ILOILO City – The city government will start collecting parking fees for designated parking areas on Monday, May 15.
Iloilo City Regulation Ordinance (RO) 2020-130, amending RO 2009-216, reestablished parking areas for all vehicles.
Ever since the original ordinance was passed in 2009, no parking fees were collected, considering the lack of personnel of the City Treasurer’s Office (CTO) as the implementing office.
“Nakit-an sang syudad nga daw kinanglan gid naton ang dugang nga mga funds or income kapin pa madamo ang mga programa sang syudad. At the same time, kinanglan man naton ma-regulate ang mga salakyan,” said Mayor Jerry P. Treñas, during Friday’s press conference, as he appealed for support from the public.
The city mayor noted that the fee will only be minimal but can still help in augmenting the resources of the city government especially with the decrease of the city’s Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA).
Under the ordinance, the list of parking spaces subjected to the imposition of parking fees are the following:
* Calasanz Street fronting San Jose Church, perpendicular parking both sides;
* Ortiz Street, parallel parking both sides;
* Guanco Street, diagonal parking on the left side (across Iloilo Central Market);
* Aldeguer Street, diagonal parking on the left side (across Iloilo Central Market);
* Arsenal Street, parallel parking both sides;
* Solis Street, parallel parking both sides;
* Zamora Street, parallel parking both sides; and
* Macario Peralta Street, parallel parking both sides except front of the Bureau of Fire Protection and Office of the Congressman.
Motor vehicle owners and/or persons in charge of motor vehicles will be charged the following rates:
* Motorcycles – P15 for the first two hours and P5 per hour for the succeeding hours
* Tricycle – P20 for the first two hours and P5 per hour for the succeeding hours
* Light Vehicles – P25 for the first two hours and P5 per hour for the succeeding hours
* Medium vehicles (delivery trucks) – P30 for the first two hours and P5 per hour for the succeeding hours.
According to Treñas, the city government will also impose parking fees in the proposed multi-level parking building that it will build adjacent to the city hall. There will be 500 available slots for vehicles, apart from motorcycles.
Meanwhile, the Local Economic Enterprise Office (LEEO) has been designated as office in-charge in the collection of parking fees.
But any officer of the Public Safety and Transportation Management Office (PSTMO) may be allowed to collect parking fees provided they are duly authorized by the LEEO.
PSTMO is also tasked to implement the ordinance.
Violators will be subjected to a fine of P300 to P1,000.
LEEO chief Maricel Mabaquiao said they are expecting to collect P2,000 to P4,000 per designated parking area or an estimated of P30,000 a day as parking fees.
She said the LEEO will deploy trained parking collectors in each parking area. They also created a monitoring team to check implementation.
As early as last week, the city government distributed flyers about the implementation of the paid parking ordinance.
Treñas said this is just a start of the paid parking scheme of the city. Paid parking may also be implemented in the future in other districts.
PSTMO chief Jeck Conlu, meanwhile, said the paid parking is only applicable during office hours, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Section 3F of the ordinance which defines overnight parking has been removed and will no longer be included in extracting of parking fees./PN
