Dagupan resumes clearing of illegal structures in Binloc
THE Dagupan City government resumed the clearing of public lands in Bonuan Binloc of untenured occupants on February 11, mostly foreshore lands that are inalienable and not disposable.
Mayor Belen Fernandez, along with some 100 personnel of the city government, officers of the city police, City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO), and the barangays removed bamboo posts, makeshift fences, and bamboo huts put up by illegal occupants in the area.
The operation was participated in by Barangay Chairmen Wilmer Castanares of Bonuan Binloc, Noel Bumanglag of Bonuan Gueset, and Joseph Maramba of Bonuan Boquig.
Fernandez said the move was to make way for the construction of Phases 2 and 3 of the One-Bonuan Pavillon, a project with a P100-million funding through Senator Risa Honteveros. Phase 1 of the project is now about to be completed.
It was the biggest operations yet against illegal claimants of the foreshore lands in Dagupan who supposedly bought “rights” from still unnamed individuals for still undetermined sums of money.
Individual claimants of foreshore lands did not put up any resistance.
Fernandez said the foreshore land in Bonuan Binloc, which is part of the 74-hectare Tondaligan Ferdinand Park, will be developed as the top tourist destination in the city. The nearby dump site is also up for closure and conversion into a tree park.
The Department of Tourism regional office recently discussed the possibility of introducing surfing as a sport in Tondaligan Park, particularly in Bonuan Binloc with Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia.
She said other features will include a skate board park and the General Douglas Mac Arthur Memorial set for groundbreaking on February 23, to be attended by Senator Grace Poe who promised to fund the project at a cost of P60 million.
An expected special guest in that occasion would be James Zobel, official archivist of the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia, who confirmed that based on records, the general first landed in Dagupan when he liberated Luzon from Japanese occupation. (Leonardo Micua)
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