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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Monday, January 2, 2017
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BACOLOD City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod approved an ordinance providing for the protection and conservation of cultural properties, including historical markers, monuments and shrines.
Under the ordinance, “traditional setting” across the city “must be kept.”
“No new construction, demolition or modification that would alter the relations of mass and color must be allowed” on such structures, the local law said.
The Local Heritage Ordinance was approved on Dec. 27, 2016.
“Cultural property” shall cover “property of great importance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments, art or history, whether religious or secular; groups of buildings, which as a whole are of historical or artistic interest; and manuscripts,” said Councilor Wilson Gamboa, the author.
This is “irrespective of origin or ownership, either movable or immovable,” he said.
“Buildings whose main and effective purpose is to preserve or exhibit movable cultural property, such as museums, libraries and depositories of archives,” must be protected, too, said Gamboa.
Meanwhile “historical markers” refer to “structures that honor illustrious persons or commemorate events of historical value as declared by the National Historical Institute (now the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, or NHCP).”
Historical shrines, on the other hand, refer to “historical sites or structures hallowed and revered for their history or association as declared by the [NHCP],” said the councilor.
According to Gamboa, the city has buildings, edifices, historical markers, monuments, shrines, and other structures that “embody and exemplify the richness and abundance its culture and history.”
These structures, he said, must be preserved “to maintain the vast heritage and patrimony of the Bacolodnons for the present and future generations.”
Under the ordinance, the City Mayor’s Office and the City Engineer’s Office shall undertake and prescribe the manner of preserving the cultural resources via renovation, proper use, maintenance, relocation, landscaping, and providing amenities./PN
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