Jungnang-gu, the Only Selected Site for Moa Town Among 6 Candidate Locations

Myeonmok 3·8-dong Area Added as Moa Town Target Site... Total 14 Locations, the Most Among Seoul's 25 Districts
Management Plan to Be Established in First Half of This Year, Moa Town Designation Process to Be Completed by Second Half of 2025

Jungnang-gu (Mayor Ryu Kyung-gi) announced that the area around 453-1, Myeonmok 3·8-dong was additionally selected as a project site at the ‘4th Seoul Moa Town Site Selection Committee of 2024’ held on the 10th. With this decision, Jungnang-gu now has the highest number of Moa Town sites among Seoul’s autonomous districts, totaling 14 locations.

‘Moa Town’ is a small-scale housing maintenance project that combines aging low-rise residential areas within 100,000㎡, where large-scale redevelopment is difficult, into a single unit to be developed like a large apartment complex.

The selected site around 453-1, Myeonmok 3·8-dong is an area where residents have long suffered inconveniences due to poor infrastructure such as narrow alleys and insufficient parking spaces, and densely packed old multi-family and multiplex houses. Additionally, many semi-basement homes are distributed here, making residential environment improvement urgent.

After receiving residents’ applications for the Moa Town project, the district held resident briefings to gather opinions, conducted prior consultations with related departments, carefully analyzed the necessity of Moa Town designation, and set appropriate district boundaries before applying for the project. As a result, it achieved the remarkable feat of being the only site selected among six applications submitted by various autonomous districts.

The district expects that with this selection, the inconveniences in the densely populated multi-family housing area will be resolved, the residential environment will improve, and the living standards of residents will be enhanced.

The district plans to begin establishing the ‘Moa Town Management Plan’ for each site in the first half of this year and aims to complete the Moa Town designation process by the second half of 2025.

The ‘Moa Town Management Plan’ is a procedure to establish the basic management direction for the area, including ▲land use plans ▲upgrading zoning districts ▲plans for infrastructure such as roads and parking lots ▲building density plans such as building coverage ratio and floor area ratio.

After establishing the ‘Moa Town Management Plan’, conducting public inspection and review by the Seoul Small-scale Housing Maintenance Integrated Deliberation Committee, the project will be officially promoted through approval and announcement procedures as a ‘Small-scale Housing Maintenance Management Area’ with legal effect as a Moa Town.

Ryu Kyung-gi, Mayor of Jungnang-gu, said, “Including the newly selected site in Myeonmok 3·8-dong, we will do our best to carry out the projects at all 14 Moa Town sites without delay to lay the foundation for residents’ housing stability and improved living standards.” He added, “We will continue to provide administrative support so that a pleasant and livable residential environment can be created for residents through Moa Town projects and other low-rise residential area maintenance efforts.”

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