THE Shrine Hills Landowners Association (SHLA) hopes that Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio will consider their rights as landowners given the proposed zoning ordinance in Shrine Hills is up for the third and final reading today.
For weeks, the issues concerning Shrine Hills as Urban Ecological Enhancement Sub-zone (UEESZ) were debated in the City Council sessions as there are also people against the amendment.
“Kung ma-approve siya, naa man mi sulat kang Mayor (If it will be approved, we already have a letter addressed to the Mayor),” SHLA vice president Florante Pardillo said in a phone interview with SunStar Davao, adding that before the visit of Duterte-Carpio in Hawaii on September 10, they sent a position paper to the City Mayor’s Office, asking her to also consider their rights as landowners. However, they have yet to receive a reply.
“We feel chained and condemned. We cannot blame you since you are the only one who asserted effort back then but Mayor, please help us. Please consider our side as well,” Pardillo said, reading their letter to Duterte-Carpio.
Pardillo said the idea of protecting Shrine Hills may have “won the heart” of the mayor but the residents’ rights have been forgotten.
Meanwhile, Pardillo said tthe letter also included their plea to grant them executive amnesty for the violations they committed under city ordinance no. 0546-13, also known as the zoning ordinance of Davao City for 2013-2022, because they were not informed or consulted about the 2011 moratorium.
He said the Office of the City Planning and Development back then did not do their part to solve the matter.
The officers and members of SHLA will schedule a meeting after the decision on today’s regular session of the City Council.