The KUALA Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will be having a public viewing of the Draft KL City Plan 2020 later this month before it is forwarded to the Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister.
Kuala Lumpur mayor Datuk Seri Ahmad Fuad Ismail said the public viewing would be held on Nov 29 and 30 with two sessions each day.
“We have received more than 62,000 complaints and comments on various issues and some adjustments have been made to the previous plan to accommodate the government’s National Key Result Areas,” said Ahmad Fuad in his opening speech at the Sustainable Usage of Land, Amendment to the Draft KL City Plan 2020 workshop on Tuesday.
He added that a workshop like this was the last step to hear out what the public had to say after which a committee would study the proposals and changes to be handed to the Prime Minister for approval.
“The Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020 had been gazetted in 2004 which serves to inform residents on the structures guiding the development of Kuala Lumpur.
“Similarly, we need a decision to be made for this KL City Plan 2020 or we would be left hanging without any comprehensive plan for growth in the city,” he said.
The workshop had three working papers presented by the Malaysian Institute of Planners president Norliza Hashim.
The papers were on Land Use Zoning and Development Intensity, Use Classes, and Planning for Public Facilities.
Norliza said it was pertinent for people to pay attention to the aspects of land zoning and the usage allowed under each zone.
She said once the lands were zoned and gazetted, landonwers who wished to change the land use zoning had to go through the local plan process as provided by Section 17 of the Federal Territory Act 1982 (Act 267).
A planning permission is also required for change of use of building under the same Act of Section 19 and 20.
“We are reserving 20% of residential component in a commercial area under Mixed Use zoning,” she said, adding that this is to encourage more compact neighbourhoods and reduce transportation cost and congestion by getting people to live in the city centre or near where they work or shop.
She said each of the 22 zones were now allowed for multi-use so long as the activities were compatible and non-conflicting.
Touching on a new class called Urban Villages under Residential Zone, she said these were existing villages that would be conserved to protect the environment and character within the planning period of the plan.
“Some Urban Villages that are already classified are Kg Pandan India, Kg Chubadak Tengah, and Gombak Malay Reserve Villages,” she said.
She also said some changes had been made to the draft zoning plan whereby public facilities and open spaces that were previously marked on private land had now been omitted and corrected.
“From this year onwards, there will be no more individual-owned land that is being zoned for public facilities.
“In the revised version, the sites designated or reserved for public facilities are on public or goverment or agency land.
Norliza added that the white zone definition that previously referred to public facilities, infrastructure and utilities, had since been deleted and each category of the facilities were now defined as its own individual zoning called ‘Public Facility’, ‘Infrastructure and Utility’, and ‘Cemetery’.
Ahmad Fuad said plot ratio could not be generalised and was relative to the plot size and location of the building.
“In areas like KL Sentral, the plot ratio is less than four while in KLCC area, it is currently four but not all towers there are fully developed.
“Despite the low plot ratios in these areas, they are already congested and choked. Some developers want us to increase the plot ratio of 10 in a city centre to a higher figure.
“If the land is small, then a higher plot ratio can be considered, but we cannot allow high plot ratios for big a land.
“While they want a higher plot ratio, some of them cannot fulfil the parking requirements as outlined by the DBKL,” he said.
He added that the DBKL might look into turning abandoned oxidation ponds and unused retention ponds into recreational areas but need to speak to the parties concerned about such proposals.
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