Mammoth Development Looming in SS12

Wednesday, 6 May 2009

Mammoth Development Looming in SS12

Proposal to develop land near Sheraton Subang Hotel & Towers resurfaces
RESIDENTS continue wrestling with development issues all over Subang Jaya and USJ.
While the battle to stop the development of a commercial building continues in USJ6, another proposal has loomed its ugly head in SS12 yet again.
This time around is the resurfacing of the earlier proposal to development the land next to Sheraton Subang Hotels & Towers with a massive (1) a five-storey commercial block, (2) an extension to the existing hotel block, (3) a 21-storey hotel apartment block, (4) a 19-storey service apartment block, and (5) a six-storey parking block, with two basements on two plots of land, according to ADUN Subang Jaya Hannah Yeoh.
Hannah who chanced upon the revised proposal to the Subang Jaya Municipal Council said the matter was raised at the One-Stop Centre (OSC) but has since been referred to the State Planning Committee.
Just recently a board displaying the proposed plan has been erected at the hotel car-park adjoining the Sime Darby Medical Centre.
“The original proposal had been rejected by the OSC in 2007 following a public hearing. Together with the JKP Zone 1 today, we are also registering our objections to the proposal,” she said during a site visit to inspect the temporary barriers placed along Jalan SS12/1A, SS12/1B and SS12/4 to deter double-parking around the hospital.
“The service road into SS12 is the only one main road, which cannot cope with a higher density,” Yeoh said, adding that State Planning Committee should not approve the project unless the traffic problems in the area are resolved.
“The committee should come down to the ground and see the situation themselves,” she added.
SS12/3A resident N. Govindan Kutty who was present said he was puzzled why the developer was allowed to revise and resubmit their plan when they had already been rejected earlier.
MPSJ councilor Theresa Ratnam Thong said residents were not against development but were concerned that the existing infrastructure could not cope with the development.
It is understood that an earlier proposal was for six blocks of 23-storeys with 1,276 service apartment units and a 11-storey car park.
Bottlenecks jams already plague Wangsa Baiduri residents every time the two hotels in the area have function and the proposed development worries Addie@ Eddy Ismail who stays with his family in the housing area nearby.
“Just down the road from the hotel, there are already three existing condominium blocks, one more block being completed, and 400 townhouses.”
“Each time the two hotels in the area have functions, the bottleneck jam will reach right up to the Wangsa Baiduri guardhouse. Residents are trapped as there is no alternative route to enter to exit,” Addie said.
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