BAGUIO CITY – The city government through the City Environment and Parks Management Office (CEPMO) has laid out the rules and regulations on the operation and maintenance of the newly rehabilitated Malcolm Square or People’s Park.
In Administrative Order No. 196 series of 2016, Mayor Mauricio Domogan decreed that admission at the park as a protected landscape will be free of charge to the public “through harmonious interaction of man and land while providing opportunities for the public enjoyment through recreation and tourism within the normal lifestyle and economic activity.”
However, all activities or facilities carried out in the park will be subjected to control, regulation and licensing and permitting through the CEPMO with any payment for the use of area or environmental maintenance fee and permitting to be done based on City Ordinance No. 18 series of 2016.
The city government also reserves the right to disallow any activity.
Only the following activities will be allowed at the park:
Social programs, musical concerts, television shows or TV and film promotion, field demonstration, sports tournament, skills Olympics or competition, political rallies and similar activities that are consistent with the intended use of the park.
The following activities will be prohibited:
Smoking in the park; drinking liquor or alcoholic beverages; bonfire or undue burning; sleep out; walking and or displaying of medium to big sized dogs and similar pets, pasturing and turning loose of pets and other domesticated animals; destroying or mutilating, picking or cutting of flowers and plants or uprooting of plants;
Work out or practice driving of two or four-wheeled rides or vehicles, roller skating, skateboarding and similar rides; unnecessary nailing, bolting, posting of signage in any part of the park; urinating, littering, spitting and spitting of momma; gambling of any kind to include bingo socials; unauthorized flyer and poster distribution, religious open preaching; personal services like massage, nail spa, henna tattooing; fortune telling using cards or any devices or tools; begging, caroling by individuals or groups, soliciting contribution or donation; marketing or promotion of products, product sampling; peddling of services and goods of any kind to include shoe shine, cutflower or ornamental plants (to include along the sidewalks fronting Magsaysay Avenue and Session Road and walls of the stair landing of overpass);
Destroying, disfiguring, defacing or vandalizing any monument, implements, amenities, devices, displays, signs or any property installed thereat by the government and or the use thereof for purposes of hanging any form of advertisements; leaving unmanaged solid waste materials after the event and/or untended solid waste materials in designated pick up points for organized event; mixing of concrete and/or stocking of concrete materials along the side streets, and trade fairs (except sponsored by the City Government of Baguio through Sangguniang Panlungsod action) .
Parking of vehicles both private, government or public utility vehicles inside the Malcolm Square or along Perfecto Street specifically (from the corner of Session Road and Perfecto Street to corner Magsaysay Avenue and Perfecto Street will also be prohibited.
However, unloading or loading of goods for business establishments in the area is allowed from 7:00PM to 6:00AM only on a “drop-and-go policy.”
The loading areas of Trancoville, Aurora Hill, Tiptop and other transport groups should be relocated to other areas but this will be subject to appropriate administrative order or Traffic and Transport Management Committee resolution. ** Aileen P. Refuerzo
