Don't repeat the suspended planning

PLANNING TO "COVER" VOTER CONTACT

During the working session of the Ho Chi Minh City National Assembly Delegation with the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee on the socio-economic situation in mid-May 2024, delegate Truong Trong Nghia said that the issue of suspended projects and suspended planning is often raised by people in meetings with voters. In the places where the delegates are running for election, the Sing-Viet urban area project and An Ha farm (Binh Chanh District) or Hang Bang canal (District 6) are always mentioned.

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Suspended planning and suspended projects are not new issues in Ho Chi Minh City and often "cover" voter meetings. In one voter meeting, people even spent 4/5 of the time talking about this issue. "The situation of suspended projects and suspended planning causes insecurity, people cannot settle down. Ho Chi Minh City needs to devote resources to solving problems that have lasted for 20-30 years," Mr. Nghia suggested.

In general, Ho Chi Minh City has basically approved zoning plans and detailed construction plans at a scale of 1/2,000 with about 600 projects, while rural planning was mostly approved before the Planning Law, going through many different legal stages. According to the assessment of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, in reality, management in some areas is still overlapping because there is both new rural planning and general construction planning and zoning planning.

In particular, the land use function in new rural planning projects is not consistent with the zoning planning project, general construction planning and land use planning. This limits people's rights to separate plots, change land use purposes or build houses. In addition, local planning adjustments are not always timely.

RESOURCES BURIED ACCORDING TO PLANNING

Not only does it negatively impact people's lives, overlapping planning also constrains land resources. In suburban districts such as Binh Chanh, Hoc Mon, and Cu Chi, land is considered a driving force for localities to make breakthroughs, but so far most of it is still only in the potential form. Districts have also proactively organized investment promotion conferences, but the results have not been as expected. After choosing a suitable land plot, businesses asked about the legality and time to adjust the planning, and the purpose of land use, but the locality could not answer.

The Northwest Urban Area Project (Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City) has been suspended for decades.

For example, Binh Chanh District is over 25,000 hectares wide, with a population of nearly 900,000 people, a rapid urbanization rate, and a mechanical population increase of more than 32,000 people/year, creating great pressure on the demand for schools. In mid-2023, the People's Committee of Binh Chanh District held a conference to promote education, calling on businesses to build schools on 84 plots of land with a total area of ​​100 hectares. Attending the conference, Ho Chi Minh City leaders requested departments and branches to coordinate with localities to remove obstacles and focus resources to soon put the project into operation.

After 1 year, the number of projects that have had their legal procedures, land and construction procedures cleared can be counted on one hand. The leader of Binh Chanh District People's Committee gave a simple example such as the land planned for one-level education, but investors who want to build multiple levels of education are stuck and forced to make adjustments. Not to mention, most investors, especially bilingual and foreign language schools, and foreign-invested enterprises always ask for clean land before they invest. Meanwhile, land recovery from people must fully comply with the procedures and regulations on planning, investment, land, construction... and often takes a lot of time.

In the conclusion of the inspection of urban planning management, investment and construction in the Northwest Urban Area (Cu Chi District) in February 2024, the Ho Chi Minh City Inspectorate determined that the dossier submitted for appraisal of the planning tasks of the urban area's subdivisions was too slow, affecting the process of attracting investment and implementing projects. Some land plots were expected to call for investors but had to stop to wait for the completion of the 1/5,000 planning adjustment. Because of the slow planning adjustment, after 26 years since being approved by the Prime Minister, the Northwest Urban Area project has not yet taken shape, and people are upset and complaining.

ENSURING PEOPLE'S LEGITIMATE RIGHTS

Many experts and local leaders hope that this adjustment to the general planning of Ho Chi Minh City will solve the problem of suspended planning and projects that have persisted for decades. Dr. Pham Viet Thuan, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Natural Resources and Environment, said that he strongly supports the development orientation of 5 urban areas, which are 5 cities under Ho Chi Minh City, with the criteria: green economy, creative urban areas, smart infrastructure, civilized society and sustainable environment. However, it is necessary to define the urban areas belonging to the 5 cities in the future so that an implementation plan can be made right now. "We cannot build a completely different infrastructure from the current infrastructure, but only adjust part of the complex infrastructure mixed with other technical infrastructures," Dr. Thuan added.

The demarcation of the geographical areas of the 5 cities in the future is not only important in the planning project but also determines the strategic level in the planning of infrastructure construction and urban architecture. For example, the Northwest urban area includes Cu Chi district, Hoc Mon district and part of District 12, the administrative center is currently Cu Chi district. With the traffic infrastructure including Ring Road 3, Ring Road 4, Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai expressway, the formation of the Northwest urban area in the future is reasonable. In the economic structure of the urban area, there are high-tech zones, concentrated urban areas, industrial zones, entertainment areas, craft village development areas, and renovated residential areas.

According to Dr. Thuan, the revised Land Law is about to take effect, determining the principle of compensation according to market price or close to market price is an advantage for Ho Chi Minh City to boldly implement, at the same time creating conditions for people to separate plots and change land use purposes. The suspension of land division for many years has significantly affected the legitimate rights of people, so it is necessary to soon adjust Decision 60/2017 of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee.

To exploit land resources, Dr. Thuan said that it is necessary to promote the role of the Ho Chi Minh City Land Fund Development Center in the coming time in the direction of land recovery and compensation according to approved project planning to create a large land fund to attract high-tech investment. (continued)

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/tphcm-phat-trien-thanh-pho-ve-tinh-dung-lap-lai-quy-hoach-treo-185240617232930841.htm