Seoul City Distributes 'Moatown Project Guidelines'

Establishment of 'Moatown Management Plan Guidelines'

'Moatown Phase 1 Project Site' Low-rise Residential Area in Beondong, Gangbuk-gu / Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Hwang Seoyul] The Seoul Metropolitan Government has prepared a guideline to assist residents and autonomous districts wishing to promote Moa Town in establishing management area designation plans.

On the 21st, Seoul announced that it has prepared the 'Moa Town Management Plan Establishment Guideline,' which specifically includes the necessary items for plan establishment. Moa Town is a redevelopment model by Mayor Oh Se-hoon that supplies housing by gathering old low-rise residential areas, where new and old buildings are mixed and large-scale redevelopment is difficult, into a single unit like a large apartment complex.

To promote the Moa Town project, autonomous districts must establish a management plan, submit it to the city, and have the area designated and announced as a management area. The city expects that the newly prepared guideline will accelerate the project by enabling faster plan establishment and shortening the designation period.

The city's establishment guideline focuses on expanding resident convenience facilities needed in low-rise residential areas. First, at the management plan establishment review stage, it set the review scope to a superblock unit of about 300,000㎡ surrounded by arterial roads within a 15-minute walking radius. Although the legally possible scale for promoting the Moa Town project is less than 100,000㎡, this is to ensure that necessary infrastructure and shared facilities can be expanded.

Moa Town Integrated Parking Lot Concept Map/Photo by Seoul City Hall

Additionally, individual project sites within Moa Town are encouraged to enter into 'building agreements' to construct a single integrated underground parking lot. A 'building agreement' is a system where owners of land and buildings enter into an agreement to consider two or more adjacent lots as a single site to revitalize small-scale housing maintenance. In fact, in Beondong, Gangbuk-gu, the first Moa Town, about 100 additional parking spaces were secured through this system.

The guideline also includes requirements and detailed procedures for residents who wish to promote the Moa Town project to directly prepare the Moa Town management plan and propose it to the relevant autonomous district. The resident proposal requirements are ▲ two or more associations established for the Moa Housing project, or ▲ if no association is established, landowners who have obtained consent from at least two-thirds of the land area within two or more planned project sites.

Other contents include ▲ plans for the form and arrangement of buildings to activate street fronts and local communities, and ▲ the establishment of a 'circular pedestrian green system' that allows existing surrounding green spaces and walkways to be linearly connected with newly created parks and green spaces.

The city has distributed the newly prepared 'Moa Town Management Plan Establishment Guideline' to 25 autonomous districts, and it is also available on the Seoul Metropolitan Government website.

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