Daejeon Apartments '40%' Over 30 Years Old Within 5 Years... City to Establish Maintenance Standards Including Reconstruction

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] It is forecasted that within five years, 4 out of 10 apartments in the Daejeon area will be aged apartments over 30 years old. However, given the current circumstances, it is not easy to renovate these old apartments, and the Daejeon city government plans to establish standards to address this issue.

According to the city on the 19th, statistics on housing supply rates show that 70% of local apartment residents live in apartments over 15 years old, and 16.8% live in apartments over 30 years old. Furthermore, it is expected that within about five years, the proportion of apartments over 30 years old will increase to 40% of the total.

Because of this, recently, some aged apartments have voluntarily formed remodeling or reconstruction promotion committees. However, considering the current city ordinances and district unit plans, the city judges that renovation is practically difficult due to restrictions such as floor area ratio and number of floors.

For example, the floor area ratio in the Type 3 General Residential Area is legally limited to 300%, but the city ordinance regulates it to be below 250%. In particular, the floor area ratios in areas where large-scale land development was carried out in the past, such as Dunsan District (230%), Songgang District (210%), Songchon District (240%), Gwanjeo District (235%), and Noeun District (235%), are confirmed to be below 250%.

Accordingly, the city plans to prepare and promote measures to renovate apartments over 30 years old by next year.

Through the Daejeon Sejong Research Institute, the city will analyze the scale and density of previously developed areas, building usage, aging of residential environments, and capacity of infrastructure, and comprehensively reflect government policy trends, urban landscape, infrastructure, and housing supply rates to establish appropriate floor area ratios, number of floors, and other renovation standards for aged apartments by the second half of next year.

Additionally, the established renovation standards will be incorporated into the 'Urban Management Plan for Land Development Districts Over 30 Years Old' and used as a basis for promoting reconstruction and remodeling of aged apartments starting from the second half of next year, according to the city.

The city plans to first revise unreasonable regulations and citizen inconveniences in already completed land development districts and change the urban management plan by 2030.

Heo Tae-jeong, Mayor of Daejeon, said, "It is time to implement new renovations targeting areas where large-scale land development was completed 30 years ago or is about to reach that point. The city will ensure that citizens do not experience inconvenience in their residential environment through reconstruction and remodeling and will also achieve the plan to supply 130,000 apartments by 2030 without delay."

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