Hou Ho-shong points out that the city government cannot actually be faulted for its espousal of the urban planning idea, and he concedes that when the ministry initially planned on a land area of 5,500 hectares, the 500 hectares that it allotted for city use "definitely underrated the city's needs."
侯和雄認為，市政府為都計發展請命乃「無可厚非」，他承認交通部的初期規劃五千五百公頃新生地中，只留給市政府五百公頃，「的確較忽略市政府的需要。」