Urban Design Handbook for Gensan

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Table of Contents

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INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF GENERAL SANTOS CITY 1

BRIEF HISTORY 2

KEY ISSUES 3

GUIDELINES 10

REFERENCES 23


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Introduction

GENERAL SANTOS CITY Its beendubbed as the TunaCapital of the Philippines

due to the bountiful yellow fin tuna in the

surrounding waters. As the top producer of tuna

in the country, it has placed the city on the global

map. The warm, temperate water in the province

has allowed the fish to spawn abundantly.

Gensan, as locals call the city, holds the annual

Tuna Festival in thanksgiving. The celebration

features tuna dish competitions, carnivals,

parades of tuna and tuna-like floats, street

dancing, and drum-and-lyre performances. It

also brings together the locals into one united

force; they call themselves generals during the

event and make an all-out push to promote

Gensans tourism trade.

Plus, while youre feasting, you might

bump into the eight-division world boxing

champion, Manny Pacquiao. He hails from this

area and patronizes all the businesses in his

hometown.

General Santos City is located in Region XIor Southern Mindanao, at the southernmost tip of

the archipelago, with bearings 530' to 640' North

Latitude and 12415' to 12545' East Latitude.

GenSan (Gen. Santos) covers a total area

of 536sq.km. Its terrain ranges from generally flat

to gently undulating in the city and generally flat

with scattered hills and isolated mountains inneighboring South Cotabato and Sarangani

Province.

The city is the gateway to the opportunities,

sights, sounds and culture of SOCCSKSARGEN

region. Backed with world class infrastructure

today, GenSan and the whole of

SOCCSKSARGEN region can be reached by air,

land, and sea or even via the most advanced form

of technology from virtually any part of the world.

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BRIEF HISTORY

The Blaan people were the original and

native settlers of what is know now as the city

of General Santos. They lived a nomadic way

of life in GenSan, and they are believed to

have very rich culture and tradition. They

named GenSan after the trees called

Dadiangas which are abundant during that

time.

Under the organization of National

Land Settlement Administration headed by the

former President Manuel L. Quezon, on

February 27, 1939, headed by General

Paulino Santos, 62 Christian Settlers were

sent to the land of Dadiangas. They traveled

by a steam boat Basilan of Compania

Maritima. The 62 settlers industriously

cultivate GenSans fertile expanse of land.

After some time more and more settlers from

Luzon and Visayas moved to the fertile land of

Dadiangas. However this resulted in the

displacement of the nomadic tribes of Blaan.

On March 1939, the first formal settlemen

in Dadiangas was established in Alagao whic

is now known as Barangay Lagao. Lagao distric

was known then as the Municipal District o

Buayan under the jurisdiction of the deput

governor of the Municipal District of Glan. Until

officially became an independent Municipa

District of Buayan on October 1, 1940 appointing

Datu Sharif Zainal Abedin.

Fourteen years later the Municipality o

Buayan was renamed General Santos in tribute

to the great leader of the pioneers who built th

small town of GenSan. After long years of waitin

on July 8, 1968 The Municipality General Santo

was finally converted into a City.

Now General Santos City is one of the mos

populous and prosperous cities in the Philippine

and it is continuously improving and developing tocompete globally. General Santos City is als

classified as a Higly-Urbanized City.

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Key Issues

Parking

The rapid growth of community in General

Santos City affects the availability of the desired

parking areas for the vehicle (PV or NPV). Other

establishments also and buildings have

insufficient parking spaces to be used. Others

may have wrong orientations of their parking

areas and does not have the right setback.

Street Lights

Not all the streets in General Santos Cihave decent street lightings due to the imprope

maintenance of the people and governmen

Other streets also do not have lightings especial

in those areas that are quite far from the center o

the city. Other street lights also do not wor

properly and are not maintained which leads t

the malfunction of other lightings.

Street Lights

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Key Issues

Waiting Shed

Most of the waiting shed are abandoneand destroyed which some homeless peop

prefer to make it as their temporary shelte

especially the beggars, crazy people, badjao

etc. Some also are cannot be used for it is alrea

broken and useless. Other waiting sheds are dir

and have an unpleasant smell.

Traffic Flow

Due to the increasing number of PV and

NPV causes traffic delay. Road expansions are

now going on in the city due also to the increasing

numbers of vehicles that leads to slow traffic.

