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        "msgid": "bylaw-on-parking-to-be-reviewed-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-11-24 00:00:00",
        "title": "Bylaw on parking to be reviewed",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Bylaw on parking to be reviewed JAKARTA (JP): City Council will soon reevaluate the city's bylaw on parking in a bid to give it greater flexibility to cooperate with private investors, a councilor said yesterday. Lukman Mokoginta of Commission D for development affairs told The Jakarta Post that a special team would be established later this month to conduct the reevaluation. Lukman said the reevaluation was needed because Bylaw No. 7\/1987 on parking was already out of date.",
        "content": "<p>Bylaw on parking to be reviewed<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): City Council will soon reevaluate the city's<br>\nbylaw on parking in a bid to give it greater flexibility to<br>\ncooperate with private investors, a councilor said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Lukman Mokoginta of Commission D for development affairs told<br>\nThe Jakarta Post that a special team would be established later<br>\nthis month to conduct the reevaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Lukman said the reevaluation was needed because Bylaw No.<br>\n7\/1987 on parking was already out of date.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in facing the global era, the city's parking<br>\nmanagement agency, BP Parkir, should be converted into a<br>\nmunicipal company to give it greater flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>\"If the management of BP Parkir becomes a company, it has more<br>\nauthority to hire experts, invite investors or to buy buildings,\"<br>\nhe said.<\/p>\n<p>Lukman said the commission would also urge the municipality to<br>\nmake off-street parking more prominent than on-street parking,<br>\n\"because under the law on traffic, on-street parking is actually<br>\nforbidden\".<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Ali Wongso Sinaga, head of the commission, said<br>\nthe development of more parking space was desperately needed by<br>\nJakartans because the existing parking lots were no longer<br>\nsufficient to accommodate vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>He said in Jakarta there were four million vehicles, including<br>\nthose from Greater Jakarta, plying the streets every day looking<br>\nfor somewhere to park.<\/p>\n<p>\"On-street parking has caused chronic traffic congestion<br>\naround the city,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ali said that to develop parking lots the municipality could<br>\ncooperate with private businesspeople under a profit sharing<br>\nscheme.<\/p>\n<p>He said to attract investors they should be given legal<br>\ncertainty and be allowed to use 10 percent to 20 percent of the<br>\nparking lots business plots.<\/p>\n<p>Parking lots should be built in areas notorious for traffic<br>\ncongestion while on-street parking should be prohibited in those<br>\nareas, he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, parking fees could be based on the area,<br>\ninvestment and people's financial situation.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ali said businesspeople should \"guarantee safety and<br>\navailable parking space. If there is no parking space available<br>\ndon't let vehicles come in.\" (ind)<\/p>",
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