Field forums part of key 9th-term campaign pledge to fast-track reconstruction and redevelopment
Three redevelopment zones to be visited in October and November for on-site consultations
Forums to be held every two months starting next year; integrated complaints center to open under district mayor's office
Seoul's Eunpyeong-gu announced it will hold on-site consultation forums at three redevelopment zones across the district to improve residential environments and accelerate reconstruction and redevelopment projects.
The forums are part of the key 9th-term campaign pledge to fast-track Eunpyeong-style reconstruction and redevelopment. Seventy-six reconstruction, redevelopment and Moa Town projects are currently under way in the district. District Mayor Kim Mi-kyung plans to visit each site in person to hear about issues and requests at each stage of the projects and explore concrete ways to provide support.
This year's forums will be held at three sites at different stages of development. The first, on Wednesday, will take place in the Dokbawi Station transit-oriented area (Bulgwang-dong 227-7 block), which has already received project implementation plan approval. The session will gather input from landowners and stakeholders ahead of the establishment of a management and disposal plan.
On Nov. 18, the forum moves to the Yeokchon Station transit-oriented area (Daejo-dong 59-1 block), which has received association establishment approval, to discuss the direction of future project progress. On Nov. 26, the Bulgwang-dong Moa Town area (Bulgwang-dong 170 block), which has completed its management plan, will host a session on association formation and subsequent procedures.
Each forum will be attended by the district mayor, the head of the rapid redevelopment promotion division, the association chair or steering committee chair, project stakeholders, landowners and local residents. The district will review legal and administrative support measures available at the district level in response to requests raised at the sessions and plans to inform residents of the outcomes.
Starting next year, the on-site consultation forums will be held every two months. The district intends to visit a range of redevelopment zones at every stage — from the early phases through association formation, management and disposal planning, relocation, ground-breaking and completion to move-in.
A new integrated redevelopment complaints center will also open directly under the district mayor's office through an organizational restructuring currently in the legislative notice period. The center, also part of the 9th-term campaign pledge to fast-track Eunpyeong-style reconstruction and redevelopment, will serve as a permanent support window for complaints related to redevelopment projects.
The district is also running association chair forums and a residents' academy on Eunpyeong-style redevelopment projects, and is working with the Seoul Metropolitan Government through progress-promotion meetings to shorten the permitting period for development projects.
"Every stage of a redevelopment project brings different challenges for residents, and those challenges can only be understood accurately by listening on the ground," District Mayor Kim said. "We will strengthen administrative support to resolve issues raised in the field and ensure projects move forward without delay."
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