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Dear all, Please be informed that the public hearing on the proposal to build two 27-storey office blocks at NZX Square scheduled to be held tomorrow at MBPJ Head Office is now postponed. Please check back here again for further updates on the new date of the public hearing. With reference to the caption below, please note that the signature list to protest the scale of the development has been distributed to the following enclaves, at their guardhouse : Alissia & Atilia PJU 1A/1 If you don’t have a guardhouse but wish to sign the protest list, you may approach any of the above guardhouse or you may sign at the cashier at Kedai Kopi Kapitan. Kindly note there is no restriction on number of signatures per household. Please also take note that the list will only be available until Monday (23 Aug) night and will then be collected to be submitted to MBPJ on Wednesday (25 Aug).
Dear Ara Damansarians, We work extremely hard to save just enough money to make a down payment for our dream homes. After a very long day, we look forward to retreat to our sanctuary to relax and to spend time with our love ones. For some of us, this is our retirement home. We are not a selfish lot. All we want is a peaceful community where we live in harmony with our neighbours near and far.
In just a few short weeks, we are shocked to learn of plans of massively high density developments in our neighbourhood. Project No. 1 Project No. 2 Project No. 3 We are not against development. All we are asking for is a fair deal. We want and expect property developers to be socially responsible. Develop by all means but don’t only look at the big fat dollars. Be a good corporate citizen and look at mitigating problems you will introduce to the neighbourhood with your development projects.
If these developments are to take place in its present form, we expect massive traffic jams, indiscriminate parking and other social problems. Therefore, we are appealing to all Ara Damansarians to come forward to show your support to this signature campaign against high density developments in our neighbourhood. Signature forms are being distributed to all heads of RA today. Please contact your area representative and ask when you can drop by to sign the form. Our target is to have a minimum of 1000 signatures and we need the signature forms back by Tuesday August 24th. We plan to submit our letter to MBPJ on Thursday August 26th. We are proud Ara Damansarians. I trust we can count on your support. Posted by LeeYK
DAMANSARA Idaman residents want a macro traffic impact study done before the Ara Damansara-Tropicana link is open. Damansara Idaman Owners and Residents Association (Diora) president Wan Annuar Wan Mohd Noor said they had filed an injunction against the developer from opening the road. “The traffic in Persiaran Tropicana is heavy now so you can imagine how bad it will be when vehicles from Subang and Ara Damansara come into the area after the link is open,” he said. “All we want is a macro traffic study that says that Persiaran Tropicana can handle the additional traffic,” added Wan Annuar. He said Damansara Idaman residents also wanted a right turn to Bandar Utama at the Persiaran Tropicana junction. “If you look at the completed junction, we can only turn left towards Tropicana and Kota Damansara. This is not being fair to us?” he said. Petaling Jaya city councillor Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin said the council would issue a notice to the developer to start work within 24 hours, failing which the council would proceed with the construction and bill the developer. The developer will be given three weeks to complete the job. Khairul said the developer could go ahead and complete the road because the application for an injunction had not been heard in court. However, Wan Annuar maintained that while the application was in process, status quo should remain and the road closed. He said Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim had ordered to open up all the accesses, including Jalan Tanjung to end traffic woes in the area. Tropicana Residents Assocation chairman Mohamed Shukri Zain clarified that Tropicana residents were not the ones who filed the recent injunction and were not involved in the tussle between Ara Damansara and Damansara Idaman residents. “We’re not opposing the opening of the road because our earlier injunction was put in to make sure that MBPJ completed the tunnel and that has already been done,” said Shukri. He said Tropicana residents were unhappy that they had been implicated in the road tussle even though the area where Damansara Idaman and Damansara Lagenda sat on was also generally referred to as Tropicana. Malaysia’s Petronas Twin Tower is renowned. It was the tallest building in the world and held on to this title for 6 years. It was overtaken by Taipei 101 in 2004. Closer to home, we may have our own Twin Tower soon. Plans have been filed to build two blocks of 27 storey buildings comprising of 828 units along Jalan PJU 1A/41. If you are not familiar, this road starts at the intersection of 1A/1 (near where the Ara-Tropicana link is), pass by Winchester, NZX, Crimson Condo and ends at a T-junction with 1A/46 (near Megah Mas tunnel).
