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ACTIVE LINKS TO MATERIALS ON DEVELOPMENT CONTROLS (DC)
as Co-Authored by PH Arch/Enp Armando N. Alli
Part 1 of 5

1) THE 2004 REVISED IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS (RIRR) OF Presidential Decree (P.D.) NO. 1096, THE 1977 NATIONAL BUILDING CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES (NBCP), as published thrice on a national broadsheet (i.e., Manila Standard on 01, 08 & 15 April 2005), at links:
a)https://www.dpwh.gov.ph/DPWH/files/nbc/IRR.pdf
b) https://www.dpwh.gov.ph/dpwh/references/laws_codes_orders/PD1096
c)https://www.architectureboard.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1.12-PD1096_-2004revIRR_PRBoA-unofcl-versnw08annotns.pdf
d) https://www.architectureboard.com.ph/presidential-decree-no-1096-2004-revised-implementing-rules-and-regulations-irr-prboa-unofficial-version-with-2008-annotations/
e) https://www.facebook.com/BuildingCode.Ph

Notes:
1) P.D. No. 1096 that was promulgated and that immediately became effective in February 1977, is a law, but not a statute. The statute that covered the same subject matter was Republic Act (R.A.) No. 6541, which was enacted on 26 August 1972, less than a month before the declaration of martial law in the Philippines (PH);
2) R.A. No. 6541 of 1972 (statute, i.e., the “original” NBCP) was the initial attempt to institute a national building code, while P.D. No. 1096 (law, i.e., as the “revised” NBCP) was crafted inasmuch as R.A. No. 6541 apparently lacked the necessary technical, developmental, and modern standards required for the country's growing infrastructure back in the 1970s; P.D. No. 1096 apparently provided stricter inspection protocols and enhanced compliance mechanisms compared to the original act; even if not a statute like R.A. No. 6541, P.D. No. 1096 (at 49 years in age) is the currently recognized law regulating building design and construction in the PH;
3) The original implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of P.D. No. 1096 was promulgated in 1977; in mid-2002, Arch. Alli was officially appointed as a Member of the DPWH Board of Consultants (BoC), a public-private technical cm legal advisory body primarily tasked with national building code matters for action by the Office of the DPWH Secretary; the specific task assigned to the BoC at the time (then headed by Arch/Civil Engineer Angel Lazaro, Jr.), was the crafting of the revised IRR (RIRR) of P.D. No. 1096;
4) Over the years 2002-2004, Arch. Alli served as the co-author of Rule VII (Classification and General Requirements of All Buildings by Use or Occupancy) and Rule VIII (Light and Ventilation) of the 2004 RIRR of the NBCP; at the concluding phase of the BoC work on crafting the RIRR of the NBCP, Arch. Alli was assigned an added role as a Member of the BoC Oversight Committee; the RIRR was promulgated by then DPWH Acting Secretary Florante Soriquez on 29 October 2004;
5) During the entire period of the crafting of the 2004 RIRR of P.D. No. 1096, the 1977 NBCP (2002-2004), Arch. Alli, then a co-founder of the NGO Architecture Advocacy International Foundation (AAIF), Inc., was joined in the DPWH BoC by 3 other AAIF co-founders in the persons of Arch. Aquiles Paredes (+), Arch. Lorenzo P. Espeleta (+) and Arch. Elmor V. Vita, with the last 2 AAIF members also being BoC Oversight Committee Members;
6) Of the 40-member DPWH BoC that authored the 2004 RIRR of P.D. No. 1096, the 1977 NBCP, and the separate 7-member DPWH National Building Code Review Committee (NBCRC that included Arch. Emmanuel P. Cuntapay, then of the DPWH), about 12 were registered Architects, another 12 were registered Civil Engineers, and about 8 were registered Environmental Planners (EnP);
7) The 2004 RIRR of P.D. No. 1096, the 1977 NBCP is a key source document for Volume 3 (Model Zoning Ordinance/MZO) of the 2014 HLURB Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) Guidebook, and to this day (22 years later) serves both as a key reference and basis for many physical planning provisions and interpretations that go into new zoning ordinances (ZO), ZO IRRs and special ordinances (SOs) at the LGU level;
8) From 2007 through 2012, the knowledge, application and basic interpretations of Rules VII and VIII of the 2004 Revised IRR (RIRR) of P.D. No. 1096, the 1977 NBCP became key requirements to successfully hurdle the approx. 30% Design component of the licensure examination for architects (LEA), as administered by the then Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture (www.architectureboard.com.ph) for the Philippine (PH) Professional Regulation Commission; the approximately 20,000 LEA passers (including foreign LEA/FLEA passers) during that 6-year period may arguably be the batches of LEA passers who have the best grasp of said rules;
9) As Section 102 of P.D. No. 1096, the 1977 NBCP unequivocably states that only the minimum building design/construction standards are embodied in the NBCP, the local government units (LGU) may enact stricter (more stringent) building standards under their respective zoning ordinances (ZO) and/or special ordinances (SO) and their respective regulations, BUT the LGUs CANNOT lawfully relax (or make less strict) those minimum NBCP standards;
10) As there is presently only one (1) NBCP, the same applies equally to all settlements in the PH, i.e., from highly urbanized cities (HUC) like those found in the PH National Capital Region (NCR, more popularly known as the Metropolitan Manila Area/MMA), where land is both scarce and in smaller sizes and very, very expensive, all the way to 6th class municipalities, where land may be more readily available in larger lot cuts) and much less expensive; in the future, there could probably be one NBCP for HUCs, and 1st & 2nd class municipalities and another NBCP for 3rd though 6th class municipalities; and
11) To possibly help address the twin issues of land scarcity and high land costs at HUCs (and at 1st and 2nd class municipalities), the LGUs may either tap/activate various lawful instruments that can allow the proactive exchange of development potentials of lots/DPL (e.g., transfer of development rights/TDR such as floor area ratio/FAR, same as floor-to-lot area ratio/FLAR used in the 2004 NBCP RIRR), etc., or make use of creative interpretations of the general welfare clause under Section 16 of R.A. No. 7160, the 1991 Local Government Code (LGC), that could perhaps allow for the lawful exchange of public undertakings, such as public infrastructure and services, etc.) in exchange for additional DPL, and to ultimately benefit the LGU constituents (in terms of job creation, tax generation, etc.).

