Jeonju City Public Deliberation Committee Begins Preparing Scenario Workshop to Incorporate Citizen Opinions

Discussion on Agenda and Details to Present to Workshop Participants

Former site of Daehan Textile. Photo by Jeonju City Provided

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hong Jae-hee] The Citizens' Deliberation Committee related to the former Daehan Textile site in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, has begun preparations for a scenario workshop that will incorporate the opinions of citizens and experts.

According to the city on the 17th, the Citizens' Deliberation Committee held its 6th meeting the day before and discussed detailed procedures regarding the scope of public deliberation and the direction of the workshop to gather opinions from citizens and experts on the Daehan Textile site.

At the meeting, the committee members shared opinions on the agenda that will serve as a guide for the scenario workshop participants, based on the preliminary committee's decisions, including ▲possibility of development ▲possibility of urban planning changes ▲appropriateness of infrastructure ▲impact on the local commercial district.

The members also derived a rough direction for the discussions to be held in the upcoming scenario workshop.

According to the results of the meeting, the future scenario workshop will proceed in the following order: ▲providing information and materials to the scenario workshop participants ▲discussing the desirable future vision of the former Daehan Textile site ▲deriving a land use plan (draft) (scenario creation) ▲presenting the feasibility, rationality, and validity of the scenarios.

Prior to this, through the 5th meeting, the Deliberation Committee agreed that about 30 people, divided into four groups of 6 to 8 members each?policy and urban management, urban planning, local economy, and citizens?will participate in the upcoming scenario workshop.

The next meeting will be held on the 27th by unanimous agreement of all members of the Citizens' Deliberation Committee, where they will discuss ▲the agenda of the scenario workshop ▲the composition and number of participants in each group of the scenario workshop ▲and the selection methods.

Chairman Lee Yang-jae of the Citizens' Deliberation Committee emphasized, “Because the agenda and discussion procedures of the scenario workshop are very important factors in determining the direction of the scenarios to be decided in the future, we discussed them more deeply over a long period of time,” adding, “By presenting an appropriate agenda that can serve as a compass for the scenario workshop participants, we will do our best to derive the optimal scenario that allows Jeonju City to achieve mutually beneficial development.”

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