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Friday, August 23, 2002
Recla project still lacks presidential proclamation
By Rose O. Verzosa
IT’S BEEN a year since President Arroyo “approved in principle” the reclassification of the Mandaue North Reclamation Project (MNRP) into an alienable and disposable land, but until now no presidential proclamation has yet been issued to this effect.
Although Arroyo had approved of the project, Ouano said City Hall has to submit the required documents to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) before these could be signed by Arroyo.
“We cannot just let the President sign the proclamation without the accompanying documents,” Ouano said.
When Arroyo visited Cebu on Aug. 17 last year, the mayor informed her about the proposed reclamation project, which will cover 295 hectares of foreshore and submerged lands from the foot of the Marcelo Fernan Bridge until Barangay Jagobiao.
Arroyo told Ouano that she is favorable to the project and she even signed its conceptual land use and development plan and aerial perspective.
However, the City has yet to make the proper delineation of the boundaries between the alienable and disposable land and the foreshore land and to prepare and plot its technical description.
City Administrator Serafin Blanco said these technical descriptions will then be submitted to DENR “for the release of the foreshore land and to reclassify it for public use.”
The City already has the survey table but it has yet to conduct an actual ground survey and make the proper relocation of the boundaries.
Blanco said they have not yet decided whether to allow a private surveyor to do the actual ground survey. City Hall intends to finish the survey activity, though, by December.
Blanco said the City Government intends to consolidate the survey for both the city’s political and territorial boundaries, including the proposed reclamation site.
Since the city’s territorial boundaries and inter-barangay boundaries have not yet been properly identified, Blanco said it will be more practical to conduct both surveys together.
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