Clarifying The Role of Politicians in Development Control
By Goh Ban Lee
August 2011 VOICE IN THE CROWD
The idea that our elected representatives are fixers on whom we can exert individual pressure leads, in certain contexts, to dubious practices that undermine larger developmental objectives. One thing that Penang can do to stop this tradition is to open meetings of the One Stop Centre to the public.RECENTLY, residents of Taman Desaria on Penang Island went to the press to complain that the developer of a housing project that was under appeal in the Appeals Board had begun clearing...
Goh Ban Lee
is a senior research fellow in the Penang Institute.
