City plans development of new business center
THE Dagupan government will ask the Philippine National Railways (PNR) to donate substantial portions of its land in the city to the former, which it plans to develop into a business center.
City Legal Officer George Mejia said the City Task Force on Housing and Urban Poor Resettlement headed by City Engineer Virginia Rosario, upon the directive of Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., met on Thursday to map out plans for the donation request and the development project.
The two representatives of the PNR whom the task force invited to the meeting confirmed that a substantial portion of the railway property now occupied by business establishments and residential houses, is covered by renewable lease contracts.
“We should rather ask a donation of these lots to the city so that the people of Dagupan will substantially benefit from these,” Mejia told newsmen.
On the suggestion of the PNR representatives, the city engineer’s office will conduct a survey on the PNR property, the result of which will be presented as the basis of the city government for its donation request.
The past city administration under Mayor Benjamin Lim already made an initiative to seek the donation of the PNR property to the city but it was unable to complete the process before the 2007 election.
Mejia said the past administration had a plan to build an alternate road through the PNR property to connect the city proper to the island barangays.
The alternate road will be a component of a commercial center that the city intends to develop in the PNR property.
The PNR property includes all the land extending to M.H. del Pilar Street up to Arellano Street now occupied by several business establishments reportedly paying a yearly rental to the city government. —LM
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