Should Country Parks Be Rezoned As Built-Up Areas?
Should Country Parks be Rezoned as Built-up Areas?
Do you want to live in a bigger housing unit? The living space per capita in Hong Kong is 161 square feet. People who are single in Hong Kong need to spend 30 years awaiting a public housing. Hong Kong has 24% of land was developed, while the residential use accounted for 7% of the total land area of Hong Kong. This means 7 million population need to accommodate in this 7% of land. Do you want to give Hong Kong economy a boost? The gross domestic product in Hong Kong increased relative slowly than before with the unemployment rate standing at 3.1%. Do you want to have a better future in Hong Kong? Rezoning country park into built-up areas could satisfy these wishes. Therefore, country parks …show more content…
“The reality of the critical housing issue in Hong Kong: there are approximately 260,000 applications on the waiting list for public rental housing, and some 85,000 families are tenants of unauthorized subdivided flats” (Lau, 2015). It shows that the housing supply in Hong Kong cannot meet the demand. For people who are single need to wait almost one-third of their life for a public housing. Most of them cannot afford the high price for a private housing. They may need to live in a squatter or sub-divided housing which are in poor living condition. They need to share the kitchen, toilet, and even a room, which is insane. Most of the squatter are illegal and their floor plan may not pass the fire law. It has a higher risk of fire, the people living in there will lose their lives and properties. To improve their living environment, rezoning the country parks can provide more land for building public …show more content…
The Environmental Protection Department (n.d.) describes the EIA general principles in evaluating include impact prediction, impact evaluation and impact mitigation. After considering these principles, the EIA can be either approval or disapproval. Thus, rezoning country parks into built-up areas must pass the EIA before the development start and it indicates the overall impact to the environment are low. Additionally, new conservation areas will be zoned for compensation, the total size of the country parks can be maintained. Therefore, the negative impact on the environment is
Do you want to live in a bigger housing unit? The living space per capita in Hong Kong is 161 square feet. People who are single in Hong Kong need to spend 30 years awaiting a public housing. Hong Kong has 24% of land was developed, while the residential use accounted for 7% of the total land area of Hong Kong. This means 7 million population need to accommodate in this 7% of land. Do you want to give Hong Kong economy a boost? The gross domestic product in Hong Kong increased relative slowly than before with the unemployment rate standing at 3.1%. Do you want to have a better future in Hong Kong? Rezoning country park into built-up areas could satisfy these wishes. Therefore, country parks …show more content…
“The reality of the critical housing issue in Hong Kong: there are approximately 260,000 applications on the waiting list for public rental housing, and some 85,000 families are tenants of unauthorized subdivided flats” (Lau, 2015). It shows that the housing supply in Hong Kong cannot meet the demand. For people who are single need to wait almost one-third of their life for a public housing. Most of them cannot afford the high price for a private housing. They may need to live in a squatter or sub-divided housing which are in poor living condition. They need to share the kitchen, toilet, and even a room, which is insane. Most of the squatter are illegal and their floor plan may not pass the fire law. It has a higher risk of fire, the people living in there will lose their lives and properties. To improve their living environment, rezoning the country parks can provide more land for building public …show more content…
The Environmental Protection Department (n.d.) describes the EIA general principles in evaluating include impact prediction, impact evaluation and impact mitigation. After considering these principles, the EIA can be either approval or disapproval. Thus, rezoning country parks into built-up areas must pass the EIA before the development start and it indicates the overall impact to the environment are low. Additionally, new conservation areas will be zoned for compensation, the total size of the country parks can be maintained. Therefore, the negative impact on the environment is