EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 486 - CREATING AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAGUIO CITY

WHEREAS, Baguio City is one of the most beautiful cities of the world, a principal tourist attraction, and popularly known as the summer capital of the Philippines by reason of its invigorating climate;  

WHEREAS, in view of the lack of development planning, environmental pollution, constant denudation of its forests and other destructive effects of industrial development, the city is fast deteriorating; and

WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to preserve the city’s pristine beauty from further deterioration, and to develop it for the present and succeeding generations as a show window for cultural, social and economic development of the country;  

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create an advisory committee for the development of Baguio City as an urban center and a tourist spot.

The Advisory Committee shall be composed of a Chairman, the City Mayor of Baguio as Co-Chairman, and three members, whom I shall hereafter appoint.

The Advisory Committee shall advise the President on matters pertaining to the development of Baguio and shall prepare a development plan of Baguio as an urban center and a tourist spot.

The Committee may call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such assistance as it may need in the performance of its functions.

The Committee shall submit to the President a periodic report of its activities.

Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.