A GROUNDBREAKING for the Camp Allen parking and city hall annex is scheduled to commence June 24.
Councilor Maylen Yaranon said the ground breaking is set after the project has been bidded out and set to start construction by October.
Yaranon said the facility will not be confined to parking alone but will also house the fire department, emergency team and other department offices.
“Mayor Mauricio Domogan did not want it to be just for parking,” Yaranon said.
Yaranon is author of the ordinance proposing the construction of a multi-level parking building at Camp Henry T. Allen to augment needs of the city hall, fire department, police and justice hall.
Previously, the City Building and Architecture Office (CBAO) is making the plans as well as the costing for the six to eight-story structure, which will have space for emergency vehicles and fire trucks including few office spaces and possibly recreation facilities.
The ordinance recognized the growing vehicle population of the city creating many problems and one of the challenging issues being vehicle parking, which the local government and concerned government agencies are being confronted with daily.
Aside from the problem of space for cars moving on the road, the ordinance added parked vehicles along the various roads obstruct the smooth flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic often resulting to tremendous traffic jams not only in the central business district area but also in other heavily populated barangays in the city.
Within the city hall area, there are only 185 available parking slots that cater to the 24 parking slots for clients and visitors, 256 government vehicles, 252 vehicles of government officials and employees, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) and a daily average of 200 vehicles of clients and visitors.