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Condo project on playing field will go on, says DBKL

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Bandar Tun Razak residents claim replacement field is small and fees to use it, too high.

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KUALA LUMPUR:
The pleas of Bandar Tun Razak residents to save their football field from hoggish developers have fallen on deaf ears.

Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) is going ahead with its plans to allow a developer to build a condominium project on the plot of land.

DBKL economic planning and development department director Azmi Hamid declared today that construction of the 41-storey condominiums will proceed.

The condominium blocks will be built on the 5ha football field which residents have grown to love over the years.

“The project is on,” stated Azmi as voices of upset residents echoed throughout the hall of the city council’s learning institute where DBKL officials held a briefing with residents today with regard to the housing project.

Dubbed Razakmas Residency, the affordable housing project will be developed by local property developer, Aset Kayamas Sdn Bhd with units priced at RM198,000 each.

It is known that DBKL acquired the land and sold it to Aset Kayamas.

Bandar Tun Razak Jujur field action group representative Meor Amin Shaari, who was present at the briefing, said DBKL’s decision to proceed with the housing project was unfair to residents who grew up playing on the football field.

“The football field has been there for the past 40 years and residents have been utilising it for various activities, including football tournaments.”

Meor, who was accompanied by a lawyer representing the residents’ group, claimed that when DBKL acquired the land and opened it for sale to developers, the land was still gazetted as reserved land for public use.

Meor said there were too many loopholes concerning the process of DBKL acquiring the land for development.

He also mentioned that the replacement playing field provided by DBKL for residents was half the size of the old field and the fees charged were exorbitant.

“The fees are 10 times more expensive.”

It used to cost RM80 to rent the field each time a football game was held. Now the fees have gone up to RM500, or RM800, depending on the day or whether it was for use in the morning or afternoon.

The new field was opened on May 24, 2016 by Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

Meor said several residents, including himself, were harassed by “gangsters” whom he claimed were hired by the developers.

Resident Mohamad Yusof Ramli, 36, said they could not afford to use the field with the new fee structure.

The new (replacement) field set up by DBKL
The smaller replacement field.

Several other residents present also expressed their opinions, claiming DBKL’s decision was unfair to most of them and that they were not given a proper explanation in regard to the housing project.

Responding to the issue, Azmi said the land acquisition was legal and that the land belonged to DBKL.

“The land is ours. All legal papers in regard to this case have been completed and we assure you that the residents knew about all this even before this briefing,” said Azmi, who labelled the residents as “intruders”.

When approached by FMT, the developer refused to comment on the issue.

The Jalan Jujur football field in Bandar Tun Razak is located at Lot 55121 and covers 2,098 acres. The land had been reserved for public purposes as an open space through the Government Gazette dated Nov 24, 2005.

The “reserved land” status was revoked by the Federal Territory Land Executive Committee, chaired by chief secretary to the government Ali Hamsa, on Dec 22, 2016.

Upon cancellation of the reserved title, the field was then handed over to Kuala Lumpur Mayor Amin Nordin on June 4, 2017.

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