(1) Reasons for Proposal
The Amendment aims to require public facilities for residents that are established in housing complexes with 500 households or more to contain a community-based childcare center under Article 44-2 of the “Child Welfare Act” so as to increase the elementary care facilities in the vicinity of residential areas, to relax restrictions on housing construction standards, etc., that must be complied with, where the purpose of use of business facilities, commercial buildings, etc., is to be altered to the residential space for one person, so as to consolidate the foundation of urban housing supply,
to allow ordinances to raise parking lot establishment standards in consideration of the ratio of vehicle ownership by region, in addition to one-room type housing, to include an autonomous Gu in the entities that are allowed to prescribe ordinances, so as to promote the establishment of decentralization, to allow the parking lot establishment standards to be additionally lowered where one-room type housing built adjacent to station areas fulfill certain requirements, so as to expand the supply of residential housing for young adults in nearby station areas in response to the increase in one-person households,
to allow flag poles to be installed at the entrance of each building where it is difficult to install a device that holds flag poles on the housing handrail, and to clearly prescribe that toilet drainage pipes may be built using the underfloor draining technique that offers a higher capacity to prevent drainage noise, rather than the under-ceiling drainage technique, thereby improving and supplementing some shortcomings found in the operation of the current system.
(2) Major Provisions

Mandatory establishment of a community-based care center within housing complexes (Article 2 subparagraph 3 item n, Article 55-2 paragraph3 and paragraph 7 subparagraph 6)
1) Add the community-based care center to the scope of public facilities for residents established within housing complexes under Article 44-2 of the “Child Welfare Act,”
2) and, while adding the community-based care center to the public facilities for residents that are required to be established in housing complexes with 500 households or more, allow an exception to apply in the event where a majority of prospective occupants oppose the establishment thereof, and mandate the community-based care center to be established in compliance with the standards under the child welfare laws.
B. Relaxation of restrictions where the purpose of use of the facilities other than housing facilities is altered to housing (Article 7 (10) and Article 27 (1) 3)
1) Newly insert special cases for the standards of facility arrangement, housing structure and equipment, and appurtenant and welfare facilities, in the event that the purpose of use of the facilities other than housing is altered to supply long-term public rental housing.
2) Where the purpose of use of facilities other than housing is altered and one-room type housing is constructed, and where the dedicated area of each household is less than 30 square meters and the housing is provided to those who do not own vehicles as long-term public rental housing, allow the application of establishment standards for annexed parking lots set out under the “Parking Lot Act” prior to the alteration of the purpose of use.
C. Improvement in establishment standards for flag poles (Article 18 (4)) Although each household is required to install at least one device that holds flag poles on the handrail that faces outside, allow the device to be installed at the entrance to each building pursuant to an Ordinance of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, where the person authorized to approve project plans deems that it is difficult to install the said device due to the materials, etc., used for the handrail.
D. Extension of delegation of the ordinance on the standards for parking lot establishment (Article 27 (1) 1 and 2)
1) As for housing other than one-room type housing, allow each ordinance to raise the parking lot establishment standards within the range of one-fifth (one-half if the dedicated area per household does not exceed 60 square meters) in consideration of the ratio of vehicle ownership by region,
2) allow each autonomous Gu to set the parking lot establishment standards through its ordinance in consideration of the ratio of vehicle ownership by region,
3) and allow each ordinance to lower the parking lot establishment standards within the range of seven-tenths in the event that one-room type housing with a dedicated area of less than 18 square meters per household is constructed within five hundred meters from a railway station or a transfer facility and supplied to those who do not own vehicles as long-term public rental housing.
E. Improvement in standards for installation of toilet drainage facilities (Article 43 (2) 2)
Clearly prescribe that toilet drainage pipes may be built using the underfloor draining technique, in addition to the under-ceiling drainage technique.