GOVERNMENT commissioned builders arrived here last week to finish the Panglao Island Master Plan within 100 days.
In an exclusive interview aired by a radio station here, Architect Felino Palafox, assured Boholanos that the Panglao and Dauis towns masterplan blends with the set tourism development in the island.
Palafox, who heads Palafox and associates has been commissioned by the Provincial Government to prepare the island’s zoning and the especially with the Panglao Bohol International Airport now in the pipeline.
He called the PBIA the best magnet for development.
Palafox and Associates are credited to have transformed a desolate desert in the Middle East into one landmark of development and progress, which is now familiarly Dubai of the United Arab Emirates.
While studying the PBIA and the general appearance of Panglao Island, Palafox readily suggested that Boholanos go into overdrive in planting trees.
On the blatant disregard of beach occupants to follow the mandatory 20-meter easement zone, Palafox said the law should be enforced adding that other countries have even enforced the 200 meter salvage zone.
A no nonsense and self confessed environmentalist, Palafox has said he would never bargain the environment for progress.
Palafox has also been lately coming up in the news when he gave up $1M architectural fee as a sign of protest over the indiscriminate cutting of century-old trees at the Subic Free Port Zone. (rachu/PIA)