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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1474
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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1474
- DECLARING THE SAN PEDRO TUNASAN ESTATE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN
REFORM SUITABLE FOR RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL, OR OTHER
NON-AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES
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WHEREAS,
the San Pedro Tunasan Estate, now known as the Laguna Resettlement
Project, Located at San Pedro, Laguna, and containing an area of 850
hectares, more or less, was acquired on August 28, 1954 by the
Government, through the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation
Administration (NARRA), for redistribution and resale to, and
agricultural development and cultivation by, the bona fide
tenants/occupants therein;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in spite of years of occupation and cultivation, the Estate
has remained unproductive because it is rocky, rolling and unirrigated
and its thin layer of soil in certain areas is not conducive to
agricultural development; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in studies made on land capability and use by the Department
of Agrarian reform and other agencies, it has been established that the
Estate is more suitable to residential, commercial or industrial, or
other non-agricultural uses;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, around the Estate are urban development projects of various
categories such as residential subdivisions, commercial and industrial
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WHEREAS, the rational utilization of the Estate for residential,
commercial or industrial and other non-agricultural purposes will bring
about decongestion of Metro Manila through the establishment of
low-cost housing projects and the dispersal of industrial or commercial
enterprises.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. The Department of Agrarian Reform, as
Administrator of the San Pedro Tunasan Estate, is hereby ordered to
convert such estate into a commercial, industrial and residential site
and to transfer the same to the National Housing Authority.
Section 2. Individuals who have legally acquired farm
lots in the Estate under Orders of Award or Certificates of Land
Transfer or Agreements to Sell or Deeds of Sale, may sell or transfer
their lots covered thereby or convert the same for the purposes
mentioned in Section 1 hereof.
Section 3. Introduction of improvements on the land
acquired under this Decree shall be in accordance with human
settlement, land housing, and environmental planning policies and
programs of the government.
Section 4. Any provision of law, decree, executive
order, ordinances, rules and regulations inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed, amended and/or modified accordingly.
Section 5. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-eight.
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