NATURE may have provided the reason to finally implement the much heralded redevelopment plan of the Tondaligan Park, Dagupan’s biggest park covering 72 hectares at the Bonuan Blue Beach.

With about 70% of the standing cottage and picnic sheds, doubling as residential houses and videoke pubs at night, destroyed by the northeast wind surge as Super Typhoon “Mina” was exiting from the country, the government may now be able to carry out the blueprint of the longstanding redevelopment plan.

Giant waves as high as nine feet battered the shores of Bonuan on Tuesday and Wednesday, destroying properties along the coastline not only in Pangasinan but also in La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte.

Barangay Captain Angel Gumarang of Bonuan Gueset advised cottage and shed owners not to rebuild their facilities just yet and waste their money as the city government is bent on implementing the redevelopment plan for Tondaligan Park.

The blueprint of the Tondaligan Redevelopment Plan was prepared by the City Planning and Development Staff.

Myrna Cayabyab, vice chairman of the Dagupan City Urban Poor Federation headed by Roman Manaois, agreed with Gumarang that shed owners should cooperate with the government’s plan.

“We shall wait for the city government to take its move in implementing the redevelopment plan,” Cayabyab said.

With most of the cottage and picnic sheds down, the public can now have a full view of the Lingayen Gulf again even from a distance.—LM