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The Board was briefed on the Draft RODP on 29 January 2016 as part of the Stage
3 Community Engagement (CE3) of the YLS Study. Members provided views
on the traffic impact to be generated, the planning and urban design aspects
including the open space/green space system, the adequacy of land reserved for
storage and workshop uses, integration of proposed developments and existing
villages, etc. Taking into account the public comments received in CE3 and
the recommendations from various technical assessments, the draft RODP had
been revised and finalised for formulation of the RODP. The finalised RODP was
submitted to the Board for consideration on 1 September 2017. Due to the urgent
need for provision of housing land, the statutory plan making process would start in
parallel pending the finalization of the relevant studies, noting that changes could
be made when the findings of the relevant studies became available. The draft
OZP would be prepared based on the recommendations of the RODP and would be
submitted to the Board for consideration after completion of the Study.

Town Planning Board Guidelines

The Board promulgated two revised sets of Town Planning Board Guidelines in 2015
to 2017. The sets of guidelines in force in 2017 remains as 32.

Revised Town Planning Board Guidelines on Publication of
Applications for Amendment of Plan, Planning Permission and
Review and Submission of Comments on Various Applications
(TPB PG-No. 30B)
The revised set of Guidelines (TPB PG-No. 30B) was promulgated on 18 December
2015 in conjunction with the launch of the Electronic Planning Submission System.
A new statement advising that e-forms, which are available on the Board’s website,
could be used to submit planning applications under the Ordinance has been
added to the revised guidelines.

Revised Town Planning Board Guidelines on Designation of
“Comprehensive Development Area” (“CDA”) Zones and
Monitoring the Progress of “CDA” Developments (TPB PG-No. 17A)

The revised set of Guidelines (TPB PG-No. 17A) was promulgated on 1 April 2016
to take on board the decisions of the two Planning Committees on the review cycle
of “CDA” sites in order to streamline the workflow and assign higher priority to
other more imminent planning work. The revised set of Guidelines has specified
that after the first review of each “CDA” site conducted at the end of the third year
since it designation, subsequent reviews will be carried out biennially, instead of
annually under the existing mechanism.