KL Local Plan: City folk can have their say

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.