KL City Plan not cancelled, but DBKL to work on new plan

PETALING JAYA (Dec 13): Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) said the KL City Plan 2020 has not been cancelled, but it will be coming up with an update for 2040 or 2050.

In a report by the Malay Mail Online, Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai said DBKL’s planning department’s director Sulaiman Mohamed clarified that the old plans were not gazetted, but neither were they cancelled.

Tan accused Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Utama Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor and DBKL of abusing their powers to change the land use to “suit their ultimate aims”.

Parts of the KL City Plan 2020 and the KL Structure Plan 2020 will be used to “fine-tune and improve” the updated city plan, said Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng.

The KL City Plan 2020 was launched in 2008 and produced at a cost of RM30 million.

It was originally meant to be gazetted in 2012 but this was postponed to Feb 28, 2013, following objections over land usage.

In March, KL mayor Tan Sri Mhd Amin Nordin Abd Aziz said it was pointless to gazette a plan that would expire in three years.

Moreover, the plan is not feasible given that land prices have escalated significantly from when it was launched until now.