Geumcheon-gu Cleans Up Illegal Street Deposits Together with Residents

Intensive Crackdown on Road and Sidewalk Obstructions on Doksan-ro and Geumha-ro
Administrative Measures to Follow Non-Compliance with Guidance

Geumcheon-gu (Mayor Yu Seong-hoon) is carrying out the "Street Maintenance with Residents" project until April 30.

The project has been operating since last year to improve pedestrian inconvenience caused by illegal storage on roads and sidewalks and to create safe and pleasant streets.

Through a field survey, the district selected a 1.4 km section of Doksan-ro (from Doksan-ro 364 to Doksan-ro 224), where stores line both sides of a 20m road and the sidewalk is narrow, and a 2 km section of Geumha-ro (from Geumha-ro 638 to Geumha-ro 740) as maintenance targets.

Together with the autonomous disaster prevention group of the jurisdiction, promotional activities for improving the walking environment are being conducted, and store owners who pile up items on the road are being monitored. Administrative measures such as fines will be imposed on habitual violators.

Illegal storage items used to secure parking on the road, such as safety cones (lava cones), water containers, and flower pots, will be forcibly removed within 2-3 days if not complied with after 1-2 warnings and correction orders. For storage items used to display products in front of stores, fines of 100,000 KRW per square meter of illegal occupation, up to a maximum of 1.5 million KRW, will be imposed if non-compliance continues after 1-2 warnings.

Yu Seong-hoon, Mayor of Geumcheon-gu, said, "The risk of safety accidents has increased due to storage items encroaching on roads and sidewalks, so the public and private sectors are cooperating to improve the walking environment," adding, "We will continue steady monitoring and maintenance activities to create safe and pleasant streets."

The district strives to alleviate residents' inconvenience by maintaining about 3,000 street stalls and 11,000 storage items annually.