BACOLOD City – Ninety-seven illegal structures constructed on Masamart along Bonifacio Street were demolished yesterday.
The City Legal Office’s Enforcement
Unit removed vending stalls, makeshift houses, among others.
Executive Assistant Ernie Pineda, cluster head on Markets, said the 5-day grace
period given to the vendors to vacate their kiosks had already lapsed on
Tuesday.
The vendors must vacate the place after the approval of the repealed City Ordinance (CO) 183, series of 1980, to transfer all the sidewalk vendors at the Central Public Market and Masamart in Bonifacio Street to Bacolod Vendors’ Plaza in Reclamation Area.
Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said the city has realigned the budget worth P5 million from the building fund to market.
The budget will be utilized for the rehabilitation of the Bacolod Vendors’s Plaza to accommodate more vendors displaced by the road clearing operation./PN
