BACOLOD City Councilor El Cid Familiaran urged the City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) to come up with a flood control plan to avoid flooding similar to that in Luzon provinces and Metro Manila.
“The city should take seriously the flooding incident in Luzon by proactively observing the latest and appropriate urban planning and management,” Familiaran said. He said the weather phenomenon had confused the people and created worries among government and business planners, such that heavy rains flooded the area although there was no typhoon. Familiaran said Jose Ma. Tan, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Worldwide Fund for Nature, said the Filipinos are to be blamed for the deluge that paralyzed 14 million people. Tan said the flood clearly showed that rapid urbanization was the culprit for the Urban Heat Island (UHI), a situation of unfettered and mindless march to urbanization that had replaced with concrete jungles the soils and tress that absorb rains and reduce flooding. “The problem lies in poor planning, political gridlock, inadequate or inappropriate urban management, inadequate implementation of the zoning ordinances, land use and rules and haphazard real estate development,” Tan said. Based on these findings, Familiaran said there is a need for the city to be sensitive to the effect of flooding in Metro Manila. A similar calamity might happen again in the city. (Carla N. Canet) Sun Star Bacolod
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