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| 1. |
‘Fit-to-terrain’ |
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Hill-slope development requires design
concept of building and infrastructural layout that is sympathetic
to slope features, involving minimal earth works. |
| 2. |
Affordable Housing |
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Affordable housing includes low, low
medium and medium cost housing with selling price between RM42,000
to RM150,000 per unit to cater for low and medium income groups with
a monthly household income between RM1,500 to RM4,000. |
| 3. |
Average Length of Stay (ALS) |
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A guest night is counted as one guest staying one night at a hotel
(1 guest x 1 night = 1 guest night). Two persons sharing one room
for two nights are counted as four guest nights.
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| 4. |
Hotel Guests: |
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Defined as the number of guests checked-in
for not less than one night stay. Half-day guests are not included. |
| 5. |
Average Occupancy Rate (AOR) |
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*Room available: No. of rooms x no. of days in the month |
| 6. |
Bed & Breakfast Accommodation |
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A private residence, several rooms
of which are set aside for overnight guests whose paid accommodations
include breakfast. |
| 7. |
Boutique Hotel |
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• Architecture and design style
- distinction, warmth and intimacy.
• Atmosphere - décor, ambience, personalised service,
the attitude of management and staff, and how all these ingredients
must combine to create a genuine sense of intimacy.
• Size - less than 200 rooms |
| 8. |
Budget Hotel |
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Hotel that is 2 star and below. |
| 9. |
Buffer Zone |
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A buffer zone normally in the form
of green area, separating two incompatible land use activities i.e.
residential and industrial areas. |
| 10. |
Conservation Areas |
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Areas of special architectural or historic
interest and character of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance.
Conservation areas are critical environmental areas where ordinary
development practices would likely caused significant environmental
damages. Development surrounding these areas should consider negative
impacts onto the conservation efforts and effective controlling methods
need to be provided in order to reduce these impacts. |
| 11. |
Development Charge |
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Development charge levied on enhanced
land value of a development proposal due to change of land use and/or
an increase in population density and/or an increase in plot ratio
and/or a shortage in provision of car parking bays. |
| 12. |
Development Plan |
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Development plan in relation to an
area means the local plan for the area or if there is no local plan
for the area, the structure plan for the area, and in relation to
any land or building, means the development plan as so defined for
the area in which the land or building is situated (section 2, the
Federal Territory (Planning) Act 1982 (Act 267)). |
| 13. |
Eco-Tourism |
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Environmentally responsible travel
to relatively undisturbed natural areas in order to enjoy and appreciate
nature (and any other accompanying cultural features). One that promotes
conservation, one that has low visitor impact and one that provides
for beneficially active socio economic involvement of local populations. |
| 14. |
Exclusive bus/taxi lane |
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A special lane for bus/taxi to ensure
smooth flow and reliability of services. |
| 15. |
Forest Reserve |
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Gazetted forest reserves are Bukit
Nanas, Bukit Sungai Besi dan Bukit Sungai Putih. |
| 16. |
Green Areas |
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Green areas generally covered with
natural or planted vegetation, consist of open spaces, recreational
areas, utility and infrastructure corridors, buffer zones, forest
reserves, agriculture areas, cemeteries, nurseries, shrubs and residential
compounds.
Green areas in the City should create quality amenities to the people
with the following functions:
1. Enhancing the environment quality
• Helps generate flora and fauna biodiversity to create sustainable
living environment.
