BANAUE,
Ifugao -- The construction of the seven-story parking building near the Banaue
Rice Terraces remains on hold even though the National Commission for Culture
and the Arts (NCCA) has said the site is not among the World Heritage sites.
Edison
Molanida, NCCA World Heritage coordinator, said construction of the parking
building needs the approval of the National Museum.
Molanida
said Banaue local officials should prove the project would preserve and not
alter the character of the rice terraces to get the nod of the National Museum.
Banaue
Mayor Jerry Danipog had said the construction of the P55-million parking
facility would proceed as scheduled after NCCA chairman Felipe de Leon said the
commission has no jurisdiction over petitions to stop its construction in
Barangay Poblacion.
The
petitioners claimed the parking building would ruin or block the view of the
rice terraces.
Danipog
said only the rice terraces in Barangays Baan and Bangaan in Banaue and in the
towns of Mayaoyao, Kiangan and Hungduan in Ifugao were declared World
Heritage sites by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization.
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