Conformity of Urban Development to the Approved Comprehensive Land Use Plan of Butuan City

Butuan City is a highly urbanized city and the regional center of the Caraga Region. However, improper land use is a significant problem that leads to the promulgation and implementation of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan in 2002 to ensure sustainable urban development and proper utilization of land resources. This study aimed to map the urban built-up of Butuan City for the years 2003, 2011, and 2019 using conventional machine learning classification techniques, and to quantify its conformity to the CLUP. The researcher used Landsat Imagery to generate the land cover of Butuan City. In this study, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) Classification overall accuracy is 95.62%, 95.64%, and 93.60% for 2003, 2011, and 2019, respectively. The urban built-up conformity is 88.68%, 83.42% and 78.08% for 2003, 2011 and 2019, respectively. This study concludes that the remote sensing technique can help monitor urban development, and the results can help establish strategies to promote sustainable development.