2024-02-21 06:39:07
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Entered 2024.02.21 15:39 Modified 2024.02.21 16:27
President Yoon holds a debate on people’s livelihood in Ulsan
All regulations under the Framework Act on Land Use Regulation are applied at sunset.
Introduction of temporary residential facilities for rural stays
Photo = Yonhap News The government allows the wide lifting of non-metropolitan development restricted areas (greenbelts) to revitalize the local economy. We are also pursuing measures to improve farmland regulations, including allowing vertical farms to be installed on farmland.
The Office for Government Policy Coordination, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced that they reported plans to improve land regulations containing these details at a public livelihood debate chaired by President Yoon Seok-yeol held in Ulsan on the followingnoon of the 21st. The government announced that it will allow a significant release of greenbelts in non-metropolitan areas and operate them flexibly according to local circumstances.
Specifically, in the case of strategic projects (regional strategic projects) promoted by non-metropolitan areas to revitalize the local economy, green belts can be lifted without reducing the total amount of green belts that can be lifted. The scope of regional strategic projects will not be determined uniformly, but will be applied flexibly to suit the characteristics of each region through deliberation at the Cabinet meeting.
In principle, green belt release is not permitted for environmental assessment grade 1 and 2 sites, but in the case of strategic projects in non-metropolitan areas, green belt release is permitted for environmental assessment grade 1 and 2 sites. However, in this case, in order to preserve environmental values, an alternative site equal to the area of the 1st and 2nd grade land from which the greenbelt is lifted shall be designated as a new greenbelt.
In the case of Ulsan, where the people’s livelihood debate was held that day, 25.4% of the entire administrative district is a green belt, and the ratio of environmental assessment grades 1 and 2, which cannot be developed, reaches 81.2%.
The environmental rating evaluation system will also be relaxed. Currently, it is strictly operated in such a way that it is impossible to release the green belt even if only one of the six environmental evaluation indicators is grade 1 or 2. In the future, we plan to study improvement measures to adjust the environmental grade to suit the characteristics of each region. We plan to introduce a sunset system for all regulations registered in the Framework Act on Land Use Regulations to determine whether or not they will continue to exist on a regular basis, and to introduce an integrated review procedure so that unnecessary regulations can be quickly lifted en masse if they are deemed to be overlapping.
In addition, the policy is to prohibit, in principle, the establishment of new regulations that are not registered in the Basic Act on Land Use Regulation.
Among the planned management areas, the factory building-to-land ratio will be relaxed from the current 40% to 70% in areas where infrastructure such as roads and water supply and sewerage are secured, and in production management areas where environmental pollution is low, the installation of restaurants less than 300㎡ will be permitted. In addition, even if regulations are strengthened for unexpected reasons such as a change in use area following the completion of the factory, the plan is to allow expansion according to the permit standards at the time of completion for 10 years and revitalize tourism demand by abolishing regulations on the location of lodging facilities in the planning management area. .
Jin Hyeon-hwan, First Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said in a press briefing regarding the scope and scale of greenbelt lifting in non-metropolitan areas, “We cannot make predictions at this time because we need to identify the needs of local governments and go through various reviews in the future,” and provided guidance necessary for promoting this plan. It was said that revisions are planned to be made within three months.
The government has decided to allow the installation of vertical farms in the form of buildings on farmland. Vertical farming is a next-generation system that artificially controls the environment to produce agricultural products of certain standards throughout the year without being affected by the external environment and climate change.
Vertical farms, which are indoor multi-level structures, are mostly container or building-type structures, so currently, if you want to install a vertical farm on farmland, you must go through separate procedures such as changing the land use, and there are restrictions on the period of use.
The government has accepted the criticism that it is unreasonable to restrict the installation of vertical farms on farmland, and plans to expand the temporary use period for vertical farms starting in July by revising the law.
In addition, we plan to improve the system so that vertical farms can be installed on farmland within a certain area without any restrictions.
A ‘rural residence type shelter’ (tentative name), which is a temporary residential facility where people living in the city stay in rural areas, will also be introduced.
As the demand for living between cities and rural areas increases, this is to allow people to experience rural life without having to buy a house in the countryside.
In addition, agricultural promotion areas will be developed into roads, residential land, and industrial complexes, and the remaining farmland will be reorganized so that it can be used in various ways as cultural welfare facilities, sports facilities, etc. In response to the criticism that policy announcements through public livelihood debates are for the general election, Bang Ki-seon, head of the National Affairs Office, said, “It is the government’s job to always visit the site 12 months a year and resolve the difficulties of the people’s livelihood, and this is the level at which the government does its job.”
Choi Soo-jin, Hankyung.com reporter [email protected]
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