NOV. 4-10, 2010
Panabo City Mayor Jose “Joe” Silvosa Sr is embarking another great tourism-boosting infrastructure that awesomely jibes with his greater projects of having a tourism port with marina facilities with the vista of the mariculture park of the city’s near coast.
Panabo City planning and development coordinator Aurora Lauron bared in an interview with the Valley & City Chronicle that the baywalk would straddle along the coast in the 20-hectare land being reclaimed by the city government at present at Barangay San Pedro.
The baywalk, she said, would become a tourist-attraction as it would feature seafront parks and plaza with a commercial area that supports its rest and recreation function.
The baywalk offers a relaxing spaces, facilities and benches for the city people and tourists to promenade with its free and relaxing sea breeze and winds fronting the maripark that is being developed to the hilt by the city agriculture department at present at Barangays J.P. Laurel, Cagangohan and San Pedro
.The maripark, among others, is where bangus, red snappers, seaweed farming, mussel and pearl oyster culture, mudcrab and mangroves are being grown to boost local fish production in novel technology and employment while coastal resources are being rehabilitated through mangrove planting.
Lauron, on the otherhand, bared that the public port that Mayor Silvosa has been pushing since his first term has made recent strides when the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) and the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) have given go signals to the city government to reclaim lands and establish a “tourism port with marina facilities”, respectively.
Silvosa’s public port project has been hailed by the public for its promise of dramatically decreasing the passengers’ travel time from the Panabo City to Davao City to only about 12 minutes through a fast craft vessel as against the over one-hour ride via public utility buses and jeepneys.
“The tourism port will be located at the identified 6,500-square-meter lot, and we have already allocated P5 million for 2011 budget for the coastway,” Lauron said.
At present, civil works are concentrated on slope protection in the reclaimed areas while the maripark development is continuing along the integrated coastal development plans of the city government, Lauron added.
Meanwhile, city administrator Nemesio Rasgo said that since Panabo City has no tourism destination before, now they are beginning to create one with the natural mariculture, man-made baywalk and some identified sites within the city’s foreshore areas like in the bukana of Lasang boundary that the city government would dredge and develop into fine public beaches. (Rural Urban News/Cha Monforte)
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