By Leonardo V. Micua
DAGUPAN CITY, Aug. 18 (PNA) — A university professor considers that the plan of a local investor to build an international hotel in Dagupan City is consistent with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) of the city drawn up by the people in 2003.
Professor Nicanor Melecio, who teaches in the Master in Business Administration (MBA) program of the University of Luzon (UL) and the University of Pangasinan, said the CSI Hotel and Resort will be built in Barangay Lucao, one of the areas pinpointed in the CLUP as well as in the zoning plan of the city as a growth area.
Melecio was consulted by five committees of the city council to provide inputs that could guide their decision on a draft resolution pending in the council seeking to endorse the application of the CSI Group of Companies for a location clearance of its project.
The plush CSI Hotel and Restaurant, proposed to be of international standard, will consist of floating cabanas with a wide fishing area, a day resort open to the public and a five-storey hotel that will have three swimming pools reserved for the public as well as hotel guests.
Melecio, who admitted being part of the group that prepared the CLUP, believes the project will not impact on the ecology of the place even if it will be built on former fishponds that used to produce the tasty Dagupan bangus and malaga (siganid).
The professor, who once served as environmental consultant of Mayor Benjamin Lim during his first and second terms of office, observed that the project will be built beside the new Jose de Venecia Expressway Extension.
He admitted that when the CLUP was prepared starting in 2001 and finished in 2003, the highway named after the late father and namesake of then Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. was still but a dream.
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