Dongducheon Holds First Task Force Meeting on Urban Regeneration New Deal Project

Dongducheon City held its first task force meeting on the Urban Regeneration New Deal project on the 24th at the city government's situation room, with attendance from Vice Mayor Ko Jae-hak, 13 department heads and team leaders from urban regeneration-related departments, as well as Jung Byung-kyul, director of the Regional Urban Regeneration Task Force Team at Dong-Yang University, and six faculty members.

The city stated that it convened the practical working meeting with professors from Dong-Yang University's Regional Urban Regeneration Task Force Team to actively respond to the Urban Regeneration New Deal project by sharing urban regeneration experience from local experts. This was done given that the government's guidelines for the core pledge of the Urban Regeneration New Deal project have yet to be announced, and the preparation period is short with the business plan due to be submitted by the end of September.

The meeting proceeded in the following order: ▲ background of task force composition ▲ sharing recent government policy trends ▲ discussing the status of Dongducheon's original downtown urban regeneration project and urban regeneration measures. Through this, Dongducheon has taken its first step toward becoming a vibrant and competitive city.

The city noted that since more than half of the government's Urban Regeneration New Deal project consists of small-scale, resident-led projects such as the "Revitalizing Our Neighborhood" project, the success or failure of the project will depend on active participation and cooperation from local residents, from the planning stage through implementation after selection. The city stated that measures to strengthen resident participation were also discussed at the meeting.

Vice Mayor Ko Jae-hak of Dongducheon City said, "We will actively work on application preparations while establishing a close cooperative system with local experts in implementing the government's Urban Regeneration New Deal policy, thereby minimizing side effects in the project execution process."

Meanwhile, the government's Urban Regeneration New Deal project is a large-scale project being carried out with an investment of 50 trillion won over five years.