Gyeonggi Province Proposes Excluding Piloti Parking Lots from Building Floor Count for One-Room Apartments

Gyeonggi Province held a Regulatory Reform Committee meeting on the 17th and decided to submit a proposal to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Office for Government Policy Coordination requesting that piloti parking lots in one-room apartment buildings be excluded from the building floor count.

The Regulatory Reform Committee stated, "This is a policy unsuited to the current era when single-person households account for nearly 30 percent of the population. While the supply of one-room apartment buildings is increasing, securing parking space is difficult, which is worsening living conditions," and suggested, "One-room apartment buildings should also be given incentives to exclude piloti parking lots from the building floor count to encourage the installation of parking facilities."

Under current law, piloti parking lots in one-room apartment buildings are counted as part of the building floor count, unlike multi-unit dwellings or complex row house units.

As a result, one-room apartment building developers are not constructing piloti parking lots citing project feasibility, leading to severe parking shortages in areas surrounding one-room apartment buildings.