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News Top Stories Realtors sue DAR over land conversion ban
| Realtors sue DAR over land conversion ban |
| Friday, 06 June 2008 11:09 | ||||||
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Creba filed a petition for certiorari and prohibition with the Quezon City regional trial court to nullify Pangandaman’s April 15, 2008 memorandum suspending applications for land conversion. The real estate group, headed by Reghis Romero II, also asked the court to void a February 28, 2002 DAR administrative order, called the DAR conversion rules, restricting the use of agricultural lands. Creba argued that the memorandum and administrative order were unconstitutional and illegal, and Pangandaman should be stopped from implementing them. Pangandaman issued the memorandum amid concerns that the rice shortage was an offshoot of the “unabated conversion of prime agricultural lands for real estate development.” Creba said the implementation of the DAR conversion rules and the memorandum “have caused and will further cause grave and irreparable damage and injury to petitioner and its members.” The group argued that Pangandaman, in issuing the conversion rules, had expanded the coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program to include lands that were exempt from the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law.
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