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Sunday, May 21, 2006
Business monitoring beefed up
MAYOR Braulio Yaranon augmented anew the monitoring team that pounces upon business establishments operating here without the necessary permits.
In a memorandum dated May 10, Yaranon directed the offices of the City Administrator, City Treasurer, Business Permit and Licensing and a representative from the City Mayor's Office to intensify the crackdown against these illegal businesses all over the city.
"You are hereby directed to intensify the monitoring of business establishments operating without the necessary business permits and no complying with the provisions of the Tax Code, Building Code and other existing city ordinances," the mayor noted in the memorandum.
He said the activities of the team "does not supersede or stop what the Anti-Vice Coordinating Task Force is doing particularly on vice businesses."
The task force concentrates on liquor-oriented and night establishments that also violate said laws apart from the restriction on the time of their operation.
Yaranon directed the team to submit their finding to the task force for coordinated action.
Meanwhile, Yaranon also issued Administrative Order 55 "creating a committee to monitor the conduct of various construction and development activities within Baguio and to ensure strict compliance of all developers with existing subdivision laws, policies and issuances, the city land use plan and provisions of the city zoning ordinance".
With himself as chairman and Councilor Faustino Olowan as vice chairman and action officer, the committee's members include councilor Jose Molintas, City Administrator Peter Fianza, City Planning and Development Officer Arturo Orig, City Buildings and Architecture Office head Oscar Flores, Registry of Deeds Vicente Angeles, DENR-Land Management Services director Victor Cosalan and CREBA president Tony Buenavista.
The group's functions include coordinating with the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board regional office in the monitoring of development/construction activities within Baguio to ensure compliance with existing subdivision laws, the local land use plan and zoning ordinance; investigating complaints from concerned individuals or referrals from the HLURB and recommend to the city mayor appropriate course of action/s relative thereto; and perform such other related functions as may be directed by the city chief executive.
The measure cites the Local Government Code, which provides that "every LGU shall exercise the powers necessary, appropriate or incidental for its efficient and effective governance and those which are essential in promoting the general welfare to ensure and support among others the preservation and enrichment of culture, promote health and safety and enhance the right of the people to a balanced ecology."
It reveals that the city's zoning ordinance provides among other things the acquisition of necessary clearances and permits from the local government and other concerned government agencies before the implementation of any construction or development activities.
The AO also discloses that the regional HLURB has called the attention of the city government with regard the proliferation of real estate developers who are conducting their businesses allegedly without proper clearances and permits from the local government in violation of existing laws and ordinances.
(May 21, 2006 issue)
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