National Building Code of the Philippines - NBCP P.D. 1096, the 1977 National Building Code of the Philippines (NBCP) is a national development control aimed at maintaining public safety and well-being.

ACTIVE LINKS TO MATERIALS ON DEVELOPMENT CONTROLS (DC)
as Primarily Authored by PH Arch/Enp Armando N. Alli
Part 3 of 5

3) Pasig City 2024 Zoning Ordinance (ZO) FULL SUITE

Very Important Note: The Local Government Unit (LGU) of Pasig City’s Zoning Ordinance (“ZO”) and Stream of Regulations (“SoR”), i.e., not limited to its Implementing Rules and Regulations (”IRR”) embodied in its accompanying Annexes and Appendices Volume (”AAV”) were all ratified by the PH Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) in late 2024, and were rolled out for general information dissemination cm implementation/enforcement by the LGU of Pasig City sometime immediately thereafter. Pasig City is a highly urbanized city (HUC) of the PH National Capital Region (NCR), more commonly referred to as the Metropolitan Manila Area (MMA).

a) Ordinance No. 63, Series of 2024: A Zoning Ordinance (ZO) for the City of Pasig, Providing for the Administration, Enforcement and Amendment Thereof and for the Repeal of All Ordinances in Conflict Therewith [Updated], signed by the concerned Pasig City LGU officials (led by the Hon. Mayor Vico Sotto) on 21 October 2024, at link:
https://assets.pasigcity.gov.ph/storage/city_ordinance/2024/10/21/67d7c7bb8d3821742194619Ord%20No.%2063-2024.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawP89PtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExMzZvbEJvM1NvM1A3b2wxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHuhq0dOeScgx1ZM-75_5dp3hVHwKEXu89vKQDOB8v38IpYXqXTBj1-kuZ51C_aem_sF_09hE97WF3rvxwsuHZcQ

b) Annexes (ZO.23 Implementing Rules and Regulations/IRR) Part 1/6 (pp 1-231) at link:
https://assets.pasigcity.gov.ph/storage/city_ordinance/2024/10/21/67c675622ba621741059426part%201.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawP89TJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExMzZvbEJvM1NvM1A3b2wxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHp6yCN5gMidvRinJoQXZatlpN5GF_zPqSgQSL8F0BX-zfNdQpyW4wQHYu3HS_aem_KYFI80UuhT9Y8-giHU9iFQ

c) Annex (ZO.23 IRR) Part 2/6 (pp 231-467) at link:
https://assets.pasigcity.gov.ph/storage/city_ordinance/2024/10/21/67c6757b45bf71741059451part%202.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawP89VtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExMzZvbEJvM1NvM1A3b2wxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnXVKohBW9TrbVP3zXRM_kvk04Sk6M7KSLIfpDZQfEWUhhj7Azds2pJQRWPU_aem_-LhZ7HDshSrXNgvP9sXNJA

d) Annexes (ZO.23 IRR) Part 3/6 (pp 468-692) at link:
https://assets.pasigcity.gov.ph/storage/city_ordinance/2024/10/21/67c67609b6e701741059593part%203.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawP89ZtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExMzZvbEJvM1NvM1A3b2wxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHm3l1c0MsueJXH02HhF0e5rbR1XkxUz5JTWO8YTmOMBAbK4lFry30u_5g0ic_aem_LUQ3FpLtDp5bvu0euqTeNA

