SHAH ALAM, 7 Aug: The Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) will hold a Public Publicity and Participation programme for the MBSA Local Plan Draft (3rd changes) 2020, beginning August 7 to September 5.
The MBSA Mayor, Datuk Mohd Jaafar Mohd Atan, said that it is being organised to facilitate the public and developers to provide suggestions, views and objections in the preparation of the MBSA Local Plan.
He said that the public publicity and participation programme is very significant the MBSA as the administrator to act in a more pragmatic and committed manner to become the best local authority in the state.
“This Local Plan has been gazetted on July 31, with the gazette number 3189, and the state planning committee has also agreed for MBSA to prepare the MBSA local plan draft according to Section 12 (1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 172).
“It involved proposed development that will have an impact on the surrounding development. The proposed amendments should take into consideration the same amendment for adjacent lots and not just lots applied for, as well as the impact it has on the image of the city and skyline as a result of an increase in the floor space for future development,” he said at the inauguration of the MBSA Local Plan Draft event at the MBSA Gallery.
Jafaar said that the MBSA 2020 local planning area will involve an area of 29,030 hectares comprising of two districts; the North of Petaling and Klang (South).
He said that the area will be divided into five blocks of small planning which takes into account the planning of 56 sections in Shah Alam for the purpose of control and managing the activities of development planning activities.
“The proposed amendment is also based on justification and involves changes in land use zones which need to be adjusted, the potential of sites for future development, inconsistency in the current situation at the land use zone sites which need to be updated and the development demands need to be based on current development patterns,” he said.
He said that the report will then be the basis to landowners, developers, the public, non-governmental organisations and stakeholders to submit any suggestion, opinion and objection before the local plan is gazetted.
The exhibition will be held at four locations; the foyer of the MBSA Gallery, branch offices at Sungai Buloh, Kota Kemuning and Setia Alam from 9am to 5pm.
The public can make objections or suggestions at the provided counters officially and directly to MBSA.
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