Gyeonggi Province Listens to Residents' Views Through Public Hearing on Landscape Plans

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun Reporter] Gyeonggi Province held a public hearing to establish landscape and night landscape plans, and will release video recordings to gather opinions from residents of the province.

The province announced on the 6th that it held the 'Second Gyeonggi Province Landscape Plan and Gyeonggi Province Night Landscape Plan Establishment Public Hearing' at the Suwon Convention Center on the 4th.
Officials from cities and counties in Gyeonggi Province, experts, and local residents participated in the public hearing hosted by Gyeonggi Province.

The public hearing was organized to gather diverse opinions from residents and experts to develop distinctive master plans and guidelines tailored to Gyeonggi Province, which has landscape characteristics of a mixture of metropolis and rural areas including agricultural, mountainous, and fishing villages.

At the public hearing, the 'Second Gyeonggi Province Landscape Plan' to re-establish the 'Gyeonggi Province Landscape Plan' originally established in 2010 according to relevant legal provisions, and the 'Gyeonggi Province Night Landscape Plan' to supplement the night landscape guidelines established in 2012 and establish a night landscape plan unique to Gyeonggi Province were presented with plan introductions and project progress reports from each contractor.

Designee discussions with experts and comprehensive discussions with all participants followed.

The public hearing was held in a hybrid online and offline format to prevent COVID-19, and only about 50 pre-registered attendees participated on that day.

The video recording of the public hearing will be available from the 6th through social broadcasting LIVE Gyeonggi (Naver TV), and opinions on the project can be sent via email until the 13th.

For more details, check the Gyeonggi Province homepage (gg.go.kr) notices and the Design Gyeonggi homepage (design.gg.go.kr).

Son Im-sung, Gyeonggi Province's Urban Policy Officer, stated, "This project will survey the status of landscape administration and resources in the province and include detailed matters such as preventing indiscriminate development in mountainous areas and creating harmonious landscapes during development," and added, "Furthermore, by presenting the direction of mid-to-long-term landscape policies, we plan to utilize it to promote policies that enhance the beautiful landscapes of Gyeonggi Province."