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Muntinlupa LGU seeks to settle territorial boundary row with Parañaque

Published Aug 16, 2023 08:00 am

After the Taguig-Makati dispute, the Muntinlupa City government is seeking to settle the issue of territorial boundary with Parañaque. 

Mayor Ruffy Biazon signed Resolution 2023-098, approved by the City Council, authorizing him “to constitute a technical working group (TWG) on matters of territorial boundary dispute between the City of Muntinlupa and the City of Paranaque involving parcels of land located in Barangay Sucat, Muntinlupa City.” 

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Members of the Muntinlupa City Council with the head of its secretariat (Photo from Muntinlupa PIO)

The land in question is a 4.1-hectare land in Sitio Bagong Silang, Sucat. 

In January 2022, then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued Executive Order No. 68 with the tit!e "Authorizing the National Power Corporation (Napocor) to dispose of its 4.1-hectare Property Located in Sitio Bagong Silang, Sucat, Muntinlupa City to its Bonafide Occupants."

According to the resolution, after Napocor disposed of the land, “issues on boundary and territorial jurisdiction of integral parts thereof arose and remain unresolved to date despite fervent efforts of the City Government to settle the same with the concerned Local Government Units.” 

The Muntinlupa resolution was adopted after the Parañaque City Council passed Resolution 2023-178 on June 8, 2023, or "A Resolution Formally Requesting for a Joint Session Between the Sangguniang Panlungsod of the City of Parañaque and the Sangguniang Panlungsod of the City of Muntinlupa, in Matters of the Territorial Boundary Dispute of Parcels of Land Located at Sitio Bagong Silang, Barangay B.F. Homes, City of Parañaque."

According to the Muntinlupa resolution, the City Council “deem it necessary to discuss the long-been issue on boundary and territorial jurisdiction in a joint forum with the aim to mutually resolve the matter.” 

It added that “consistent with the above-intention, the Sanggunian implores the Local Chief Executive to constitute/create a Technical Working Group on Boundary Dispute which will substantially help with our land issues through the formulation of policies and guidelines, and performance of such other tasks incidental to the settlement of boundary disputes between the City Governments of Muntinlupa and Parañaque.” 

Under the Local Government Code, "there is a boundary dispute when a portion or the whole territorial area of a Local Governrnent Unit is claimed by two or more Local Government Units.” 

The said law added that "boundary disputes between and among local government units shall, as much as possible, be settled amicably. To this end: (d) Boundary disputes involving a component city or municipality on one hand and a highly urbanized city on the other, or two (2) or more highly urbanized cities, shall be jointly referred for settlement to the respective Sanggunian of the parties."

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