The 18th city council will ask all electric utility companies and public communication carriers to implement underground cabling in the downtown area of the city.
On Tuesday, the council approved the underground cabling ordinance in the poblacion area to be implemented within three years.
Committee on Energy chairperson Councilor Diosdado Mahipus said that since Davao City is already a “world class city in the making” it is about time to clear the streets of the city from hanging wires.
In late 2015, all electric utility companies and pubic communication carriers started laying out their underground cabling around the vicinity of the city hall.
Mahipus said that they are looking forward to a 2020 when the streets of Davao will be cleaned from wires.
“The different companies concerned personally volunteered to improve the quality of lives, environment and ambiance of the city of Davao being the exhibit A of President Rodrigo Duterte,” he said.
He said that even though the concerned companies volunteered to do the underground cabling, they still find the needs to put it in a law to aware other companies who plan to put up their wires.
Under the said ordinance, any company who violates it will be fine with P5, 000 and/or a year of imprisonment.
The implementation of the ordinance will follow after its publication.
Mahipusa said that the ordinance will have 4 phases; the 1st phase will start this year in the junction of San Pedro St. and will end at Ramon Magsaysay Ave. that will cover more or less 1100 meters.
“The 1st phase will start this year, the underground cabling in the city hall area is our experimental stage,” he said.
On 2018, the 2nd phase will take place in C.M Recto Street and will end in Magsaysay Park, the3rd phase will start at 2019 on Roxas Ave. Rotunda up to San Pedro Street and the 4th phase will start on 2020 in San Pedro Street to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in Quirino.
