Approval of Gwangmyeong 3-dong Street Housing Maintenance Project in 7 Months

Gyeonggi Province approved the integrated review of architectural plans, urban planning, and traffic impact assessment for the Gwangmyeong 3-dong Street Housing Maintenance Project after seven months.

This approval is the first case since the related ordinance was amended on May 16 last year to allow integrated reviews by adding landscape, traffic, disaster, and education considerations when reviewing architecture and urban planning.

Previously, the review of small-scale housing maintenance projects receiving the legal maximum floor area ratio required that landscape and traffic reviews be completed by the city or county before the province conducted the integrated review of architecture and urban planning, resulting in more than a year to complete the review.

The Gwangmyeong 3-dong Street Housing Maintenance Project is part of the Gwangmyeong 3-dong Urban Regeneration Activation Plan established in 2021 and is the first nationwide project in which the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) participates in a street housing maintenance project.

Perspective view of the Gwangmyeong 3-dong Street Housing Maintenance Project. Provided by Gyeonggi Province

The maintenance area is a hilly terrain with an elevation difference of about 15 meters, and the site area is 19,732㎡. Two adjacent redevelopment zones (Gwangmyeong 4R Zone, Gwangmyeong 5R Zone) are under construction, requiring an accelerated project pace to align with them.

The main contents of the project plan include constructing 451 apartment units, including 92 rental housing units, across four buildings (from 5 basement floors to 29 above-ground floors). Parks and parking lots, which are insufficient, will be developed as a complex above and underground, and roads will be expanded by installing sidewalks to provide necessary spaces and facilities for local residents.

Kim Tae-su, Director of Urban Regeneration at Gyeonggi Province, stated, "With the first integrated review approval in Gyeonggi Province, we will maximize the advantages of small-scale housing maintenance projects that proceed swiftly, and we will strive to rapidly renovate aging residential areas in old downtowns across the province, improving residents' quality of life and realizing housing welfare."