Gwangmyeong City Hosts 'Garden City Talk Talk' to Incorporate Citizens' Voices

[Suwon Ilbo=Yu Je-sung Reporter] Gwangmyeong City is incorporating citizens' voices into its journey toward becoming a verdant garden city.

The city will hold 'Gwangmyeong Garden City Talk Talk with Citizens' at the Grand Hall of Gwangmyeong Lifelong Learning Center on March 8 at 2 PM, where it will share the vision of garden city policy and listen to citizen opinions.

This event is significant in that it goes beyond the one-way communication method centered on exhibitions and briefings to adopt a two-way communication approach where citizens and the city directly ask and answer each other's questions.

The city plans to explain the direction and content of garden city policy at a level understandable to citizens and actively reflect citizen opinions expressed at the venue in future policies.

The event will introduce major projects of the garden city policy and share excellent domestic and international cases to enhance policy comprehension.

The subsequent 'Policy Dialogue' will conduct in-depth discussions centered on matters citizens are curious about, based on online pre-survey results and on-site Q&A.;

Prior to the event, the city will conduct an online pre-survey. It will preliminarily collect citizens' awareness and expectations about the garden city as well as questions they have, and use these as key discussion topics on the day of the event.

Anyone can participate in the survey through Naver Form (naver.me/xydM3y14) regardless of whether they attend the event or not. Additionally, any citizen interested in the garden city can participate in the event.

Meanwhile, since 2022, the city has steadily expanded garden city policies with active citizen participation, including citizen gardener training, citizen participation garden creation, and Saebbit Garden Management Group operation.

Mayor Park Seung-won stated, "The garden city is a policy that redesigns urban spaces and daily life, and it can be completed as Gwangmyeong's unique garden city when citizens' thoughts and experiences are added to it," and continued, "Through this event, I will explore directions together with citizens and create a sustainable garden culture city."