This research suggests the effects and improvements regarding the combination of the facilities in newly developed residential complexes. Due to the different systems and characteristics among organizations, each domestic community facility has genera...
This research suggests the effects and improvements regarding the combination of the facilities in newly developed residential complexes. Due to the different systems and characteristics among organizations, each domestic community facility has generally been constructed and managed independently.
Recently, as the development of the new town has been settled, the need of designing a new local community system has been strongly suggested. Current construction and administration systems, which distribute and locate the facilities depending on their functions and the socioeconomic classes of the residents, can be combined or linked together through the negotiation among the organizations that are involved. This will increase the opportunities for the residents to interact with each other which will stimulate the local communities to be more vital.
However, the current supply of the community facilities are tightly related to the local and federal organizations such as the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs or the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Each of these organizations have different policies on the supply and management of those facilities, and this has played a major role on maintaining the supplier-centered system, which focuses more on securing the ownership of the properties or the efficiency of the management rather than the convenience for the residents.
Even though there are some cases of the system improvements in some local governments, majority of the community facilities are still planned under the influence of the conventional supplier-centered system. The arrangement of school facilities, government offices, training institutes for adolescents, libraries and community parks along the rivers in the new town in Namyangju, which is evaluated in this research, is thought to be a good example that can be applied to the future development of the new town.
By linking and combining of the community facilities, it is expected to maximize the utilization and the productivity of land, to reduce the cost of management, to create the high-quality properties with reasonable employment of budgets and to meet the demand of the local residents.
In order to achieve the improvement of the system, it is absolutely imperative for the federal government to be involved in making the changes. Without its participation, it is almost impossible to carry out this project despite of the expected budget reduction. This is due to the fact that there is no official classification of roles of each department and is also due to the disagreement between the local governments or the Office of Education and the business conductors on the policies regarding construction and management as well as budgets.
Local community facilities such as libraries, parks, and community centers commonly have been built and donated by the business conductors with the requests of the local governments when obtaining the local government’s approval. In some local governments with relatively low budgets, on the other hand, they are looking for free provisions of land and additional donations such as welfare facilities and training facilities for adolescents.
Free provision of land is achievable with some modification of park regulations which can make the local governments to hold the title of the properties, but it is rather hard to make some agreement on the donations of facilities.
The BTL method, which has been recently applied when building schools, can come in handy when it comes to combining the community facilities. The introduction of private capital can relieve the stress of public finance problems. Also, the participation of the experts can promote many ideas on combining facilities and can improve the quality of the plans.
Because of the regulations that have set regarding local parks and green areas, it is not allowed to build welfare facilities in parks or the facilities that are large enough. In order to improve the productivity and effectiveness of public areas including local parks, it is necessary to alleviate the restrictions on areas of land, the building coverage ratio and the numbers of floors of buildings by revising related policies.
Along with the revision of regulations, it is also core to improve the measures to carry out such plans. It has been known that the role of public organizations is very important in terms of combining community centers, schools, sports complexes, parks and libraries in a local residential complex. It is also required to fire up the private sectors to maximize the abilities to make plans and to stimulate the creativities to perform the plans effectively.