要求豁免麗華商業中心商家佔用停車位罰單 REQUEST TO WAIVE THE PENALTY of OCCUPYING PARKING SPACES in LI HUA JAYA COMMERCIAL CENTRE

Democratic Action Party
Socialist Youth (DAPSY)
Sibu Region

Date: 6th April 2010

Datuk Tiong Thai King
The Chairman
Sibu Municipal Council
Wisma Sanyang,
Sibu, Sarawak

Dear Datuk Tiong,

RE: REQUEST TO WAIVE THE PENALTY of OCCUPYING PARKING SPACES in LI HUA JAYA COMMERCIAL CENTRE
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DAPSY Sibu request your kind consideration to waive the summons issued by the employees/enforcement officers to those businesses in Li Hua Jaya commercial centre for alleged illegally occupying the parking spaces in front of the shop houses.

We believe that they are actually the innocent victims of the circumstances as stated below:

1. Li Hua Jaya Commercial Centre is facing severe land settlement problems with the road surface being 2-3 feet below the intended level to allow access to the shop houses.
2. Businesses found it hard to operate normally and customers found it much inconvenient to patronize the businesses there.
3. As a result of the circumstances, some businesses have to resort to solve their problems by installing iron frames/bridges in front of their business premises so that their customers can continue to patronize them as well as making the business operations possible. And they did this at their own expenses.
4. We understand that the said Li Hua Jaya commercial area’s projects have yet been handed over to the Sibu Municipal Council and thus the SMC has yet to implement parking coupon system in the said area. Thus the SMC’s action in issuing the summons is questionable and possibly ultra vires.
5. The SMC should have enforced its duty to make sure that the developer of the project re-levels the roads so that the owners’/occupiers’ right are protected.

We urge the Chair of the SMC to remind the employees/enforcement officers to be sensitive to the hardship of the people as well as to be diligent in handling their tasks and the local council top priority is to serve and not to penalize the people.

We are concerned by the report that the SMC is prepared to allocate RM 1.0 million to upgrade the infrastructures at Li Hua Jaya commercial area since the project has yet been officially handed over to the SMC. We are monitoring the said development closely.

Finally, we hope SMC will waive the summons unconditionally and issue a statement to that effect in the press.

Thank you,



Yours faithfully,





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LAW HUI UNG LEE SENG ONG
DAPSY Secretary DAPSY Deputy Youth Chief




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民主行動黨
社會主義青年團(社青團)
詩巫區分團

2010年4月6日

詩巫市議會
主席 拿督張泰卿先生


敬啟者


要求豁免麗華商業中心商家佔用停車位罰單

民行主動黨社青團詩巫區分團，謹代表麗華商業中心部份商家，基於下列理由要求市議會豁免有關商家佔用停車位的罰單：
1) 麗華商業中心地陷問題十分嚴重，有關建商『福平機構』并未妥善處理及填高路面，以至問題越發嚴重，且影響有關商家的商業活動。
2) 該地區商店前方的道路下陷深達一至三尺，己對顧客的行動造成極大的不便，造成顧客大量的減少，特別是經營洗車、汽車裝飾、輪胎服務、電單車維修等相關行業的商家，甚至面對無法營運因境。
3) 由於地陷問題日益嚴重，己導致部份行業的商家無法營業。在這種情況下，有關商家自淘腰包花錢置放鉄架，方便顧客光顧，已期能繼續營業。這也是逼不得已的自救行為。
4) 據了解市議會并未正式接管麗華商業中心的管理權，也宣布展延在該地區實行固本泊車制度。如果所言屬實，市議會這樣的行動是倍受質疑及越權的行為。
5) 市議會應嚴格執行它的職務，確保所有發展工程移交市議會管理時，都達至標準的水平。也希望市議會當局能督促有關發展商盡快將該地區道路填高至應有的水平，以保障該商業中心所有業主與租戶的權益。

同時，行動黨社青團也敦促市議會在處理民生問題時，應抱着以民為本的精神，設身處地的為民眾着想。而不是針對違規行為做處罰，不去研究造成民眾必須違規的原因，這是治標不治本的做法。

有報導及證據顯示，市議會已準備一百萬零吉用以提升該商業中心的道路及解決基本建設的問題。社青團非常關心市議會將如何接管，并以何種標準接管該項私人商業發展產業。行動黨社青團將繼續嚴密監督市議會對上述事件的處理及後續發展。

最後，吾等懇切希望市議會能基於上述理由，豁免有關商家的不合理罰單，并對上述質疑在報章上作出說明，以正視聽。

謝謝！



民主行動黨
社青團詩巫區分團





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劉會文 李生恩
秘書 副團長



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盧增國　律師
團長