Not only don’t we have a gazetted local plan for Penang Island, the three regions of mainland Penang too are without their respective gazetted plans.
The draft Penang Island Local Plan was approved by the MPPP in 2008, but nothing has been heard since then, and no public feedback has been sought – as required.
Some time ago, it was said that the Special Area Plan for the George Town heritage zone had to be finalised first before we could proceed with finalising and gazetting the Penang Island Local Plan – but that was ages ago.
Similarly, we have draft Local Plans for Seberang Perai Utara and Seberang Perai Tengah but these have not yet been gazetted.
Seberang Perai Selatan does not even have a draft local plan.
Local plans are important for planning and density control purposes. They can help us to avoid congestion and haphazard planning.
By not having these local plans, Penang is only the poorer from a planning perspective – and the result is visible all around us.
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I’m loosing hope fast. Simple zoning of lorry depos in residential areas even can’t be managed by the mpsp planning n enforcement divisions. The state government seems to be equally non committal.
Just another thesis to show that, Bolehland (Malaysia) is run by many “‘government” with no accountability.
Who is going to monitor and oversee Bolehland No-man land local councils? Since it does not response to state government, NOT even the local people but the so called “putrajaya office”. In addition , most of those municipal head are bureaucrats … that appoint to that position, which zero to nil responsibilities.
Now, say thank you to Mahathirism and umno for this anarchy.
bingchooi means “face value” or “outlook”.
It is what trolls lack.
lost
Even there are local plans in place, it is always possible be OVERRIDDEN by declaring any prohibited projects as special projects. Now they even not bother with superficial ‘dressing’ like local plans. Always acting is a boring act. They just give up and care no more. It’s you that granted them supermajority. So don’t complain and enjoy your UBAH consequences. Who says UBAH is good for you ???
Lesser of the two evils.
What has happened to Penang’s Local Plans? That’s good question, are they still working on it and under discussions.
I have another question, What happen to PICEB which was lauched last year? It is too quiet to for the MICE industry players.
Tomorrow, the Penang Tourism is going to hold PENANG TOURISM BLUEPRINT WORKSHOP at the INTI University at Bukit Jambu starting at 9pm. Maybe you should check it out. Will it be another NATO?
Penang Island most likely be fully Cosmopolitan-ed first before we see any local plan worth 10 cents.
Butterworth is (taken for granted) for the poor & soon to be poor middle class.
And anilnetto.com has changed colors for a more Cosmopolitan look!
Anil, are you going to wear a Darth Vader helmet?
Haha, you prefer the old design? This new one is supposed to be more compatible with the “bingchooi” (what does that mean?) smart phones and other mobile devices.
anil also (no choice?) got to upgrade his site in accordance to the “cosmopolitan-bingchui” trending going on. so no offence if penang street food hawkers need to observe hygience and better presentation to attract more newie customers to sustain business in the new era of smartphone-craze generation.
Can anyone tell me what “bingchui” means?
Bingchui or bing chooi means 360° public ‘face’ of reputable (or envied) status, positive public image, good public perception (created or natural), kia su inspired & of covetous nature for keeping a respectable self image (despite financially incapable or morally corrupt to genuinely support such self-branding in keeping with social / class values or thy neighbors’ expectation. On the positive side, it helps one to get one mile ahead in the rat race, secure a favourable first impression, gain a customer trust of ‘quality’ (if you are selling something besides million ringgit bungalows on the hills of Penang Island), or… Read more »
Very enlightening, thanks. Is that a Hokkien term or something?
Is that a Hokkien term or something?
Very Hokkien & very,very, very Teochew! (Don’t ask your Teochew in-laws about this time-tested ‘legacy’ between bing chui in-laws & broke but surviving son-in-laws).
But the Kia Su part could have originated from SingKahPoh Lang (our down-under neighbours). Don’t believe? Go visit Gurney hawker food centre to see for yourself.
Next, we may see Bing Chui Kopi-O being served in Wifi-ed, refurbished & air-con-ed kopitiams to match Starry-Eyed Bucks or Old Town. (Nevermind if it’s brewed by Vietnamese or Bangla or Tibetan).
Thanks tanuki and tunglang, my “colourful” Hokkien vocabulary increases.
Anil n tunglang
fyi New Star Wars (episode 7) movie in the making. With new director JJ Abrams (of LOST fame) replacing George Lucas we may get to see new dressing over Darth Vader to keep up with bingchui prefered by gen Z audience :). New definition of Dark vs Bright Sides we shall await …..
http://screenrant.com/star-wars-7-jj-abrams/
Beware that Smuft fever to hit Penang now than Minions fever has subsided ….
McD to introduce many Smuft happy meal figurines and don’t be surprise to see long q again !
Penang gonna be Smuft land soon, Papa Smuft may prefer Penang over paris once he gets to taste local street food !