The Secret to Reaching the '15-Minute City' Faster: Launching Vision Tour Season 2

Community Consensus Expansion, Season 2 Conducted in 16 Autonomous Districts and Counties

Held at Saha-gu Office Auditorium, Starting in Saha-gu Until October

Citizens Directly Select Representative Policies, Expanding Community Consensus

Busan City, as the realization of the 15-minute city Busan enters its main track, will actively promote the ‘15-Minute City Vision Tour Season 2’ targeting 16 autonomous districts and counties from March 27 to October to establish a groundbreaking turning point for full-scale expansion throughout the city.

The ‘15-Minute City Vision Tour’ was planned in stages with the intention of engaging in policy communication with a policy agenda, unlike the past form of district and county tours that were simply meetings with residents.

In Season 1 of the ‘Vision Tour’ conducted last year, the goal was to present and share the vision of the 15-minute city Busan by proposing discussions on improving citizens’ quality of life for the creation of a 15-minute city, digital transformation, and lifestyle-based carbon neutrality practices for future generations, followed by a session to listen to citizens’ opinions.

While Season 1 was the stage for sharing the vision of the 15-minute city, Season 2 is the policy implementation stage of the 15-minute city, designed as a policy vision tour to enhance citizens’ perception of policies and improve policy effectiveness by reflecting the demands of users from the design stage.

What is particularly noteworthy in Season 2 is that citizens directly select the representative 15-minute living zone projects.

By allowing citizens to directly choose policies for their own regions, the aim is to realize democratic administration and increase local residents’ interest and participation in the 15-minute city, thereby enhancing policy effectiveness.

The event will proceed with ▲a pre-event with citizens ▲Part 1 including briefings on the major progress and plans of the 15-minute city and briefings on policy tasks of autonomous districts and counties ▲and Part 2 including policy task discussions, panel Q&A, audience evaluation group voting, ceremonies, and commemorative photos.

Autonomous districts and counties will discover and propose representative 15-minute living zone projects worth approximately 10 billion KRW based on local demands, such as improving pedestrian accessibility, building green infrastructure, and expanding complex living SOC facilities. Then, the city, autonomous districts and counties, public institutions, companies, and residents will discuss the necessity and alignment with the 15-minute city of the proposed tasks, and the audience evaluation group will directly vote to decide the representative projects.

The representative projects decided by voting will be funded jointly by city and district budgets, and throughout the project period, efforts will be continuously made to secure stable budgets without disruption by linking with national government public offering projects and collaborating with autonomous districts and counties.

Saha-gu was selected as the first venue for Vision Tour Season 2. The first Vision Tour Season 2 event is scheduled to be held on the 27th at 3:30 PM in the main auditorium of Saha-gu Office.

Saha-gu is a place where the citizens’ will and enthusiasm for creating a 15-minute city are higher than ever, with projects such as the creation of Solti Bridge Park and improvement projects for convenience in highland areas, as well as being selected as a preliminary candidate site for the second phase of the Happy Challenge project and other policy contest projects.

Saha-gu Policy Project Bird's-eye View.

It is a region that represents Busan with its natural environment blessed by nature, is also the center of urban regeneration such as Gamcheon Culture Village, and is preparing to soar as a livable 15-minute city with the transformation from an aging industrial complex to a cutting-edge industrial complex, making it the most suitable area to represent Busan and thus selected as the first venue.

Site photo of policy tasks in Saha-gu.

Since ‘15-Minute City Vision Tour Season 2’ is an experimental and challenging project implemented in a new way, breaking away from the methods previously promoted by the public sector, the visit to Saha-gu will be used to check for any shortcomings in project implementation and make improvements. After performance evaluation, it will be expanded to 15 autonomous districts and counties by October.

A city official stated, “This year, as the Happy Challenge project for creating representative living zones, which has been a core task in the creation of the 15-minute city, is being launched in earnest, it is a time when a turning point is needed for the spread of the 15-minute city throughout the city through direction changes such as success case modularization and policy contests.” He added, “We ask for citizens’ great interest and participation so that this Vision Tour Season 2 can become a quantum leap for the remarkable growth of the 15-minute city Busan.”

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