Lamma-Gung wrote:
Here are the detailed minutes of the Town Planning Board meeting about BoL
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5. The Secretary reported that about 61 letters were received complaining about the potential conflict of interest of Mr. Y. K. Cheng as the CEO of BoL and Member of the Town Planning Board. The complainants alleged that Mr. Cheng had bee actively lobbying Members’ support for the project and his lobbying activities, if not resolved, would cast serious doubt on the independence and impartiality of the Board as a public body. The complainants requested the Board to investigate into the matter. Some suggested that Mr. Cheng should be relieved of his TPB’s duties and some mentioned that the subject case could be an ICAC case. In view of the complaints received, the Chairman reminded Members that according to the Board’s Practice and Procedures, Members who had been lobbied should declare interest in this application and withdraw from the meeting. He then asked Members if they had been lobbied by Mr. Cheng or the applicant regarding the application. No member indicated that he/she had been lobbied on the subject application.
So, having the CEO of BoL as the chairman is no problem. At least, not after hundreds of complaints were made, they were forced to be above board.
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District Lands Officer/Islands, Lands Department (DLO/Is, LandsD) did not support the application. He advised that the private lots involved in the application site were mostly Old Schedule Agricultural lots, and the proposed development including private residential, hotel, commercial and marina uses would be in breach of the subject lease conditions should the application be approved, the applicant would have to apply for land exchange to effect the proposed development. However, according to the Planning Statement (PS), the applicant currently owned about 90% (or would own 93%) of the area of private lots involved. Based on this ownership status, the land exchange proposal would result in a remarkably high land exchange ratio of 1:11.9.
Baroque wants the government to just give them 12 times as much government land as they have. WTF? Can I have some too?
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Road Network within both Northern and Southern Areas would be designed on a one-way traffic basis, with a 6m wide one-way carriageway and 3m footpath (cum landscaping elements) on both sides. The connection between the two Areas of Landside Portion and between the Landside Portions and the Marine Portion would be two-way traffic. A 7.3m wide two-way carriageway with 3m footpath (cum landscaping elements) on both sides was proposed. A total of 184 parking and loading/unloading spaces were proposed to accommodate the possible vehicular access demand, supporting facilities for the vehicular shuttle services would be provided within the site. Whilst the proposed private car parking spaces would be located at respective villas...
In this small area they want to have 184 parking spaces, a bus, and private cars. Cars. To travel a few hundred metres. They don't have cars in Disco Bay, 20 times the size of this, but they want them here.
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9. Mr. Bobby Li, the proponent of the project said that he had deep connection with Lamma Island ever since he graduated from Hong Kong Sea School. He cared about the Lamma community since he started acquiring land on Lamma Island 16 years ago. He hoped to improve the quality of life for people living in Lamma Island. The Baroque on Lamma project was a dream he had bee pursuing, and it was also the aspiration of his team, his business partners as well as the local residents. He expressed gratitude towards those people who had indicated support to the application. He believed that the project could revitalise Lamma Island and preserve its local culture, as well as provide employment opportunities for the younger generations, and adequate facilities for the elderly of Lamma
-- Load of complete bollocks. He'd destroy the environment of Southern Lamma and improve the bank balances of some businessmen. The rest of us would be fucked.