Questions/Answers
Question 1
Please provide a brief summary of the initiative including the problems/challenges it addressed and the solutions that the initiative introduced (300 words maximum)
Along with the functions of a city becoming ever-more complicated, the individual desires of people regarding the use of space have also been continuously increasing. Accordingly, it is urgently required to define both efficiency and public nature in using resources.
The complicated facilities of an urban space make citizens uncomfortable when they walk through the streets, degrade the fine view of the city, alienate people and, in particular, expose the physically challenged, senior citizens and the frail to the risk when they walk through the streets.
① Jongno Parking Sharing
Serious parking difficulties downtown.
Limits in building new parking lots because of expensive land prices, tremendous construction costs and lack of space.
② Jongno City Cleaning: A variety of facilities indiscreetly installed on a street degrade not only the walking environment downtown and but the view as well (1.1 million facilities of about 30 kinds on streets).
① Jongno Parking Sharing: Providing parking space at more moderate pricing for residents through sharing and opening parking lots in various ways including the introduction of a public parking lot system, affiliated parking lot, resident-priority parking lots and parking lots using vacant areas.
② Jongno City Cleaning: Tidying the urban environment and providing a safe, pleasant environment for walking by removing facilities that are unnecessary or have lost functionality, eliminating and integrating neighboring facilities with similar functions, and maintaining aged, corroded or damaged facilities.
a. What are the overall objectives of the initiative?
Please describe the overall objectives of the initiative (200 words maximum)
① Solve the city’s space issue in the community through cooperation with citizens.
② Open and share a space for resolving the city’s lack of space issue.
③ Communicate by streamlining a complicated cityscape and creating harmony around people.
The general goal for a space sharing project is to realize a human-oriented pleasant, safe and sustainable city advancing forward. Insufficient parking, the most serious issue for people who live downtown, can be resolved without spending additional resources and without damage to the environment according to the construction of a new parking lot by applying the concept of ‘sharing’ based on the Jongno Parking Share policy. Further, the City Clearing policy removes and integrates unnecessary facilities and provides a safe, pleasant environment for citizens to walk in while the systematic facility management improves the city’s view and environment.
b. How does the initiative fit within the selected category?
Please describe how the initiative is linked to the criteria of the category (200 words maximum)
① Maximizing the utilization of unused parking space by changing the awareness of the privatization of space and helping residents to understand the Parking Share policy.
② Organizing the City Clearing Council and the working council.
③ Securing the direct and indirect civic participation in the policy-making process by reflecting inconvenience and risk factors that impact citizens
Question 2
The initiative should improve people’s lives, notably by enhancing the contribution of public services to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the realization of the SDGs
a. Please explain how the initiative improves the delivery of public services (200 words maximum)
① Living Environment: Resolving the complicated parking issue downtown through diverse policies including a visitor parking system, couple parking system, Parking Share space and parking section allocation system.
② City Environment: Improving the city’s view and clearing out inconvenient facilities in clearing, reducing, tidying up and emptying in advance.
③ Intermediate-level organization: Providing public service through cooperative governance between the private and public sector including communication and cooperation with citizens and business agreements with relevant organizations.
Question 3
The initiative must impact positively a group or groups of the population (i.e. children, women, elderly, people with disability, etc) and address a significant issue of public service delivery within the context of a given country or region.
a. Please explain how the initiative has addressed a significant issue related to the delivery of public services (200 words maximum)
Why? A personal parking space is only for me, isn’t it? Why do I have to share my private parking spot with others?
It’s bothersome and cumbersome to share a parking space with others.
Building sympathy for a sharing value to solve problems by offering accurate information regarding the resource types and problems in the city to citizens: Discussion, education and promotion.
② Insufficient sustainable system and incentive of participants.
Institutional maintenance and supplementation: Organizing the exclusive team, establishing the ordinances on city clearing.
Incentives for participants: Relieving restriction on construction and burden for management (operation), partial subsidy for facility installation costs, and others.
b. Please explain how the initiative has impacted positively a group or groups of the population within the context of your country or region (200 words maximum)
Jongno Parking Sharing considers women by designating spots easy to park in as exclusive parking spots for women.
