Gong Xi Fa Cai ! Past and Upcoming Events

TBRA wishes all its members and friends Gong Xi Fa Cai !


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Many events have taken place over the past few months, particularly in December. Before we brief you, PLEASE note 2 important dates !

• You are invited to the Official Launch of the 'Pearl Hill View Point Park' on Tuesday 31st January from 5.30pm to 6.30pm (top of the hill)


• Come and learn how to assess a Local Plan on Saturday, 11 Febr. 4-6pm (Straits Regency meeting room, Chee Seng Gardens)

Now chronologically, here is a summary of what your Association did in December:

• On 3 December, Lemba Permai residents took to the street in protest against two 32 storey blocks planned for their quiet low-rise residential neighbourhood. (see TBRA blogsite for pictures and story)


• Several TBRA Committee members attended the full day Penang Forum on 18 December.


• On that same Sunday another “gotong royong” took place on Pearl Hill.


• Earlier in the month, the Dalat School students (and parents) contributed to the improvement and development of the Park with clearing, making paths, carrying & laying bricks for more permanent concrete paths, planting trees, etc. TBRA is grateful to them.


• We have printed a TBRA car sticker – If you promise to stick it in your car, pick one up at the Esso station, from Andrew at Straits Mini Market or from any Committee member you know. (See picture above)
  

“Pearl Hill View Point Park”

On 27 December 2011 there was a Dialogue with MPPP on this park. TBRA and ADUN YB Teh have long been advocating for this state land to be gazetted as public. The State government agrees now that the 20 acre hilltop is a Public Park. This was confirmed on 16 Jan. 2012 when a Committee was appointed to see to the park’s development and maintenance. The Morning Walkers, JKKK, the Tua Pek Kong Temple, Dalat School and TBRA are on the Committee. MPPP- Pengarah Akbar (Jabatan Rekreasi, Pelancongan & Perhubungan Antarabangsa) is advisor and counterpart. Two councillors (YB Yee Cheu Teh and YB Liew Chin Tong) are also advisors. The Committee is set up in accordance with the LA21 (Local Agenda 21)


Official Launch of the PHVPP. A Greener, Cleaner, Safer Park

Tuesday, 31st January 2012 from 5-30pm-6-30pm at the landing area at the base of the Pearl Hill View Point Park, near the Temple. There will be banners, food and drinks. Please come so MPPP can see Tanjong Bunga really needs and welcomes this Park. All are invited.


Training on how to read and understand a Local Plan

Remember the Structure Plan, the Primary and Secondary Corridor issues?

If we want to have a say in what our town will look like 10 years from now, we need to be ready to comment on the Local Plan as soon as it becomes available for viewing. Most likely the time for giving comments will be limited so we had better start preparing now. (For instance right now the draft Special Area Plan (SAP) for the Penang Botanic Gardens - with 3 more concrete structures…- is only available for less than a month.)

A well-known architect and town planner (with a soft spot for Tg Bunga) is willing to donate his time to teach TBRA how to read a sample Local Plan and we are jumping on the occasion.

• Date: 11 February, Saturday afternoon, TBRA invites its members to be trained, 4 to 6 pm.
  
• Venue: Straits Regency Condo meeting room (1st floor) top of Chee Seng Gardens.

Hope to see many of you then.

TBRA Secretary

Lemba Permai Residents took to the street on 3 December

Lorong Lembah Permai Empat 'Street Dialogue' of 03.12.2011

They were angry about new plans by Sri Setia developer (Boon Siew) who now proposes building two apartment blocks 32 stories high & one apartment block 9 stories high at ‘Permai Village’, in Tanjong Bunga (directly behind Lorong Lembah Permai 4) and adjacent to Nineteen, Permai Village and 2Permai new houses. Total additional apartment units would be over 500.
The new plans have not yet been approved and quite a number of residents went to express their opposition to the plans at a Council meeting.

They have the following concerns:

• The developers proposed additional units are way too excessive in number.


• The proposed apartment blocks are far too high for an area that was originally zoned for single storey houses.


