Section 5Sec./Art. 5

Scope of the Metropolitan Davao Development Authority. - The services of the MDDA are delivered across boundaries to multiple and often interdependent political entities whose activities impact each other significantly, and entail huge expenditures such that it would not be viable for said services to be provided by the individual LGUs. These services shall include:

(a) Development planning, which includes preparing medium-and-long-term development plans; developing, evaluating and packaging of projects; investments programming; and coordinating and monitoring plans, program and project implementations;

(b) Transport management, which includes formulating, coordinating, and monitoring policies, standards, programs, and projects to rationalize the existing transport operations, infrastructure requirements, and promotion of safe and convenient movement of persons and goods; providing a mass transport system and instituting a system to regulate road users; administering and implementing all traffic enforcement operations, traffic engineering services and traffic education programs, including instituting a single ticketing system within the MDDA jurisdiction;

(c) Solid waste disposal and management, which includes formulating and implementing policies, standards, programs, and projects for proper and sanitary waste disposal. It shall likewise include establishing and operating a sanitary landfill and related facilities, such as waste-to-energy technologies and implementing other alternative programs intended to reduce, reuse, and recycle solid waste;

(d) Flood control and sewerage management, which include formulating and implementing policies, standards, programs, and projects for an integrated flood control, drainage, and sewerage system;

(e) Urban renewal, zoning, land use planning, and shelter services, which include formulating, adopting and implementing policies, standards, rules and regulations, programs and projects to rationalize and optimize urban land use and provide direction to urban growth and expansion, rehabilitating and developing slums and blighted areas, developing shelter and housing facilities, and providing necessary social services thereof;

(f) Health and sanitation, urban protection, and pollution control, which include formulating and implementing policies, rules regulations, standards, programs, and projects for promoting and safeguarding health and sanitation to enhance ecological balance and prevent, control, and abate environmental pollution; and

(g) Public safety, which includes formulating and implementing programs, policies and procedures to achieve public safety, especially preparedness for preventive or rescue operations during times of calamity and disaster such as conflagration, earthquakes, flood; and coordinating and mobilizing resources and implementing contingency plans for rehabilitation and relief operations in coordination with national agencies concerned.