CDO’s proposed Integrated Zoning Ordinance mitigates “climate change”

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=8&rid=777837
• Tuesday, June 30, 2015

By Crescencio "Cris" Diaz [(PNA), CTB/CD]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 30 (PNA) – The city government here has started conducting public hearings on the proposed Integrated Zoning Ordinance (IZO) that now mitigates “climate change.”

City Councilor Alexander Dacer, on Tuesday, said that 59 village chiefs joined the public hearing last Friday as the city council started drafting a new IZO that would inform the constituents on the status of the village lots.

He said that the new IZO intends to identify areas considered as “danger zone,” particularly villages near water passages, as part of mitigating climate change.

“So far, the village chiefs have not introduced new changes of the existing IZO during the first two public hearings,” Dacer said.

Dacer, chair of the city council committee on subdivision and landed estate, said that the public hearings are important so that the constituents would know the classification of the village.

Engr. Isidro Borja of the City Planning and Development Office (CPDO), said that there are no changes in the zoning of urban barangays as these are highly- commercial areas.

“In the proposed IZO, they have introduced some areas for commercial as well as hazard zones, there are no changes, especially those barangays along the river,” Borja said.

Dacer said that the committee has scheduled a second public hearing for the second week of July with the village residents, the business sector, and developers in attendance.