01/10/2024
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01/10/2024
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KUWAIT CITY, Oct 1: The Municipal Council on Monday approved the proposal to develop and rehabilitate the Shuwaikh seafront — opposite Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center, and to allocate sites for future commercial use.
Abdullah Al-Mahri presided over the council’s meeting on Monday which also led to the approval of the following:
Request of the Public Authority for Housing Welfare to amend the council’s decision regarding the eastern expansion of South Saad Al-Abdullah Residential City by reducing the expansion area from 8.6 to 6.8 square kilometers with the approval of some amendments in the technical opinion;
Request of Kuwait Ports Authority to allocate land for the development project in South East Doha Port;
Proposal of member Fahad Al-Abduljader to allocate some of the yards in the Shuwaikh Industrial Area to be managed by the Public Facilities Management Company;
Request of the Expropriation Department for Public Benefit to reject issuing a public benefit decision to divide Block Five in Surra;
Request of Zakat House to allocate a site for its branch in Block Seven, Mubarak Al-Abdullah;
Reorganize part of Block One in Qibla (final approval);
Request of the Ministry of Finance to convert the use of a surface parking site to a multi-story parking building in Sharq, Block Two;
Proposal of Sherifa Al-Shalfan on separating bathroom cleaning contracts from new public cleaning contracts;
Request to reorganize Block 14 in Qibla, which includes several plots, Salhiya Police Station and public facilities by the rules and conditions;
Response of the executive body to the proposal of Abdullatif Al-Daai regarding the study on floods before allocating sites for new cities, especially housing cities;
Reorganize part of Block Four in Siddeeq by amending plot numbers 145 to 153 (final approval);
Proposal of member Alia Al-Farsi to provide a service for removing large-sized residential waste;
Proposal of some members to create an overpass as an exit for cars from Hamoud Al-Tasha Street in Abdullah Al-Mubarak to Hamoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Road.
In the same context, and after deliberations that lasted for half an hour, the council, by the vote of 10 members, referred the Jahra Waterfront Project ‘Jahra Corniche’ in its new form to the executive body in Kuwait Municipality for further amendments, with the setting of five conditions — a feasibility study; an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the project; taking into account the opinions of economic specialists and the private sector; estimating the number of residents and workers and providing a detailed legal opinion on the project.
The council also returned to the executive body a proposal to increase registration fees in the bidders’ registry and to reconsider the fees for selling auction documents and company qualification brochures to provide it with a table of the percentages of increase in fees approved by other government agencies that took the same step.
By Inaas Awadh
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff
