Minister says will consult us on KL city plan, says pressure group

29-Jul-2018, 20:12

29 Jul 2018, 20:12

The Save Kuala Lumpur coalition says FT minister Khalid Samad will direct City Hall to brief them.

Free Malaysia Today — Discussions on the KL City Plan 2020 were held in 2008. (Reuters pic)

KUALA LUMPUR:

Federal Territories Minister Khalid Abdul Samad has assured a coalition of resident associations in Kuala Lumpur that the government would engage with them before the Draft KL City Plan 2020 (DKLCP 2020) is gazetted.

Mumtaz Ali, who chairs the Save Kuala Lumpur (SKL) coalition, said this was conveyed to them during a meeting with Khalid recently.

He said Khalid assured them that he would direct the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to engage with SKL before submitting a local plan to the minister for gazetting.

“DBKL needs to organise sessions to give effective feedback to the stakeholders, especially residential communities and resident associations, to explain on the then inputs received, accepted, and rejected, based on the focus discussion group engagements as well as subsequent dialogues,” he said in a statement, following a meeting with Khalid which was also attended by SKL chairman Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman.

SKL, which has been behind citizens’ engagement with DBKL in 2008 on the DKLCP 2020, said DBKL had made changes to the plan despite a series of discussions with the group.

Mumtaz had said DBKL must use the 2008 version of the DKLCP 2020, with the feedback that was provided over a duration of time.

“Otherwise, DBKL may just table whatever suits it,” he said.

He said in their meeting with Khalid, local council elections including for the Kuala Lumpur mayor were also discussed.