Wednesday,
May 16, 2012
VICE
President Jejomar Binay will be in Cebu today to sign a memorandum of
agreement with five homeowners’ associations that will purchase the provincial
lots they’ve been occupying for years.
Last
month, Binay and Gov. Gwen Garcia also signed a memorandum of understanding
(MOU), citing their full commitment to resolve the issue on 93-1.
Garcia,
in a press conference yesterday, appealed to members of Cebu Skyview Village
Residents Associations Inc. and the four homeowners’ associations in
Barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City not to be deceived by other sectors that want to
muddle their negotiations.
Binay’s
role
Garcia
said she received reports that members of these associations were called to
City Hall to form a 93-1 Movement. A councilor, whom she did not name, was
reportedly behind it.
The
governor said the 93-1 issue is dead because the ordinance already expired.
The
Province had asked Binay, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development
Coordinating Council, for help to resolve the “long-standing” issue of the sale
of lots to actual occupants and of the occupied lots that are classified as
residential.
Binay
had suggested tagging structures and conducting a survey among 5,000 households
that occupy provincial lots. A consultation meeting was held last year with the
concerned homeowners’ associations.
He had
also said Mayor Michael Rama promised to allocate P50 million to resolve the
93-1 issue.
Present
Rama was
at the signing of the MOU, accompanied by City Councilors Edgardo Labella and
Jose Daluz III.
Some
members of the Cebu Skyview Village were also present, including its president
Primitivo Sumayo, who served as witness.
The
Province agreed to sell to Cebu Skyview its 5.2-hectare property in Busay for
P3,300 per square meter.
Ordinance
93-1, passed by the Provincial Board in 1993, prescribed guidelines on the
disposition of occupied provincial lots.
Lots
covered by the ordinance are located in Barangays Apas, Lahug, Busay,
Kamputhaw, Capitol Site, Kalunasan, Lorega, Mabolo and Tejero, all in Cebu
City. It allowed occupants to own the lots after paying in full the
amortization on the property in two years.
A
10-year extension was given, which lapsed in 2004. Less than half of the
occupants of 93-1 lots have paid the amortization in full.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu
newspaper on May 16, 2012.
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