The space above and under the ground, being not fully occupied and applied, precious natural resources, are required to be developed and utilized positively.
As for the rights able to use other owner's any fixed, sectional space layers above and unde...
The space above and under the ground, being not fully occupied and applied, precious natural resources, are required to be developed and utilized positively.
As for the rights able to use other owner's any fixed, sectional space layers above and under the ground, application of sectional superficies is concidered to be proper and best. Sectional superficies a kind of superficies (Surfice Rights)that concerns such matters of sectionalizing any fixed ranges of the space above and under the ground, giving rights to users to use the space to own buildings or other facilities, which sometimes is called 'air rights' and 'underground rights'.
However, to make easy to secure rights, to make transactions safe, and to facilitate the establishment of rights concerning the space above and under the ground, nay annexed rights such as easement are desirable to be utilized. And, this system of sectional superficies is short of its history of usage as well as the people's recognition of its habitual pracitce.
But, with regard to such a point of view, if a basic framework of such a system were studied and then, developed, on the premise that the contents of rights and interests should be definite, and its utilization should be facilitated and secured, then its utilization would be more active.
Nowadays, on the central streets of the big cities, demands for the space above and under the ground are daily increasing, resulting in a 'sprawl' phenomenon, and therefore, to control such conflict or disorder, a kind of administratively designed master plan is desirable to be composed concerning space development and in particular, the development of the underground space.
In particular, what the problems are, though existing civil law secures personal(private) ownership wiht a declaration that the influence of land ownership "effectivates the space above and under the ground as long as there go any fair benefits in tis limittation of considerable rights", however, in management between the public usage of the space above and under the ground and the validity of personal ownership as well as in compensation between those two things.
In short, there is no lawful system to regulate such things. However, for example, in Japan, discussion on the subject to give some usage rights for the deepest space under the ground to public enterprises is being ripen.
Finally, concerning the possibility of introduction of the systems of 'air rights' and TDR(Transferable Development Rights) of U.S.A, if wiich are compared witch similar systems of our nation, the following will be good comparisons for future consideration.
With regard to the air rights by a method of 'the artificial ground(floor)', it can be, in combination, applicable to the sectional superficies in our civil law, and with regard to the air rights by a method of 'grafting', if certain sectional ownership by "the laws concerning the ownership of the assembled building and its management" were bettered and utilized, it should be well combinated with existing relative laws.
However, in the case by the method of 'grafting', whether sectional superficies can be applicable, or not, depends entirely on how to manage it. of course, to materialize that, some insufficient points of the recognition of laws and systems should be supplemented.
Next, with regard to TDR systedm if the limittation of volume rates in the law of city-planning and the Building Standard Act and its mitigating system should be studied more, and the system of sectional superficies should be efficiently utilized, the purpose or purport of this system would be achieved. Additionally, to enable to establish the personal rights of the real right, i.e., secional superficies, in the government's public space above and under the ground, reexamination on the 20th Article of the Law of the Government's Properites, etc. is of reguired.