CEPMO bares Burnham rehab plan 06-06-25

	NORDIS WEEKLY June 25, 2006
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CEPMO bares Burnham rehab plan
BAGUIO CITY (June 19) — Maintaining and preserving Burnham Park as an open space is the ultimate goal of a grand plan to rehabilitate the city’s premier park. Archt. Josephine Chan, head of the City Environment and Parks Management Office, presented a planning framework for the Burnham Park preservation plan during the council session on Monday. She pointed out two considerations in planning, namely history and preservation. Preserving public open space Chan wants to preserve the rose garden as a walkway and sitting area for senior citizens, the children’s park as a child-friendly area; the picnic grooves as a pine groove to provide ample shade for picnickers; the Pine Trees of the World an eco-walk trail and the Igorot garden as a regulated board game center. However, she said the orchidarium has to give way to a teenagers’ theme park “We have to relocate the orchidarium because it does not sit well with the (Burnham) Park,” Chan told Nordis. She adds that stall tenders at the orchidarium sell plants that they could not be accommodated in the park. Chan suggested that these be transferred to the Botanical Garden, or elsewhere. Chan has a grand plan for teenagers in the area now occupied by the orchidarium. Sports facilities, space for free style biking and a freedom wall for graffiti may be installed in that area to harness the energies and creative thinking of the youth, according to Chan. No-no’s in the park Chan also wants the Olympic-sized swimming pool heated by solar energy instead of electricity to save on costs. She revealed that the city spends P150,000 monthly for heating the pool. “It has become a white elephant,” Chan told the city councilors when she presented the proposed Burnham Park rehabilitation plan. “Money could have been spent on maintaining the lake,” she said adding that the boating lake is murky while the pool with clear water lies idle. Chan frowns at vertical structures in the park, as she cites that the skating rink used to be an open space, now it is a covered area. Chan also want traffic out of the Lake drive, “because there is too much pollution from the vehicles” and it will be better to use it as a walkway. She wants to make the park safe, clean and pedestrian friendly while providing basic infrastructure for leisure and maintaining its beauty with proper flora and fauna. The late American architect Daniel H. Burnham designed the park in 1905, Chan recalled. # Lyn V. Ramo for NORDIS Post your comments, reactions to this article
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	NORDIS WEEKLY June 25, 2006
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CEPMO bares Burnham rehab plan
BAGUIO CITY (June 19) — Maintaining and preserving Burnham Park as an open space is the ultimate goal of a grand plan to rehabilitate the city’s premier park. Archt. Josephine Chan, head of the City Environment and Parks Management Office, presented a planning framework for the Burnham Park preservation plan during the council session on Monday. She pointed out two considerations in planning, namely history and preservation. Preserving public open space Chan wants to preserve the rose garden as a walkway and sitting area for senior citizens, the children’s park as a child-friendly area; the picnic grooves as a pine groove to provide ample shade for picnickers; the Pine Trees of the World an eco-walk trail and the Igorot garden as a regulated board game center. However, she said the orchidarium has to give way to a teenagers’ theme park “We have to relocate the orchidarium because it does not sit well with the (Burnham) Park,” Chan told Nordis. She adds that stall tenders at the orchidarium sell plants that they could not be accommodated in the park. Chan suggested that these be transferred to the Botanical Garden, or elsewhere. Chan has a grand plan for teenagers in the area now occupied by the orchidarium. Sports facilities, space for free style biking and a freedom wall for graffiti may be installed in that area to harness the energies and creative thinking of the youth, according to Chan. No-no’s in the park Chan also wants the Olympic-sized swimming pool heated by solar energy instead of electricity to save on costs. She revealed that the city spends P150,000 monthly for heating the pool. “It has become a white elephant,” Chan told the city councilors when she presented the proposed Burnham Park rehabilitation plan. “Money could have been spent on maintaining the lake,” she said adding that the boating lake is murky while the pool with clear water lies idle. Chan frowns at vertical structures in the park, as she cites that the skating rink used to be an open space, now it is a covered area. Chan also want traffic out of the Lake drive, “because there is too much pollution from the vehicles” and it will be better to use it as a walkway. She wants to make the park safe, clean and pedestrian friendly while providing basic infrastructure for leisure and maintaining its beauty with proper flora and fauna. The late American architect Daniel H. Burnham designed the park in 1905, Chan recalled. # Lyn V. Ramo for NORDIS Post your comments, reactions to this article
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