No approved parking plan for Melvin Jones
>> Tuesday, July 19, 2016
BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan disclosed that there
is no approved plan for construction of a multilevel parking structure within
the Melvin Jones grandstand, saying that what is available is the conceptual
plan prepared by retired Arch. Ignacio Estipono for a one-floor parking but the
surface remains a playing field.
The city mayor explained there is no
truth to earlier reports that the pay parking project within the Melvin Jones
grandstand was already bid out by the city government, saying building pay parking facility requires a tedious
process that has not yet commenced.
“It is unfortunate that there are
still some disgruntled quarters who try to misinform our people on the real
issues confronting the conceptual plan for the put up of a one-floor parking
facility at Melvin Jones. The surface will remain as a football ground
that will serve its purposes,” Domogan said.
The local chief executive pointed
out the conceptual plan will still be subject to a full-blown feasibility study
to ascertain feasibility of the parking project and identification of solutions
on how to address the various social and environmental issues created once the
project will be pursued.
According to him, he earlier gave
authority to an Australian company to conduct the required feasibility study
for the put up of a one-floor pay parking facility within the football facility
and it was found out that the project was feasible.
Domogan said the city did not accept
the proposal that there will be commercial establishments that will be put up
around the pay parking area considering that the conversion of a portion of
thefootball ground into commercial areas is not pursuant to the concept of
maintaining the park.
He claimed the conceptual plan
remains a plan until such time that there will be a feasibility study that will
show that the put up of a one-floor parking facility within the Melvin Jones
grandstand will be feasible and that all other social and environmental issues
shall have been appropriately addressed for the benefit of the present and
future generations of city residents.
Domogan assured local residents that
the city government will remain transparent in the conduct of consultations
regarding the project and that it was never the intuition of local officials to
pursue the project without the conduct of a detailed feasibility study that
will address the various issues surrounding the realization of the put up of
the pay parking facility within the Melvin Jones grandstand.
It was earlier proposed that there
will be a one-floor underground parking underneath the Melvin Jones football
ground while the surface of the facility will remain as a playing field.
Domogan encouraged concerned
stakeholders of the city to continue submitting their recommendations on how to
effectively and efficiently address the current problem on the absence of
sufficient parking areas that will accommodate a bigger volume of vehicles so
that motor vehicle owners will not just park their vehicles in any vacant
spaces along major roads that contribute to the smooth flow of traffic in the
city’s central business district. -- Dexter A. See
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