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Appendix II - A Central and Western District Summaries of Written/Oral Representations

Item No.* DCCAs Representations EAC’s views No. W O 1 All 1 - Supports the provisional The supporting view is noted. DCCAs recommendations on all DCCAs of the Central and Western District as they are in line with the EAC’s statutory criteria and working principles.

2 A01 – 1 - Considers it inappropriate to This proposal is not accepted Chung place the areas in the north because the areas in the north Wan and south of MacDonnell and south of MacDonnell Road into two different Road belong to A01 (Chung A04 – DCCAs and proposes to group Wan) and A04 () Peak them in one DCCA. respectively, and the populations of the two DCCAs will fall within the statutory permissible range. According to the established working principles, adjustments to their existing boundaries are not required.

3 A01 – 1 - Proposes to transfer the This proposal is not accepted Chung residential buildings in the because the populations of Wan vicinity of the MTR Sheung A01 (Chung Wan) and A12 Wan Station from A01 () will fall within A12 – (Chung Wan) to A12 (Sheung the statutory permissible Sheung Wan). range. According to the Wan established working principles, adjustments to their existing boundaries are not required.

4 A02 – - 1 Supports the provisional The supporting view is noted. Mid recommendations. Levels

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Item No.* DCCAs Representations EAC’s views No. W O East

A13 –

5 A02 – 1 - Has no adverse comments on The view is noted. Mid the provisional Levels recommendations. East

A13 – Tung Wah

6 A02 – 3 1 Object to the provisional These representations are not Mid recommendations on A02 accepted because: Levels (Mid Levels East) and A13 East (Tung Wah). Reasons are (i) based on the 2015 original summarised as follows: DCCA boundary, the A03 – population of A13 (Tung Castle  the populations of A02 Wah) (11 910) will be Road (Mid Levels East) and A13 below the statutory (Tung Wah) have already permissible lower limit A13 – met the requirements of the (-28.25%). To ensure Tung EAC’s statutory criteria, that the population of the Wah i.e. not exceeding or falling DCCA will fall within the short of the population statutory permissible quota by more than 25%; range, the provisional recommendations propose  the DCCAs concerned have to transfer part of the been established for more population of the adjacent than 24 years and electors A02 (Mid Levels East) to are well used to the existing A13 (Tung Wah); delineation and have developed a sense of (ii) the affected population belonging. A change in under the proposal made in the delineation will cause the representation (1 936) confusion to the residents; will be larger than that in the provisional  Aberdeen Street is a main recommendations (994) by road linking the 942; Mid-Levels with the A. Central & Western District - 38 - A. Central & Western District

Item No.* DCCAs Representations EAC’s views No. W O Central District and has (iii) the delineation historical value. Splitting recommendations must be the left and right sides of based on objective data of Aberdeen Street into two population distribution. different DCCAs will Arrangements on district disrupt its integrity; administration matters, community services  other DCCAs around A13 provided by DC members (Tung Wah) have a greater or political factors will not population than A02 (Mid be taken into Levels East). Of these consideration; and DCCAs, the population of A03 (Castle Road) has (iv) there is no sufficient higher percentage of objective information and deviation from the justification to prove that population quota the proposal made in the (+22.88%). It is representation is obviously considered more better than the provisional appropriate to transfer part recommendations in terms of its population to A13 of preserving community (Tung Wah); and identities.

 the opinions offered by the DO to the EAC are suspected to have political considerations.

One representation proposes to transfer the cluster of buildings between Alassio and Argenta from A03 (Castle Road) to A13 (Tung Wah) as an alternative option. Reasons are as follows:

 despite the fact that the provisional recommendations are deemed reasonable from the perspectives of the delineation of DCCAs, community integrity, etc., the proposal made in the A. Central & Western District - 39 - A. Central & Western District

Item No.* DCCAs Representations EAC’s views No. W O representation can achieve a reasonably balanced population distribution among A02 (Mid Levels East), A03 (Castle Road) and A13 (Tung Wah);

 though some of the above buildings and certain buildings in the south of Seymour Road belong to the same development series, they are actually just standalone apartment buildings without any close relationship between them. Therefore, the proposal does not affect local ties; and

 designating Seymour Road as the boundary between A03 (Castle Road) and A13 (Tung Wah) enables that the matters related to the busier Caine Road can be followed up by a single DC member and handled in a more effective manner.

7 A06 – 1 - Objects to the swap of the This representation is not Kwun original codes of two DCCAs accepted because allocating Lung because no change is made to codes to DCCAs is for the their DCCA boundaries in the sake of easy identification of A07 – provisional recommendations. DCCAs on the boundary maps Kennedy Besides, residents are used to and providing the public with Town & the original DCCA codes a quicker and easier way in Mount which have been used for locating the DCCA(s) which Davis years. Changing the codes they are looking for. will cause confusion. According to the established working principles, when drawing up the provisional recommendations, the EAC A. Central & Western District - 40 - A. Central & Western District

Item No.* DCCAs Representations EAC’s views No. W O will rationalise the allocation of DCCA codes for all administrative districts by assigning the codes in a clockwise direction with a view to making the DCCAs with consecutive codes contiguous to each other as far as possible so that it is easier for the public to locate a DCCA when consulting the maps.

8 A08 – 1 - Proposes to transfer the cluster This proposal is not accepted of buildings located at Ivy on because the populations of ’s, Ying Ga Garden A08 (Sai Wan) and A09 A09 – and Hee Wong Terrace from (Belcher) will fall within the Belcher A09 (Belcher) to A08 (Sai statutory permissible range. Wan) because the population According to the established difference of nearly 7 000 working principles, between these two DCCAs is adjustments to their existing undesirable. The proposal boundaries are not required. made in the representation can achieve a more balanced population distribution between the two DCCAs.