Residents' coalition demands DBKL to gazette KL Draft Plan 2020

KUALA LUMPUR: A residents' coalition intends to take Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to court if the KL Draft Plan 2020 is not gazetted.
Its chairman, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman, said the move is pertinent given the challenges faced by residents to protect their residential areas from being encroached by commercialisation.
He added this includes protecting the loss of open green spaces.
"We're seeking for DBKL to gazette the draft plan as DBKL is currently only using it as a guideline," he said in a news conference at DBKL here today after meeting DBKL's planning executive director Datuk Mohd Najib Mohd.
He said the coalition, Selamatkan Kuala Lumpur, however has not given the authorities a specific time frame to resolve the issue, stressing it was their duty to gazette it.
"In the absence of a local plan there have been multiple incidences of flash floods caused by lack of vegetation to absorb and channel excess rainwater, which caused monetary losses for residents," he said, adding under the Federal Territories Act 1982, a Structure Plan coupled with a more detailed local plan should be used to administer Kuala Lumpur.
Efforts to contact Mohd. Najib for comments were futile at press time.
On Feb 14, DBKL mayor Tan Sri Mhd. Amin Nordin Abd Aziz reportedly said discussions are being held on the drafting of the KL Structure Plan 2050.