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Thursday, May 08, 2003
GMA declares property in Lapu as housing site
By Rose O. Verzosa
PRESIDENT Arroyo has declared the 25.23-hectare lot in Barangay Canjulao, Lapu-Lapu City as a socialized housing site for government employees and the urban poor.
The project, which was initially undertaken by the Lapu-Lapu City Government, is now placed under the administration of the National Housing Authority (NHA).
Presidential Proclamation 345, issued last March 25, also created an inter-agency committee tasked to immediately prepare its implementing rules and guidelines.
A City Hall official, who refused to be named, said that with the issuance of the proclamation, the joint agreement covering the development of the property into a housing project will have to be put on hold.
The agreement was entered into between the Lapu-Lapu City Government and contractor R-2 Builders on May 3, 2001.
The source said any agreement covering the project must now be signed by NHA, not the City.
It was also learned during the project’s first inter-agency committee meeting last April 22 that around 150 squatters occupy the area.
The committee has agreed to ask the barangay captain of Canjulao to guard the area to stop the proliferation of squatters there.
The committee is composed of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council as chair, the Lapu-Lapu City Government as vice chair and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, NHA, Presidential Commission on Urban Poor and nongovernment organizations as members.
In 1999, the Lapu-Lapu City Council passed a resolution declaring a portion of Lot 912, covering an area of 54.41 hectares in Barangay Can-julao, as the City’s urban development and socialized housing project. It also requested the President to issue a proclamation on the project.
But the presidential proclamation covered only half of the area the City identified.
The City Council passed a resolution in 2000 awarding to R-2 Builders the contract for the design and construction of the proposed socialized housing units.
Upon the authority of the City Council, then mayor Ernest Weigel Jr. signed a joint venture agreement with the contractor for the development of the housing project.
(May 8, 2003 issue)
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