Edge Davao 8 Issue 222

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VOL. 8 ISSUE 222 • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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PUBLIC INTEREST. Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte says his approval or veto of the amendment to the city’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) will depend on whether or not it will serve public interest. Duterte made the statement during a brief interview with media at Seda Abreeza Hotel on Monday night. Lean Daval Jr.

VETO POSSIBLE? Duterte to study veto of CLUP amendment EDGEDAVAO Sports

By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

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AVAO City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte will study the possibility of vetoing the amendment of the city’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) removing the 10 percent green space in socialized housing subdivision. In an interview Monday night at Seda Abreeza Hotel, Duterte said he will weigh the matter to see it if the amendment will not compromise public interest. He said if the amendment proves to be beneficial to the city, he will not oppose it.

Duterte, however, said the provision in City Ordinance no. 0546 of 2013 or the City Land Use Plan 2013-2022 allocating an area for green space is a good set up. “The intention is good because it is for trees,” he said. Earlier, environment groups expressed their opposition to the approval of the proposal to remove the additional 10 percent green space allocation of the total land area of a subdivision development project. The 10 percent in the ex-

isting ordinance is an addition to the existing requirement of allocating 30 percent open space for leisure and recreation area of a subdivision. In the committee report of councilor Bernard Al-ag, land developers requested that the additional 10 percent open space requirement be removed because it is burdensome and expensive for them. The developers instead proposed that the provision for green space be implemented in the sidewalk strips or back areas of home lots and

not a separate area. Architect Jim Palma of Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) said if the concern of the developers is that the 10 percent allotted for the green space will be wasted, the city government should set a standard on how the space is to be used. Palma said he sees the issue as a design, management, and enforcement issue of not properly using of the space. He said if the developers will move the trees to the side-

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