The Seoul city government said on the 8th that it will introduce a fully automated consent system that can replace the paper consent forms required to advance the Moa Town initiative with smartphone electronic signatures, and will subsidize the expense of using this system in 50 zones.
The Seoul city government will invite applications through the 27th for 50 sites to receive support for automated consent for resident proposals on Moa Town initiative management plans. The Moa Town initiative is a project that bundles multiple individual lots in areas dense with single-family and multi-family homes where redevelopment is difficult and carries out small-scale improvements.
To advance the Moa Town initiative, consent must be obtained from at least 60% of land and other owners and from owners of at least half of the land area. Until now, consent was possible only on paper, so residents had to knock on neighbors' doors to collect signatures and seals in person.
To solve this problem, the Seoul city government will introduce, for the first time in the country, an electronic-signature-based automated consent system and fully apply it to the Moa Town initiative as well.
Residents, after identity verification, will be able to submit consent forms anytime, anywhere via smartphone or PC. The Seoul city government said it expects the switch to automated consent to reduce the time and expense associated with paper consent forms, and that resident cost shares will fall by the amount of the savings.
The targets of this automated consent call are areas that are promoting or plan to promote resident proposals for Moa Town initiative management plans. Zones already collecting paper consent forms may also apply.
Applications can be submitted to the relevant district office through the 27th. After the district reviews and recommends them to the Seoul city government, an expert selection committee will conduct a final review and plans to publish the results on the Seoul city website in April.
Choi Jin-seok, head of housing at the Seoul city government, said, "We will spare no policy support so that small-scale low-rise residential areas can quickly see improvements to their living environment."