JOHANNA CHRISTINE C.

ANDOY
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ARCHT. ENOCH

COMMUNITY
A community is a social unit of any size that shares
common values, or that is situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a
village or town).

Community development
is a process where community members come
together to take collective action and generate solutions to common
problems. Community wellbeing (economic, social, environmental and
cultural) often evolves from this type of collective action being taken at
a grassroots level.

Community development planning

consists of a public participatory and usually
interactive form of town or neighborhood planning and design in which
diverse community members (often termed stakeholders) contribute
toward formulation of the goals, objectives,
planning, fund/resource identification and direction, planned project
implementations and reevaluation of documented local planning policy.
It is a logical bottom-up evolution of (formerly topdown) regional, city and urban planning in an era of plateaued or
diminishing public resources, increasing local burdens and
responsibilities and public activism. It often promotes public/private
partnership as a means to harness physical development activities in
support of community-defined goals.[1] At a minimum, it seeks
community consensus for proposed allocations of scarce resources
among competing demands. In more vigorous application, community
members access a full gamut of planning tools, shaping and being
shaped by shared understanding of a complex community information
base, directly informing and guiding local plan content, influencing
resulting development budgets, projects and thus
future infrastructure and land uses, as well as helping coordinate the

work of overlapping jurisdictions, levels of government, internal and

adjacent communities and various providers, such as business
associations,utilities and schools.

BARANGAY MATINA 74-A

The Matina area was a tidal flat in earlier times and could have derived its
name from the regular inundation of the swampy area by tidal movement.
This could also explain how Matina Aplaya and Bago Aplaya, its neighboring
barangays got their names. During those times, Matina was both land and
seashore depending on the whims and caprices of nature.
Today, Matina boasts of being one of the biggest urban barangays having
land total area of 568 hectares divided into 64 puroks. The City Planning
Office 2003 record shows it has 19,576 households and has more than
50,000 residents with a population growth of 4.7 percent per year.
Its population is significantly growing fast as subdivisions continue to flourish
in the area. At present there are 15 big subdivisions and there remain vast
areas ideal for more housing settlements.
Though ideal for habitation, there are risk areas that are prone to possible
disaster. Barangay Matina had experienced flooding, it being surrounded or
near Pangi River & Davao River. It has quite somehow experienced minor
landslides and a community which may be prone to this is Shrine Hills with a
higher altitude.

Barangay Matina Crossing 74-A

has always been on a low key position but because of its
achievements, having many firsts and unique initiative programs, it is
often placed into the limelight.
One of its many firsts is the creation of COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS AGAINST
CRIME & CALAMITIES (CVACC), the only of its kind in the country. This
program that purely dwells on citizens participation in the neighborhood
level on peace keeping, augments well the citys peace and order program,
basically as a preventive support mechanism of the law enforcers; and most
importantly, as information-disseminators to the public regarding public
policies, laws and regulations, etc., and as community educators/counselors
to troubled individuals and families. The CVACC program does not mainly
focus on the security aspect of the community, but as well as in getting the
residents actively involved in disaster preparedness to effectively respond to
calamities. And also in the Ecological Solid Waste Management, and in the
prevention and reduction of juvenile delinquency coupled with providing
protection to minors along with the Barangay Council for the Protection of
Children.

In the entire Davao City, it is only the Matina Crossing 74-A that had acquired
a fairly equipped ambulance; a multi-cab police mobile patrol; 3 tricycle
mobile patrols; and a dump truck solely out of its barangay funds.
On its advocacies, the barangay has manifestly brought out its concern on
global warming and climate change, and as mitigating actions it launched
several projects that involved the whole barangay community. In its clean
and green program, a functional Materials Recovery Facility or MRF was
established along with the continuous promotion and propagation of
backyard composting and vegetable gardening. This, while a special project
- the Purok Malinis Program is effectively implemented down to the purok
level which gave birth to its periodic search of the Modelong Purok/Residente
sa Kalikasan at Kalusugan with a theme MAGTANIM AT MAGLINIS
UGALIIN, a monumental project which addresses health and environmental
concerns.