Benefit corresponding to 90,000 to 180,000 KRW per month per person for the vulnerable class which have a substantial economic burden related to parking costs by public parking spaces and Parking Share.
‘Jongno City Clearing Project’ clearing and tidying up the city by walking and patrolling the challenging city sidewalks for women in high-heels, the physically challenged with walking discomfort and senior citizens pushing strollers with babies, is the city policy for the vulnerable class which anyone couldn’t think about before, while inconvenience is not so extreme.
Question 4
The initiative must present an innovative idea, a distinctively new approach, or a unique policy or approach implemented in order to realize the SDGs in the context of a given country or region.
a. Please explain in which way the initiative is innovative in the context of your country or region (200 words maximum)
① Change of thinking! Finding alternative solutions for city issues related to excessive production by realizing sustainable city restoration through a consensus on the value of ‘sharing with others in the community’, without creation of new facilities or substantial investment in resolving the city’s insufficient resource issues.
② Innovation is not e speed but direction. Start ‘clearing’ to solve the small, trivial inconveniences experienced by citizens and such ‘clearing’ fills the city with comfort, beauty and safety. To reduce budget from the economic aspects of the project and provide convenience for citizens, the project cost per parking space in Jongno-gu is about 130 million KRW including the land purchase cost. However, the Jongno Parking Sharing system reduces the budget by 72.2 million KRW by securing total 556 parking spots.
③ City Clearing Project reduces the budget by 610 million KRW through an effect reducing facilities by the optimum installation of facilities in accordance with discussion among relevant organizations.
Question 4b
b. Please describe if the innovation is original or if it is an adaptation from other contexts (If it is known)? (200 words maximum)
The new parking policy ‘Parking Sharing’ was implemented by applying the concept ‘sharing’, which has been expanded to social campaigns searching for alternatives to economic depression as well as environmental solutions. The ‘Public Parking’ system is the first of its kind in Korea. The City Clearing Project created a unique and innovative policy by integrating diverse projects including existing projects for arranging, integrating and maintaining facilities and systematically implementing them as one project.
Question 4c
c. What resources (i.e. financial, human , material or other resources, etc) were used to implement the initiative? (200 words maximum)
① Financial Resources
Parking Sharing: Buildings owned by individuals are newly constructed and total construction costs are covered by the relevant individuals. When the individuals open the space for public parking, the individuals will have benefit from indirect support including benefits of floor area ratio to a certain extent and so additional financial support is not given. When an existing parking space is shared, Jongno-gu provides financial support equivalent to 50% (up to 20 million KRW) of the facility installation cost using the Jongno-gu Parking Sharing budget.
Financial resource for City Clearing Project cost: Implementation as a project not included in the budget plan without separate financial resource.
② Human resource: Participation and cooperation of organizations and people giving their assent to value ‘sharing’.
Question 5
The initiative should be adaptable to other contexts (e.g. other cities, countries or regions). There may already be evidence that it has inspired similar innovations in other public-sector institutions within a given country, region or at the global level.
a. Has the initiative been transferred to other contexts?
Yes
“Jongno Space Sharing Project” was selected to win awards as a good case a number of times through external official project assessment. It was reported on TV programs as well as a variety of other media. Twenty-one public organizations benchmarked the project and the project has already been transferred to other regions.
Question 6
The initiative should be able to be sustained over a significant period of time.
a. Please describe whether and how the initiative is sustainable (covering the social, economic and environmental aspects) (300 words maximum)
① From the social aspect, the policy has an effect on all citizens and considers the vulnerable, including the physically challenged, women and senior citizens.
② From the economic aspect, the policy reduces the financial burden of users and realizes its effects without additional budget by preventing facilities from being installed in duplicate or the additional construction of parking lots.
③ From the environmental aspect, the policy is a sustainable approach for city restoration because it reduces the new installation of parking lots and facilities, maintaining and tidying up existing facilities and sharing space.
b. Please describe whether and how the initiative is sustainable in terms of durability in time (300 words maximum)
From the aspect of policy sustainability over time, the policy proposes an extensive approach that can be easily implemented to solve the problems (insufficient parking space and degradation of fine view and safety of a city) that might occur in any city in the world. Furthermore, the policy is sustainable from the aspect that it is implemented as a policy not included in the budget plan through cooperative governance between the private and public sector and without additional the consumption of human and material resources.
