Financial Secretary Paul Chan recently reiterated the idea of building houses on the edge of country parks. He specifically mentioned that 35,000 units can be built on the edge of the Tai Lam countryside, which is expected to shorten the waiting time for public housing from 6.1 years to 5 years. The results of Chief Executive Carrie Lam's "land debate".
A few days later, Chief Executive Li Jiachao clarified after visiting the district the day before yesterday (July 30) that the current view is to focus on the rezoning of green belts, public-private cooperation, the reclamation of Jiaoyizhou artificial islands, the northern metropolitan area, and the borders of country parks. Land is not a priority project.
Within a few days, the government has suspected different calibers on the issue of land development, which has attracted attention from the outside world.
However, some Legislative Council members who are familiar with land development believe that the Chief Executive's remarks are not "locking the gates" on the development of suburban parks and borders, but merely the priority of the government's land development at the emerging stage.
Xie Weiquan: The Chief Executive did not say that early research can be done to meet future needs
In response to a reporter's question on Saturday (30th), Li Jiachao pointed out that the development of land and housing needs to "increase speed, volume and efficiency". At present, the main force is to increase the supply of existing land sources as much as possible. More than 16,000 hectares of green belt are The first consideration is the development of country parks (frontier); together with the Secretary for the Environment and Ecology, Mr. Tse Chin-wan, and later interviewed, he also said that the current discussion on whether to develop country parks is "a little further away", and the outside world is concerned about the change in the government's caliber.
However, Chairman of the Legislative Council Committee on Development and Member of the Building, Surveying, Planning and Parks sector Tse Wai-chuen said that the Government's research on green belts has been ongoing, while the borders of country parks were stopped after the Housing Society conducted a study a few years ago. Therefore, for the Government, The rezoning of green belts is of course a higher "priority".
However, he believes that the Chief Executive did not say no to the development of the border areas of country parks. It will take some time for the research to be restarted and the final implementation to take place.
He pointed out that now is the right time to restart relevant research, so that we can plan ahead, and it is impossible to wait until the land shortage problem has worsened before starting work. The development potential of the frontier areas is always just an estimate. The government needs to start the research as soon as possible. Only then can it be developed.
Xie Weiquan added that if any place needs to develop more or less, it will have a certain impact on the ecology. This is the difference between more and less. In reality, it is necessary to make a balance and choose a development plan that has a lower impact on the ecology, and it is normal for the society to have different opinions. : "As you ask the residents in subdivided housing, do they support development as soon as possible? Of course they do, because their living environment is in dire straits. But if you ask some people with decent living conditions, they may have different views on development." He thinks , the Government needs to strike a reasonable balance, and reiterates that research in advance is an ideal approach.
Liu Guoxun: Do it at the same time
Liu Guoxun, spokesman for the development affairs of the DAB, pointed out that seeing that Chen Maobo's remarks caused a certain repercussions in the society, the Chief Executive's remarks did have a cooling effect, but he believed that this did not contradict the resumption of research on the borders of suburban parks, because finding land has always required a multi-pronged approach. , the current research on rezoning green belts should be continued, or even expanded to a territory-wide comprehensive study to understand the status of local green belts; studies on the borders of country parks can also be carried out simultaneously.
He said that the developed land in Hong Kong only accounts for about 25% of the total, and there are still many places that have development potential to be studied. Personally, I am happy to see that the current government has a clear direction and is no longer entangled in the "use or not" stage, but instead With the priority of land use, people can see progress in different land development directions.
The chief executive's wealthy develops the borders of suburban parks with different calibers?
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