Another high-rise project near Highland Towers?


A residents' organisation claimed which a private developer had pronounced which a plan is indispensable to 'rectify' vulnerable hillslopes circuitously during a assembly mediated by MPAJ final week.
PETALING JAYA: There have been skeleton by a private developer to set up 5 common ownership towers during Taman Hillview, near a site of a hull of a Highland Towers apartments.
The Sri Ukay/Hillview Residents Association chairperson Siti Hendon Chik pronounced a stretch in between a due plan as well as a Highland tower hull was about "walking distance."
"Our residents' committee attended a assembly upon Oct 3 with a developer, mediated by a Ampang Jaya Town Council during Menara MPAJ," she said.
The due project, Siti Hendon said, would lay upon an eight-acre land, housing 5 towers of 17-storey condominiums.
It would additionally be a gated village project.
She pronounced which during a meeting, a little of a residents were against to a plan but a developer pronounced which a growth was indispensable to "rectify" a little hillslopes circuitously which could endanger a residents.
"I asked MPAJ because it was not rectifying a slopes if it was dangerous; a officer told us which it would price too much money as well as time, even up to 4 years," pronounced Siti Hendon.
She additionally told them which a area was already facing heavy traffic overload as well as further growth during a area would make matters worse.
"But MPAJ assured us which zero is finalised as well as it is still in a midst of getting public feedback upon a common ownership project," pronounced Siti Hendon.
! She af ter pronounced which it was critical for a local authorities to redress a hillslopes initial if they posed an immediate danger to a residents vital during a area.
"The local authorities contingency solve a slope problem, not handing it over to a third party," pronounced Siti Hendon.

Unsafe hillslopes
Echoing Siti Hendon's sentiments, an additional resident from Sri Ukay, Lee Joo Khim, pronounced a developer had pitched its idea which a growth is indispensable due to a vulnerable hillslopes nearby.
Therefore, Lee added, a organisation had asked for multiform reports from a developer as well as a MPAJ for further assessment.
"We asked them to provide land titles, geo-technical reports as well as others. MPAJ betrothed to hand them over to us shortly as well as gave us one month to investigate them upon a date of receipt," pronounced Lee.
The residents have been formulation to revisit a developer's bureau next week to investigate a geographical inform of a area, which is pronounced to have been finished recently.
FMT unsuccessful to strech Selangor executive councillor for housing Iskandar Abdul Samad as well as MPAJ director of town formulation Nizam Shaari for comments.
Block A of a Highland Towers apartments collapsed in December 1993 causing 48 people to remove their lives.
Occupants from a rest of a blocks were subsequently evacuated due to safety concerns.
Meanwhile, an central from MPAJ reliable which it has received an duplicate from a developer for a plan during Taman Hillview.
"The site is about 100 metres divided fr! om Highl and Towers," pronounced a official.
'Ask a state government'
However, he pronounced which a local council has yet to give its approval as it was still getting public feedback upon a matter.
The central pronounced which a eight-acre land belongs to a developer as well as it was directed towards for housing purposes.
However, usually one-third of a land would be used for a common ownership plan as a rest of a land was unfit.
"The developer had betrothed to redress a slopes upon a rest of a private land. On tip of that, it has additionally betrothed to redress slopes during a circuitously 18-acres land which belongs to a state government. The entire process to redress a slopes will price RM12 million," pronounced a official.
He pronounced a slopes which were indispensable to be rectified were now unsafe.
On because MPAJ did not redress a slopes in a past 20 years, a central pronounced which it was due to bill constraints.
"You have to ask a state government. In areas managed by MPAJ alone, we have about 600 slopes to maintain. We usually have funds to conduct a slopes," pronounced official.
(Main print shows a collapsed Highland Towers. The second print shows a highway heading to a due common ownership project.)
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