Release of Zones 1 and 3 in Junghwa Redevelopment Promotion District... Support for Garojutaek and Moatown

The areas in Jungnang-gu, Seoul, designated as the Junghwa Redevelopment Promotion District, except for Zones 1 and 3, will be deregulated.

On the 18th, the city held an Urban Redevelopment Committee meeting and decided to deregulate all areas of the Junghwa Redevelopment Promotion District in Jungnang-gu’s Junghwa-dong and Muk-dong, except for Zones 1 and 3, the city announced on the 19th. This marks the first change to the district in 17 years since its designation in 2006.

The Junghwa Redevelopment Promotion District covers an area of 510,000 square meters. It was planned and promoted on a broad scale with four housing maintenance-type redevelopment projects and one urban maintenance-type redevelopment project, but due to opposition from residents, the projects in all areas except Zones 1 and 3 have effectively been halted.

Some residents who wished for redevelopment have individually been pursuing Moa Town, a small-scale street housing maintenance project, as an alternative.

Although Moa Town projects can be pursued even while designated as a redevelopment promotion district, the process requires going through special laws for urban redevelopment promotion, which takes a long time. The deregulated areas no longer need to follow these procedures, making it easier to promote Moa Town projects.

The city expects that with the change in the redevelopment promotion district, the approval period for street housing maintenance projects will be drastically reduced, and the costs for establishing private redevelopment plans will also be lowered. If designated as Moa Town in the future, public guidelines can be provided, which will help reduce concerns about indiscriminate development caused by street housing maintenance projects being carried out individually on narrow streets.

Han Byung-yong, Director of the Seoul Housing Policy Office, said, "The redevelopment projects that residents of Junghwa and Muk-dong have long wished for can now be fully activated, allowing for rapid improvement of the aging residential environment. We will continue to listen to local voices to ensure that redevelopment projects proceed smoothly in the direction residents want and provide a pleasant residential environment quickly."

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