• The addition of thousands of vehicles will add to local traffic jams & density – already at bursting point.


• The infrastructure cannot support these additional numbers. Parking will definitely spill over into neighboring streets.


• A dead-end road in a residential area of LLP4 has been opened-up to traffic in readiness to accommodate anticipated high volumes of construction & apartment traffic.


• The flow of Sungai Kelian on the proposed site has been altered; sections of the river have been filled-in, creating stagnant pools, a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

Some of the residents were not notified of the Objection Hearing although it is a legal requirement.

• Despite requests to MPPP President for a dialogue regarding the objections, no response has been received sofar.

This proposed change of plans by Boon Siew will affect residents every day; it will also affect those who bought houses in Permai Village under original plans (false promises). So, find out more about this development, share our concerns & join our protest. With support from TBRA and our local ADUN there was an excellent turn-out on 3 December 2011.

Rubbish has been used as back-fill at the site

Proposed change of plan by Sri Setia

Sungai Kelian back-fill & water seepage

Danger of landslides in Tanjong Bunga

On Saturday, 27 Aug., YB Teh Yee Cheu gave a press conference at Solok Tan Jit Seng, Tanjung Bunga. As always and despite the rain, many reporters had gathered to hear him. Contrary to other State officials, Assemblyman Teh is known to speak his mind and stand up for our environment and object to the over-development in Tanjung Bungah and Batu Ferringhi.

This time he chose a place with dangerous erosion to tell the press about new studies that show how Penang is one of 3 States considered to be at high risk for landslides. He emphasized that MPPP does not have the geo-technical knowledge to judge the hazards of construction on steep hill slopes; that therefore MPPP should be accountable for any future disaster that might strike in locations where it had approved projects.

Another speaker, Professor Dr Jimmy Lim, a well-known KL architect, pointed at the concrete pillars designed to protect the dug-out hillside below and said that modern technology would never choose concrete pilings in a place like this where solid granite bedrock can be used. The Pearl Hill Townhouses just 100 meters directly above the excavated cliff looked dangerously exposed.

TBRA has protested against the Solok Tan Jit Seng development (23 three-storey linkhouses) long before it was approved. After protracted debate, the Penang Planning Appeals Board judged a geo-tech study sufficient and a new developer was allowed to begin construction. So, since this project has been approved, one can only hope for the best. Meanwhile, MPPP as the endorser, must take full responsibility for possible mishaps.

Professor Lim also commented on the incredible ‘development’ allowed on the North Coast. While TBRA and the Batu Ferringhi Residents’ Association (BFRA) have long protested and are fully aware of the many hazards associated with the dozen or more projects along the road to Batu Ferringhi, it was interesting to hear the views of an outsider. Professor Lim said the coastal road had been built by the British for minimal traffic at the time; it was never meant to accommodate the thousands of cars and busses plying that road now.

“Basically”, he said, “it is a cul de sac, a dead-end road, meaning all who go down, use the same road to come back. (Yes, technically, they can return via Balik Pulau, but who would come back that way after a dinner in Batu Ferringhi? No-one, right ? ) So, as a cul de sac, one has to apply the simple density rules that apply in such cases. By adding on 100 townhouses here and five high-rise buildings there, the colonial-built road now is way over capacity. It is irresponsible and beyond belief that still more construction is allowed.”

George Aeria, the TBRA chairman, applauded YB Teh’s initiative to highlight the new studies showing the dangers of landslides in Penang and two other States. He reminded the reporters of TBRA’s calls to the State government to put an immediate stop to all projects on Class III and IV hill slope gradients and end any further approvals of development projects on steep slopes. He also recalled how TBRA had pleaded with successive authorities to disapprove the Tan Jit Seng construction and how residents had held a peaceful but massive protest on the very place of this press conference (see coffee party video part 1 and part 2). Despite all this, it had been approved and construction is underway– MPPP now must ensure intensive slope maintenance and monitoring and take full responsibility for any disaster that might strike.

