Candidate Lee Young: "Reconsider Height Restriction Regulations to Revitalize Urban Areas"

A proposal has emerged to significantly reconsider height restriction regulations and development models to revitalize the depopulating downtown area of Seoul.

Minister Lee Young of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups is attending the Emergency Economic Ministers' Meeting and the Price-Related Ministers' Meeting held at the Government Seoul Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 5th, reporting on the agenda. Photo by Jo Yongjun jun21@

Lee Young, a former Minister of SMEs and Startups and a preliminary candidate for Jung-gu Seongdong in Seoul, stated on the 6th, "Height restriction regulations, which are uniformly set by district units, should be comprehensively reviewed considering factors such as distance from cultural heritage sites, land elevation, and impact on the landscape, and development should link residential areas with commercial zones."

Candidate Lee Young mentioned that this could first be applied to areas such as Sindang 9 District near Namsan Fortress Wall Trail and Geumho 14 District near Geumnam Market, and that he is currently reviewing a development model linking mixed cultural commercial zones and residential areas throughout Jung-gu Seongdong.

He said, "Past regional redevelopment developed residential areas as residential and commercial areas as commercial, resulting in bedroom towns and surrounding commercial districts losing competitiveness," adding, "I will redevelop Jung-gu and Seongdong into mixed-use buildings where popular restaurants, fashion and cultural spaces, startup incubators, and youth residential areas coexist to prevent population decline and create a new concept of urban space where industry and residence coexist."

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