BAGUIO CITY—Businesses that converted their parking areas to commercial spaces face closure, Mayor Mauricio Domogan said.
Domogan said the provision of parking spaces in buildings is required for building and occupancy permits and the city will cancel the occupancy permits of violators.
“We have given the establishment owners sufficient time to convert the commercial spaces to parking spaces to decongest our major roads where vehicles are illegally parked,” Domogan stressed.
The mayor directed concerned offices to inspect erring business establishments and cancel their building and occupancy permits immediately.
He said the business owners requested for sufficient time to comply, citing contracts with lessees who converted the parking slots to commercial spaces.
The National Building Code and related ordinances require owners of buildings to provide parking spaces for their lessees.
Domogan appealed to building owners not to wait for the inspection because they might be meted stiffer penalties aside from possible closure until they restore the parking spaces.