PETALING JAYA (Dec 16): The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has urged developer Kwasa Land Sdn Bhd to refrain from making any statement about potential projects at the former Rubber Research Institute (RRI) land when they are inconsistent with the current local plan.

The council's one-stop-centre (OSC) councillors, Lee Suet Sen, Tang Fuie Koh and Cynthia Gabriel said in a joint statement that MBPJ had already decided that a Special Area Plan (RKK) needs to be prepared, taking into account imbalances in sustainable development in PJ.

"MBPJ will set up a special team to study before it decides to go through the process of amending the local plan should it feel it necessary in the public interests to do so.

"It would not be prudent to bypass these processes by directly referring matters to the state government as these are proper matters in the jurisdiction of MBPJ, morever there is a two-stage extensive public participation required by the law for amendment of a local plan and it must serve the public interest and not individual interests," the statement said.

The 724ha land is currently zoned as Institutional in the Petaling Jaya Local Plan 2 (RTPJ2), meaning that only institutional buildings such as training centres or schools can be built on it.

The mixed development planned on the RRI land in Petaling Jaya may still be a reality although it was not included in the RTPJ2 following public objection last year.

However, for that to happen, MBPJ would need to approve a new development plan and an application to rezone the land.

A second public hearing will have to be conducted to get feedback before it can be included in the RTPJ2.

Although there was word that the developer, Kwasa Land, had submitted a development plan to MBPJ, mayor Mohd Azizi Mohd Zain had said that the city council had not received any such application. 

The councillors reiterated that MBPJ that no proposal should be presented to the state until the local council had approved it.

"MBPJ is ready to start planning the RKK for RRI in 2016," the statement added.

State Housing, Building Management and Urban Living Committee chairman Datuk Iskandar Abdul Samad had announced in the November sitting of the state assembly that about 9,810 Selangorku affordable homes would be built on the RRI land in Sungai Buloh.

Of the number, 3,928 units would be built on the Shah Alam side on 202ha of land while another 5,882 would be on the 724ha of land in Kota Damansara in Petaling Jaya.

Kwasa Land Sdn Bhd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Employees Provident Fund EPF. -- The Malaysian Insider

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