General Santos City has narrow roads making the

vehicles stuck and closer to each other. The city

also has only three traffic lights and the other

areas need to have more of it.

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Key Issues

Drainage System

Due to the improper drainage system herein General Santos City the stuck water in canals

causes some various diseases such as dengue

and typhoid. Other drainage system in the city is

not maintained and some are broken. Other

drainage also has holes that are very much

dangerous to people passing through these ways.

Garbage Disposal

Some problems in General Santos Cgarbage disposal is lack of garbage can

improper segregation, and unsuitable dumpin

stations. The garbage trucks in the city are ve

few and they collect garbage on baranga

seldom.

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Key Issues

Round Ball

The Round balls in General Santos Care not properly stabilized for the reason that

cannot be easily recognized due to the absenc

of landmarks on it. Normally they are just a b

form of a circle at the center of the road. N

landmarks are built, thats why its hard to b

recognized. Some round balls also does not hav

any round ball. It is because the propose

structure for it was not implemented and n

followed up.

Street Vendors

The street vendors are already occupyingthe sidewalks as an area for selling their goods.

Even if they are given a designated area for

selling, these vendors will occupy spaces

especially the sidewalks. Many cases of it is at the

public market. Some illegal vendors also do these

which would create slow traffic on the streets and

would cause disturbance.

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Key Issues

Manhole

The improper location of the respectivemanhole leads to some accidents. Some

manholes in the city have no cover. This is very

dangerous especially to the people passing

through these areas. Open manholes also lead to

unwanted smells of canals and others are stuck

during rains because of the garbage thrown in it.

Ramp Installation

Approximately commercial buildings a

violating the B.P. 344 about the ramp installatio

are not following the required standa

measurement for ramps. Other ramps are to

steep and are not appropriate to be use

especially by the disabled persons. Standa

ramp ratios must be 1:12 and not all ramps in th

city have proper locations. Some are located

a dangerous manner such as near the roa

steep, narrow and does not have any handles

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Key Issues

Shoreline

Due to the presence of illegal settlers o

shores, people make it as their own garbag

disposal area and their toilet. Other facilities al

dispose their wastes on the sea whic

contaminates the water and making it dirty. Slum

also make the shoreline as their shelter and the

build their own houses with it.

Public Comfort Rooms

The lack of public comfort rooms lead

people to make streets, walls, post and

abandoned lot as their public comfort room. This

makes these establishments having undesired

smells, dirty and unpleasant. The city have less

urinals and public comfort rooms which leads the

people release their wastes everywhere. Other

public toilets are not clean and sanitary, they also

ask for payment despite the fact that it is for public

use.

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Key Issues

Road Systems

Some road in General Santos City is

narrow and bumpy. This may lead to slow traffic

for vehicles and can also lead to vehicular

accidents. Other roads have cracks and the road

lines are fading. Due to the narrow road systems,

there are many difficulties between the large and

small vehicles traveling on the roads.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE

PARKING

As for General SantosCity, and to be noted as one othe developing cities in thePhilippines, the demand fo

parking slots are now uprisingdue to the existence of hugeestablishments that showstotal urban development in thecity.

Since its nowconsidered as a key issue fothe succeeding productionone of the best treatment fothis problem is to provide a

nearby spaces for theallocated functional structuresby building parking elementsSPACE BUILDING, PARKINGLOTS, UNDERGROUNDBASEMENT PARKINGSROOF TOP PARKING andMULI-STOREY PARKINGS.

Thus, these proposalswill provide uninterrupted

sidewalks and access roadthat causes delay and bumpeto bumper traffics.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATESTREET

LIGHTS

Post lights/ stree

lightings is one of the main

component to have a

compatible arrangement in

urbanization.

For the city of Genera

Santos, the lightings are highly

observed to be inappropriate

in terms of sufficiencyproximity and adequacy for a

safer condition.

In this situation

additional for streetlamps

post lights, path lightings

building decorative lightings

should be administer by

government for every design

element reflected in the

ground of the city.

Through this, we can

achieve a good ambiance fo

the city with concern to

sufficient lighting, safer place

and environmental friendly

location.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE WAITING

SHED

Shading component o

simply waiting sheds are

structure responsible to cove

a number of persons in a

particular area, temporarily.

