Seoul City begins full-fledged promotion of Moa Town revitalization project in old low-rise residential areas

The Seoul Metropolitan Government's Moa Town revitalization project, which involves grouping old low-rise residential areas into small groups and quickly renovating them, is being promoted in earnest.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government held the 2nd Small House Maintenance Integrated Deliberation Main Committee on the 10th and announced on the 11th that the 'Moa Town Management Plan for 972 Siheung 3-dong, Geumcheon-gu' and 'Moa Housing Project Implementation Plan for Districts 1 to 3' were approved with modifications and passed with conditions, respectively.

Accordingly, Moa Town with a maximum of 20 floors and 586 households will be created in the area around Seoksu Station. Among these, 118 households will be provided as public rental housing.

Moa Housing is a method of building high-quality apartment houses by block unit owners pooling land in old low-rise residential areas where large-scale redevelopment is difficult.

An area where nearby Moa houses are gathered together and developed and managed as one large apartment complex is called Moa Town. Through this, it is designed to include infrastructure such as roads, parking lots, and parks.

The site subject to this integrated deliberation is the first pilot project site for the Moa Town revitalization policy, which shortens the project period by establishing a Moa Town management plan and building plan in parallel.

This project was completed in just 1 year and 6 months, from selecting the target site to passing the project implementation plan, shortening the process by 1 year and 6 months compared to the standard processing period.

This business site was confirmed to supply a total of 586 households, an increase of 275 units from the existing 311 households, by easing the number of floors in the second-class general residential area, easing the floor area ratio due to the construction of rental housing, easing the floor area ratio due to the installation of maintenance infrastructure, and easing height restrictions for buildings.

In addition, by applying a special construction zone, the three Moa houses were connected as one complex with architectural plans such as integrated installation of underground parking and joint planning for art decorations, and organically connected external spaces to prepare an integrated complex plan.

The poor pedestrian environment, which has been used without distinction between roadways and sidewalks, will be improved by expanding the width of the roads and creating front open space attached to sidewalks, and streets will also be revitalized in connection with the nearby Central Steel General Shopping Center market maintenance project.

However, in this deliberation, the city requested a review of the plan to ensure the safety of the elementary school road to the north of the site and to create the site in harmony with the surrounding topography.

In order to spread the results of the pilot project throughout Moa Town, the Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to prepare a separate 'Moa Housing and Moa Town Rapid Integration Promotion Plan' and shorten the period from site selection to construction start from about 6 years to 4 years and 6 months.

Myeong No-jun, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's housing department, said, "We will continue to actively support Moa Housing so that it can quickly proceed to actual construction."