A public hearing has been scheduled next Tuesday August 24th at Bilik Mesyuarat Bunga Mawar at MBPJ head office. The meeting starts at 2.30pm. A group of us met with our area councilor last night and the councilor has requested that residents from Ara Damansara be present. Those who would like to object to this development (especially Winchester/ Attillia/Alissia residents) should make time to attend the hearing. Please e-mail me your name (leeyk888@yahoo.com) or sms me 016-288-7183 so that the information can be passed on to our councilor Source: NST 20th Aug 2010 Residents have removed the barriers to use the closed road. — Picture by Effendy Rashid PETALING JAYA: Damansara Idaman Owners Residents Association (RA), which had filed an injunction against TA Properties Sdn Bhd in April to stop the construction of a link road between Ara Damansara and Tropicana, want a traffic impact study to be conducted. RA president Wan Anwar Wan Mohd Noor, 51 said they had been waiting for the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) to carry out the study on the traffic coming from Persiaran Tropicana heading towards Damansara Ara. “We asked the city council for a traffic impact assessment to be carried out before any work commences on the road in Jalan PJU 1a/1. We have waited for six months and there has been no reply from MBPJ. We couldn’t get the cooperation of the local authority and that was why we applied for an injunction,” he said. The uncompleted link road in Jalan PJU 1a/1 is located in front of Damansara Idaman and Idaman Villas. Work on the road started in April and was expected to have been completed in July. Wan Anwar said the residents were not against the construction of the road, but they would like the local authority to provide a detailed traffic study on the area. “If the traffic study shows that there will not be massive traffic congestion in Jalan PJU 1a/1 and that Persiaran Tropicana can handle the traffic flow, then we are willing to withdraw the injunction. But, if the study suggests otherwise, we would have to look at other options,” he said. Meanwhile, a representative from the developer’s office said that residents who had been using the uncompleted road were trespassing on private property. When the house owners in Tropicana, Damansara Idaman, Damansara Lagenda and Ara Damansara moved in, there was a proposal to link the two areas. In 2004, the Tropicana Residents’ Association protested against the linking of the two areas because the Persiaran Tropicana tunnel had only one lane each for traffic coming in and out of the area. The Tropicana residents then filed an injunction to keep the link closed until MBPJ widened the tunnel and improved traffic flow. After the Jalan Tanjung issue last year, Selangor Menteri Besar had asked for the Damansara-Tropicana link to be opened. It was reported last Saturday that residents of Ara Damansara tired of waiting for the link road to be completed had taken matters into their own hands and removed concrete barriers to enable their cars to pass through. They had also patched up a metre-wide trench in the road. The road was blocked again on Tuesday by the developer with boulders and a big pile of gravel, but the determined residents flattened the gravel to enable their cars to pass through. – By Noel Achariam In response to TheStar article, I hope Mr. Lee can get his facts right: 1) There is no tension that Ara Damansara residents want to create, the residents are just organizing a gotong royong to ensure the road is safe for public. 2) Tropicana RA is giving their support to us, we have good neighborliness relationship and we are on the same boat in making sure proper road access should be given to both sides of the residents. It is TA properties that blocked the road and take matter in their own hands. 3) MBPJ is giving their support and doing their very best to help us. There is nothing wrong with Pakatan administration, it is the previous government who had approved all these developments and caused so much trouble. Please stop politicizing the issue, pull your sleeves up and join the penduduk in their gotong royong. P/S: By the way, If you can count the numbers even from the picture, there is definitely more than 50 people participated. Posted by LeeYK
The authorities should immediately step in to stop the tussle between residents in Ara Damansara and Tropicana over the link at Jalan PJU1A/1 to prevent the issue from escalating. Former Subang Jaya assemblyman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng said the elected leaders should have asked the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) to continue building the road. “If they do not ease the tension now by doing something, they’re promoting something that is harmful to our social harmony,” he said. The link between the two housing estates was left uncompleted since 2004 when the Tropicana Residents Association filed an injunction to keep the link closed. The injunction was lifted when the Tropicana tunnel was completed last year. In November 2009, Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim had asked for the link to be opened and Petaling Jaya mayor Datuk Mohamad Roslan Sakiman had instructed that the link be opened by February this year. The link is also one of the 17 traffic proposals approved by the council and endorsed by the state government to improve traffic flow in Ara Damansara and Lembah Subang. However, the developer stopped constructing the road recently following a court injunction. Ara Damansara residents then took matters in their own hands and opened up the gravel road for use as a much-needed alternative to the other choked-up accesses such as the FAS and Megah Mas tunnels. Within days, the developer had dug up a trench and unloaded a huge pile of sand to stop motorists from “trespassing into the construction area”. “Pakatan must realise they are in power in Selangor and should use MBPJ to solve the Ara Damansara-Tropicana link rather than to support lawlessness,” Lee tweeted. “Why must MP Sivarasa and MBPJ councillors take part in a demonstration in the Ara Damansara-Tropicana link when there is an injunction? It is lawlessness,” he said. Subang MP Sivarasa Rasiah’s aide Peter Chong said their stand had been to open the road as instructed by the mentri besar. He added that the authorities would not take action against the developer now for blocking the road because it was more important to ensure that the stretch can be opened as soon as possible to ease traffic congestion in the area. Meanwhile, councillor Khairul Anuar Ahamad Zainudin said the MBPJ had instructed the developer to complete the construction of the road by the end of September. By LeeYK August is really a very exciting month here in Ara. We had our very first social gathering last Saturday August 14th and 3 days later, we had Santa TA dropping by giving us a very generous sack of precious stones. Just about when the excitement has died down, we received a letter from the post informing us that over three thousand people plan to setup their new homes here. Don’t you feel proud that our land here is well sought after?
What shall we do now? Shall we welcome them with open arms? Compilation by Y.Y. Ng: Need to conduct traffic study proposal – July 2008 New Tropicana tunnel opens to traffic – Aug 2009 Mixed reaction to decision on road decision: Nov 2009 Taman Megah Mas tunnel converted to one way: Jan 2010 Work finally starts – April 2010 Tunnel conversion caused nightmare for Kelana Idaman: Jul 2010 |
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