Lawmakers from the People Power Party representing the area held a news conference to protest the freeze on the reconstruction supply in Bundang New Town.
People Power Party lawmakers Ahn Cheol-soo (Seongnam Bundang A) and Kim Eun-hye (Bundang B) and Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin held a news conference at the National Assembly on the 19th, saying, "The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport must immediately correct the situation in which only Bundang remains frozen at 12,000 units, unlike the upward adjustments for Ilsan, Jung-dong, Pyeongchon and Sanbon," and urged, "Completely abolish the annual permitting cap on reconstruction in Bundang New Town."
The government recently raised the upper limit for designating maintenance project zones in the first-phase new towns from 26,400 units to 69,600 units. Ilsan's annual permitting volume increased from 5,000 units to 24,800, Jung-dong's from 4,000 to 22,200, and Pyeongchon and Sanbon also rose sharply. But Bundang was effectively frozen.
Ahn Cheol-soo and Kim Eun-hye said, "The 2024 application volume for Bundang New Town's pilot districts is about 59,000 units; compared with the officially allocated baseline of 8,000 units for Bundang, the actual applications reach about 7.4 times that," adding, "Despite explosive reconstruction demand from Bundang residents and a high consent rate, the government froze the supply cap on the grounds that relocation plans were not fully prepared."
They noted, "The timing of relocation is an issue that comes at least three years after selection of the volume, following approval of the management and disposal plan," arguing that the government did not raise Bundang's cap for political reasons.
They said, "Even though these are all first-phase new towns, singling out only Bundang to exclude it from the upward adjustment list is regional discrimination for which no rational reason can be found other than political motives and a clear breach of fairness."