2010 Target for Subang Jaya Draft Local Plan

Monday, 22 June 2009

2010 Target for Subang Jaya Draft Local Plan

Subang Jaya Draft Local Plan to be gazetted by early next year

THE Selangor State Government is confident it will be able to finalise and gazette the Subang Jaya Local Plan by early 2010.
“Within the next three months, we will together with the State Planning Department compile all the comments and objections submitted by residents.”
“We will study the relevance of the objections and if there problems or sensitive issues, we will call for a session on a case-by-case basis,” Selangor state executive council member Iskandar Abdul Samad, in charge Housing, Building Development and Squatters said.
Iskandar who chaired the public hearing on the Draft Local Plan at the Subang Jaya Municipal Council yesterday said he was optimistic the planning document would be gazetted by early next year.
Together with him was Selangor State Exco Ronnie Liu who is the Local Government, Research and Development Committee chairman.
Among the top issues raised at the public hearing held over two consecutive Mondays were
1.    the need for more non-Muslim places of worship in the township;
2.    objections to the proposed cemetery at the Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve;
3.    the need for more open spaces;
4.    the need for government hospitals or clinics;
5.    objections to the proposed development of the Subang Ria Park and the LRT.
Ronnie said the State Government wanted to try to increase the number of places of worship in the municipality.
“We need to consciously add more places of worship and Buddhist temples (vihara). We heard the proposals from Buddhist community leaders today on their request to have more Buddhist temples and tokong,” he said.
On the proposed conversion of industrial lots in SS13 Subang Jaya into a residential hub, Iskandar said the panel heard objections to this which cited the increase in density and traffic congestion as the main reasons.
New areas in the municipality need to be identified for the construction of more Chinese and Tamil schools according to Ronnie.
“Most parts of Subang Jaya are matured and the area was planned without the need for Chinese and Tamil schools.”
“As such, if we are to build any, it would have to be done in newer areas and not the older parts of the township as there’s no land for this,” he said.
He also said the State had been giving land to the Federal Government to build more schools and would continue to do so.
“We want to give land to build more schools including sekolah agama (religious schools),” he said citing the allocation of extra land for the Midland Tamil School in Shah Alam as an example.
The construction of government clinics according to Ronnie, has also hit a snag with land being scarce.
“There’s no land to allocate for building one. We only have land in Putra Heights, Bandar Kinrara or Pusat Bandar Puchong,” he said.
On objections to the proposed plan to locate a cemetery and crematorium at the Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, Ronnie said the State had nowhere else to look at as an alternative site.
“Where is the State going to put the cemetery? No one seems to want it in their backyard.”
“New crematoriums are very environmentally friendly. I saw this in Shanghai and the units do not emit smoke. The cost is also something the State can afford,” he added.