By Dexter A. See
BAGUIO CITY – The city government and Baguio City District Engineering
Office of the Dept. of Public Works and Highways issued notices of violation to
some 600 owners of structures along Naguilian Road for them to remove the
encroachments erected on the road-right-of-way of the national road.
Assistant City Engineer Constancio Ymson, Jr. said the 600 structures
along the stretch of the road from the Welcome Arc up to its junction with
Bokawkan road were found to have encroached on the road-right-of-way of the
Naguilian road, thus, owners must voluntarily remove the said encroachments and
not await for the city demolition team to implement the dismantling of the
structures that encroached on the right-of-way.
The removal of encroachments on
sidewalks and roads by the different city governments is pursuant to the
mandate handed down by President Rodrigo Duterte coursed through the Department
of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for local officials to help in
bringing back the roads and sidewalks to the public.
Earlier, the city government and the DPWH-BCDEO already started the
dismantling of the encroachments along Marcos highway to serve as a warning to
owners of all other similarly-situated structures to start removing
encroachments on the road-right-of-way of the national road.
Similar demolition operations were conducted along Kennon Road.
Ymson said the joint task force on encroachments on the
road-right-of-way continues to conduct the inspection on the compliance of
violators to the 3-notice rule where the city demolition team will remove the
encroachments once the building owners will do nothing to dismantle the same
after the lapse of the prescribed period for voluntary demolition.
While there are building owners who complied with the voluntary removal
of their encroachments, there were also some property owners who secured
temporary restraining orders (TROs) from different city courts that prevented
the city demolition team from pursuing the dismantling of the identified
encroachments on the road-right-of-way of the different national roads.
Under existing rules and regulations, the city government and the
DPWH-BCDEO are mandated to provide building owners who built structures on
portions of road-righty-of-way of national roads a 3-notice rule or within a
21-day period, to remove such encroachments and that their failure to do so
will compel the city demolition team to dismantle the said encroachments.
Ymson said the third notice will subsequently be issued to concerned
building owners right after the lapse of the second notice of violation for the
concerned government agency and the city government to takeover demolition of
encroachments on roads and sidewalks.
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