Regarding the approval of the revised version of the third phase of Kaohsiung New Town by the Metropolitan Committee of the Interior, the Qiaotou District District Chiefs Association expressed its support and hoped that the Land and Resources Administration can accelerate the promotion and not delay it again and again.
The Qiaotou District Mayors Association pointed out that the Metropolitan Committee of the Interior approved the revised version of the third phase of Kaohsiung New Town, which has fully taken into account local development and environmental sustainability. The sugar factory has been retained, the tourist development area has been added, and the planned flood detention pond park totals more than 60 hectares. It is culturally and ecologically, as well as the future of the North Kaohsiung Science and Technology Corridor. All walks of life in Qiaotou have expressed support and hope that the Land and Resources Department can accelerate the follow-up matters and not delay them again and again.
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The Qiaotou District Mayors Association believes that the cultural landscape area of the base sugar factory has been fully preserved, and the Taiwan Sugar artificial economic forest covers an area of only 51 hectares, and most of them have been planned as ecological flood detention ponds, parks and tourism development. We should discuss how to balance this, which is the right way. However, tree protection groups have repeatedly misled society by fabricating the idea of "destroying hundreds of hectares of forest from sugar mills" and proposed a private version of retaining 160 hectares of Taiwan's sugar land, which strongly excludes all Taiwan's sugar land from being subject to zone expropriation. Even though the Department of Land and Resources has approved a revised version that balances development and the environment, the tree groups still insist on their opinion.
Regarding the concerns of tree protection groups about land speculation, the Qiaotou District Mayors Association emphasized that local people and intermediaries who are familiar with local land transactions know that most of the land in each phase of the new town has been laid out in advance by various consortiums over many years, and most of them are already in their hands.
The Qiaotou District Mayors Association explained that as far as consortiums that raise large amounts of land are concerned, the private version of the three phases proposed by the tree protection groups is more beneficial to them, because the third phase excludes the largest landowner, Taiwan Sugar Land, and cannot expropriate it in sections. The supply of construction land in the market is greatly reduced, and things are scarce and valuable. Private land that only accounts for 10% of the land is rising, and it has market dominance. He also called on all sectors of society to work together to investigate and investigate, and also requested the inspection team to take the initiative to investigate.
The Forest City Association emphasized that the 154 hectares are national land and should not be arbitrarily sold to consortiums just to speculate on the land and build luxury houses. Instead, it should be left as a forest park and forest tourist park to protect the lungs of Kaohsiung people.
The Forest City Association stated that hundreds of hectares of forest in Qiaotou Sugar Factory will be lost and converted into residential and commercial land. In the current political atmosphere, although 5,000 people have signed the petition, politicians in Qiaotou and Okayama regret that they cannot see the voice of insisting on protecting the forest. Therefore, 83-year-old volunteer Jiang Huangnu registered to run for the third district council member yesterday and will fight to protect the 100 hectares of forest in Qiaotou Sugar Factory.