Elky for TBRA blogsite

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The Penang public just wants its hills preserved, guarded and cared for; we look to our state government to ensure that self-serving, profit-driven entrepreneurs take their ill-conceived plans elsewhere. Our future and the future of our children cannot be left in the hands of developers.

Penang Forum Steering Committee
27 August 2011

Also see NST article "Nod based on flawed methods," 29-8-2011 with picture

Higher densities despite the Penang Structure Plan 2020

By Aliran, on 8 June 2011

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The Steering Committee of the Penang Forum is deeply disappointed and concerned that the Penang State Government has recently obtained an order from the High Court to strike out a court application made by the Tanjung Bungah Residents Association (TBRA) for legal clarification on whether Tanjung Bungah falls within the secondary or primary corridor in the Penang Structure Plan.

We are of the view that the State Government should have done the honourable thing to allow the Court to decide on the substantive issue of the case.

The State Government is fully aware of the fears and grievances of the residents of Tanjung Bungah over the controversial modification of the sketch map in the Structure Plan as it had relocated Tanjung Bungah from the secondary development corridor (with a density limit of 15 units per acre) to the primary corridor (which allows a much higher density limit of 30 units per acre).

The amendment was only made to the sketch map and it was not re-publicised and re-exhibited before it was gazetted in 2007. The public did not have the opportunity to object to the amended sketch map. The amendment and inconsistencies with the written texts and the rationale in the Structure Plan was only discovered by TBRA in 2009.

After a protracted debate between the State and TBRA over the questionable amendment, TBRA was eventually told by the State to take the matter to court for a judicial decision.

We are therefore extremely disappointed that the State Government had thereafter applied to strike out the application by TBRA for a court declaration on a purely technical point.

We urge the State Government to act in good faith, by reviewing the Penang Structure Plan 2020 immediately, and to rectify the discrepancy in the sketch map in accordance with the entire text of the Structure Plan.

We also urge the State Government to stop allowing higher densities in development projects as they contradict those in the existing Structure Plan.

We have been informed that a more detailed draft Local Plan for Penang Island has been completed since 2008 and we call upon the State to publish and circulate the draft Local Plan for public feedback as soon as possible.

We fully support the State Government’s efforts to legislate the Freedom of Information Act and laud its recent exhibition of the Special Area Plan for George Town to obtain public feedback.

We hope that the State Government would give the residents of Penang an opportunity to engage with the State and to offer their views and opinions on planning and development proposals which would no doubt affect every resident living in Penang.

Ms Lim Kah Cheng & Dr Francis Loh
(on behalf of the Penang Forum Steering Committee)

For a Greener Tanjong Bunga

On 2 April, 50 Tacoma trees were planted by YB Yee Cheu Teh, ADUN for Tg Bunga, NGO Pantai (Permatang Pasir Pulau Pinang) and TBRA.

It was a symbolic gesture to return some more greenery to our township which has lost so many trees due to savage cutting on hillsides and to make space for highrises. It was also a move to safeguard public access to the beaches.

The first 20 trees were plated in front of Coastal Towers with residents and their children chipping in and TBRA talking to the press about the hundreds of trees chopped by Surin Bolton for their two tower buildings rising nextdoor. A sudden burst of rain ensured that the trees got their first welcome on the site.

The rain did not deter the planters from moving on to the next site: the river bank next to Infinity. There is a long public path leading to the sea between the river and the towering Infinity complex. Just today, workers had started building steps down to the beach. The trees were planted along the path. People recalled how the river bank was quite gentle and pleasant with at least 4 huge raintrees. All were cut down and Infinity raised the bank to a level path with a very steep drop on the river edge. The steepness now is the excuse for a 5 foot fence with three ugly strands of barbed wire on top; the excuse is "safety". Interesting, isn't it, when they first created the danger.

The last 10 Tacoma trees were planted across the river, close to the sea in front of Cara Vista and Leisure Cove. There is still a wide open public area there where YB Teh hopes to install a sports field. To preserve the sandy area for the sports and dissuade would-be squatters, hundreds of coconut trees were planted as well."

Update for TBRA Aug 2010

Dear Members and Friends of TBRA, Aug.2010

Here is an update on what your Association has been doing since the AGM.

