Jung-gu Requests Further Relaxation of Namsan Height Restrictions in Dasan-dong Area

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Jung-gu, Seoul (Mayor Kim Gil-seong) has requested the Seoul Metropolitan Government to further ease the Namsan height restriction in the Dasan-dong area. A petition signed by 4,449 residents of Dasan-dong was also submitted.

On the 29th of last month, Seoul re-announced the public inspection of the city's height district reorganization plan, which includes the easing of the Namsan height restriction. Jung-gu allowed residents to review and submit opinions on this plan until the 14th. Subsequently, the district combined its own opinions with those of the residents and submitted a total of nine requests to the city on the 15th.

The reorganization plan includes provisions that, within the Seoul city center system, redevelopment projects in station areas (within 250m of platform boundaries) classified as district centers or higher can have height regulations eased up to 45 meters through landscape guidelines and review. The term "district center or higher" refers to the central areas of autonomous districts or living zones.

If left as is, Yaksu Station and Beotigogae Station would be excluded, meaning that unlike Hoehyeon-dong, Myeong-dong, Pildong, and Jangchung-dong, Dasan-dong would not benefit.

Jung-gu insists that Yaksu Station and Beotigogae Station must be included in the relevant station areas through adjustments. Given that the residential environment in Dasan-dong is "incomparably" poor and that there is a strong will for redevelopment projects in areas such as Sindang 9 District and Sindang-dong 432 area, this opportunity should be used to provide relief.

Additionally, the district stated that based on residents' opinions, the conditional easing still applied to the Dasan-dong height district’s Type 1 and 2 general residential areas should be changed to an unconditional, absolute easing. They also added that public support projects for residential environments should be promoted in the areas near the fortress wall path excluded from this height easing, specifically in the 'road surface + 4m or less' zones.

From the 6th to the 14th, Jung-gu operated the "Dasan-dong Resident Opinion Submission On-site Support Center" at the Dasan-dong village square to directly collect residents' opinions.

During this period, 4,449 residents signed the petition urging additional easing of the Namsan height restriction in the Dasan-dong area. Considering that there are 8,856 residents within the Dasan-dong height district, this represents participation by half (50.2%) of the residents.

Residents who participated in the petition voiced that all opinions of Dasan-dong residents must be reflected. They also expressed hope that the regulations would be decisively eased so that the 30 years of waiting in an environment so old it is hard to believe it is in Seoul will not be in vain.

Furthermore, Jung-gu conveyed to Seoul the opinion that buildings constructed before the designation of the height district in downtown general commercial areas or near the fortress wall path in the 'road surface + 4m or less' zones, which already exceed the height limit, should be allowed to maintain their existing height when reconstructed. The reorganization plan currently only eases floor limits for remodeling of apartment complexes within the height district.

The Seoul height district reorganization plan was announced in June last year as the "New Height District Concept" and was publicly inspected in July last year. It was then amended and approved by the Seoul City Urban Planning Committee in January, leading to this re-announcement. According to the city, the plan will be finalized and promulgated after review by the city’s Urban Planning Committee sometime after April.

Kim Gil-seong, Mayor of Jung-gu, said, “Observing on-site, I felt the earnest desire of residents to change the old and dangerous environment,” adding, “I hope the opinions submitted this time will be reflected so that the easing of the Namsan height restriction will have a proper effect in the Dasan-dong area.”

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