ordinance shall not
be impaired.
Section 78. EFFECTIVITY CLAUSE.
This ordinance shall take effect upon approval by the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board.
Enacted by the Sangguniang Panlungsod, City of General Santos at its 24th Regular Session dated
December 13, 2001.
Certified correct:
(SGD) ROSENDO A. ROQUE

Secretary to the Sanggunian
Attested by:
(SGD) FLORENTINA L. CONGSON
Vice-Mayor and Presiding Officer
Approved by His Honor, the City Mayor on June 7, 2001.
(SGD) PEDRO B. ACHARON JR.
City Mayor

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ORDINANCE

CITY OF GENERAL SANTOS

ARTICLE 1. TITLE AND

Section 1. TITLE OF THE

Section 4. DIVISION INTO ZONES…………………………………………………….. 19

Section 5. ZONING MAPS……………………………………………………………….. 19

Section 6. DISTRICT BOUNDARIES……………………………………………………… 20

Section 7. SUPPLETORY EFFECT OF OTHER LAWS AND DECREES……………… 45

Section 8. EXISTING NON-CONFORMING USES AND BUILDINGS………………….. 45

ARTICLE III. ADMINISTRATION AND

Section 9. RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT……… 47

Section 10. POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF A ZONING OFFICER……………………. 48

Section 11. POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF A ZONING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: 48

Section 12. RIGHT TO INSPECT PROPERTY AND BUILDINGS………………………… 49

Section 13. INSPECTION OF INACCESSIBLE PROPERTY…………………………….. 49

Section 14. GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR SECURING PERMITS…………………… 49

Section 15. PROJECTS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE…………………………………. 50

Section 16. ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE (ECC)…………………. 50

Section 17. LOCATIONAL CLEARANCE (LC)………………………………………………..

Section 19. SCHEDULE OF ADMINISTRATIVE FINES AND PENALTIES…………… 54

Section 20. BUILDING PERMIT……………………………………………………………. 56

Section 21. NON-USE OF LOCATIONAL CLEARANCE………………………………… 56

Section 22. COMMUNITY CONSULTATION………………………………………………. 56

Section 23. ACTION ON COMPLAINTS AND OPPOSITIONS………………………….. 57

Section 24. FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CITY ZONING BOARD OF

ADJUSTMENTS AND APPEALS……………………………………………….. 57

Section 25. COMPOSITION OF THE CITY ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT AND

Section 26. INTERIM PROVISION………………………………………………………………

ARTICLE IV. DEVELOPMENT CONTROL

Section 27. OBJECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL SYSTEM………………… 59

Section 28. TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS………………………………….. 59

Section 29. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING CONSENT ON MERIT…………………….. 61

Section 30. CREATION OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE………………. 61

Section 31. PURPOSES……………………………………………………………………….. 62

Section 32. CITY-WIDE PLANNING OBJECTIVES……………………………………… 63

Section 33. GENERAL ZONING PRINCIPLE……………………………………………… 67

Section 34. ZONE BOUNDARIES……………………………………………………………. 67

Section 35. INTERPRETATION OF THE ZONE BOUNDARY……………………………. 67

Section 36. GENERAL ZONE REGULATIONS…………………………………………….. 68

Section 37. USE REGULATIONS IN GENERAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (GRZ)……….. 68

Section 38. USE REGULATION IN SOCIALIZED HOUSING ZONE (SHZ)……………. 70

Section 39. USE REGULATIONS IN COMMERCIAL – 1 ZONE (C-1)………………….. 71

Section 40. USE REGULATIONS IN COMMERCIAL-2 ZONE (C-2)…………………….. 73

Section 42. USE REGULATIONS IN MEDIUM INDUSTRIAL ZONE (I-2)……………… 76

Section 43. USE REGULATIONS IN INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (INZ)…………………….. 80

Section 44. USE REGULATIONS IN PARKS AND RECREATION ZONE (PRZ)…….. 81

Section 45. USE REGULATIONS FOR TOURISM ZONE(TZ)……………………………. 81

Section 46. USE REGULATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL ZONE (AGZ)……………….. 81

Section 47. USE REGULATIONS IN AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ZONE (AIZ)……………….. 82

Section 48. USE REGULATIONS IN FOREST ZONES (FZ)……………………………… 84

Section 49. REGULATIONS IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND UTILITIES ZONE (IUZ).. 85

Section 50. USE REGULATION WITHIN GENERAL SANTOS CITY INTERNATIONAL

Section 51. USE REGULATION IN COASTAL ZONE……………………………………… 86

Section 52. HEIGHT REGULATIONS……………………………………………………….. 87

Section 53. EXEMPTIONS FROM HEIGHT REGULATION………………………………. 87

Section 54. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:……………………………………………………. 87

Section 55. AREA REGULATIONS…………………………………………………………… 91

Section 56. ACCESS TO ROAD OR RIGHT-OF-WAY…………………………………….. 91