Location
Immediately after the Bankerohan Bridge, Matina is the 1st Barangay outside
the City Poblacion to the South. It reaches up to SPED School in Union Street
in the boundary with Bangkal and Eastward to Shoe Mart at Ecoland near
Doa Luisa Subdivision. The area also includes part of Matina Pangi across
the Diversion Road as its boundary to the North.
Distance from City Hall to Brgy. Proper = 5.21kms.
Boundaries:
North - Matina Pangi
East - Bucana
South - Matin Aplaya
West - Talomo Proper
Northeast - Maa

Total Land Area of Barangay:

Davao City

568

hectares, GIS Unit, Source: OCPDC,

MATINAS VITAL SPOTS

Matina contributes significantly to the tourism industry with several dozen
restaurants and entertainment spots along McArthur Highway.
The McArthur Highway, the main thoroughfare that traverses Matina is now a
six-lane stretch with mushrooming business establishments on both sides
from the Bankerohan Bridge up to the Bangkal boundary.
It is also a home to a ten-hectare NCCC Megamall at the Maa road junction,
in addition to the giant mall SM City along Quimpo Boulevard and the
Centerpoint Plaza/NCCC supermarket at Matina Crossing.
Among the tourist destinations are the Holy Infant of Jesus of Prague (a
shrine park) at Matina Hills and the Jacks Ridge overlooking Davao City
across its road. The Japanese Tunnel along Diversion Road, the Forest Hill Inland Resort, the Davao Golf Club in the area is also a pride of Matina with its
9-hole golf course considered among the best in the aficionados. The Matina
Gallera holds weekly cockfights that draw always the biggest cockfight
players and breeders throughout the country.
Matina has also the best memorial park in Davao City, the Davao Memorial
Park.
At least four (4) major private universities and colleges are in Matina too.
They are Ateneo de Davao University, University of Mindanao, Philippine
Womens University and Rizal Memorial Colleges. It has (7) public schools,
among them are Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School, the second and
the largest public High School in the City. There are six (6) public elementary
schools and the largest of them is the Matina Central Elementary School that
has more than 2,000 pupils.
Communication networks, likewise, are in mad scramble to acquire lots for
their tower stations in Matina Hill. A 150 meter high mount of limestone
topped by a green cover of a Communication networks, likewise are in mad
scramble acquire lots. It is the nearest & highest peak that gives a scenic
view of the citys suburban area. The best spot of rhigh frequency radio

communication towers, it is home to studios and relay stations of the

countrys leading stations and communication firms.
At present there are 30 radio stations; 12 on AM and 14 on the FM bands that
have erected towers in the Matina Hill. Television networks that call hill home
total to six among them the giant ABS CBN.
Today Matina Hill is being transformed into an entertainment and leisure and
spots area with Dencios and Jacks Ridge, both heightened restaurants,
blazing a trail in developing the hill with a commanding view of the city into
another burgeoning center of commerce. A driving range has been added to
several dozen sports-related ventures, joining several shooting ranges that
have been in the area for many years now.
Davao Citys Comprehensive Zoning Plan describes Matina as residential,
commercial, institution and light industrial area. From its vast resources, the
City collects about 15.5 million from real estate tax alone. Barangay Matina
Crossing 74-A has a projected Php 12 million in Barangay share on Real
Property Tax (RPT) and Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) for the year 2009.
While residents take great pride in the progress and development of their
locality, the best asset of the Barangay, however, is the people known for
dynamism, industry and love for peace.

