Local police office attempts to invade public park

Protect Xinzhuang’s Ecology Alliance (守護新莊綠地生態聯盟) said that this year New Taipei City Government announced its plan to build an new police office in order to meet the needs of Xinzhuang’s growing population; the fact that the implementation of this plan will not only destroy the local characteristic of the local wetland park, but mean that Xinzhuang, a district already lacking in urban parks, will lose yet another invaluable green urban space, is a cause for great alarm.

Currently, as a number of urban parks in Xinzhuang under the jurisdiction of New Taipei City Government are classified as "multi-use," they seem set to be destroyed one by one; it is rumored that a plan to build a ‘cloud-computing industrial park’ in Public Park No.1 is already under way; a ‘vision museum’ has already been built in Public Park No.3; and now a police station is to be constructed in Wenzaidi Wetland Park (塭仔底溼地公園).

On the basis of these developments, Public Park No.4 will most likely follow in the footsteps of the other parks. Consequently, the development of the current planning application for Wenzaidi Wetland Park is of critical importance. Should citizens fail to fight, and simply allow a police station to be built in Wenzaidi Wetland Park, the fate of the remaining urban parks no doubt lie beneath the oppressive weight of building cement. In the future, with such land planning and decision-making procedures, the hundreds and thousands of people who live in Xinzhuang seem set to lose access to green spaces. In theory, Xinzhuang residents do not object to the building of a new police station, but feel it improper for related government bureaus and departments to consent to a project that negligently failed to submit a clear and comprehensive plan prior to the implementation of the new city development project.

PeoPo 公民新聞 by dino.utopia

Local police office attempts to invade public park
URL:http://www.peopo.org/news/111228

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派出所又將入侵公園？

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守護新莊綠地生態聯盟表示，今年新北市政府因應新莊副都心未來人口的需要建派出所，基地預計在塭仔底溼地公園；此一規劃一旦決定與落實，將將毀掉溼地公園特色，也讓公園綠地嚴重不足的新莊又少掉另一綠地公園，其作法令人焦慮。其實目前新莊副都心的幾個公園綠地在新北市政府如此「多目標用地」的思惟下，將逐一毀棄；公兒一據傳已在進行「雲端產業園區」用途規劃，公兒三已蓋願景館，現在塭仔底溼地公園(公兒二)又被覬覦規劃為派出所，照此發展，公兒四有可能會步上公兒一、公兒二、公兒三的後塵。也因此，當前正在規劃中的塭仔底溼地公園的發展很重要，退守此一公園綠地，改建成派出所，將使接下來的公兒一及公兒四面臨被水泥建物盤據的壓力。未來有十數萬人活動居住的新莊副都心居民，若以這樣的土地規劃、決策思維，將失去綠地，新莊居民不反對蓋派出所，但新莊居民甚至市府各相關局處，不需為警察局在都市計劃前，未提出應有適當廳舍配置疏失之責而背書。