Letter to the Chief Minister of Penang.

Dear YAB Lim Guan Eng, Chief Minister of Penang
YB Chow Kon Yeow, YB Phee Boon Poh, YB Wong Hon Wai, State Executive Councillors
Tuan Hj. Zainuddin Bin Ahamad, Pengarah JPBD
Puan Patahiyah Bt. Ismail, YDP MPPP

A very good Morning to you,

On 17th April 2010, Tanjong Bunga Residents' Association (TBRA) together with the Batu Ferringhi Residents' Association (BFRA) successfully organised and held a Public Forum entitled - Overdevelopment On the North Coast. A total of over 150 participants attended at a hotel in Tg. Bunga. Many speeches were heard, discussions held and questions answered relating to, among others the following main issues: -
a. The overdevelopment & uncontrolled developement of Batu Ferringhi & Tg. Bunga
b. The continuing Dangerous Hill Slope Development on Class III & Class IV hill slopes in these two areas
c. The limitations of Tg. Bunga & Batu Ferringhi's infrastructure to the overdevelopment in the two areas occuring now.
d. Tg. Bunga secretly designated as in the Primary Corridor via the illegal amendment of the State Sturcture Plan by the Previous State Government
from Secondary to Primary status, thus allowing the current uncontrolled development taking place & the current reluctance of the current State
Government to amend & rectify this situation
e. Highlighting the numerous approved projects (six in total - amounting to more than 1000 units ) along the Bt. Ferringhi hillslope road which would destroy the Green scenery along the entire Tg. Bunga to Bt. Ferringhi stretch not to mention the serious soil erossion and subsequent sea
pollution
f. The views of a MM2H resident who shared that Penang is "killing" (or has killed) the "Goose that lays the Golden Egg' with it ongoing
Overdevelopment in these two areas & stressed that they as Foreigners want to see green & nature & not montrosities of concrete and mud
pollution thereafter in the seas.

Following up from all the matters discussed, the issues were then collated and summarised into a Forum Declaration which we now attach above (both in English and Bahasa Malaysia) together with a Summary of Events of the Forum itself, for your state government's review and attention. We hope that our state government, under our Chief Minister, the Town & Country Planning Department and our City Council will take heed of the comments of the public of Tg. Bunga & Batu Ferringhi relating to the ongoing Overdevelopment around our homes in the North Coast of Penang (specifically Tg. Bunga & Bt. Ferringhi) via the Forum Declaration

We would welcome an official response from our government relating to the situation highlighted via our Public Forum and the subsequent Forum Declaration that we are submitting to you today.

Thank you

George Aeria
Chairman
Tanjong Bunga Residents Association (TBRA)
(f) Chairman, Batu Ferringhi Residents Association (BFRA)