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 Sec. 8. Funding/Appropriation. The Municipal Government shall appropriate the amount of One Hundred Thousand Pesos (P100,000.00) which shall be funded by a Supplemental Budget No. 2 CY 2022 to be enacted within the third quarter of the year 2022 or earlier. Subsequent funding shall be regularly allotted providing for the same amount, or if situation so requires, for its increase in the annual budget of the municipality.

ARTICLE III LAND USE

Sec. 1. The Municipality shall maintain consistency of all existing land use plans from the national down to the local level. All land-use activities shall be undertaken in full harmony with the environment by ensuring that land is utilized according to the most suitable use and that all extractive activities do not in any way affect or hamper the productivity of adjoining activities while promoting equitable access to the resources. To this end, the Municipality hereby adopts and promotes a land use pattern that: a. meets food self-sufficiency and food security in the long run;

b. promotes rational population distribution and settlements development;

c. ensures orderly economic growth, balanced and dispersed agri-industrial and ecotourism development;

d. encourages the sustainable use of natural resources;

e. maintains and preserves environmental stability, sustainability and integrity;

f. reduces vulnerability to natural and man-made disasters including impact of climate change, and

g. harmonizes the rights and the varied interests of every Urbiztondonian through public participation and active involvement.

Sec. 2. Municipal Land Use Committee (MLUC). For purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Code, the Municipal Mayor, within one (1) month after the appointment of the Municipal Environment and Natural Resource Officer (MENRO), shall issue an Executive Order to include the MENRO as an additional member of the MLUC.

Sec. 3. The MLUC shall exercise the following powers and functions:

a. Formulate policies, plans, standards and guidelines on land use in accordance with this Code and pursuant to the provisions of:

i. Letter of Instruction (LOI) 1350 (August 2, 1983), providing for the Institutional Framework for National Physical Planning which seeks to synchronize and coordinate efforts towards the optimum utilization of the country’s land and other related resources. ii. Proclamation No. 65 providing for the approval and adoption of the National Physical Framework Plan, 1993-2002.

iii. Republic Act (RA) 7160 (Local Government Code of 1991), requiring LGUs to formulate their Physical Framework Plans/Comprehensive Land Use Plans.

iv. Executive Order No. 72, series of 1993, providing for the preparation and implementation of Physical Framework Plans/Comprehensive Land Use Plans of LGUs in accordance with the National Standards and Guidelines.

v. DILG Circular No. 92-05 (February 26, 1992), providing for the adoption of the