Although existing urban centers, which function as social and cultural centers, are designated as regeneration areas, they are not being actively developed with various considerations and they are even becoming social problems. Cities are declining an...
Although existing urban centers, which function as social and cultural centers, are designated as regeneration areas, they are not being actively developed with various considerations and they are even becoming social problems. Cities are declining and being left out for a long time, so that they are becoming obsolete and are causing a population shift to their outskirts, which has been causing various complex conflicts of interest between the public sector and the cities’ residents, among landowners, between land lessors and lessees, and among various public subsectors for several decades now.
A particular problem is the increase in service expenses and project costs with the establishment of plans under circumstances that exclude the residents or have incomplete consent from the residents and the public organization in the planning phase of domestic urban environment maintenance and improvement projects. This delays the promotion of the project.
This study aims to resolve such problem by proposing a measure to introduce a private-public consultation body for residents and the relevant departments of the public sector, to encourage them to participate and establish plans together from the beginning of an urban environment maintenance and improvement project, and to contribute to the activation of domestic urban environment maintenance and improvement projects.
From the results of the case studies of domestic urban environment maintenance and improvement projects, it was found that if urban regeneration plans are established under circumstances in which residents are excluded in the planning stage and the relevant departments do not give their consent to the plans, they lead to problems in the project implementation phase and delay the project. In addition, it was noticed from a questionnaire survey related to the residents’ civil applications and urban environment maintenance and improvement project processes that business profile analysis is required in the initial planning phase and that it is necessary to resolve the problem of interest regarding the compensation for the residents, the formulation of an appropriate construction plan, and the sharing of infrastructure facility construction costs. Thus, this study proposed the following solution to these major administrative issues: the organizing of a public-private committee in which the residents and the public sector can participate in together.
The details of this study are as follows.
First, the necessity of the study was ascertained through a review of literature and relevant regulations pertaining to urban regeneration projects.
Second, this study recognized the necessity to improve the urban environment maintenance and improvement business process by analyzing the current status of domestic urban environment maintenance and improvement projects and by analyzing the problems with the promotion of urban environment maintenance and improvement projects.
Third, the current status and the characteristics of the domestic districts in which urban environment maintenance and improvement projects are in progress but are having problems were analyzed through case studies, and common conflicts between residents and the public sector were identified by analyzing their major conflicts regarding planning based on the civil applications made by the residents and the conflicting issues between the residents and the public body.
Fourth, a questionnaire survey was conducted to analyze the problems related to the processes of domestic urban environment maintenance and improvement projects. This also made it necessary to organize a private-public consultation committee for the major administrative issues to be dealt with, by analyzing the conflicting issues based on the results.
Fifth, the case studies of domestic urban environment maintenance and improvement projects, the analysis of the conflicts in their civil applications, the analysis of the issues among public organizations, and the preliminary survey to improve the processes of urban environment maintenance and improvement projects pointed out then ecessity of organizing a private-public committee for urban environment maintenance and improvement projects, of setting the basic direction for such, and of proposing its introduction in the planning phase of urban environment maintenance and improvement projects.
Sixth, this study arrived at its conclusion by examining the appropriateness of the introduction of a private-public consultation committee in the planning phase of an urban environment maintenance and improvement project, through an interview with experts.
If the measure to introduce a private-public consultation committee in the planning phase of an urban environment maintenance and improvement project is implemented as proposed in this study, it will be meaningful by proposing a procedure for formulating a plan for urban environment maintenance and improvement projects through an advanced consultation between the residents and the public sector. This is expected to contribute to the smooth promotion of the project, as it would remove the conflicting factors that are expected to be generated in the project implementation phase before they could emerge.
The case studies and research proposed in this study are limited only to the improvement of urban environment maintenance and improvement projects through the introduction of a private-public consultation committee in the planning phase of the projects. Therefore, it is recommended that diverse studies be continued on the promotion methods for other urban maintenance and improvement projects, including other regeneration projects or reconstruction projects.