Question 7
The initiative should have gone through a formal evaluation, showing some evidence of impact on improving people’s lives.
a. Has the initiative been formally evaluated?
Yes
If yes, please describe how the initiative was evaluated? (200 words maximum)
The local authorities in Korea submitted application forms presenting a summary of their project and implementation details for a public contest. The policy was assessed in accordance with the examination criteria by the rating agency. The examiners assessed the planning, implementation and achievement of each project in accordance with the relevant indexes.
b. Please describe the outcome of the evaluation of the impact of the initiative (200 words maximum)
① Government Fair Selected as a Good Policy Case in Korea in the Examination of 20 Years of Local Autonomy Implementation.
② Encouragement Prize in the Best Proposal Award from the Ministry of Security and Public Administration in 2013.
③ Best Prize in the Best Civil Administration Service Improvement Award from the Ministry of the Interior in 2015.
④ Best Prize in 2017 Good Manifesto Case Competition of Local Administrators
⑤ Presentation of the case in the 2016 ICLEI Metropolitan Solution (Germany)
⑥ Minister’s Award of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs in the 14th Korea Local
c. Please describe the indicators that were used (200 words maximum)
Categories : Planning
Planning
1. Goal of project & adequacy of contents
2 Suitability to the community in the project & strategic value
Description
1-1. Planning, agreement on goals of the project, accuracy of goals, adequacy of project contents, feasibility of promoting organization
2-1. Demands of residents for the project, suitability to community environment, investment priority of project, strategic value
Categories : Implementation
Planning
1. Adequacy of implementation system & process
2. Community & implementation infrastructure
3. Desire of local administrator for implementation
Description
1-1. Reasonability of role assignment per participant, efficiency of project implementation, efficiency of budget investment
2-1. Formation of local community governance, activation of residents’ participation, establishment of institutions & systems including ordinances
3-1. Wills of local administrator for implementation of the project, participation of government employees
Categories : Achievement
Planning
1. Achievement of the project
2. Management of achievement
3. Diffusion effect of the project
Description
1-1. Achievement of project including achievement to the goals specified on the project plan
2-1. Implementation of achievement management system, feedback, improvement
3-1. Diffusion effect to the community & local authority
Question 8
The initiative must demonstrate that it has engaged various actors such as from other institutions, civil society, or the private sector, when possible.
a. The 2030 Development Agenda puts emphasis on collaboration, engagement, coordination, partnerships, and inclusion. Please describe what stakeholders were engaged in designing, implementing and evaluating the initiative. Please also highlight their roles and contributions (300 words maximum)
The Space Sharing Project is planned and implemented by public organizations, citizens and related parties in planning and using the space.
Jongno-gu Office, universities, churches, Daehak-ro Small Theater Association and citizens are participating in the ‘Jongno Parking Share Lot Project’ through a reciprocal relationship.
Jongno City Clearing Project is strengthening continuing communication and cooperation through business agreements with a variety of organizations including Jongno-gu Office, Jongno Police Station, Jongno Fire Station, Gwanghwamun Post Office, KT Linkus, Seoul Bukbu Roads & Bridges Maintenance Office, Ministry of National Defense, Korea Electric Power Corporation and Seoul Metro. Further, the project facilitates the direct participation of project recipients by collecting opinions through communication with residents.
Question 9
a. Please describe the key lessons learned, and any view you have on how to further improve the initiative (200 words maximum)
The Parking Share Project contributes to creating a city focused on people living in
harmony through enhancing community spirit and improving social relationship as wellas
to simply share spaces in accordance with the awareness of the resource ‘space’ as that
with public value.
The project secures the mobility rights of the vulnerable (including children, senior citizens and the physically challenged) by creating a street that is safe and easy to walk, reduces the budget and improves the view of the city by maintaining unnecessary facilities that damage the view as well as realizes a pleasant and livable healthy city.
- This project is an opportunity to verify that trivial inconvenience of citizens can be resolved in better ways regarding the economic, social and environmental aspects through a change of thinking.
- The project is an opportunity to verify that the world can continue to develop and be changed for the better by sharing individual space in the city.