Sea crying Orange alert

Remember 22 June? It was the day that the sea along the North Coast became orange! It had rained very heavily the days before and the island was soaked. Along the road to Batu Ferringhi, lots of the mud washed down the cut slopes left unprotected from the many ‘developments’ there. One heavy rain and the road risks becoming impassable because of mudslides. And it’s the only road we have.

Alerted by a member, TBRA immediately sent SMS and email messages to MPPP asking them to clear and monitor and to the CM & co reminding them that this would not be happening if approvals for construction had been denied. Denuded steep hillsides will suffer erosion, landslides may result, roads get flooded, and the sea has to swallow all that mud and debris. No wonder it protested: orange alert.

Our Adun YB Teh responded promptly saying… “The best solution is to totally ban development on all hill slopes along the Tanjong Tokong-Tanjong Bunga-Batu Ferringhi-Teluk Bahang " eco-sensitive tourism area and also make sure Tanjong Bunga be returned its substantive status as ‘Tanjong Bunga-Teluk Bahang Secondary Corridor’ in the Penang Structure Plan which was gazetted in June 2007 and state it very clearly in the Local Plan (Bahagian Pulau).”

Ongoing struggle re Structure Plan.

As you will recall, TBRA has been arguing to get our township back into the Secondary Corridor for years now. We have held umpteen meetings with both the previous and the present governments, written dozens of letters, even painted a colorful mural: Welcome to Tanjong Bunga ! to indicate the border line of TB town. The State Government claims Tanjong Bunga starts at Mar Vista Resort !

TBRA is pursuing its efforts to establish if Tanjong Bunga is in the Primary Corridor (allowing for high density high rises) or in the Secondary Corridor where there are limits. Mind you, judging by what is allowed to take place in Batu Ferringhi, the Secondary Corridor designation does not provide much protection…

We shall keep you informed. But it is a two-way street. Do also keep us posted. Do tell us if you hear of any new planning or concept ‘development’ that is going for approval. Keep an eye on empty lots near your place. Are they sold? Are they boarded up? Once the construction signboards are up, it is too late.

Other news in brief:

Chee Seng Gardens was flooded again but what really annoyed the residents there was the blasting of rocks and the way Bolton carries on with construction on the very steep hillside.

Another Stop-work order

Complaints about hazardous blasting with rocks flying across the road resulted in a stop-work order on Surin Bolton for all its work. The complaints were backed up by video footage on the blasting incidents given to the police along with reports. The clips were also presented to the press by TBRA chairman George Aeria on 7 June and resulted in considerable press coverage. The stop-work order has since been lifted and Bolton seems to be making up for lost time with works until late into the evening, resulting in more complaints about noise overload and absence of police supervision when blasting takes place. Residents are taking turns in showering MPPP with angry emails.

Launch of the Coastal Public Park

Strangely enough only the Chinese press covered the launch of Tanjong Bunga’s Coastal Park at the “Sore Thumb”, next to the Penang Swimming Club. The launch which took place on Saturday, 5 June, attracted over 100 residents who listened to speeches by TBRA chair and by Tanjong Bunga Adun YB Teh. The crowd then moved to the entrance to State land which has been hoarded up by the owner of the Tanjung Club.

YB Teh cut the ribbon, the banner came down, the gate was opened giving access to a path leading to the “Sore Thumb”. Although it was very hot, all supporters walked down to have a look at the future seaside park where they will be able to exercise and play games. Meanwhile, passing traffic honked three times to show their support. Upon their return, residents were treated to cold drinks and snacks graciously provided by the Copthorne Hotel.

Hilltop Park

It seems like the conversion of the top of Pearl Hill into a Public Hilltop Park is nearing completion. YB Phee Boon Poh declared on 9 June to an audience of 80 at the Hydro Hotel that he would be signing the gazetted allocation of the public park the following week. If any of you have seen confirmation of that (any newspaper clippings?), please do let us know. Otherwise it will be time for more reminders. It is so easy to make promises…

Your membership fees - we need your support…

At the AGM, last May, it was decided to start a membership drive. Some volunteers have diligently worked away at an updated computer file which slots when our members became members and when they last paid their fees. As you can imagine, there is work to do. We need to collect your fees, your donations, your ideas as well. Some of you have been mindful to pay up, others forgot. As soon as we complete the computerized list, TBRA will be in touch with you.

