SOME call it urban renewal, others prefer to call it regeneration. Yet there are those who prefer a less politically charged term like transformation. By whatever name it is called, each of these involve changes to land use.
The last several years, the Government announced several mega projects which involve some form of change in the use of land. There is the Sungei Besi Airport, which involves the conversion of an airport and its surrounding land into a mixed commercial project where hotels, service apartments and retail commercial space will be incorporated. In the case of the Sungai Buloh Rubber Research Institute, that involves the change of agricultural land to commercial use.
While both involve changes of considerable degree, the first is a redevelopement, while the second is development. The dropping of the “re” carries huge connotation. In the case of development, the landowner has the mandate to plan what he wants out of that piece of land. He can carve it out how he pleases, in whatever shapes and sizes. He can allocate different purposes for each of the parcels he has carved out and can plan the timeline for each of the parcel and why the development of one should precede another, a developer in Section 13 says.
Quote from The Star Biz 7 July 2012
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