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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1994

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STT VEHICLE PARK SITES ARE FOR TEMPORARY USE

TWO TEMPORARY VEHICLE PARKS IN WESTERN DISTRICT WERE UNDER SHORT-TERM TENANCIES (STTS) UNTIL THE CONNECTION WITH

SECRETARY

FOR

OPERATED

CONSTRUCTION OF THE

MR HAIDER TRANSPORT,

SITES WERE REQUIRED IN

HARBOUR WESTERN

CROSSING, THE TOLD THE BARMA,

LEGISLATIVE

YEUNG SUM,

MR

COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON

ALTERNATIVE BARMA SAID SEVERAL

TEMPORARY SITES HAD BEEN FOUND WITHIN SPACES AND ADDITIONAL THE SAME DISTRICT TO PROVIDE OVER 400 PARKING SITES WERE BEING IDENTIFIED.

HE SAID THE GENERAL POLICY IS TO DISPOSE OF SITES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TOWN PLAN.

"WHEN THERE

FOR

PERMANENT IS NO IMMEDIATE REQUIREMENT DEVELOPMENT, SUCH SITES ARE EITHER ALLOCATED TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (E.G. AS WORKS AREAS) OR LET ON STTS BY WAY OF PUBLIC TENDERS (E.G. AS VEHICLE PARKS).

GUARANTER THE

NOT COULD MR BARMA SAID THE ADMINISTRATION REPROVISIONING OF TEMPORARY PARKING SITES ON EXPIRY OF STTS.

NOT

POSSIBLE ALWAYS

TO "OWING TO LAND CONSTRAINTS, IT IS

THE SAME PROVIDE REPLACEMENT VEHICLE PARKS OF THE SAME SIZE AND IN LOCALITY.

THE POLICY ON PARKING PROVISION FOR ALL TYPES OF VEHICLE BE REEXAMINED IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR CURRENT PARKING DEMAND STUDY, SAID.

WELL + HE

MORE CONSULTATION ON SITING OF REFUSE TRANSFER STATION

THE

CONSULT STATION

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT WILL FURTHER TUEN MUN DISTRICT BOARD ON THE PROPOSED REFUGE TRANSFER (RTS) IN SHUN TAT STREET, TUEN MUN BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH THE PROJECT, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MAK, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR CANICE

IN HIS WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON ZACHARY WONG, MR MAK SAID VISITS TO THE COMPLETED REFUSE TRANSFER STATIONS IN ISLAND EAST AND KOWLOON BAY AND PRESENTATION OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IN NORTHWEST

TERRITORIES AT DISTRICT BOARDS AND THE RURAL COMMITTEE HAD BEEN ORGANISED.

NEW

/MR MAK