Owner denies his featured billboard is illegal
THE owner of the outdoor billboard, a photo of which was published in the November 19 issue of The PUNCH, has denied that his structure is illegal and does not have a permit from the City Engineer’s Office.
Ramil Gutierrez, manager of Sight and Sight Outdoor, which maintains six billboards in Dagupan City and one in Urdaneta City, said all his projects have proper documentations and permits.
He said all his billboards are located in private properties and have their respective structural plans certified by their engineers and passed the evaluation of the City Engineers’ Office.
___________________________________________PUNCH APOLOGY
The PUNCH regrets publishing the wrong
photo on illegal billboards and apologizes to
Sight and Sight Outdoor for this inadvertent error.
___________________________________________Gutierrez also noted that his company is the only one in Pangasinan which is a member of the Outdoor Advertising Association of the Philippines headed by Carlos Llave.
The one photographed by a lensman of The PUNCH is located near the intersection of Perez Boulevard and M.H. del Pilar street. The other one, located atop the Marigold building owned by Gutierrez’s in-laws, stands above the holding area for passenger vehicles.
He stressed that none of his five billboards in the city were among the 20 illegal billboards tagged by the City Engineers Office as illegal and due for dismantling.
The 20 illegal billboards were among the 40 billboards scattered all over the city that were inspected by representatives of the City Engineer’s Office pursuant to a recent memorandum from the Department of Public Works and Highways.
The illegal billboards, he said, are those that do not have permits and located in road right of ways or government property.
Already five years in the billboards business, Gutierrez said he sees to it that all his billboards follow the right specifications prescribed by law and their national organization as to size, which must not be bigger than 30 feet by 50 feet in the provinces. — LM
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