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FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1990

ON LONGER-TERM

GOVERNMENT PLANNED

TO

LAND

USE

IN

DISTRICT,

THE FOR THE WITH

THE USE DEVELOPMENT READJUST THE LAND

ARRANGEMENTS CAUSEWAY BAY TYPHOON SHELTER AND THE NEIGHBOURING AREA TO TIE IN THE CENTRAL AND WAN CHAI RECLAMATION PROJECT.

IN

QUARRY

AND SHAU

KEI

LAN CONTINUED,

THE

BAY

MR WAN, GOVERNMENT PLANNED TO RECONSTRUCT THE SHAU KEI WAN ROAD.

HE SAID HE WAS GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF THE

WORKS COULD BE EXPECTED TO BEGIN SMOOTHIY, CONSTRUCTION

PLAN PROCEEDED IN TWO

TO

THREE YEARS' TIME.

OTHER

PROJECTS MAJOR

IN

OF CONSTRUCTION HOUSING ESTATES ON THE LAND PROVIDED BY THE CLEARANCE OF SQUATTER

AS AREAS

THE

THE ALDRICH SHAU KEI WAN FOOTHILLS, AS WELL

PUBLIC PROJECT TO PROVIDE LAND FOR PRIVATE AND RECLAMATION AND FOR OTHER COMMUNITY FACILITIES.

WOULD BE THE

PUBLIC

BAY HOUSING,

AS

OF HOUSING,

IN CHAI WAN, THE SIU SAI WAN RECLAMATION PROJECT WAS

ON THE WAS

PAMELA YOUDE HOSPITAL PROJECT.

MORE CHAI WAN WOULD HAVE RECLAMATION PROJECT, TYPES

AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

UNDERWAY,

OF THE COMPLETION LAND FOR DIFFERENT

EDUCATIONAL

AND

RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.

BRINGING AN LIVING

MR LAN SAID THAT ALL THOSE PROJECTS, APART FROM IMPETUS TO THE DISTRICT AND IMPROVING COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND ENVIRONMENT, WOULD PROVIDE NEW CHALLENGES FOR AREA COMMITTEES.

THE HELPING SENSE OF PARTICIPATE

"FOR EXAMPLE, IT HAS BEEN PROJECTED THAT THE POPULATION OF DISTRICT WILL HAVE INCREASED FROM 570,000 TO 600,000 BY 1995. THE NEW RESIDENTS TO ADAPT TO THE ENVIRONMENT, PROMOTING A BELONGING TO THE DISTRICT AND MOTIVATING THEM TO ACTIVELY

DEPEND ON YOUR COMMUNITY-BUILDING

DETAILED

IN

WOULD

ENTHUSIASTIC PARTICIPATION.

PLANNING

AND

HISTORY

COMMITTEE

"IN THIS CONNECTION, AREA COMMITTEES, WITH THEIR LONG AND GOOD TRACK RECORD, CAN MAKE MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS HELPING TO

" HE TOLD BUILD

BETTER AND HAPPIER COMMUNITY, A

THE AREA

MEMBERS.

EARLIER, MR LAN PRAISED THE MEMBERS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION.

TO

GOVERNMENT ON-THE-SPOT

HE NOTED THAT THE MEMBERS, APART FROM ASSISTING THE IN PROMOTING COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, FREQUENTLY CARRIED OUT STUDIES AND SURVEYS IN ORDER TO PUT FORWARD TO THE RELEVANT GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

AND PRACTICAL" VIEWS ON THE NEEDS OF

RESIDENTS.

"EFFECTIVE

THE

THE ISSUES

THE

PROBLEMS

OF

OF

OF

TACKLED BY THE MEMBERS INCLUDED TRAFFIC AND HAWKERS IN CAUSEWAY BAY AND NORTH POINT, THE EMISSION

BY AIR POLLUTANTS

FACTORIES

AND THE CLEARANCE IN QUARRY BAY FOOTHILL SQUATTER AREAS IN SHAU KEI WAN,

/"IN THE

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