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With annual rainfall in the capital now routinely surpassing historical design capacities, Kuala Lumpur is racing to build climate resilience.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) Hannah Yeoh told StarMetro that besides making Kuala Lumpur a "sponge city" and increasing on-site detention (OSD) ponds, the government is considering offering incentives to encourage developers to incorporate green spaces into redevelopment projects.

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00:01so the obvious uh obviously current rainfall is tremendously high i think it's growing it's
00:08growing and of course the the most logical approach is probably to increase the retention
00:14point have you identified or has jps identified yes so we i informed dbkl that we should be a
00:21sponge city and that's why we do two things one the jwp has a task force quickly gather all the
00:29green space the reason is because i do not want green space to miraculously disappear
00:35every time you have a new ft minister come in and so we publish that list we put it up
00:40and we
00:41quickly get that so as long as you have you maintain those sparks it becomes a natural sponge
00:46on top of that dbkl also has a solution to create on-site detention pond right and on-site detention
00:55pond when land is scarce it simply means there'll be land that you need to acquire uh there will be
01:01uh land that you will need to construct underneath a field like botanical garden and also padang hubbuk
01:08so we are doing these two things for sponge city we are also looking at incentive for redevelopment
01:15okay um that means if you it's still at the guidelines level if you give up more land as a
01:25result of
01:25redevelopment for green space so out of 10 blocks for example you create a big padang maybe in those
01:34circumstances where we get a new park then i will allow you higher plot ratio for example so we are
01:40also
01:40looking at this kind of incentive to encourage creation of green space yeah three methods lah you
01:46have to tackle it together yeah but in terms of on-site detention pond is there any available sites oh
01:53plenty because you do it underneath the padang like the one and also like now we are identifying a place
02:00uh near sota abdul samad because the government has spent so much on bangunan sota abdul samad the last
02:06thing you want is to for them for it to experience flood so we don't we don't want that okay
02:11let's
02:11talk about the bukit kiara one the flesh flood the bukit kiara flesh flood has given dbkl a very
02:17important uh lesson and review of their current sop which means the cutting of hill must always go in
02:23phases you cannot allow even if it's a federal government agency like jkr and uh jabatan landscape
02:31to do that yeah and that that has that lesson has led to the announcement of a buffer zone
02:38to be created in the front at the front of bukit kiara uh puzzle a and puzzle b uh 300
02:45meters buffer zone
02:46uh one is for the protection of the species in bukit kiara number two is also to prevent another book
02:53uh
02:53uh jabatan landscape kind of flash flood uh online sentiments would always go to you know whenever
03:01a first happen online sentiment would be like oh it's first happening again what is the government doing
03:05yeah uh probably from the government side uh can you uh probably explain about how addressing flood
03:13is not a one thing uh it goes on a few a long term process yeah so for dbkl's budget
03:20i want it to be
03:22um no longer based on uh just because every year we're doing the same thing okay let's say like
03:30how you set aside 85 million a year for example every year we just set that aside but you know
03:35that
03:35every year the rainfall is different and the trend is now starting to show that every year there's
03:40increment the pattern of the the rainfall and as such your budget to do this must also follow
03:47the pattern and spend more uh and and for me is i want to make kl resilient to climate changes
03:56we must
03:57not be taken by surprise uh by the rainfall that means start building infrastructure that is bigger
04:04capacity the last time they review all this capacity was 2016 that's 10 years ago you know and the rain
04:11pattern has changed already the drainage capacity yeah dbkl drainage capacity 2016 yeah
04:21no no when you build something you are building it based on a trajectory right of the of the rainfall
04:27yeah but every year there's increment right so through all this i mean of course investigation has to be
04:33done uh in terms of the entire incident you guys find any uh misconduct by the consultants or uh contractors
04:42that led to this i can only tell you at site when mayor went down together with their timbalan pengarah
04:48jkr perform pembangunan they have identified that they have to create more desilting and retention pond
04:55three ponds uh at the site this is the bukit kiara the the jabatan landscape project right and then on
05:04top of
05:04that um they they look into the capacity you know how is this enough for the rainfall if it's half
05:11an
05:11hour is already spilling over how can even take two hours of two hours of rain and then we have
05:17to we
05:18have to mobilize bomba has to be there to wash the streets uh just if the consultant i feel had
05:27been
05:27more hands-on this wouldn't have been a problem yeah and obviously this is something that you know my
05:34my office is in the chat group with the residents and for six months before this everybody was telling
05:39the consultant and the contractor the same thing that this is bound to happen but there was no response
05:45from them like just slow yeah so in terms of this one right obviously it's not only happening in
05:51kikara obviously everywhere else sites as well so this is where the engineering supervisors are very
05:58important because when you have so many projects ongoing you people will then say you know okay where is
06:06the monitoring and do we have enough engineers to be to be at site uh so really i think if
06:14you are
06:14looking at monitoring projects like that either the hq has a very strong engineering team or you
06:20have uh down to every parliament there should be the the engineers responsible to help with this yeah
06:28so do you think uh all the penalties or whatever you did the damages are enough to criminalize all these
06:38we now have an additional burden of what's happening in iran and how that is affecting the existing
06:46contract for projects that have been tended out and how we have to be so careful to make sure that
06:52it's not an abandoned project because the moment is abandoned and then government have to do vo and all
06:57that's even more troublesome yeah so we are really at a very sticky time you know
07:03and and then mayor had to step in and say no you have to create this and then the hq
07:07have to send your engineer down so
07:10you
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