Attention is on whether the introduction of a fully electronic consent system to urban renewal projects such as redevelopment and reconstruction will drastically shorten resident consent procedures that used to take months.
According to the renewal industry on the 23rd, Mok-dong Complex 4 in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul launched its promotion committee about a month after starting the process to form it to push ahead with reconstruction. It achieved a 77% consent rate for forming the committee in just 10 days and recently received approval from the Yangcheon District Office. It is the fastest among the Mok-dong reconstruction complexes. Daewoo Hyoryeong Apartment in Seocho-gu met the statutory consent requirement in one day, and Mansu Jugong in Incheon, which has 6,800 households, received consent forms from nearly 1,000 people on the first day of receipt alone.
The reason this apartment complex was able to collect consent forms quickly is the introduction of a fully electronic consent system. The advantage is simple: consent is possible anytime, anywhere. Using this system, identity card authenticity verification and the issuance and submission of a family relations certificate and a resident registration certificate can all be completed at once with only smartphone authentication. You can also check the progress in real time.
Until now, residents had to obtain each handwritten signature, seal certificate, and a copy of an ID to submit a paper consent form. Most associations also preferred offline methods, believing that trust increases when you talk face-to-face. But the situation changed when a revision to the Enforcement Decree of the Old Planned City Maintenance Act, centered on introducing fully electronic consent, was approved by the Cabinet meeting in June. Because mobile identity verification is harder to forge and is free from time and space constraints, participation has increased.
In fact, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, obtaining and verifying consent forms from land and other owners in existing renewal projects takes more than five months based on 3,000 households. About 100 million won in expense is also required for one round of collecting consent forms. However, if consent forms are compiled in real time through the fully electronic consent system, the time required for verification is reduced from the existing five months to two weeks, and the expense is reduced from 100 million won to 4.5 million won.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government also recently decided to conduct a pilot project to introduce a fully electronic consent method to urban renewal projects. To this end, it selected Ijm Company, which operates the fully electronic consent and electronic general meeting system "Uriga," as the pilot project operator on the 14th of last month. It selected Hong-eun District 15 in Seodaemun-gu and Dangsan Hyundai Phase 3 Apartment in Yeongdeungpo-gu as pilot sites. Once verification is completed, the city plans to gradually expand the application areas based on the pilot results.
Of course, there are not only advantages. Because of local characteristics, redevelopment and reconstruction sites that need renewal have many elderly residents, and this method is unfamiliar to them. An industry official said, "There are many advantages such as procedural transparency and expense savings, but we also need to consider measures to prevent the exclusion of older adults and to protect personal information."