• Improves the air quality
• Produces cooling effect
• Reduces surface run-off
• Represents natural heritage for future generation
2. Enhancing the urban design quality
• Creates tropical garden city
• Improves the city landscape aesthetic beauty
3. Enhancing the space for recreational opportunities
4. Enhancing the potential of tourism attraction |
| 17. |
Green Lung |
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Green Lung represents one of the main
functions of green area in reducing level of pollution, enhancing
air quality and creating cooling effect to the environment. |
| 18. |
High-Cost Housing |
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House with selling price more than
RM150,000.00 per unit. |
| 19. |
High-End Industries |
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Most recent, modern or new industry. |
| 20. |
Hotel |
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Refers to hotel, resort cum hotel,
and chalets with 10 rooms and above. |
| 21. |
Housing Density |
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Average number of persons in a unit
of space in a residential area (number of persons per hectare) |
| 22. |
Hypermarket |
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Owned by a large company with huge
operating capital, floor space and catchments and offering a wide
variety of goods and services. |
| 23. |
Informal Sector |
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Informal sector involves small-scale
activities under taken by individuals, mainly hawking in locations
such as market, night market spot, kiosk, static and mobile stall
and locked-up shop. |
| 24. |
K-Economy |
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The K-economy is about knowledge and
the ability to use it to create new value and wealth. The K-economy
includes all human economic activities of previous eras, such as agriculture
and industry, but it introduces new activities that were not prominent
or possible before. |
| 25. |
Land Use Specialisation Index |
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As a measuring tool to illustrate the
relative importance of a land use of a planning unit in relation to
other areas in the city. The formula as follows:
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| 26. |
Light Rapid Transit (LRT) |
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A passenger system based on light rail,
designed to facilitate the rapid movement of people. |
| 27. |
Low-Cost Housing |
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House with selling price between RM25,000.00
to RM42,000.00 per unit, with a minimum floor space of 650 square
feet. |
| 28. |
Low-Medium Cost Housing |
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House with selling price between RM42,001.00
to RM85,000.00 per unit. |
| 29. |
Medium-Cost Housing |
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House with selling price between RM85,001.00
to RM150,000.00 per unit. |
| 30. |
Mixed-Use Development |
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A development concept comprises various
types of uses such as residential, shopping, office, facilities etc. |
| 31. |
Non-Polluting Industrial Use |
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Industrial use which does not involve
activities that are detriment to the occupants of the building and
amenity of the area by reason of noise, waste water discharge, vibration,
smell, fume, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit. |
| 32. |
Open Space |
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Open space consists of city park, district
park, neighbourhood park, local park and local play area. Some of
these areas may have water bodies like lakes and flood retention ponds.
Examples of parks are as follows:
• City parks consist of theme parks with size exceeding 50 hectares,
i.e. Taman Tasik
Perdana (91 hectares) and Taman Lembah Kiara (190 hectares).
• District parks are to cater for a catchment of 200,000 population,
having an area of more than 25 hectares, such as Taman Tasik Titiwangsa
(44 hectares), Taman Metropolitan Kepong (117 hectares), Taman Metropolitan
Batu (26 hectares), Taman Pudu Ulu (28 hectares), Taman Tasik Permaisuri
(40 hectares) and Taman Antarabangsa Bukit Jalil (33 hectares).
• Neighbourhood parks are to cater for a catchment of 50,000
population, having an area
of 5 to 25 hectares, for example Taman KLCC (18 hectares), Taman Botani
Bukit Jalil (16
hectares) and Taman Tasik Menjalara (15 hectares).
• Local parks are to cater for a catchment of 10,000 population,
having an area of 1 to
5 hectares.
• Local play areas for children are located in residential areas
with an area less than 1.0
hectare each. Besides that, there are also stadiums and sports complexes
built in parks. |
| 33. |
Parks |
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Parks consist of city park, district
park, neighbourhood park, local park and local play area. |
| 34. |
Poverty Level |
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Poverty level is defined as household
income below than RM510 per month (at 1997 prices) for national level.
In the contexts of Kuala Lumpur, a more realistic figure for a household
income is estimated at RM750 per month due to higher living costs.
Nevertheless, those earning a household income less than RM1,000 per
month cannot afford to buy low cost houses in Kuala Lumpur. |
| 35. |
Private Open Space |
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Private open spaces are those provided
by private developers, where the use is limited to specific groups.
