Secretary for Administration and Justice Sónia Chan Hoi Fan insisted yesterday that “the time is ripe” for the government to launch a public consultation on the drafting of a bill regulating the city’s urban renewal process, after having studied the matter for a number of years, even though there are only two months until the term of the current government ends, with the aim of meeting civil society’s strong demand for Macau’s urban renewal process to finally get off the ground.
The policy secretary also said that the opinions collected during the ongoing public consultation process can be used by the next government when drafting the urban renewal bill.
The government headed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will end at midnight on December 19. Chui will be succeeded by Ho Iat Seng, who will be sworn in on December 20.
Secretary for Administration and Justice Sónia Chan Hoi Fan (centre) speaks during yesterday’s consultation session for lawmakers at the Legislative Assembly (AL) building for the ongoing two-month public consultation on the drafting of an urban renewal bill, as Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ) Director Liu Dexue (second from left), Leong Weng In (first from left), who heads the DSAJ Legislative Drafting Division, Mak Tat Io (second from right), who heads the Urban Planning Department of the Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT), and Iam Lei Leng, who heads the Research Department of the Housing Bureau (IH), look on. Photo: GCS
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