Pattaya: New development plan condemned for having too much "red area" and not enough "green"

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

A meeting heard that Pattaya's business community is calling for a rethink after a new plan for the redevelopment of the resort showed far too much red area.

 

This is the area where businesses can be established connected to the tourism industry, where construction of big condo buildings, hotels and department stores would be allowed. 

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

Delegates at the meeting chaired by deputy mayor Ronnakit Ekkasingh said the plans from civil engineers did not reflect reality and impinged on the rights of residents. They ran contrary to previous plans suggested some years ago.

 

They wanted to see a plan like in Osaka in Japan where there was a great deal of green, where large scale business enterprises could not be established.

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

The criticism and demands for a rethink particularly concerned big buildings that could not be constructed because sois in Pattaya would be too narrow to allow them according to planning regulations.  

 

Thaivisa notes that buildings on narrow sois can only be constructed to a certain size due to the problems of fire trucks entering in an emergency. 

 

In Bangkok at least some buildings had to have their tops lopped off after being illegally constructed and some have been ordered to be pulled down altogether.

 

Source: Manager Online

 

 

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9 minutes ago, webfact said:

New development plan condemned for having too much "red area" and not enough "green

but they pass the test on big blue crop circle lookalikes .?

So the large 'green' areas are to be in the sea.....?

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

So the large 'green' areas are to be in the sea.....?

Seaweed farming...

 

Red area = braun envelopes

 

Green area = braun dirt

 

The choice is obvious!

Looks like a sea of red ink to me !

Red zones big buildings big brown envelopes good for greedy local officials. 

The brown areas must be where the sea comes in ???? 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

condemned for having too much "red area"

What do you expect from a city that builds a beach from sand bags...then calls it ''world class''....

Whats wrong with red areas since they have already invented blue parks.

Yellow and purple must be livid at being missed out in this panoply of colour.

19 hours ago, webfact said:

Delegates at the meeting chaired by deputy mayor Ronnakit Ekkasingh said the plans from civil engineers did not reflect reality and impinged on the rights of residents. They ran contrary to previous plans suggested some years ago.

 

They wanted to see a plan like in Osaka in Japan where there was a great deal of green, where large scale business enterprises could not be established.

But.... but..... but, less concrete structures means loss of potential profit, that won't do !

20 hours ago, webfact said:

the resort showed far too much red area.

The resort showed too much red LIGHT area.

Trying to emulate Osaka, Japan? What a laugh. Might as well try to bring a iceberg into Pattaya bay for ice sledding. Greenbelts do not generate revenue, and that is all city hall sees. They are seemingly oblivious to what other resort cities have planned and possess.

 

3 minutes ago, Benmart said:

Trying to emulate Osaka, Japan? What a laugh. Might as well try to bring a iceberg into Pattaya bay for ice sledding. Greenbelts do not generate revenue, and that is all city hall sees. They are seemingly oblivious to what other resort cities have planned and possess.

 

Pattaya is all about "hotels" and seedy service establishments, green areas do not generate profit or employment and thus are seen as useless.

They need to see sense and abandon the old area to what it has always been- fun city. The big new hotels etc should be built past Jomptien where they can put in decent roads and infrastructure. Connect everything with the mythical monorail and all good.

Destroying the old fun area to build big buildings isn't going to make anyone happy, except those with big pockets.

If they build all those buildings and manage to fill them with tourists, what will be left for all those tourists to DO?  All the entertaining bits will be gone.

Men in Black, would you trust them?

Isn't it a shame that one third of the map area belongs to the Nongprue Municipality, sorry Pattaya this side is strictly for residential living