But having a problem in

maintaining it, unsheltered

citizen in the city dominated

the said structure, so the

function is not acquainted to its

real purpose.

In this situation, the

waiting shed should be

maintained, expanded, added

and secured.

In line with this, the use

should focus on its function

without the determinants o

the presence of unshelteredpeople.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE TRAFFIC

FLOW

Due to the

development of the city, traffic

flow took place as a grea

contributor to the places

problem.

Not extended, no

widened, unpolished

properties of the surface of the

road & streets are the causes

of this constraint, and for this

the most common solution tha

can treat this problem is to

widen, extend and repair a

the road connected internally.

Traffic lights should

also be placed in a location

that it needs the most. Flow

structures and rotunda as

regulator can also beconstructed for an ease o

access.

For peoples access

Overpass Bridge connecting

both edges of roads is a grea

idea to surpass any

pedestrians that causes also

traffics.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATEDRAINAGE

SYSTEM

Due to the imprope

drainage system here in

General Santos City the stuck

water in canals causes some

various diseases such as

dengue and typhoid.

Clogging as a result in

an improper garbage disposa

is also observable. By this

situation, the city is on its highrisk in rain floods which

causes other constraints to

occur in one time.

As a treatment

drainage system should be

repaired, enlarged and

conducted to any evaluation

for its stability to maintain its

function.

The drainage slots

should also protruded to the

road as on its safe dimension

without adjusting to any of the

opening dimensions

responsible for the draining

system.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATEGARBAGE

DISPOSAL

Some problems in

General Santos Citys

garbage disposal is lacking o

equipment and systematized

processes like, garbage can

improper segregation, and

unsuitable dumping station.

The disposition to every

waste can be interlinked to any

of the constraints indicatedthat would cause any

uncomfortable situation to the

city.

In having this problem

the treatment is as follows

ADDITIONAL GARBAGE

COLLECTING EQUIPMENT

IMPLEMENT STRICTLY THE

CITY ORDINZNCE ABOUT

GARBAGE DISPOSAL AND

CHANGE OF SYSTEMATIC

PROCESSES IN

DISPOSING.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE ROUND BALL

/ ROTUNDA

Accessible by its route

City should improve the given

structure located to every

intersection roads.

This rotundas or round

ball structure can be isolated

to any other road because o

its unpresentable features.

The engagement oduty to regulate traffic

situations is regularly defined

but the aesthetical element o

the structure that visually

perceived the image of a

rotunda is not completed

because of the absence o

ornamental monument and

landmark.

For this problem, wecan treat it by adding

monuments or any iconi

structure that represents the

city in order to mobilize the

presence of the said route

towards any road circulations

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE STREET

VENDOR

We know that one o

the source income of Generals

is street vending, due to this

concern, their safety is the one

that should be looked at by the

local government.

Before this, the effect o

this condition is related to any

other circumstances, like

occupying pedestrian

sidewalks, cause of traffics

and cause of other road

related issues.

For the treatment, we

can conduct relocation projec

for the vendors that could

provide safety environment fo

them and can bring back a

their profits and proficienneeds.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE

MANHOLE

Road portrays as the

greatest element for urban

cities, like Gen. Santos City

and because of this, othe

attached elements to tha

structure should be kep

intellectually constructed.

Manhole, this problem

centralized the imprope

utilization in streets and roads

of the city. The openings are

not protected or covered

because of not maintaining i

and with it some effects are

observable, like cause

accidents, clogging o

drainage due to some debris

insertions, and because o

clogging condition it will not be

maintained continuously.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATEPUBLIC COMFOR

ROOMS

As to be indicate

comfort room is the gener

public area use for people

convenience. So as to have

problem to some CR in pub

places, CR CAB

MAINTAINED URINA

FACILITIES AN

ADDITIONAL RESTROO

can be set as solutions.

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Guidelines

INAPPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE ROAD

SYSTEMGenerally, circulation

matters is good for this city

The access are quite

transportable, but due to some

constraints, road is one of the

element that is mainly

affected.

As of this feature, roads

should be repaired andmaintained to deploy some

constraints and problems

towards the convenience o

the generals.

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References

http://gensantoscity.weebly.com/

http://gensan.freehomepage.com/

http://wowgensantos.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/general-santos-citys-brief-history/

http://www.gensantos.gov.ph/

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