KL Local Plan: City folk can
have their say
16/06/2005 Malay Mail By Dennis Chua
KUALA LUMPUR, June 15:
Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Isa Abdul Samad has assured
Kuala Lumpur residents that their views would be heard once the
city’s Local Plan is ready in June next year.
He said residents can give their feedback on the plan as it is meant
to benefit them as taxpayers.
Isa was speaking at his office in City Hall after a visit by Kepong
MP Dr Tan Seng Giaw, Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai and Bukit Bintang MP Fong
Kui Lun yesterday.
He said: “We will consider the viewpoints and suggestions of Kuala
Lumpur folks once it is ready.”
Isa assured Tan that the Ministry would soon provide Kuala Lumpur’s
MPs with more details on City Hall’s recent budget. This will
include details of City Hall’s debts to Tenaga Nasional, which is
about RM5 million.
“The Ministry and City Hall will refer the matter to Tenaga Nasional
soon,” he said.
Isa said he would make sure City Hall’s departments responded
promptly to public complaints forwarded by MPs, in line with the
local council’s Consumers’ Charter.
Fong urged the Ministry to reconsider City Hall’s plans to relocate
some 240 squatter families in Kampung Brunei, Pudu, to Kampung
Muhibbah off Jalan Puchong.
He said it should relocate them to nearby Jalan Cochrane’s Low
Income People’s Housing Scheme because many of their children
studied in schools near Jalan Pudu.
“There are hardly any schools in the Kampung Muhibbah area. I hope
the Ministry will get City Hall to relocate them nearby,” he said.
Tan urged City Hall to inspect the Pudu Town Park project in Jalan
Pudu Ulu, which was launched in 1997, but has not seen any
development since then. He said the project site had become a
dumping ground and a haunt for drug addicts.
