The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 17th that it will include unlicensed buildings in the designation requirements for redevelopment maintenance areas and will also reform the rebuilding diagnosis system to allow redevelopment and reconstruction projects to be pushed forward more rationally.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will announce the draft revisions of subordinate statutes such as the 'Enforcement Decree of the Urban and Residential Environment Maintenance Act' and the 'Rebuilding Diagnosis Criteria for Housing Reconstruction' for 40 days from April 18 to May 28.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport explained that this legislative announcement is a follow-up measure to the revitalization plan for maintenance projects outlined in the 2025 work plan and 'Regional Construction Economy Supplementation Plan.'
Under the current system, the designation requirements for redevelopment maintenance areas stipulate that more than 60% of the buildings in the area must be aged or poor-quality buildings (over 30 years), and unlicensed buildings are excluded from the aging assessment.
However, considering that the land compensation laws and special public housing laws already include unlicensed buildings as of January 24, 1989, as objects of compensation, unlicensed buildings as of January 24, 1989, will also be included in the aging assessment to support the initiation of redevelopment projects.
In addition, the safety diagnosis will be renamed to rebuilding diagnosis, and the timing of passing will be adjusted until the project approval stage, reflecting the purpose of the amended Urban Maintenance Act (scheduled to take effect on June 4) so that residents can initiate reconstruction more easily if they face inconveniences.
Currently, the diagnosis items consist of structural environment, residential environment, facility aging, and expense analysis, but there have been criticisms that the residential environment aspect, closely related to resident inconvenience, does not sufficiently reflect the degree of resident inconvenience.
To address this, seven new detailed evaluation items such as community facilities, underground parking lots, and green environment will be established, while existing items such as sunlight environment, indoor space, and urban aesthetics will be integrated into detailed evaluation items for internal household environment and common area environment to be evaluated in a comprehensive manner.
Additionally, in consideration of the expanded evaluation items in the residential environment sector, the weighting for the residential environment's evaluation will be slightly increased from the current 30% to 40% during score summation, allowing expense analysis to be excluded from the evaluation weighting.
However, if residents request, it will allow for the application of the same evaluation weighting as the current system that includes expense analysis to expand residents' options.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport explained that, if a project must be re-diagnosed before the project initiation plan approval due to failing the rebuilding diagnosis, regulations will be established to allow the reuse of rebuilding diagnosis reports drafted within the last three years, thereby reducing the burden of diagnosis.
Kim Heon-jung, the housing policy director at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, noted, 'This system improvement is expected to make it easier to promote redevelopment projects in aging areas, and the inconveniences faced by residents during the rebuilding diagnosis process will be better reflected.' He added, 'To resolve regulatory blind spots and solidify the fast-track for maintenance projects, we prepared subordinate laws through continuous feedback from policy briefings since the end of last year, and we plan to continue our efforts to ensure that maintenance projects can be carried out quickly and stably.'