SM consultation set in Baguio City | Sun.Star.

By JM Agreda
February 21, 2012

COUNCILORS agreed Monday to use their regular session on February 27 as a public consultation for residents to give their views on the proposed SM mall’s expansion and for the mall management to explain its redevelopment plans.

To be invited next week are Cordillera Ecological Center Director Dr. Michael Bengwayan, former Mayor Braulio Yaranon and Perry Mendoza of Tongtongan Ti Umili.

The three resource persons last February 20 expressed their firm opposition to the mall expansion, which endangers some 182 pine and alnus trees.

Bengwayan said the earth-balling of the trees would severely affect Baguio’s water table and eventually the city’s dwindling water supply. He said it will also destroy the pine trees which have long been the heritage of the city.

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