The 3rd anniversary of the Dazhi Jitai industrial safety incident: the city government held a coordination meeting, but Jitai Company was absent

On the 3rd anniversary of the Dazhi Jitai Industrial Safety Incident, the Taipei City Government held a coordination meeting for the second time today (30th) regarding the subsequent resettlement, rent compensation and urban renewal and reconstruction of 25 collapsed households, but no one from Jitai Company attended. The subsided households’ expectations for reconstruction and the negative delay of Jitai Company have made progress. The city government said that it will re-evaluate the feasibility of public housing reconstruction in the subsided area. Jitai Company should not continue to delay negotiations with subsided households, nor should it ignore the rights and interests of subsided households. Jitai has been given a deadline of two weeks to propose a specific rental plan to speed up the volume transfer and urban design application process.

The Metropolitan Development Bureau said that this coordination meeting considered that 25 subsidence households still have different positions on the follow-up treatment, and 22 of them have signed settlement letters, urban renewal and reconstruction contracts and supplementary agreements with Jitai Company; since September this year, Jitai Company has not provided relevant resettlement fees. The city government understands that the subsided households are anxious about their subsequent living and reconstruction progress, so it once again provided a coordination platform. After convening the first coordination meeting on September 7, it also conducted a survey on September 15 of the subsided households’ willingness to move in and renew the lease of Jihe Phase III interim housing. At the same time, it continued to use a special project approach to accelerate the urban renewal process and assist in the advancement of the reconstruction work.

The Metropolitan Development Bureau mentioned that the city government notified Jitai to hold a meeting with the subsidence households on September 21. However, because Jitai Company did not send personnel to attend, the 25 subsidence households had different positions. Some residents participated in the discussion at the meeting, and some residents were unwilling to enter the venue to raise their demands on site, including asking for basic compensation. Tai Company will fulfill the settlement letter, urban renewal and reconstruction contract and supplementary agreement signed by both parties, and will continue to pay rent compensation of 1,600 yuan per square meter per month until the renewal and reconstruction is completed. At the same time, it hopes to speed up urban renewal and still hopes that the city government will provide disaster prevention urban renewal incentives.

In addition, two residents who participated in the coordination meeting also requested that Jitai Company should continue to provide rent compensation of 1,600 yuan per square meter per month. One of the residents hoped that the government would provide disaster prevention incentives, while the other resident expressed his disagreement with the disaster prevention incentives at the scene. Jitai's compensation liability should not be confused with the government's volume bonus, so as not to encourage other builders in disguise to receive the bonus after causing neighborhood damage.

Regarding the actual living needs of residents and rent compensation issues, the city government has not only surveyed 25 households on their willingness to move in or renew the lease of Jihe Phase 3 interim housing, but also said that if the collapsed households who have not yet applied for occupancy can still make demands at any time in the future, the city government will do its best to assist. Regarding rent compensation, the city government once again called on Jitai Company not to avoid the issue, but to conduct substantive negotiations with subsidence households as soon as possible and propose specific plans.

Regarding the disaster prevention-type urban renewal incentives, the city government said that since the industrial safety incident occurred, Jitai Construction should have been responsible for the reconstruction of collapsed households, financial losses and other matters; however, on October 5, 2023, only 8 households agreed to the municipal government's public office, and subsequent applications were made by Jitai Construction in 2024. The updated unit was approved on May 20, and an incomplete business plan was submitted on January 20, 2025. After many rejections and corrections by Jitai Construction, the city government rejected the business plan on April 2, 2025, and submitted another business plan on September 5, 2025.

The city government once again emphasized that in the past, the content of the project project submitted by Kitai has been blurred and the focus has been transferred to the city government's volume award. The city government once again called for the volume transfer and urban design application procedures mentioned in the updated project plan to be separately applied for to be submitted to the government as soon as possible to speed up the overall reconstruction process.

The "Taipei City Disaster-Preventive Urban Renewal Detailed Plan" is mainly to promote the renovation of legal buildings with insufficient earthquake resistance and public safety concerns. Applicable objects must meet the requirements of building structural safety performance assessment results with an ID value less than 0.35, and the renovation area must be more than 1,000 square meters. This case is not a building with insufficient earthquake resistance that the disaster prevention urban renewal plan was originally applicable to; and when the city government notified Ji Tai Company to demolish it within a time limit on September 20, 2023, the disaster prevention urban renewal plan had not yet been released and implemented. The original building had also been demolished when the subsequent urban renewal report was approved. The city government had written on February 23, 2026 that the case should not be eligible for the disaster prevention urban renewal award.