Become a life member !

The fee collection process has also been slowed somewhat because we are still waiting for the Registrar of Societies (ROS) to approve the option of life-membership. Once this is OK, you will most likely opt to solve the cumbersome process of paying RM12 renewal fee per year and, instead, just pay RM100 to be a life member. That way, you will support your Association and it never needs to bother you again. ROS has now promised to confirm its approval by the end of this month.

Too long to wait so we are sending you this news NOW.

Best wishes from TBRA

Launch of Tanjong Bunga Coastal Park

Press Release

May 31 2010

For immediate release

Launch of Tanjong Bunga Coastal Park

.....“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot”.....

‘Big Yellow Taxi’ by Joni Mitchell ...singer/songwriter

This seems the unfortunate state of affairs Tanjong Bunga Residents find themselves in again and again! The people have requested on multiple occasions for the preservation of a coastal park/safe area as a nature preserve, for recreational purposes, for musical weekends of jazz and other multi-use purpose for the residents of Tanjong Bunga and the larger Penang community.....instead of more unoccupied high rises added to our everyday landscape!

It seems our local government is sensitive to the issues raised by her people and we will get a coastal park in Tanjong Bunga! Therefore, it is with great pleasure and sincere appreciation that Tanjong Bunga Residents Association invites the Press and other interested social media to observe Tanjong Bunga residents with YB Teh, initiate the soft launch of Tanjong Bunga Coastal Park, near the Cove Condominium on Saturday, 5 June 2010 at 10 am.

All Press and Social Media are invited. Please come and commemorate our delight for ‘Local Residents in Partnership with our Local Government’ putting our wishes first and our dreams for a Coastal Park as a priority over illegal and unwanted development.

Purpose: Launch of Tanjong Bunga Coastal Park

Date: Saturday, 5 June 2010

Time: 10.00 am

Place: Between Cove Condominium entrance and old ‘Country Club’ site on Jalan Tanjong Bunga (opposite Tanjong Bunga Hawker Center)

Refreshments: courtesy Copthorne Orchid Hotel, Penang

Forum Report: Overdevelopment along the north coast of Penang.

Forum Report: Overdevelopment along the north coast of Penang.

Date: 17 April 2010 at Paradise Sandy Beach Hotel, Tanjung Bunga.

Organised by Tanjung Bunga RA (TBRA) and Batu Ferringhi RA (BFRA)

It was full house in the meeting room of the Paradise Sandy Beach Hotel on a Saturday night (despite a thunderstorm and bad traffic) where close to 150 people attended this public forum organized by the TBRA and the BFRA. About 40 of the attendees were MM2H residents.

The Forum was opened by Dr YK Leong (TBRA member) giving an overview of the Penang north coast district. This narrow strip of land consists of 4 small townships Tanjung Tokong, Tanjung Bunga, Batu Ferringhi and Teluk Bahang. There is relatively little flat land and only one access road from Tg Bunga to Teluk Bahang.

George Aeria (TBRA President) presented the major issues affecting the Tanjung Bunga residents.

· Do you know that Tanjung Bunga has been secretly reclassified from a Secondary Development Corridor to a Primary Development Corridor thereby increasing its housing units per acre to 15 from 75?

· Do you know that Tanjung Bunga has disappeared from the Penang Structure Plan Map and that Tanjung Tokong’s boundary has been extended up to Mar Vista?

Tanjung Bunga was gazetted as a Secondary Development Corridor in the Penang Structure Plan (2005-2020) in June 2007. A Secondary Corridor has a maximum permissible density of 15 housing units per acre. In Feb 2007, the State Govt (under the direction of someone in high office from the previous state government) changed the Penang Structure map for Tg Bunga from a Secondary Development Corridor to a Primary Development Corridor without following legal procedures. A Primary Corridor has a maximum density of 75 housing units per acre. This was done without public consultation and review contrary to the Town and Country Planning Act 1976. Further, Tg. Bunga has disappeared from the Penang Structure Plan map and Tg Tokong’s boundary has been extended up to Mar Vista.

