TO ALL DB residents,
URGENT!!! YOUR help is needed.
Hong Kong Resorts’ updated proposal for building a golf cart park on the DBRC Lawn is again just days away from starting.
While the recognition by HKR that the Lawn is a valued area of the Club’s amenity is appreciated, as evidenced by their revised proposal retaining a small portion, the change is just not big enough to make a significant difference. The ability of DBRC members to stage any kind of meaningful outdoor activity is severely curtailed.
As you can read from point 2 in HKR's attached letter, this relocated golf cart park is ideal for access to Pier, plaza and DBRC. It's also clear from HKR plans that this 90 cart parking station is the only parking station in the DB Plaza area. HKR is now claiming that this parking area is ancillary to the club, but has not provided clarity as to whether it will be limited to financial club members only. Additionally, ancillary parking at Siena Club has only 16 cart parks and DB Marina Club has 24 parks! Is there really a need for 90 golf cart parks at DBRC?
Further, HKR states that the new parking space on the Lawn is a benefit to ALL 20,000 DB residents (point 1). Given that there are only around 500 golf carts in DB, this assertion is mathematically quite perplexing to say the least. Worse though is that HKR presumes to speak on your behalf with this statement. Are you content to allow HKR to speak on your behalf?
Finally the green lawn at DBRC is officially zoned for recreational use. In future, there may be other open green spaces (kids’ favorite playground or hiking trails) that HKR will unilaterally “take back”. Don’t let this happen!!
Let the green lawn at DBRC become a symbol of what DB life is all about: open and green living space, a safe environment for you and your children and a great place to socialise with friends.
If you oppose this golf cart redevelopment at DBRC, please sign this petition immediately, and I will ensure it is delivered to the right people at HKR. If you could indicate whether you are a current DBRC member, that would also be helpful.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Richard Beck
DBRC Club Member and one of many tennis organisers who "borrows" the lawn on a daily basis (point 4)!!
Some useful links, click on the below to view HKR Notices posted in DBRC last week.
Link to DBRC Notice of Revised Plan, 25 April 2016 - posted in Club, did you see it?
Updates
May 6, 2016
The current level of support demonstrates that residents reject the framing of this project as a community benefit. I am preparing a formal response to Hong Kong Resorts to contest their claims and have requested an urgent meeting with their planning department to present these objections.
Reached 100 supporters
May 2, 2016
April 30, 2016
We are approaching the one hundred signature threshold. This number is the benchmark required to secure a formal meeting with the planning committee. Please circulate the petition link now so we can present a unified position when we submit the final documentation.
166 Comments
HK and DB has far too little space for the enjoyment of families, any decision to reduce such in the way proposed would be further evidence of HKR disregard for the community.
While it perhaps justified to increase parking space for golf carts in proximity to the ferry pier, I am not sure if this could not be done without sacrificing open lawn space inside DBRC, especially considering the substantial development planned for the area.
removing the lawn & changing to parking spaces benefits only the 500 owners of Golf Carts & is of no benefit to the remaining 19,000+ residents. This is completely opposite what HRI claims.
Current DBRC member and with 2 young kids a daily 'borrower' of the lawn so they can run around in a safe and natural environment. Why can the development not happen in the existing car park that is seldom used on the beach village side? This proposal does not benefit the community or DBRC members.
Long term DBRC member, user of Lawn for tennis and children's recreation activites. HKR should relocate the carpark within the Commercial Plaza area - not resume part of the Club to which I have paid dues for many years!
1. HKR has no regards for the law of HK by ignoring District Planing Office reminder, that the plot is for sports & recreation and not to be used for Parking. 2. On May 12 meeting: I pointed out that they have chosen the most inappropriate location for parking right next to the tennis court & pool where the pollution caused by the vehicle is extremely bad for the health. This is just so thoughtless. Your officer agreed to look into relocating and the next day the digging start. This confirmed the meeting was just a show. That's wasting everyone's time. 3. The fact is there's only 2.5% of the pollution drive a golf cart. How could this benefit majority of DB residents?
Stop taking our green spaces, preserve db!
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TO ALL DB residents,
URGENT!!! YOUR help is needed.
Hong Kong Resorts’ updated proposal for building a golf cart park on the DBRC Lawn is again just days away from starting.
