Mayor wants bocaps’ okay for biz permits

By Gaby B. Keith

BAGUIO CITY -- Mayor Benjamin Magalong has required the Summer Capital’s punong barangays to issue a certification that businesses in their respective areas are not within the following: road right of way; creek easement; certificate of ancestral land title (CALT); forest/watershed/safeguarded land; identified city/barangay needs.
    In a letter dated March 21, 2023 to the village leaders, the Mayor said the certification is in addition to the barangay clearance being issued by their respective offices before the issuance of a business permit.
The directive is in line with the city government’s continuing efforts to ensure that Baguio city remains clean and orderly and all city ordinances related to the same are followed, his letter disclosed.
    “Please be reminded that when you affix your signature to the said certification, you have reviewed and certified that the data you provided are true and complete based on your knowledge and records of the barangay,” it said.
    Briccio Domondon of the City Mayor’s Office-Special Services Division said the mayor’s notice was for the ‘strict compliance’ of the city’s punong barangays.