SINCE THE SAID LOCATION IS SOMEHOW EXPERIENCED FLOODING

THEREFORE WE MUST APPLY THE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6613 TO PREVENT
DESTRUCTIONS BY FLOODS AND ALSO TO INSTILL THE SAFETY OF THE
PEOPLE WHO ARE NEAR IN THE RIVER.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6613

- AN ACT DECLARING A POLICY OF THE

STATE TO ADOPT MODERN SCIENTIFIC METHODS TO MODERATE TYPHOONS
AND PREVENT DESTRUCTION BY FLOODS, RAINS AND DROUGHTS, CREATING

A COUNCIL ON TYPHOON MODERATION AND FLOOD CONTROL RESEARCH

AND DEVELOPMENT, PROVIDING FOR ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFORE

Section 1.

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State to adopt a

typhoon moderation and flood control research and development program
for moderating typhoons by reducing their intensity and minimizing the
destructive effects of floods, rains and droughts through scientific means, for
the purpose of preventing widespread devastation to property and protecting
the people and security of the nation.

Sec. 2.

In order to carry out the foregoing policy, the government shall:

(a) Undertake research on the structure, development and motion of

typhoons;

(b)

Improve means of predicting typhoons and consequential floods;

(c) Gather and organize climatological and hydrological data for flood
prevention and control and for agro-industrial development;

(d) Utilize scientific measures to minimize the intensity of typhoons and

destruction by floods, rains and droughts; and

(e) Study the environmental impact of such measures and adopt necessary
precautions to prevent loss or destruction.

Sec. 3.

To implement the provisions of this Act, there is hereby created a

Council on Typhoon Moderation and Flood Control Research and
Development under the Office of the President, hereinafter referred to as the
"Council". The council shall be composed of the Executive Secretary as
Chairman ex-officio, the Secretary of National Defense as Vice-Chairman exofficio, the Chairman of the National Science Development Board, the
Secretary of Public Works and Communications, the Secretary of Agriculture

and Natural Resources, the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, and the

Director of the Weather Bureau, as members ex-officio.

The Council shall develop and formulate a typhoon moderation and flood
control research and development program within one year after the
approval of this Act and shall monitor its implementation.t shall coordinate
planning and programming of all government activities and resources in
relation thereto.t shall advise the President on measures to prevent or
mitigate damage arising from typhoons, floods, rains and droughts.t shall
represent the government on all matters pertinent to the research and
development provided for in this Act in national, regional and international
conferences.
The Council shall submit annually a report of its activities, together with a
statement of the funds released to it and the expenditures made therefrom,
to the presiding officers of both Houses of Congress and to the respective
chairmen of the committees on science, agriculture, natural resources, public
works, communications, national defense, and security of both Houses. The
report shall include a description of all projects monitored by the Council
indicating their status. The Council shall recommend to Congress such
legislation as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.

Sec. 4.

The Weather Bureau, hereinafter referred to as the "Bureau", shall

be the implementing arm of the Council. The Director of said Bureau shall be
the Executive Director of the Council.
The Bureau shall establish, install, operate and maintain climatological and
hydrological stations, synoptic stations, radar stations, upper air stations
(radiosonde and radiowind), automatic picture transmission ground stations,
a weather communications network and warning system, and a research
center using computers, aircraft and other modern devices.nsofar as
possible, such stations shall be grouped together so as to assure maximum
economy and efficiency. The Philippine Air Force shall assist the Bureau in air
operations.
In the installation of radar stations, the regions of Western Visayas, Northern
Mindanao and Southern Mindanao which are not covered by the present
weather radar network shall be given priority.

Sec. 5.

The sum of ten million (P10,000,000.00) is hereby appropriated

out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and an
additional appropriation of ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00) annually shall
be included in the General Appropriations Act for each of the next four years,
to carry into effect the provisions of this Act: provided, that the sum of Four
Million One Hundred Thousand Pesos, or so much of the appropriations as

may be necessary, shall be set aside annually to be used exclusively for the
purchase and operation of the type of aircraft required to carry out the
purposes of this Act.

Sec. 6.

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.