Ecological Planning and Design EIA (PDF)

ECOLOGICAL PLANNING AND DESIGN -​ Beach (dalampasigan) is automatically an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) environmentally critical area Legal Context...

ECOLOGICAL PLANNING AND DESIGN -​ Beach (dalampasigan) is automatically an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) environmentally critical area Legal Context Coverage 1.​ PD 1586 - Establishing the Phil -​ Pre construction Environmental Impact Statement -​ Construction System (EISS) -​ Operation -​ Late 70s -​ Abandonment 2.​ DENR A.O. No. 30 - 2003 - IRR of Examples of Design of Mitigation Measures PD 1586 Approach -​ Only released late 2003 1.​ Avoid Definition -​ Change of route or site details to -​ EIA is a process that involves avoid ecological or archeological predicting and evaluating the likely features impacts of a project (including 2.​ Replace cumulative impacts) of environment, -​ Regen similar habitat of equivalent DURING CONSTRUCTION, ecological value in a different COMMISSIONING, OPERATION, location AND ABANDONMENT 3.​ Reduce -​ Also includes designing preventive, -​ Filters, precipitators, wastewater mitigating, and enhancement treatment, noise barriers, dust measures addressing enclosures, visual screening wildlife consequences to protect corridors, changed timing of environment and community welfare activities Usual study concerns 4.​ Restore -​ Earth and environmental processes -​ Site restoration after mineral -​ Quality of water and air extraction -​ Biological resources and ecological 5.​ compensate relationships -​ Relocation of displaced -​ Social sectors and uses of the communities, facilities for affected environment communities, financial compensation -​ Cultural and aesthetic aspects for affected individuals, recreational Salient features of EIA park or other compensating -​ Primary and secondary impact environmental benefit -​ Methodologies and tools for assessment and evaluation Impacts on Water -​ Documentation and analysis of -​ In both freshwater and marine effects environment, impacts on water -​ Mitigation measures quality and quantity may both need -​ Alternative designs to be assessed -​ Environmentally critical area (ECAs) -​ Chemical pollution and environmentally critical projects -​ Biological pollution (ECPs) -​ Thermal pollution  -​ Erosion and siltation can affect both -​ Consider length of time whether or quality and quantity and can have not such constitutes light, moderate, consequential impacts on soils and or heavy traffic ecosystems -​ Factor in proposed project;s impact Impact on Noise and Vibration to existing future project condition Traffic Analysis Requirements -​ Within 200m radius of project site/ Mitigating Measures property - categorize issues based on ff.: -​ Identify and describe the streets and ​ - technical and physical (type of dimensions including type and streets, traffic lights, and traffic signs) category (cement, asphalt, alley, - administrative and enforcement (traffic major, minor) rules and reg, NBC, Condo Act) -​ IDENTIFY MAJOR - LGU/Barangay concerns (traffic and INTERSECTIONS/CHOKE POINTS parking ordinances) -​ CITE DISTANCE FROM PROJECT - formulate corresponding mitigating SITE measures -​ IDENTIFY ONE WAY STREETS Sample Parking IRR AND ALLEYS -​ NBC -​ IDENTIFY STREETS FOR PUBLIC -​ 1 slot per 8 living units (less USE AND THOSE TRAVERSED BY than 50m2) PRIVATE VEHICLES -​ 1 slot per 4 units (50-100m2) -​ Specify destinations (towards -​ 1 slot per unit (more than commercial areas, school or 100m2) institutional zones, etc) -​ MACEA guidelines (Makati) -​ Identify intersections with traffic -​ 1 slot per 100m2 GFA lights -​ OCA guidelines (Ortigas) 1 slot per -​ Identify streets accessing the project 90m2 site -​ Indicate volume of vehicles per Social Impacts intersection -​ Effect on people, tribal comm, any of -​ Prep traffic study map reflecting all area towns, villages, or proj streets and drawn to scale with north employee arrow within the 200 meter radius of Social Risk project site -​ Risk to effective operations -​ Reflect on traffic map arrows (financial, operational, reputational) indicating 2 way and 1 way streets as result of negative stakeholder -​ Identify streets where side street response to company or specific parking is allowed and w pedestrian issue crossing -​ Either caused by positive or negative -​ Identify traffic issues and causes impacts -​ Categ issues Community factors -​ At intersections, document time and -​ Population density movement of vehicles at red and -​ Culture and cultural diversity green lights -​ Heterogeneity or homogeneity  -​ Residential stability and community cohesion -​ Uniformity or diversity of impacts -​ Community knowledge of project Hazard Assessment 1.​ Geologic -​ Fault related/seismic hazards -​ Mass movement -​ Volcanic hazards 2.​ Hydrologic hazard -​ Fluvial. Riverine -​ Coastal