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    "id": 603335,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/603335/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13129,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Therefore, physical planning is paramount. In fact, the word “development” over and above social development, is largely seen as the planning of land use and the construction of various built environments. Yet that is something that has become very elusive to our country. In fact nobody cares. If you look at this Bill, it speaks very well in terms of the organisation, the structure of how we will be looking at physical planning. It provides for bodies like the National Physical Planning Consultative Forum. I do not know why it should be a consultative forum and not a council. It goes ahead to provide for a National Director of Physical Planning, and of course various plans. However, I would also want to see the inclusion of the National Construction Authority as part of these bodies, because construction is key. In fact, real estate in this country is booming, but more often than not, approvals--- I know, for example, there is a penalty that is provided for in Clause 57, where, if you did not get an approval, it means that you can pay between 5 to 10 per cent of the value of the land. That is okay but when you also impose a very big fine like that one, you are encouraging corruption. If, for example, your land is worth kshs5 or 10 million, it means you can pay up to Kshs500,000 or even Kshs1million. People will not be willing to pay that kind of money; they will just be bribing individuals. So, as we are looking at the provisions of this law we need to ensure that there is proper development rather than entrenching corruption. This is the case with the traffic Act; we thought by amending it we were putting sanity on our roads; now police have gone ahead to ask people to pay hefty fines, so that they do not go to courts. The other issue that Clause 56 seeks to speak to is county governments having powers to make determinations with regard to the subdivision of land. But there is one thing that the county governments need to do. This is the issue of zoning. We need to speak to the issue of low and high density population areas. This is because low density areas are now becoming threatened, and so people are moving further away from town. Places such as Kileleshwa and Lavington are being replaced by flats instead of town houses and single dwellings. That is something we need The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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