E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly 18 of 40 http://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/65160 coverage. This is bolstered by the period provided for the filing of an appeal—within 15 days from receipt of such decision—since only a party to the application is entitled to receive it. However, as respondents posit, stakeholders are not precluded from filing an appeal as stated in Section 6's last sentence. This apparent contradiction was clarified in Boracay Foundation, Inc., where this Court ruled that an appeal under Section 6 only applies to a party to the proceedings before the appropriate agency: As petitioner correctly pointed out, the appeal provided for under Section 6 of DENR DAO 2003-30 is only applicable, based on the first sentence thereof, if the person or entity charged with the duty to exhaust the administrative remedy of appeal to the appropriate government agency has been a party or has been made a party in the proceedings wherein the decision to be appealed was rendered.[116] It is not disputed that petitioners were never a party to the application of environmental compliance certificates, both the original and amended, for the Expansion Project. Hence, they were never furnished a copy of the Decision on the Environmental Compliance Certificate, which would trigger the start of the 15-day appeal period provided for under Section 6. IV Petitioners insist that the SM Pines Resort Project and the Expansion Project did not comply with Baguio City's zoning ordinance, contending that they should have been constructed in a C-3 or high-density commercial zone, not in a C-1 or a low-density commercial zone where it currently is.[117] Petitioners are mistaken. Ordinance No. 51, series of 2001, or the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance for the City of Baguio[118] (Zoning Ordinance) is intended to "[g]uide, control, and regulate further growth and development of Baguio City in accordance with its Comprehensive Land Use Plan"[119] by providing separate zones for effective and orderly use of land by Baguio residents and visitors alike. It reads: SECTION 5. DIVISION INTO ZONES OR DISTRICTS. To effectively carry out the provisions of this Ordinance, the City is hereby divided into the following land use zones: 1. LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL ZONE (R-1) 4/23/2020, 10:52 AM