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that they do not have space in their work. We hope that when devising this plan, given that the Council had passed many motions for Five Year Plans and never was there any fixed rule on what to include and what not, space will be provided for the planners. So I think we need a plan of vision and we need to have flexibility. After all, the metro plan is in fact itself a guideline subject to review and revision. Recently, government announced the revision of our existing reclamation policy. That will affect the metro plan. So, we hope that the Ten Year Plan of Vision in the making will not be confined in a narrow frame.
Mr. Chairman, I hope the Council will always be in the lead in planning with forward looking vision, in investing in the future and not be within bounds or confined to one plan from a single side. The Government has recently announced that there might be changes to the reclamation policy and that more land in the NT might be supplied to ease demands for reclaimed land. The metro plan in the most part relies on land from reclamation. Knowing that it will be changed, how can we hinge our Ten Year Plan on it and take the passive approach? We should take the initiative to fight for land. We should take the initiative to ask to include the land we require in the metro plan. After all, the proposed Ten Year Plan of Vision is aimed at building a better future. Development brings progress. We do not want to set boundaries for and put difficulties in the way of those drawing up the Ten Year Plan. Like when we passed the Five Year Plan not long ago, we should allow hundreds of flowers bloom. We should take in more opinions and new ideas as well as give planners a free hand. I think this is the only way to make our Ten Year Plan a success and take the Council's capital works to a new milestone in the next decade. I move the motion.
MR. SAN STEPHEN Wong Hon-CHING (in Cantonese):--I second the motion.
CHAIRMAN (in Cantonese):-Will Mr. Stanley NG Wing-fai move an amendment?
(2b) MR. STANLEY NG WING-FAI moved the following amendment:—
'Resolved that this Council should, in accordance with the Metroplan of the Urban Area Development Statement (mid to long term) and the various Five Year Plans drafted by this Council, formulate an outline for long term development of different kinds of facilities and consider short term (within five years) plans of capital works and land usage, and also the medium term (within 10 years) demand for facilities and land, so as to bid for sufficient land for development and ensure that the municipal facilities can cope with the overall demand of the community."
He said (in Cantonese):-When I read the motion by Ms. Jennifer CHOW Kit-bing, I saw a problem. Ms. CHOW emphasized a ten year plan of vision for
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