Thursday, September 20, 2007 2 urban poor housing projects get council nod By Grace L. Plata
THE Davao City Council has approved two applications for land use reclassification in favor of two socialized housing projects during their session Tuesday.
Proposed by Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling, chair of the council committee on housing, rural, and urban development, the requests were made by urban poor associations in the second district of the city.
The first was the reclassification of an agricultural land at purok 15, Barangay Indangan to a residential zone.
The other one was the reclassification of a light industrial zone with an area of 62,793 square meters to a residential zone as requested by the Golden Hills Village Homeowners Association, an application positively endorsed by the Barangay Council of Panacan.
Such applications are considered as amendments/exemptions to the city's Zoning Ordinance, thus needing the vote of 21 members of the body. The council members voted unanimously for both.
