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Rural Land Use Planning and Policies under the New National Land Use Planning System
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AuthorSong, Miryung
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Publication Date2003.12.01
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Rural Land Use Planning and Policies under the New National Land Use Planning System
The aim of this study is to delve into the relevance and applicability of the newly established national land use planning system to rural land use planning. For this, the authors reviewed a series of past changes in the system and the current state and problems of rural land use. Based upon this review, the authors examined the possible contradictions and inconsistencies in the planning of rural land use under the new national land use planning system, and suggested a number of ways to improve both national and rural land use planning. Hopefully, from this process, the authors will delineate a proper place and role for rural land use planning.
Under the new national land use planning system, unlike its predecessor, rural land use must be controlled and managed through the extension of urban planning. However, land use activities in rural areas are small-scale and decentralized, unlike its counterparts in urban areas. Therefore, it may be sometimes improper, and downright impossible, to simply apply the control and management tools of urban planning, such as zoning and subdivision regulations, to rural land use.
Instead what is called for is, first, the streamlining and simplifying of rural land use planning by excluding those planning elements deemed improper and unsuitable for rural land use; secondly, the redefining of zoning ordinances and regulations to reflect the characteristics of land use activities native to rural areas; third, the redirecting and reorienting of planned development from large-scale, new development to small-scale improvement and renewal activities; fourth, a permanent establishment of conservation area and a permit system, instead of temporary designation, that will curb any development activities; and finally, an incorporation of current various agricultural and rural improvement and renewal projects, through the creation of so-called "rural planning zone", into land use planning. Only through these five adjustments, redirection and reorientation rural land use planning can find its proper role and place under the new national land use planning system.
Researchers: Song Mi-Ryung, Park Seok-Doo, Kim Soo-Suk,
and Seong Joo-In
E-mail Address: mrsong@krei.re.kr
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