A Proposed Masterplan for the Development of the Emerging Urban Growth Corridor along San Pascual, Batangas New By-Pass Road through Polycentric Linear Planning Approach

Abstract

Looking at the most beautiful towns and cities, we are amazed by how they have organized the built environment. It may not only be about the size of development but by how the systems work and relate with each other and when issues are being addressed and user convenience is at the top of its planning priorities. Master planning is an effective approach where development zones, massing, relationships of physical infrastructures, access and circulation will be planned in a way that outcome may be defined with optional responses to possible issues along the way. For the Municipality of San Pascual, a town in the middle of developed cities and municipalities, planning the development of the new by-pass road as an extension of the expressways from Manila & Calabarzon would maximize the town’s potentials and enhance the utilization of its vast resources and lands. The study tackles a dynamic long-term plan that provides a conceptual guide for San Pascual’s new by-pass urban growth corridor’s future development to connect zones, social settings, and their surrounding environments. The proposal will include analysis, recommendations, and master plan for the site’s population, economy, housing, transportation, community facilities, and land use based on public input, surveys, planning initiatives, existing development, physical characteristics, and social and economic conditions.