Page 11 - Elevating Excellence: Raising the Bar in Ease of Doing Business

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AUTOMATED ZONING
EVALUATION SYSTEM (AZES)
In May 2024, the QC BPLD successfully
geotagged 100% of registered businesses
through the Automated Zoning Evaluation
System (AZES), a major step in streamlining
business approvals. By integrating Google
Maps, AZES automates locational clearance
verification, reducing ambiguities in zoning
regulations and expediting approvals. This
innovation has significantly reduced
processing time, improved compliance, and
simplified the zoning permissibility for
business applicants. To further enhance
transparency and accessibility, Zoning Maps given area, providing real-time guidance
of 2016 for each of the 142 Quezon City and reducing back-and-forth clarifications
Barangays have been made publicly between applicants and government offices.
available through QC e-Services. This
initiative provides entrepreneurs and Beyond expediting zoning approvals, AZES
investors with a reliable tool for identifying integrates geotagged business data with
strategic business locations that align with regulatory processes, enabling real-time,
zoning regulations and long-term urban data-driven decision-making. This system
planning goals. By offering clear, easily allows real-time tracking of industry
accessible zoning information, the city clusters, identification of emerging business
empowers business owners to make trends, and the creation of detailed industry,
informed decisions, mitigate regulatory tourism, and risk maps. These insights
risks, and optimize site selection for their support strategic urban planning,
planned ventures. investment promotion, and better resource
allocation.
To achieve this, QC BPLD conducted a
comprehensive mapping initiative, ensuring Proudly, as we leveraged on digital
all business locations were accurately solutions and smart governance strategies,
recorded and classified based on zoning Quezon City has not only strengthened
laws. The system automatically assesses regulatory compliance but also enhanced its
whether a business activity is permitted in a reputation as a premier business hub,
setting a benchmark for business-friendly
reforms in local governance.
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