Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) would suggest to the ministry that the ban be implemented in other areas of the city
THE blanket ban to freeze four types of high-end developments in the country will not be implemented in Kuala Lumpur yet.
During a meeting with Kuala Lumpur mayor Tan Sri Mohd Amin Nordin Abd Aziz yesterday, Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng said Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) would be discussing the matter further with the Finance Ministry.
“We were informed that the ban would not be feasible for Kuala Lumpur, especially in the Golden Triangle area. However, the mayor said DBKL would suggest to the ministry that the ban be implemented in other areas of the city,” he said during a press conference after the meeting.
Following a Bank Negara report released in June, Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani said the Government had put in place a blanket ban on four types of developments, namely shopping complexes, offices, service apartments and luxury high-rise apartments priced over RM1mil effective Nov 1 this year.
On the shelved draft Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020, Lim said they were informed that DBKL would be working on a 2040 or 2050 version of the plan.
“DBKL will use the KL Structure Plan 2020 as well as the Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020 as a base to fine-tune and improve the new plan.
“However, there is still no timeline on when the new plan will be gazetted,” said Lim.
Meanwhile, Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai rapped DBKL for not providing a detailed report for the 2018 DBKL budget for each constituency located within the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur.
“In previous years, the MPs would be called for a meeting once the draft budget was ready, but this year we were only informed once the budget was announced.
“We do not know what is the breakdown of expenditure for each constituency or what were the projects or programmes that would be undertaken,” he said, adding they were only given a booklet with the summary of the budget.
Other MPs who attended the meeting were Wangsa Maju MP Dr Tan Kee Kwong and Bandar Tun Razak MP Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim.
