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(Figure 27) Satellite map location of the junction of Sung Wong Toi Road and To Kwa Wan Road, Ma Tau Kok
As it was mentioned earlier that rezoning is
a highly unreliable land source and causes
much of the delays happening in public
housing projects. To add to the complexity
of the problem, the rezoned sites would still
be faced with different hurdles in the spade-
readying process. Some rezoned land sites,
for instance, had been delayed for a long
time as they faced constraints from various
cumbersome government procedures along
their development cycles. We aim to further
illustrate with three real cases.
The first case is a site at the junction of
Sung Wong Toi Road and To Kwa Wan
Road in Ma Tau Kok, Kowloon City. The 0.4
Animal management centre (to be vacated by 2023) hectare-site is planned for a 600-unit public
Intended public housing site housing development. The land formerly
Proposed site for transitional housing housed three government facilities, which
were the Kowloon Animal Management
Centre under the Agriculture, Fisheries
and Conservation Department (AFCD)
and a residential quarter and a carpark
which were both under the Electrical and
Mechanical Services Department (EMSD).
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