e) Annexes (ZO.23 IRR) Part 4/6 (pp 693-1020) at link:
https://assets.pasigcity.gov.ph/storage/city_ordinance/2024/10/21/67c676b7de9891741059767part%204.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawP89ctleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExMzZvbEJvM1NvM1A3b2wxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHj3HY1F-pDfCeT65wkk3XVQ3qDFB6A-ROCd6IuXA5uI3rvKN5kBDQ10-JMex_aem_mxLs-jRLUnxYjyEt6zU6dw

f) Annexes (ZO.23 IRR) Part 5/6 (pp 1021-1207) at link:
https://assets.pasigcity.gov.ph/storage/city_ordinance/2024/10/21/67c67723b856c1741059875part%205.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawP89fNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExMzZvbEJvM1NvM1A3b2wxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHm3l1c0MsueJXH02HhF0e5rbR1XkxUz5JTWO8YTmOMBAbK4lFry30u_5g0ic_aem_LUQ3FpLtDp5bvu0euqTeNA

g) Annexes (ZO.23 IRR) Part 6/6 (pp 1208-1214) and
Appendices (ZO General Technical References/GTR), i.e., pp 1215-1474) at link:
https://assets.pasigcity.gov.ph/storage/city_ordinance/2024/10/21/67c678f258fc71741060338part%206.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawP89hlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExMzZvbEJvM1NvM1A3b2wxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnXVKohBW9TrbVP3zXRM_kvk04Sk6M7KSLIfpDZQfEWUhhj7Azds2pJQRWPU_aem_-LhZ7HDshSrXNgvP9sXNJA

Notes:
1) Arch./Environmental Planner (EnP) Alli was the primary author/main source of the materials for this zoning ordinance (ZO) and its annexes and appendices volume (AAV), much of which originated from the 2016 version of the Pasig City ZO and AAV, which he also primarily authored.
2) The Pasig City ZO and its AAV are mainly based on 2 key documents: 1) the full suite of the 2014 HLURB Comprehensive Land Use Planning (CLUP) Guidebook, particularly its Volume 3: Model Zoning Ordinance (MZO), i.e., mainly an executive issuance (EI), but more importantly, an uncontested subject matter authority; and 2) P.D. No. 1096, the 1977 National Building Code of the PH (NBCP), a law (not a statute) and its stream of regulations (SoR) not limited to its 2004 Revised implementing rules and regulations (RIRR);
3) The subject ZO was completed as part of a consulting services contract between the Pasig City LGU and the associated firms of Tomeldan, Alli & Molina (T.A.M.) Planners Co. (where Arch. Alli is a Senior Partner) and RSDPI, Inc.;
4) This ZO was the subject of extensive public consultations and was thoroughly reviewed by the Pasig City LGU and thereafter approved by it City Council, paving the way for its subsequent technical and legal review by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the DHSUD, and to final DHSUD ratification that lead to its eventual rollout and implementation;
5) Multiple capacitation efforts ensued to help both the public and private sectors better interpret and appreciate the content and intent of the Pasig City ZO.

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Images from the (final) Workshop 2 with the planning and tourism offices of the 17 Local Government Units (LGUs) of the National Capital Region (NCR)/Metropolitan Manila Area (MMA), the National Government Agencies (NGAs), and certain private sector representatives, in relation to the Preparation of NCR Regional Tourism Development Plan (RTDP). The RTDP Workshop 2 was a very well-attended (i.e., about 200 attendees) whole day planning event held last 8 April 2026 (9am-6pm) at the Decagon Events Place, 2F Silver City 6, Ortigas Center, Pasig City NCR (Tiendesitas area).
The technical presentations during the event were on the Proposed Tourism Vision and Spatial Framework, Tourism Thematic Clusters and Emerging Circuits, LGU Tourism Development Areas (TDA) and Possible NCR Tourism Enterprise Zones (TEZ), Biodiversity Conservation, Ecotourism and Carrying Capacities, Investment Portfolio, Implementation of the NCR RTDP, Marketing and Branding, plus the nearly 2-hour workshop on Capacity Building on the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Tool.
The study proponent is the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), with proactive support from the Department of Tourism (DoT) NCR Office. The commissioned consultants (associated) for this ongoing planning effort are CEST, Incorporated (based at the Ortigas Center) and Positive Exposure (for the market research), with Environmental Planner (EnP) Armando Alli as team leader/TL. The RTDP is expected to be completed by mid-year 2026.

mages from Day 2 of the well-attended Vision-Reality Gap Analyses (VRGA) Workshops for the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and Its Updating of the Metropolitan Manila Regional Physical Framework Plan (MMRPFP) 2025-2040, held on 26 March 2026 at the University of the Philippines School of Urban and Regional Planning (UP-SURP) in Diliman, Quezon City NCR. Day 1 of the VRGA Workshops was held on 24 March 2026 at the same venue. The commissioned (associated) consultants for this ongoing planning effort are Tomeldan, Alli & Molina (T.A.M.) Planners Co., Rurban Strategic Development Planners Inc. (RSDPI), and Woodfields Consultants Inc. (WCI), with Environmental Planner (EnP) Armando Alli of T.A.M. Planners Co. acting as Team Lead/TL for the associated firms (since Oct 2025).