AT LEAST 77 vehicles were clamped while seven others were issued traffic citation tickets (TCT) in a private subdivision in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City due to overnight parking on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
The Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) responded to two filed complaints of Casals Village Subdivision resident Eduardo Rallos Sy dated August 20, 2022, and April 1, 2023.
Sy reported the frequent illegal parking on public roads within the subdivision.
CCTO Head Raquel Arce said that the Traffic Management Committee (TMC) has passed Board Resolution 36-087-2023 dated May 9, 2023, which instructed the city’s traffic office to enforce the ordinances that prohibit illegal parking within the city streets.
These legislations include City Ordinance 356 which covers the towing of illegally parked vehicles, Ordinance 801 or the Traffic Code of the City of Cebu, and Ordinance 1664 that covers clamping of illegally parked vehicles.
Through an endorsement letter dated November 7, 2022, Kent Francesco Jongoy, the CCTO’s legal and investigation head, said the roads within Casals Village Subdivision have already been donated to the City of Cebu.
This means the road within the subdivision is already publicly owned by the City Government and subject to the City’s regulations.
A deed of donation was entered into and signed by lawyer Cecilio Casals and then-city mayor Florentino Solon on November 18, 1980.
In the same endorsement letter, the legal and investigation department concluded that “it is entirely within the authority of the CCTO to enforce all the aforementioned traffic ordinances.”
SunStar Cebu tried to reach the homeowners association of the Casals Village Subdivision but they have yet to respond as of time of writing. (AML)