1. Reasons for Amendment and Major Provisions

This amendment aims to improve/supplement some shortcomings that have emerged in the operation of the current system, such as expanding the authority to lift development restriction zones with an area of ‌‌300,000 square meters or less outside the Seoul Metropolitan Area delegated to Mayors/DO Governors by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to less than one million square meters, alleviating and applying the standards for the prevention of conurbation (at least five kilometers wide) between cities, rationalizing environmental assessment grade criteria for water quality, and strengthening public development requirements and pre-consulting of local governments when development restriction zones are lifted, so that regional governments proactively utilize urban spaces including development restriction zones.