16 August 2005
San Marino project urged to answer with documents
THE San Marino project on Bonuan road, this city appears to be having difficulty producing proper documents needed and required by the city government to justify its present riverside land development project.
This became evident during an initial consultative meeting called by two city task forces with the private developers who sent a representative, Engr. Jurie Claros to explain their position but could not produce the required papers.
The meeting sought to get the answer of the San Marino Project of the Managen Land Development group on charges leveled against it for encroachment, mangrove destruction, zoning violations, illegal/unauthorized land use conversion and river easement violation.
Among other documents being sought by the city’s Task Force on Comprehensive Survey, Recovery and Management of Public Land and Task Force on Housing and Squatter Relocation are the company’s application for an accreted area from the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) and permits and clearances for the project from the Housing and land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), Department of Agrarian Reform, and Department of Agriculture.
The task force on comprehensive survey and recovery of public lands headed by Executive Asst. Teofilo Gallang also wanted to see the Managen’s rehabilitation and management plan to avoid destruction of mangrove trees along the river, an acknowledged deterrent to riverbank soil erosion.
Claros failed to answer the task forces’ queries satisfactorily, prompting the city representatives to demand the company’s submission of its formal explanations and proposals “as soon as possible” before the city undertakes adverse action against it.
Gallang said Managen officers should take advantage of the city government’s extended offer for the company to submit its own proposed solutions to the problem that would be beneficial to itself and to the city.
The task force members pointed out that the area being developed by Managen is considered among the eco-critical and protected area of the city.
Gallang bared that Mayor Benjamin S. Lim has a plan to establish a marina or wharf in a portion of the San Marino’s accreted land in line with the mayor’s wish to develop water transportation as an alternative means of people and goods’ movement in the city
Executive Assistant Teddy Villamil also called attention to Sangguniang Panglunsod Res. No. 4197-2003 urging the mayor to strictly implement the provisions of R.A.7279, otherwise known as the Urban Development and Housing Act which requires subdivision developers to allocate 20% of their subdiviision, townhouse or housing projects for socialized housing.
This became evident during an initial consultative meeting called by two city task forces with the private developers who sent a representative, Engr. Jurie Claros to explain their position but could not produce the required papers.
The meeting sought to get the answer of the San Marino Project of the Managen Land Development group on charges leveled against it for encroachment, mangrove destruction, zoning violations, illegal/unauthorized land use conversion and river easement violation.
Among other documents being sought by the city’s Task Force on Comprehensive Survey, Recovery and Management of Public Land and Task Force on Housing and Squatter Relocation are the company’s application for an accreted area from the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) and permits and clearances for the project from the Housing and land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), Department of Agrarian Reform, and Department of Agriculture.
The task force on comprehensive survey and recovery of public lands headed by Executive Asst. Teofilo Gallang also wanted to see the Managen’s rehabilitation and management plan to avoid destruction of mangrove trees along the river, an acknowledged deterrent to riverbank soil erosion.
Claros failed to answer the task forces’ queries satisfactorily, prompting the city representatives to demand the company’s submission of its formal explanations and proposals “as soon as possible” before the city undertakes adverse action against it.
Gallang said Managen officers should take advantage of the city government’s extended offer for the company to submit its own proposed solutions to the problem that would be beneficial to itself and to the city.
The task force members pointed out that the area being developed by Managen is considered among the eco-critical and protected area of the city.
Gallang bared that Mayor Benjamin S. Lim has a plan to establish a marina or wharf in a portion of the San Marino’s accreted land in line with the mayor’s wish to develop water transportation as an alternative means of people and goods’ movement in the city
Executive Assistant Teddy Villamil also called attention to Sangguniang Panglunsod Res. No. 4197-2003 urging the mayor to strictly implement the provisions of R.A.7279, otherwise known as the Urban Development and Housing Act which requires subdivision developers to allocate 20% of their subdiviision, townhouse or housing projects for socialized housing.
