Yongin City Launches 'Regulation Innovation TF' to Reflect Citizens' Voices

Identification of Improvement Tasks in 6 Areas Including Public, Daily Life, and Economy
Last Year's Achievements in Resolving Overlapping Regulations in Military Facilities and Waterfront Zones

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province is launching a task force (TF) to improve unreasonable regulations in key areas such as public services, daily life, and the economy.

Yongin City announced on the 1st that starting this month, it has formed a 'Regulatory Innovation TF' composed of 24 department heads across six sectors and will operate a focused period for identifying improvement tasks. The TF will identify regulatory cases and seek solutions across all social sectors, including the 'public sector' for improving complex administrative procedures, the 'daily life sector' closely related to citizens' lives, and the 'economic sector' related to business activities.

The city plans to collect cases of damage caused by regulations in daily life and gather opinions through the 'Citizen Participation Regulatory Reporting Center' on the Yongin City website and reflect them in policies.

Previously, the city submitted 29 regulatory cases requiring improvement to the government last year, and among them, four were selected as government regulatory improvement tasks, achieving notable results.

A representative case is the improvement of overlapping regulations around Gyeongan Stream. Through a field survey last year, the TF identified that 3.9㎢ around Gyeongan Stream had been subject to unreasonable dual regulations as a military facility protection zone and waterfront zone, and resolved this issue. Mayor Lee Sang-il requested the Ministry of Environment to lift the regulations in May last year, and subsequently, the Hangang River Basin Environmental Office is reviewing whether to lift the waterfront zone designation after an on-site investigation.

In October last year, following a field survey on residents' opinions that the eligibility criteria for admission to senior welfare housing were unreasonable, the city proposed regulatory relaxation to the government, leading to a legal amendment. The age limit for children and grandchildren living with senior welfare housing residents to move out was considered too low and needed to be relaxed from 19 to 24 years old. In fact, the Ministry of Health and Welfare amended the 'Senior Welfare Act' reflecting this change, which is scheduled to take effect from April 3.

Additionally, the TF proposed to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to classify general warehouse facilities and small-scale personal shared warehouses separately, leading to some regulatory improvements. The city suggested that personal shared warehouses be classified as neighborhood living facilities and small-scale warehouse facilities be separately defined to ease the approval process when installing urban-type shared warehouses. A Yongin City official stated, "We will fulfill our role as agents of regulatory improvement by reflecting the voices of not only city officials but also various members of the local community."

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