Reduction Proposal
On September 7, 2006, the Government has announced its proposal to reduce the size of the area to 8 km². Only areas around border control points will be kept in the FCA.
The proposal was made possible by constructing a secondary boundary fence along the border patrol road, so that the security of the road can be maintained without designating large areas of FCA. The Planning Department will start a planning study on the areas removed from the FCA.
The proposal will be implemented in four stages depending on the construction progress of the fence, which is scheduled to complete in early 2015. Members of the public will no longer need to obtain an FCA permit to enter the excluded areas.
Initially, most residents generally welcomed the plan. However, some environmentalists have pointed out that the proposal would affect ecology in the excluded area.
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