Irisan Residents Block
Realty Firm’s Joint Relocation Survey
Residents of San Carlos
Heights, Irisan, Baguio City have prevented the Holy Family Housing
Project Association, Inc. from holding a dialogue regarding a joint
relocation survey with 12 affected residents on March 30, asserting that
the said realty firm’s claim over a portion of Purok 22 is a fraud. The
said realty claiming over 4,000 square meters of Purok 22 affects 12
houses.
BY KIM QUITASOL
Northern Dispatch
Posted by Bulatlat
BAGUIO CITY —
Residents of San Carlos Heights, Irisan here have prevented the Holy
Family Housing Project Association, Inc. from holding a dialogue regarding
a joint relocation survey with 12 affected residents on March 30,
asserting that the said realty firm’s claim over a portion of Purok 22 is
a fraud. The said realty claiming over 4,000 square meters of Purok 22
affects 12 houses.
Irisan People’s
Action against Demolition and for Good Governance (IPADeGG) chairperson
Salvador Ramo said the lot area under question is considered as public
land and under present laws, public lands cannot be titled. He questioned
the legality of the papers the realty talked about.
Ramo further said
that IPADeGG has an on-going petition filed at the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) regarding status clarification of
all lots in the said area and cancellation of all titles. The same
petition is pending at the city council.
Holy Family Housing
maintains that it has all the necessary papers to prove its right to
develop the said lot area. The said realty firm is using the title claim
of a certain Calderon on the said lot.
According to one of
the affected residents, who requested anonymity, the dialogue on the said
date was actually the last leg of the joint relocation survey. He said
they had been approached by representatives of the said realty firm to
talk about the survey. He added that some of the affected residents went
to the realty firm’s office at the Otek Building here to discuss the
process of the survey and payment mode for the lots the residents
occupied.
He further said that
after the first survey was conducted, the realty firm offered affected
residents P3,500 for every square meter of the lots they occupied.
Over 100 residents
from nearby puroks gathered to support the affected residents.
Northern Dispatch / Posted by Bulatlat
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