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Saturday, September 18, 2004
Yaranon mulls night market for displaced vendors
A NIGHT market is being considered for vendors displaced by the ongoing campaign against illegal structures and illegal peddling waged by the Baguio City Government.
Mayor Braulio Yaranon issued an order last Sept. 9 for the revival of the campaign to put back order at the city market, parks and road right-of-ways.
The mayor said the city cannot help but also be moved by the plight of the ejected vendors, especially in the face of the economic slowdown being experienced in the country.
On Wednesday, he wrote the City Council requesting for the passage of appropriate policies for allowing a night market to provide these vendors a chance to sell without obstructing passageways.
"With the implementation (of the campaign), we took notice that many vendors are being displaced, a harsh reality considering the hard times," the mayor said.
"For humanitarian reasons, in order to assist the displaced vendors, we have considered allowing a night market..."
He said at present the city does not have any policy on the operation of a night market. "We thus request for the enactment of the appropriate policy for the allowance of a night market under the terms and conditions as this body may authorize."
In his Administrative Order 163, the mayor sought the implementation of all laws and ordinance relevant to illegal structures and illegal peddling along the city parks and road right-of-ways.
The laws cited include Section 455 of the Local Government Code of 1991, which empowers the city mayor to order the demolition of buildings and other structures built on public and private lands; Section 301 of Presidential Decree 1096 which prohibits the erection, construction, alteration, repair of any building or cause the same to be done without first obtaining a building permit and; pertinent provisions of Presidential Decree 17, Executive Order 224 and Tax Ordinance 2000-01.
"The aforementioned laws and ordinance and other relevant laws prohibit the construction, erection among others of any structures and prohibits the peddling, selling of goods and products and wares along right-of-ways, including right-of-ways of the city market and its environ and prohibits likewise the other use of the city's parks except only to recreation and tourism-related activities," Yaranon said.
The mayor tasked the city police and the city demolition team to "remove all structures built on alleys, sidewalks, streets and roads and to evict all illegal peddlers and vendors with their goods, products and wares which are occupying "areas beyond the commerce of man."(Aileen Refuerzo)
(September 18, 2004 issue)
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