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Tainan City to rezone 500 hectares of public facility land

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

Translated from Chinese, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Tainan City Government is reviewing urban planning to rezone approximately 500 hectares of public facility land, mostly privately owned.
  • This initiative aims to resolve long-standing issues where private land designated for public use cannot be acquired by the government or utilized by owners.
  • The rezoning is expected to return land to productive use, save an estimated 150 billion NT dollars in acquisition costs, and create new public spaces.

The Tainan City Government is actively pushing forward with a comprehensive review of urban planning, focusing on the rezoning of public facility land. The initiative is projected to release about 500 hectares of privately owned public land across the city back for use.

This review addresses a persistent problem where private land, designated for public facilities, has remained undeveloped for years due to government acquisition limitations and financial constraints. This has created a difficult situation for landowners unable to use or develop their property, while the government is unable to acquire it.

Considering that many privately owned public facility reservation lands have long been unresolved issues, in the past, due to government financial and acquisition limitations, many private lands were designated as public facility reservation lands and could not be acquired for many years, and the landowners could not use or develop them, forming a dilemma of 'government unable to obtain, people unable to use'.

— Lin RongchuanThe acting director of the Tainan City Urban Development Bureau explained the long-standing problem of private land designated for public facilities.

Since 2021, the city's Urban Development Bureau has submitted 33 urban planning areas for review by the Ministry of the Interior's Urban Planning Committee. So far, seven areas have been officially announced, including land in the Guanziling (including Pillow Mountain) specific zone, freeing up approximately 23 hectares and saving an estimated 6.5 billion NT dollars in acquisition costs.

An additional six areas, including the main plan for Tainan City, have been approved by the ministry's committee. The review process is ongoing for four more areas, including Dongshan and Liuying. The city government anticipates that this comprehensive review will not only return usable land to citizens but also ensure the reservation of necessary green spaces and public facilities, balancing urban development with quality of life.

Through cross-regional land readjustment to implement public facility rezoning, not only can buildable land be returned to the people, but necessary park green spaces and public facility spaces will also be reserved simultaneously, balancing urban development and quality of life, and gradually solving the long-standing problem of privately owned public facility reservation land.

— Lin RongchuanLin Rongchuan, acting director of the Urban Development Bureau, described the benefits of the rezoning initiative.
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Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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