Ulsan City Changes Basic Management Plan to Revitalize General Industrial Complex

Nation's First General Industrial Complex Allows Vertical Farm Tenants

Significant Expansion of Areas Permitting Solar Power Generation Facilities Installation

Ulsan City is seeking new opportunities by changing the basic management plan for general industrial complexes to respond to the rapidly changing industrial ecosystem.

First, it decided to reflect the approval of vertical farms (plant factories) as tenants in the basic management plan for general industrial complexes, the first in the nation.

Vertical farms are the most advanced intelligent farms that integrate cutting-edge technologies such as information and communication technology (ICT), robotics, and artificial intelligence into agriculture, growing crops indoors in vertically stacked multi-layer structures by automatically controlling temperature, humidity, and production processes.

Until now, vertical farms were not allowed to enter industrial complexes, but with the revision of the "Industrial Cluster Act Enforcement Decree" on November 12, their entry was permitted.

Vertical farms faced difficulties in installation due to farmland use regulations on buildings. In addition, industrial complexes, which allow manufacturing and knowledge industries as tenants, did not permit vertical farms, causing challenges for their full-scale growth due to location restrictions.

Accordingly, Ulsan City plans to promote agricultural development and revitalize the unsold industrial complexes by changing the management basic plan of the currently unsold Gilcheon General Industrial Complex to allow vertical farms to move in.

Ulsan City is also promoting the expansion of solar power facilities within industrial complexes in line with the government's policy to designate industrial complexes as key sites for solar power distribution.

According to Ulsan City's basic management plan for general industrial complexes, solar power generation was only allowed on the walls or roofs of buildings in industrial facility zones.

This will be expanded to all facility zones (industrial facilities, complex, support facilities, public facilities), and solar power facilities will be allowed to be installed not only on walls or roofs but also above parking lots by changing the industrial complex management basic plan.

In particular, the changes will be reflected in all 14 general industrial complexes managed by Ulsan City to establish a clean energy supply system and enable Ulsan to leap forward as an eco-friendly energy city and a specialized city for distributed energy.

An official from Ulsan City said, "With this change in the industrial complex management basic plan, it is expected that tenant companies in general industrial complexes will be able to create an industrial ecosystem that can appropriately respond to rapidly changing industrial conditions."

Ulsan City Hall.

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