Kuala Lumpur City Hall’s (DBKL) recent approval for the development of two condominium blocks comprising 300 residential units on Bukit Dinding which it had declared to be at “high risk” of landslides in 2014 is receiving vehement objections from at least 6,000 residents living around the hill.

In 2014, DBKL launched the Kuala Lumpur Slope Information System (KuLSIS), and then mayor, Ahmad Phesal Talib pointed out Bukit Dinding as one of 1,740 slopes at “high risk” of landslides.

This was why residents living around the hill were...