Baseline Inventory of Infrastructures and Utilities

The backbone of the long-term development along and within the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Corridor shall be the major transport infrastructure, such as roads and expressways, railways, a new international container port and maritime industrial centers. This will lead to the transformation of the DMIA as a premier international gateway and aviation service hub, and the Port of Subic Bay as a world-class passenger and cargo logistics hub.

Potential market development is being pursued by generating reliable baseline information on the current geophysical and engineered environmental conditions of the targeted sites for development. These are usually some of the vital information required by foreign investors to get them interested in checking the investment environment. The level of development in a proposed site can determine the extent of investment that prospective investors will be willing to pour into the country.

The SCAD Council, being the development catalyst for the Corridor, is now consolidating a Baseline Inventory of Infrastructures and Utilities and harmonizing policies, procedures and regulations that will be implemented inside the Corridor. Module One was completed last June. It contains basic geographic and socio-economic conditions of nineteen municipalities, four cities, and economic zones within the Corridor’s immediate area of influence.

There has been an infusion of large foreign investments into Subic and Clark. Notable among them are the Hanjin Shipyard, Texas Instruments, and other multi-billion dollar projects. The two Freeport zones are now in the process of realizing their full potentials. Other areas contiguous to the Corridor are in the advanced stages of planning for long term development. However, the baseline inventory of infrastructure and utilities shall aid all stakeholders in exerting a comprehensive effort to pursue sustainable development that respects and conserves the natural and economic balance in land uses and resources.

SCAD Corridor Geodetic Inventory

To complete the Baseline Inventory, the SCADC engaged the services of Geodetic Engineers in order to create a database on the topography, area boundary limits, current land uses, lot boundaries, ownership (whether alienable, private or ancestral domains) and legal status of ownership. In addition, legal documents, cadastral data, technical references, evaluation of the practical feasibility of acquisition, conversion, initial development and utilization of land can also be acquired upon the completion of this inventory. To date, the following have been accomplished:

1. Topographic Maps: Total Area Covers 37,400 hectares (100% finished)
2. General Land Identification Maps:

   Total Area covers 33,600 hectares (90% finished) featuring the following details:

   • Cadastral lots
   • Barangay and municipal boundaries
   • Major roads
   • Rivers and creeks
   • Subdivisions and other land improvements
3. Detailed Land Inventory:

   Total Area covers 18,700 hectares (50% accomplished) including the following details:

   • Cadastral lots
   • boundaries and identification of individual lots
   • lot descriptions and areas
   • lot classification and ownership

SCAD Corridor Conceptual Land Use Plan

In August 2008, the SCAD Council hired the services of urban planners, Architects Armando Alli, Oscar Molina and Michael Tomeldan and to draft the Conceptual Land Use Plan (SCoLUP) of the SCAD Corridor. The SCoLUP is an initial phase of the SCAD Corridor Master Development Plan which shall serve as the blueprint for the development of the entire corridor.

The SCoLUP coverage is initially placed at a distance of 5 kilometers from both sides of the SCTEX, including three cities, namely, Olongapo, Angeles and Tarlac; ten municipalities, namely, Subic in Zambales; Dinalupihan and Hermosa in Bataan; Floridablanca, Porac and Mabalacat in Pampanga, and Bamban, La Paz, Concepcion and Capas in Tarlac.

The SCAD Planning Team visited and met the planning and development officers of all these local government units to get basic information and at the same time, to be apprised of their own development and long term plans in their respective LGU’s.

A forum with selected Regional Directors of government agencies within Central Luzon was also conducted to acquaint them on the ongoing efforts of the SCAD Council and to discuss their current and future plans and programs relevant to the formulation of the SCoLUP.

The Physical Framework Plan and the Conceptual Short-Medium (2009-2013) and Long Term (2013-2016) Plans were submitted in December 2008. The Framework Plan demostrates the nodal system concept of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Corridor wherein the specific nodes will function as business clusters servicing and supplying the requirements of port operations, with Metro Tarlac as the land hub, Metro Clark as the air hub, and Metro Subic as the water hub. The SCoLUP is scheduled to be completed in May 2009.