CEBU CITY – Residents in Barangay Lambug, Badian city, south Cebu have filed a petition asking some authorities officers to cease the development of seashore homes of their space.
The residents quantity to about 60 signed the petition that was addressed to Cebu Gov. Gwendoyn Garcia, Atmosphere Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga, Tourism Secretary Cristina Garcia-Frasco and Senators Loren Legarda, Raffy Tulfo and Risa Hontiveros.
Of their petition, the residents stated that the fencing and the development of seashore homes in a 2.5-hectare space of their barangay has affected their each day lives.
“Earlier than, we may simply swim within the sea along with our friends. We are able to additionally simply dock our boats within the space. Now, safety guards are shooing us away. The unlawful constructions are inflicting us nice inconvenience,” learn the petition, which was written in Visayan.
The residents alleged that the constructions had been constructed illegally.
They stated that based mostly on the April 8, 2022 findings of the Division of Atmosphere and Pure Assets, the constructions violated the Tañon Strait Protected Seascape and the Expanded Nationwide Built-in Protected Space Techniques Act.
The residents added that the native authorities unit additionally discovered that the constructions had been constructed with out fencing and constructing permits that prompted Mayor Carmencita Lumain to subject a stop and desist order.
Regardless of the order, the homeowners of the constructions allegedly defied the regulation by permitting the development to proceed, the residents stated.
The homeowners’ continued defiance of the order stopping the development put the residents’ livelihood in danger, the petitioners stated.
“That’s the reason we’re pleading to authorities to intervene and cease the development,” the residents stated.
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