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Subic Bay Freeport Zone. The Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council (SCADC) concluded
Friday the 4 provincial Stakeholders’ Forum on the SCAD Corridor Conceptual
Land Use Plan (SCoLUP) following the success of its 3rd and
last leg held at the SBDMC Administration Bldg, Subic Bay Freeport Zone.
The primary concern of this Forum is to update and apprise the stakeholders
in the provinces of Bataan and Zambales, including the local government
units of Hermosa, Dinalupihan, Subic and Olongapo City on the developments
along the 98,020 has. SCAD Corridor, particularly on how the respective
development plans of these LGUs were incorporated into the SCoLUP.
 Sec. Edgardo D.
Pamintuan, Chairman and CEO of the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development, addresses the participants of the Bataan-Zambales leg of the Stakeholders’ Forum on the SCAD Corridor Conceptual Land Use Plan held at the Subic Bay Development and Management
Corporation Building, Subic Freeport
Zone last May 29, 2009.
During his speech, SCADC Chairman and CEO Sec. Edgardo D. Pamintuan informed the
participants on the development projects and infrastructure already
in the pipeline that have the greatest impact to these areas. Among
these projects are the Tarlac-Zambales Tollway, Tarlac-Nueva Ecija -
Pampanga- Circumferential Tollway, Tarlac-Nueva Ecija-Pampanga-Bulacan
Radial Road and possibly the Zambales-Pampanga-Bulacan Coastal Viaduct.
Pamintuan, who is also the Development Champion of the Luzon Urban Beltway Super Region stressed
that while the world economy is suffering from the impact of the global
economic crisis, with the US, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore registering
negative growth outlook, the Philippines still registered a 1% growth
in the first quarter of this year. This was made possible because President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in 2004 started her ambitious economic stimulus
plan by allocating more than 188B pesos for infrastructure programs
all over the country, pump-priming the economy by creating millions
of jobs and opening more areas for investments.
But the role of SCADC is not only concerned with massive and ambitious infrastructure developments. It is also looking at programs and projects that would result in
more efficient food production, multi-modal product delivery system,
industrial and agricultural projects, better tourism facilities, including
medical and environmental, educational and manpower training and human
development centers, human settlements, retirement villages and green
corridors.
One of features of the SCAD Corridor framework plan is the production-oriented logistics
corridor with three equidistant hubs such that Tarlac, with its vast
agricultural and industrial areas as the land hub; Clark, with the Diosdado
Macapagal International Airport, as the air hub, and Subic, with its
sea ports as the sea hub. Connecting these three hubs is the 94
km. SCTEX that would serve as the backbone in the transformation of
the area into the SCAD Mega-Logistics Hub.
This is where the role of the provinces of Bataan and Zambales come into play as they are the
LGUs which will greatly benefit from the developments within the Corridor.
During the open forum, the participants engaged the SCADC Urban Planners,
led by Architect Armando Alli, in discussions on issues regarding environment
and ecological concerns, waste management, more roads and bridges that
would provide easier access to the SCTEX, the Subic Bay Freeport Zone,
Gapan-Olongapo Road, Roman Superhighway, flood control and drainage
projects and how they can adopt their own land-use plans so that it
will complement the SCoLUP.>
The first two stakeholders’ fora were held in Centro Restaurant, inside the Clark Freeport Zonefor Pampanga in May 15 and at the Fortune Tea House Restaurant in Tarlac
City last May 22 for Tarlac. These series of consultative meetings will
culminate in an LGU Summit in July 2009 where the final version of the
SCoLUP will be presented to all stakeholders. PRC/SCADC
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