Decision 16 G.R. No. 215988 aggregate of 11 [stories] with a 5-[ story] parking lot." 83 It stresses tha~ Engineer Oscar Flores, the city building official, testified that the mall expansion has four (4) stories composed of split levels. 84 As for the different applicants in the original and amended environmental compliance certificates, private respondent SM Investments Corporation claims that private respondent SM Prime Holdings, Inc., the applicant in the amended Environmental Compliance Certificate, only acted as its attorney-in-fact. Additionally, it denies petitioners' claim that the Expansion Project is a co-located project under the Revised Procedural Manual for Department of Environment and Natural Resources Administrative Order 2003-30. Both private and public respondents posit that all of the pertinent permits were issued regularly by the appropriate government officials. 85 They emphasize that the lower courts correctly invoked the presumption of regularity in justifying the permits issued as they supported their conclusions with evidence. 86 Finally, private respondents SM Prime Holdings, Inc. and Shopping Center Management Corporation state that the Expansion Project will m cause irreparable damage to the environment and the residents of Baguio. 7 They, thus, move for the lifting of the Temporary Restraining Order. 88 L The issues for this Court's resolution are: First, whether or not the Petition should be dismissed for having a defective verification and certification against forum shopping; Second, whether or not the Petition should be dismissed for raising questions of fact, which are not allowed in a petition for review under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court; Third, whether or not the Petition should be dismissed for its failure to observe the rule on exhaustion of administrative remedies and the doctrine of primary jurisdiction; and Finally, whether or not the assailed permits issued in favor of privc:. ·p respondents were validly and regularly issued. 83 84 85 86 87 88 Id. Id. Id. Id. Id. Id. at 428. at 441 and 2723. at 441, 673-674. 2728-2729. at 678-679. at 676-678. /J J"