Bacolod Councilor Claudio Puentevella said the streets surrounding the Bacolod City Public Plaza are being eyed for parking areas, during a committee hearing he held yesterday on his proposed ordinance “designating pay parking zones in the City of Bacolod.”
Puentevella, chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committees on Public Works, and Fire, Natural Disaster and Calamities, said there is a proposal to impose a 70-30 sharing scheme between the City Government and the Diocese of Bacolod, that owns the portion of the plaza facing Rizal Street, but this will be subjected to negotiations with the Catholic Church. He said implementation of the ordinance on other streets surrounding the Bacolod Plaza will be discussed with the barangays officials and this will also be for further study. The ordinance provides that the Bacolod Traffic Authority Office authority to conduct an intensified study and recommendation on additional streets of the city that will be included in the pay parking zones. It also provides that a fee of P20 will charged or collected from private automobiles for the first two hours and P5 for the succeeding hours. He said his ordinance he authored is different from the one proposed measure earlier Councilor El Cid Familiaran, that was not passed during the previous City Council. Present during yesterday’s public hearing were Councilors El Cid Familiaran and Archie Baribar; Land Transportation Office head Renato Novero, BTAO/TMU head Chief Insp. Benedicto Villarias; representatives from the transport group, business sectors and other stakeholders. *CGS The Visayan Daily Star
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