The TBRA has made several attempts with the present state government to reclassify back Tg Bunga to a Secondary Development Corridor. It has met with silence and limited response.

· Do you know that the only remaining state land (Plot B) in Tg Bunga (beside the Penang Swimming Club and The Cove where Tanjung Club used to be) has been converted to TOL (Temporary Occupation License) land. This is the only remaining state land in Tg. Bunga where the public has free access to the beach.

· Do you know that a private developer has proposed a marina and a 41-storey condo to be build on Plot B?

The TBRA has urged the state to preserve Plot B for public use and to make it into a coastal park but there is no commitment from the state.

Picture: Plot B in 2001, before the reclamation reached today's height and became known as the "Sore Thumb," and before the arrival of the 4-block, 42-storey, The Cove condos. (image credit)

Mr Low Swee Heong (a member of Penang Traffic Council) said JPJ data showed that there are more vehicles than people in Penang (1.75mil vehicles for 1.58 mil population) in 2009. The average vehicle registration growth for Penang is 9.5% per year making it the highest in the country. Swee Heong presented concerns of traffic congestion and pollution with the overdevelopment of the north coast district. There are grave concerns on emergency response services as the only accessible road to Batu Ferringhi is badly congested and jammed during holidays and weekends.

Mr Phil Langham from BFRA presented pictures and an overview of new developments in Batu Ferringhi. This area is zoned as a Secondary Corridor where the limit is only 15 units per acre but yet some projects have been approved beyond this density limit. There are currently 6 ongoing and approved projects with total in excess of 1000 housing units. Phil showed some very disturbing pictures of hill cutting and slope/cliff piling taken at some of the project sites. These hill desecration could not be seen from the road.

Project	Developer	Types
Bayu Feringghi	Plenitude	44 Semi-D’s, 1 block 32-storey condo
Moonlight Bay	Ivory	70 villas, 2 blocks 5-storey condos.
Hilltop Villas	AsiaGreen	23 units 3-4 storey bungalows
Island Resort	Ivory	270 units of 28-storey condos, bungalows, semi-D’s, service apts. and townhouses
Island Bay Resort	AP Land	172 units bungalows, villas, apartments
Shamrock Bay	OJY Sdn Bhd	62 units 3-storey link house

Ms Annelies Allain, a MM2H resident here for more than 20 years shared her thoughts about living in Malaysia. She said that there are currently 14895 MM2H residents in Malaysia. This is a small number compared to Singapore which has 130,000. Govt figures showed that out of the 15,000 MM2H residents, Chinese make up the most in numbers (about 30%), followed by Bangladeshis and UK. She said that there seems to be a big push by the Govt. and developers to build for the “wealthy” foreigners. Brochures tend to oversell with beautiful images of the sun, beaches, hills, nature and tranquility of the island where in actual fact many foreigners are disappointed when they come over. The Govt and developers overestimate the number of MM2H residents coming and this caused an oversupply and inflation of the price of properties. This gave developers an excuse to overbuild in Batu Ferringhi.

Ms Lim Kah Cheng (MPPP councilor representing NGOs) explained the workings of the MPPP. She advised the audience to go to the right department and right councilor in charge to address their grievances. The One-Stop-Centre (OSC) has authority of planning approvals for development. Details of councilors and officers in charge of various departments can be obtained from the MPPP website. She then explained the importance of the Penang Structure Plan (2005-2010) and the Local Plan. The Structure Plan is a very broadbase vision of the state’s policies in housing and public amenities, infrastructure, utilities, environment and others. The Local Plan however outlines the land use and density for every single plot of land on the island. Hence it will determine the kind of development in your neighbourhood. The Local Plan is currently in the final stages of drafting and will be out for public review and feedback soon. Kah Cheng urged the public and residents’ associations to actively participate in the Local Plan review when it is open for public feedback.

