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Friday, August 23, 2002
Airline’s fuel depot stopped
By Oscar C. Pineda
LAPU-LAPU City Engineer’s Office stopped the construction of the proposed Cebu Pacific Air jet fuel depot in Barangay Pajo for having no permit from the City Government.
The president of Mansteel International Corp., Rolando Manaloto, only wrote City Hall a request for variance permit for the airline company’s jet fuel facilities. City Hall received the letter last Aug. 7, 2002.
But City Planning and Development Officer Cesario Silawan said the firm was already constructing initial groundworks before that date.
Scaffoldings have already been put up.
Nicasia Ramirez, of the City’s Office of the Building Official (OBO), told Sun.Star said they have sent Mansteel two notices of illegal construction.
Since the firm failed to respond, the city engineer ordered them to stop all their construction jobs.
Silawan said they submitted the construction firm’s project proposal to City Development Council. The council, however, denied Mansteel’s application.
Mayor Arturo Radaza has major infrastructure plans in that specific location, Silawan said.
The jet fuel depot site is an 8,000-square-meter portion of Lot 207-B-2, which has a total area of 25,564 square meters. It is located on the right side of the Mactan bridge when one approaches Lapu-Lapu.
The total area of the depot is not known.
The lease contract revealed that the fuel depot area is owned by the General Milling Corp. and is leased to Cebu Pacific Air Inc.
Sun.Star called up Manaloto yesterday to get his side but his wife refused, saying talks about the project are still ongoing.
Manaloto, in his variance application to the City Government, stated that the area involved is “classified as an industrial zone.”
But City Ordinance 258-2000 or the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance identifies only the Mactan Export Zone (MEZ) 1 in Barangay Ibo and MEZ 2 in Barangay Basak as the city’s industrial zones.
The same ordinance classified the area along the shorelines bounded on the southwest and northwest facing Mactan Channel, including Barangay Pajo where the proposed fuel depot will be built, as urban/commercial zone.
Manaloto also attached in his variance application an environment department clearance and the endorsement of the Pajo Barangay Council.
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