For example golf course, polo field and driving range. |
| 36. |
Public Open Space |
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Public open spaces are open spaces
designated for public use. |
| 37. |
Public Housing |
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Housing provided by CHKL for low income
groups at subsidised rental. |
| 38. |
Service Industry |
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A business that does work for customer
such as transportation or entertainment, but is not involved in manufacturing. |
| 39. |
Sport and Recreational Facilities |
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Sport and recreational facilities consist
of open space, stadium, sport complex, swimming pool, courts, golf
course, polo field and driving range. |
| 40. |
Stable Areas |
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Areas with established development
and activities, in which minimal changes in development are anticipated
over the plan period i.e. up to year 2020. |
| 41. |
Strategic Zone |
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Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020 area
is divided into six strategic zones, namely City Centre, Maluri -
Wangsa Maju, Sentul - Menjalara, Damansara - Penchala, Bukit Jalil
- Seputeh and Bandar Tun Razak - Sungai Besi. |
| 42. |
Sub-global Scale |
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In the contexts of KLSP 2020 sub global
scale refers to Asia Pacific Region. |
| 43. |
Sustainable Development |
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Refer paragraph 2.2.3: AGENDA 21 page
2-2. |
| 44. |
Temporary Housing |
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Dwelling units built with temporary
structure using building materials such as timber and zinc. |
| 45. |
Tourism Product |
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Refer to something that has sense of
attraction, which can attract tourist to come and see. Example of
tourism products are eco-tourism, sports tourism and education tourism. |
| 46. |
Tourism Resources |
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Refer to resources, which will be utilised
to develop tourism product such as nature resources, cultural heritage,
historical remains, man-made resources and events/activities. |
| 47. |
Tourist |
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A temporary visitor staying at least
one night but not more than one year in a country visited and whose
purpose of visit could be classified as leisure, business, visit friend
and relatives or attending conferences and meeting, other than exercise
of an activity remunerated from within the country visited. |
| 48. |
Tourist Frontliners |
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Refer to frontliners in tourism industry
which have opportunities to interact directly with tourists/ customers. |
| 49. |
Traditional Shopping Precincts |
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The traditional shopping precincts
consist of rows of shop houses, mostly built before 1940’s, where
retailing activities are available, generally on merchandise such
as textile, clothes, electrical, plastic ware etc. |
| 50. |
Traditional Buildings |
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Building constructed with architectural
style and building materials, way back over the years that gives character
to the area in which they are located. |
| 51. |
Transit Oriented Development |
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High intensity residential, commercial
or mixed-used development at or around transit terminal. |
| 52. |
Transit Planning Zone |
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Zone located at or around transit terminal
being identified for high intensity development. |
| 53. |
Transnational Companies |
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A company operating on production and
marketing in various countries in coordinated by central management
so as to achieve investment objectives. Normally the scale of such
corporation is big and owned by multi nationalities. |
| 54. |
Transport Modal Share |
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Transport Modal Share means the ratio
between total number of passengers of public transport and total number
of private transport users. |
| 55. |
Urban Centres |
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The urban centres are categorised according
to the relative level of importance determined by their functions,
level of provision of services and facilities and size of catchment.
There are four main hierarchies of urban centres, namely City Centre,
District Centre, Neighbourhood Centre and Local Centre.
• City Centre:
The functions of the City Centre include financial and commercial
services, shopping and
entertainment facilities and professional services for all local,
national and international
markets.
• District Centre:
The functions of a District Centre are to provide middle ranking commercial,
shopping and professional services and educational, sports and recreational
facilities to cater for both local and district markets.
• Neighbourhood Centre:
The functions of a Neighbourhood Centre are to provide lower ranking
office, shopping,
educational, sports and recreational facilities to cater for both
local and neighbourhood
markets.
• Local Centre:
The functions of a Local Centre are to provide the lowest ranking
office and small-scale
commercial facilities to cater for local catchment. |
| 56. |
Urban Design |
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A discipline on planning and spatial
distribution and function of towns or cities so as to create attractive
and harmonious environment. |
| 57. |
Urban Fabric |
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Urban fabric consists of social and
physical infrastructural networks, which involve high development
and maintenance costs. |
| 58. |
Vacant Land |
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Land without a current usage or recognised
amenity value. |
| 59. |
Visitors |
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Any person visiting a country other
than his own usual place of residence for a period not
exceeding one year and for any reason other than following an occupation
from within the country visited. |
| 60. |
Youth Hostel |
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Accommodation or lodging facilities
for:
• unmarried local youth aged between 18-40 years old, employed
in Kuala Lumpur with income between RM600-RM2,000 per month, or
• traveling youth who comes from outside Kuala Lumpur or overseas
whether during study tour or official visit. |
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