Creation of a 20,000㎡ Park in the Green Area around Guro-gu Oryu IC

[Seoul District News] Guro-gu Selected for Southwest Area Park Green Network Project: 20,000㎡ Greenbelt near Oryu IC · Partial Children's Play and Rest Facilities Planned in Compensated Onsu Neighborhood Park ... Seongbuk-gu Establishes Rapid Redevelopment and Reconstruction Task Force ... Dongdaemun-gu Collaborates with 'National Policy Design Group' to Promote 'Safety Village Environment Improvement Project for Single-Person Households in University Areas'

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Guro-gu (Mayor Moon Heon-il) is accelerating its park creation projects.

The district has been selected for the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s ‘Southwest Area Park and Green Space Network Creation Project’ and secured 2.7 billion KRW in city funds.

The selected areas include two sites, one of which is the green belt near Oryu IC (around 79-1 Gaebong-dong). A total budget of 7.7 billion KRW, including city and district funds, will be invested to renovate a 20,000㎡ park.

On the north side, a forest playground and forest resting area will be created by preserving the existing terrain and natural features. The forest playground will have play facilities for children, and the forest resting area will include a fitness zone and resting spaces. Additional trees such as pine, ginkgo, and zelkova will be planted in harmony with the existing natural vegetation.

On the south side, an urban agriculture experience center will be established. It will feature crop experience fields for seasonal crops, fruit tree experience areas, a seasonal flower garden where flowers can be seen throughout the year, a photo zone, and a rose garden.

The district started the basic planning service last year and will proceed with detailed design, construction technology review, and aims to complete the construction by the end of this year.

Meanwhile, Onsu Neighborhood Park, which was a target site for the long-term unexecuted urban park compensation project, is also being renovated. As the remaining sections of the compensation project are compensated, trees will be planted in the park, and children’s play facilities, outdoor exercise equipment, deck roads, and rest facilities will be installed to create the park.

A Guro-gu official said, “We expect residents to be able to relax in more pleasant parks through these projects,” and added, “We will continue to do our best to create more green spaces in the future.”

Seongbuk-gu (Mayor Lee Seung-ro) has established and is operating a dedicated team called the Redevelopment and Reconstruction Rapid Promotion Team to swiftly advance redevelopment and reconstruction projects, which were campaign promises of the 8th local government administration.

The district established the Redevelopment and Reconstruction Rapid Promotion Team, a campaign project of the 8th local government, to respond more efficiently to real estate policies and to promote redevelopment projects that meet residents’ demands for residential environment improvement and development.

Seongbuk-gu has many areas with densely concentrated old buildings and poor residential environments, making redevelopment projects absolutely necessary. Recently, due to changes in the housing market conditions and the desire to improve quality of life, residents have a strong will to push forward development projects.

Accordingly, the district newly established the Redevelopment and Reconstruction Rapid Promotion Team to improve residents’ satisfaction by providing customized civil complaint responses, resolve long-term and collective complaints, systematically manage public redevelopment and rapid integrated planning projects, and operate a conflict mediation committee to persuade stakeholders according to various redevelopment methods. The district plans to meet diverse residents’ expectations and activate project promotion by professionally responding to the introduction of new redevelopment methods.

Lee Seung-ro, Mayor of Seongbuk-gu, stated, “Through the Redevelopment and Reconstruction Rapid Promotion Team, we will satisfy residents’ right to know by responding to the rapidly changing real estate market and policies, maximize administrative services through active support for redevelopment projects, contribute to residents’ housing stability, and accelerate the previously slow redevelopment and reconstruction projects.”

Residents, public officials, and experts are collaborating to create policies as part of the National Policy Design Group, holding a meeting at Dongdaemun District Office.

Dongdaemun-gu (Mayor Lee Pil-hyung) is promoting the ‘Safe Village Environment Improvement Project for Single-Person Households in University Areas’ together with the ‘National Policy Design Group.’

The National Policy Design Group, a ‘citizen participation’ policy model where policy demanders (‘residents’), policy officers (‘public officials’), ‘experts,’ and ‘service designers’ participate in the entire policy decision process to develop public services needed by the people, has been actively working since April to create a safe village for single-person households in Dongdaemun-gu.

Analysis results of the ‘Top 5 Crimes and 112 Call Hotspots’ conducted by Dongdaemun Police Station showed that university area one-room apartment clusters are crime-prone areas. Accordingly, it was judged necessary to seek solutions in cooperation with residents for areas around local universities where female single-person households are densely concentrated, such as one-room apartments. This was selected as a task for the National Policy Design Group.

The National Policy Design Group is collaborating with Dongdaemun Police Station and local universities (Kyung Hee University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, University of Seoul) to promote the project, identifying problems and seeking solutions from the perspectives of safety demand groups such as local residents, especially youth, women, and university students.

At the first meeting held in May, many young people enrolled in local universities (University of Seoul, Kyung Hee University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) joined, presenting various opinions on safety issues they usually feel near university areas and generating innovative ideas for problem-solving.

At the second meeting in June, the ‘persona technique’ was used to comprehensively examine the entire service usage journey over time through a virtual character (a female university student living in a university area one-room apartment), deeply identifying inconveniences, potential crime risks, issues, and latent needs.

In early July, an on-site inspection was conducted. The effectiveness of crime prevention facilities (CCTV for crime prevention, LED emergency bells, shadow lighting, women’s safety delivery boxes, etc.) installed in single-person household dense areas such as Hoegi-dong, Imun-dong, and Hoegi-dong was checked, and improvement points were discussed. In particular, to practice ‘administration on foot,’ a ‘10,000 Steps Busking’ was held, conducting on-site interviews with residents and university students who actually use the area.

At the meeting held on July 22, using a total of 12 types of data (single-person household status, crime data, women’s safe return routes, emergency safety bell locations, CCTV status, etc.) derived from the ‘Dongdaemun-gu Single-Person Household Big Data Analysis Project,’ the current status of safety-vulnerable areas in the district was confirmed, and opinions on safety measures for those areas were exchanged.

This meeting is particularly meaningful in that it uses big data to objectively analyze crime-vulnerable areas, proactively discover blind spots before complaints arise, install crime prevention facilities, and derive various safety measures.

The district plans to compile the final results of the National Policy Design Group by September and implement environmental improvement tasks.

Shin Yong, Director of Planning and Budget Division, said, “We are cooperating with residents, experts, public officials, and service designers to create a crime-free safe university residential environment. Especially, the National Policy Design Group focuses on leading the project from the perspective of policy beneficiaries by participating in the entire process from task selection to policy implementation,” and added, “We will do our best to promote living-close policies that residents can feel firsthand by creating a safe university environment through proactive responses rather than ‘after-the-fact’ administration following safety incidents.”

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