While the recognition by HKR that the Lawn is a valued area of the Club’s amenity is appreciated, as evidenced by their revised proposal retaining a small portion, the change is just not big enough to make a significant difference. The ability of DBRC members to stage any kind of meaningful outdoor activity is severely curtailed.
As you can read from point 2 in HKR's attached letter, this relocated golf cart park is ideal for access to Pier, plaza and DBRC. It's also clear from HKR plans that this 90 cart parking station is the only parking station in the DB Plaza area. HKR is now claiming that this parking area is ancillary to the club, but has not provided clarity as to whether it will be limited to financial club members only. Additionally, ancillary parking at Siena Club has only 16 cart parks and DB Marina Club has 24 parks! Is there really a need for 90 golf cart parks at DBRC?
Further, HKR states that the new parking space on the Lawn is a benefit to ALL 20,000 DB residents (point 1). Given that there are only around 500 golf carts in DB, this assertion is mathematically quite perplexing to say the least. Worse though is that HKR presumes to speak on your behalf with this statement. Are you content to allow HKR to speak on your behalf?
Finally the green lawn at DBRC is officially zoned for recreational use. In future, there may be other open green spaces (kids’ favorite playground or hiking trails) that HKR will unilaterally “take back”. Don’t let this happen!!
Let the green lawn at DBRC become a symbol of what DB life is all about: open and green living space, a safe environment for you and your children and a great place to socialise with friends.
If you oppose this golf cart redevelopment at DBRC, please sign this petition immediately, and I will ensure it is delivered to the right people at HKR. If you could indicate whether you are a current DBRC member, that would also be helpful.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Richard Beck
DBRC Club Member and one of many tennis organisers who "borrows" the lawn on a daily basis (point 4)!!
Some useful links, click on the below to view HKR Notices posted in DBRC last week.
Link to DBRC Notice of Revised Plan, 25 April 2016 - posted in Club, did you see it?
Updates
May 6, 2016
The current level of support demonstrates that residents reject the framing of this project as a community benefit. I am preparing a formal response to Hong Kong Resorts to contest their claims and have requested an urgent meeting with their planning department to present these objections.
Reached 100 supporters
May 2, 2016
April 30, 2016
We are approaching the one hundred signature threshold. This number is the benchmark required to secure a formal meeting with the planning committee. Please circulate the petition link now so we can present a unified position when we submit the final documentation.
166 Comments
I'm club member and I also use a golf cart and don't see the sense of building a car park in the only green area of DBRC. How can people play tennis or enjoy the pool with the noise and fumes of golf carts. This is not for the benefits of the members or our community. No to to the parking at the lawn area of DBRC
HK and DB has far too little space for the enjoyment of families, any decision to reduce such in the way proposed would be further evidence of HKR disregard for the community.
While it perhaps justified to increase parking space for golf carts in proximity to the ferry pier, I am not sure if this could not be done without sacrificing open lawn space inside DBRC, especially considering the substantial development planned for the area.
removing the lawn & changing to parking spaces benefits only the 500 owners of Golf Carts & is of no benefit to the remaining 19,000+ residents. This is completely opposite what HRI claims.
Current DBRC member and with 2 young kids a daily 'borrower' of the lawn so they can run around in a safe and natural environment. Why can the development not happen in the existing car park that is seldom used on the beach village side? This proposal does not benefit the community or DBRC members.
Long term DBRC member, user of Lawn for tennis and children's recreation activites. HKR should relocate the carpark within the Commercial Plaza area - not resume part of the Club to which I have paid dues for many years!
1. HKR has no regards for the law of HK by ignoring District Planing Office reminder, that the plot is for sports & recreation and not to be used for Parking. 2. On May 12 meeting: I pointed out that they have chosen the most inappropriate location for parking right next to the tennis court & pool where the pollution caused by the vehicle is extremely bad for the health. This is just so thoughtless. Your officer agreed to look into relocating and the next day the digging start. This confirmed the meeting was just a show. That's wasting everyone's time. 3. The fact is there's only 2.5% of the pollution drive a golf cart. How could this benefit majority of DB residents?
Stop taking our green spaces, preserve db!
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I'm club member and I also use a golf cart and don't see the sense of building a car park in the only green area of DBRC. How can people play tennis or enjoy the pool with the noise and fumes of golf carts. This is not for the benefits of the members or our community. No to to the parking at the lawn area of DBRC