The forum ended with all the participants adopting a declaration expressing concern over excessive development in the north coast of Penang Island.

(Report by Tan Seng Hai)

Our Declaration from April 17 Forum on Overdevelopment

FORUM DECLARATION

BY TANJONG BUNGA RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (TBRA), BATU FERRINGHI RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (BFRA)
& FORUM PARTICIPANTS

We, the Tanjong Bunga Residents’ Association (TBRA), the Batu Ferringhi Resident’s Association (BFRA) & all participants of the Forum entitled “Overdevelopment on the North Coast” held on 17^th April 2010 at the Paradise Sandy Beach Hotel in Tanjong Bunga, do hereby declare that:

1. the border of Tanjong Bunga starts from Jalan Gajah and ends just before the Desa Mar Vista Resort;
   
2. Tanjong Bunga is in the Secondary Corridor and the diagram shown in the published State Structure Plan was wrongfully amended by the previous State Government to show Tanjong Bunga within the Primary Corridor; the diagram is to be considered null & void since it was changed secretly by the previous State Government via the then CM without following legal procedures;
   
3. the text in the State Structure Plan and the legend of the diagram clearly state that Tanjong Bunga is in the Secondary Corridor and take precedence over the changed diagram;
   
4. the present State Government has the legal authority and the moral obligation to rectify this glaring anomaly and to take all necessary measures to ensure that Tanjong Bunga remains in the Secondary Corridor;
5. the soon to be released State Local Plan must incorporate and clearly show Tanjong Bunga to be within the Secondary Corridor zone, which sets strict limits & requirements on all development projects;
6. all approved projects which have not commenced yet, are to be reviewed, esp. in terms of density, to be in line with Secondary Corridor requirements;
7. all future development projects in Tanjong Bunga & Batu Ferringhi must comply and not exceed the density guidelines of the Secondary Corridor;
8. all current and future proposed development projects in Tanjong Bunga & Batu Ferringhi must take into account the serious infrastructure limitations currently faced in these two areas;
   
9. that NO FURTHER approvals be granted henceforth for all dangerous hill slope development projects on Class III & Class IV hill slopes in Tanjong Bunga & Batu Ferringhi;
   
10. that all future development projects MUST NOT cause any environmental degradation such as soil erosion that leads to sea & beach pollution, thus severely affecting our local recreational use of beach & open space, the tourism industry & the MM2H programme;
    
11. that there be no land reclamation along the North Coast until and unless a comprehensive Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA) is undertaken and approved by ad-hoc panel of experts (not only by the State Government or MPPP);
    
12. that at least two Public Recreational Parks be created for easy access by all: one on the top of Pearl Hill and the other on the rock pile, the so-called Sore Thumb, next to the Penang Swimming Club; plans for both these Public Parks have been submitted for gazetting.

We make the above Declaration as concerned citizens and residents of Penang and call upon our State Government to take all measures necessary to implement the above points in the public interest.

By

TBRA, BFRA & FORUM PARTICIPANTS

Tanjong Bunga, 17 April 2010

TBRA's 4th Annual General Meeting 2010

4th Annual General Meeting 2010
NOTICE & INVITATION

The Tanjong Bunga Residents’ Association (TBRA) is pleased to invite you to the AGM

Date: Saturday, 24 April 2010
Time: 3 pm Place: Meeting Room, Tanjong Bunga Community Hall (above the wet market).

Agenda

1. Address by George Aeria, chairperson TBRA
2. Approve Minutes of 3rd AGM, 18 April 2009*
3. Adopt Annual Report 2009 *
4. Adopt Audited Statement of Accounts, Treasurer TBRA*
5. Take note of the 2009 resolution being forwarded to ROS*
6. Consider any other business
   
7. Discuss matters of general interest
8. Closing address & refreshments

Your attendance will be much appreciated. As you know, every AGM needs to have a quorum of at least 20 members. Please make sure we reach that quorum by coming to support your Association.

Secr. TBRA