Minutes of 964 Meeting of the Town Planning Board held on 20.8 ...

Agenda Item 1
[Open <strong>Meeting</strong>]
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Confirmation <strong>of</strong> <strong>Minutes</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 963 rd <strong>Meeting</strong> <strong>held</strong> on 6.8.2010
1. The minutes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 963 rd meeting <strong>held</strong> on 6.8.2010 were confirmed without
amendments.
Agenda Item 2
[Open <strong>Meeting</strong>]
Matters Arising
(i) Proposed Amendments to <strong>the</strong> Definitions <strong>of</strong> Terms Used in Statutory Plans
(MA Paper (1))
[The <strong>Meeting</strong> was conducted in Cantonese.]
2. Ms. Christine Tse, Chief <strong>Town</strong> Planner/ <strong>Town</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Board</strong> (CTP/TPB),
was invited to brief Members on <strong>the</strong> Paper and she made <strong>the</strong> following key points:
Purpose
(a) to seek Members’ agreement to <strong>the</strong> proposed amendments to <strong>the</strong>
Background
Definition <strong>of</strong> Terms used in Statutory Plans (DoTs);
(b) on 28.2.2003, <strong>the</strong> <strong>Town</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Board</strong> (<strong>the</strong> <strong>Board</strong>) endorsed a set <strong>of</strong>
revised Master Schedule <strong>of</strong> Notes to Statutory Plans (MSN), DoTs and
Broad Use Terms (BUTs), and agreed that all <strong>the</strong> Outline Zoning Plans
(OZPs) in force should be amended to incorporate <strong>the</strong> revised MSN.
Several refinements to <strong>the</strong> MSN were subsequently made in 2004 and
2005, and recently in March 2010. Due to changing circumstances and
emerging issues in <strong>the</strong> last few months, fur<strong>the</strong>r amendments to <strong>the</strong> DoTs