The City Legal Office has recommended the revocation of the applications of all the stall owners in the Vendors' Plaza at the Reclamation Area in Bacolod City.

City Administrator Lorendo Dilag said the Market Committee, which he chairs, has adopted the recommendation of City Legal Officer Allan Zamora that all the stalls at the Vendors' Plaza be declared vacant.

The stalls or blocks have been abandoned by the awardees for several years, he said.

Dilag said the Market Committee will issue formal notices today to all the stall owners to inform them of the revocation of their applications because they have abandoned the stalls at the Vendors' Plaza. The city will start accepting new applicants, but those whose applications have been revoked can still re-apply, he said.

To prevent the surreptitious occupancy by other vendors of the Vendors' Plaza, the city asked the police to secure the area on a 24-hour basis, Dilag said. Those who abandoned their stalls wrote the city requesting to be allowed to re-occupancy their stalls, he said, after learning that SM City will open at the Reclamation Area this year.

Dilag said that before SM City decided to open in Bacolod, he had already been tasked by Mayor Evelio Leonardia to study and evaluate the state of the Vendors' Plaza.

He said he has secured a list of about 20 vendors with a lease contract with the city, including those who have none. "I was made to understand that their lease contracts had not been ratified by the Sangguniang Panlungsod." Dilag said.*CGS

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