Linking Planning System Between Spatial Development Plan And Environment Plan Toward Sustainable Development.

The core change of spatial development planning in 1993 was to introduce the quasi-agricultural zone by use zoning in order to ease the land use regulation (Choi 2001). Designation of quasi-agricultural zone considers development as well as reservation at the same time, but it enables to secure the use that the development is available at any time. For the past 10 years of rampant national land development, it may be attributable to the designation of quasi-agricultural zone that is ambiguous but completely exposed to "development". However, even more troublesome is that the consideration for environment in various spatial development plans was only for the "formality". Many experts claim that the environment has been destroyed and polluted due to the development without careful planning, but none of the developments has been undertaken without planning in advance. Even the poorest planning presents the plan with much of green area that harmonizes with the surrounding scenery on its plan. However, once developed, we only see the mountains cut open with the clogging of the downstream to show our living environment in worse condition imaginable. The planning report and the policy promotion show the details to reduce the damages to the natural environment caused by development, but the actual enforcement method has yet to be proposed (KRIHS 2001). While the sceneries have been destroyed and the natural environment is damaging from various developments, the environment plan (MOE 2001a) has been making efforts for "Preservation Plan" to protect the species that have the preservation value but under the danger of extinction. And, in order to clean the polluted water and air, it has been strengthen the standard of pertinent laws and expand various environment-based facilities. However, the environment plan does not consider the removal of mountains and disappearance of forests due to the development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]