BAGUIO CITY—Mayor Mauricio Domogan said machine shop owners who use the sidewalks and even national and city roads as their working areas should allocate parking space or the vehicles of their clients will be towed away.
The local chief executive also warned vehicle owners against using widened road lanes in the city as parking areas because they are part of the target of the anti-obstruction task force once it will be in full operation next week.
“We have to enforce existing laws, rules and regulations to compel them to abide by the rules. We do not want to penalize our constituents for their simple violations but for testing the limits of the powers of the local government they have to pay the price,” Domogan stressed.
Domogan added owners will be ordered to remove junk vehicles obstructing the smooth flow of traffic. Failure to do so will cause members of the anti-obstruction task force to move the vehicles to the motor pool compound in City Camp.
He added that signs illegally reserving parking spaces in front of houses will also be removed.
Domogan said vehicle owners were given sufficient time to look for parking areas, so the city will now take back the portions of the roads they misappropriated.