VM Sara said there is no solution to the Shrine Hills Drainage

Grace L. Plata wrote on Sunstar November 19, 2008 that "DAVAO City Vice Mayor Sara Duterte said it is difficult to find solutions and eventually approve the Preliminary Approval and Location Clearance (PALC) application of Shrine Hills developers with the drainage pathway emerging as the main contentious point."

Stacey Baird, one of the more active residents of Maa on the Shrine Hill struggle, personally wrote the Vice Mayor stressing that the non-resolution of the key issue of drainage is more reason for non-approval of the PALC. He added that drainage should be in place well before any other construction movement (italics mine).