THE Cebu City Office of the Building Official (OBO) asked Unitop General Merchandise Inc. to stop the reconstruction of their building along Osmeña Boulevared across the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño due to of the lack of permits.
OBO head Josefa Ylanan said the stoppage order would remain in effect until building owners secure locational clearance from the city planning and development office and a building permit from OBO.
“If they continue to defy our stoppage order, we will have to file a criminal complaint against them in court,” Ylanan told Cebu Daily News.
Ylanan said a penalty equivalent to the building permit fee is also imposed on construction projects begun without a building permit.
Permit fee is computed based on the floor area multiplied by P24 per sq. meter for commercial structures and the floor area multiplied by P8 per sq. meters for residential structures.
Ylanan said the two-story building which is owned by the Go family was demolished early this year prior to the establishment of a four-story building.
However, the building owners failed to secure locational clearance and building permit, a violation of the National Building Code.
Ylanan said determination of parking space is a requirement for issuance of locational clearance. Unitop failed to meet the parking requirement.
Their old building lacked parking spaces.
Ylanan said the National Building Code allows for the renovation of structures without parking spaces but requires this in any building reconstruction.
Ylanan said the Unitop building presented to her office a parking space plan. They intend to lease a vacant lot along D. Jakosalem Street a few meters from the construction site.
Still, the parking space was not enough to satisfy their parking space requirement. /Chief Of Reporters Doris C. Bongcac
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Posted on July 9, 2011
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