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Written by: District Licheng
2021-03-02 20:07
The last update date: 2021-03-02 20:08
Since the URA announced the commencement of the redevelopment project on Kai Tak Road/Sa Po Road in Kowloon City in February 2019, many residents have expressed their hope that they will move back to the area and continue to live in the area in the future. Group, and proposed to the URA and various government departments "the original resettlement plan", but was rejected by the URA due to cost issues.
At the meeting held by the Kowloon City District Council today (2nd), the district councilors unanimously passed a motion for the study of the relocation plan for the redevelopment of the Kowloon City District, but the URA did not send any representatives to attend.
The URA and the Concern Group have large differences in the cost of calculation
In the early years, the neighbourhoods of the Nine-Eight City Reconstruction Concern Group, with the assistance of professional staff, put forward the "Nine-Eight City Reconstruction In-situ Resettlement Plan", hoping that the authorities can use the form of "land exchange" to allow residents and all walks of life to relocate or resume their businesses in the same area. , And maintain the regional characteristics and community network of "Little Thailand". In addition, it also proposed the "Original site, original large" plan, requiring the original area to relocate a unit of the same size as the original site to households, and provide transitional rent allowances and relocation allowances , Management fee allowance and land premium allowance, etc.
At the meeting of the Working Group Concerning Urban Renewal of the Housing and Development Planning Committee of the Kowloon City District Council held today (2nd), a group of neighbours in the Concern Group pointed out that the residents gave the URA’s "original site" plan clearly stated The cost of expenditure is calculated to be about $15,000/square foot (including land premium and parking lot), but the cost of expenditure calculated in the URA’s reply is $33,640/square foot (excluding land premium and parking lot).
Ma Xipeng, chairman of the Working Group Concerning Urban Renewal and a member of the Kowloon City District Council, said that the URA has added an additional $22500/sq.
Ma questioned why this expenditure was supposed to be a profit for the URA in the future, and why it was included in the cost. He criticized the URA for using linguistic hypocrisy to portray residents into a greedy image.
As the URA did not send a representative to attend the meeting, it was unable to respond to the incident.
A short video was played during the conference to explain the desire of a group of Kowloon City residents to stay in the same area and live in the same area, and at the same time to retain the characteristics of the "Little Thailand" and "Little Chaozhou" in the area.
Ma Xipeng then moved to ask for the study of the original resettlement plan for the reconstruction of the Jiucheng City. District Councillors Li Guangwei and Guo Tianyi agreed, and the relevant motion documents were unanimously approved at the meeting.
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