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Friday, January 24, 2003
Micame: Liloan will no longer issue variance permits
By Rel P. Micame
NO VARIANCE. The Municipality of Liloan in northern Metro Cebu will no longer accept applications for variance permits. I gathered this information from Mayor Maria Annie Sevilla during an interview yesterday. Mayor Sevilla told me that the Municipal Government has to stick to the master development plan prepared for the town by Palafox and Associates, a Makati-based, internationally known urban development planner. The Municipality has not yet enacted an amended zoning ordinance based on the recommendation of the Makati-based urban development planner because the Municipal Council had. just conducted the first public hearing on the new master development plan. But the town has already started implementing the Palafox recommendation.
Mayor Sevilla stressed during the interview that prospective investors or businessmen desiring to put up a factory or manufacturing plant in the town should consult the municipal planning or engineering department before paying for the proposed factory site because of the danger that the lot bought may not fit the zoning or land use plan.
INDUSTRIAL ZONE. I am very glad that my proposal to amend the zoning classification of that coastal stretch from the lighthouse in Barangay Catarman to Tayud and Calero from planned unit development (PUD) to industrial jives with the recommendation of Pa-lafox and Associates which recommended that the Catarman-Tayud-Calero coastal area be classified as industrial.
In the previous issues of my column, I had been urging the Liloan Municipal Council to amend the zoning classification of the Catarman-Tayud-Calero coastal area from PUD to industrial. I based my recommendation on a certain principle of zoning that “land use classification should be homogeneous with the pattern of growth in the area. And the dominant growth pattern in the area is industrial. In Barangay Calero itself a shipyard exists.
The adjoining neighbor of Barangay Calero on its southern boundary is Barangay Tayud in Consolacion where it is zonified, according to an existing zoning ordinance, as industrial 3 or heavy industrial zone. In this barangay, you can find shipyards and ship repair facilities and a feeds manufacturing plant. After Consolacion is the highly industrialized Mandaue City where all kinds of industries, including pollutants, can be found. Across Mactan channel is Mactan Export Processing Zone (Mepz) in Lapu-Lapu City where industries abound.
UNPAVED ROAD. In Barangay Tayud, Consolacion, most of the barangay roads are already concreted except that one at Sitio East Binabag. Why? According to the barangay officials, the road going up to the hill overlooking Mactan channel has not been donated yet to the barangay or muni-cipal government. Maybe true, maybe not. But this road, constructed in l978 by the owner of a sawmill plant in the barangay, has been used by the general public for more than 20 years.
The reluctance of ba-rangay or municipal officials to pave the road reminded me of an incident in Cebu City during the administration of then mayor Eulogio Borres. The residents of El Dorado Green, a name coined after the three adjacent subdivisions in the area—Green Plains, Banilad Greens and El Dorado, all in Banilad, Mandaue and Cebu City, complained to Borres about the deteriorating condition of a road at El Dorado where residents of the three subdivisions pass through everyday.
“Why is the subdivision road not asphalted?,” Borres asked.
The group leader responded, “Because, according to the City Engineer, the road has not been donated to the City Government.”
“I’ll take a look at that particular subdivision road,” Borres said.
The group leader responded, “You time your visit to the area this weekend when we will be having our meeting about the forthcoming El Dorado Greens fiesta.
In front of many subdivision residents, Borres declared: “I’ll have this road asphalted. Since the subdivision road has not been donated, I will be willing to go to jail.”
The city mayor was greeted with a round of applause.
SCRIPTURE READING. Suggested reading of the Holy Bible for today is found in the Gospel according to St. Mark 3:13-19 “Jesus chooses the12 apostles,” and for Jan. 25—St. Mark 16:15-18 “The command to preach.”
(Address any comments or reactions through relmicame@yahoo.com)
(January 24, 2003 issue)
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