Yangju city general business facility “Bongyang 2-tong residents visit advanced site as optimal candidate site”
Bongyang 2-tong is a transportation hub that does not pass through Yangju city... Resident consent will be submitted by the 16th.
[Break News Yangju = Reporter Kim Wan-young] Yangju City (Mayor Kang Soo-hyun), located in the north of Gyeonggi-do, announced on August 28 an open call for candidate sites for the establishment of the “Yangju City General Vendor Facility.”
The outline of the announcement is, “The deadline is the 16th, the site area is about 500,000㎡, and the main facilities include 10 cremation facilities, enshrinement facilities, natural burial grounds, and a funeral hall.
Currently, local governments participating include “Uijeongbu, Guri, Namyangju, and Dongducheon City” and held briefing sessions while touring the villages where they expressed their intention after signing an agreement.
In addition, a tour of advanced funeral facilities was conducted for village residents interested in hosting a funeral facility.
On the 5th, Yangju City Social Welfare Department's Funeral Culture Team took 18 residents of Hoecheon 1-dong, Bongyang 2-tong (bank manager and development committee chair Kim Tae-young) on a tour of advanced funeral facilities to Sejong City's Eunhasu Park by tour bus.
Professor Emeritus Lee Jong of Kookmin University, who lives in Bongyang 2-tong, participated in this event and introduced foreign cases of business facilities to residents and provided direction to relevant public officials in a larger framework.
In particular, the areas that are interested in the Yangju city general burial facility site include “Bongyang 2-tong, Biam-ri, Bangseong-ri, Ganap-ri, Dohari, Bongam-ri, and Deokdo-ri,” and there is news that many areas are “expressing interest or receiving more than 60% of consent forms.” .
Most of the residents of Bongyang 2-tong, who took the field trip today, had positive thoughts, and announced that they would seek consent from residents as soon as possible.
Kim Tae-young, head of Bongyang 2-tong (development committee chair) of Hoecheon 1-dong, said, “After careful review from a Mahayana perspective, we believe that our Bongyang 2-tong area is the best site for a burial facility. First of all, the advantage is that there are no civil complaints compared to other candidate sites as it is located below Chilbongsan Mountain.
Additionally, it is a transportation hub. Candidate sites passing through downtown Yangju must first be excluded. It is best to be as invisible as possible to citizens. When coming from Namyangju-si, Guri-si, or Uijeongbu-si, our Bongyang 2-tong is located right in front if you use the Guri-pocheon Expressway, National Road No. 3 (Pyeonghwa-ro) alternative bypass, the 2nd outer ring road in the metropolitan area, and the Seoul-Yeoncheon Expressway. “And Dongducheon is just over the hill,” he said. “The transportation hub is the most important.”
Meanwhile, the residents of Bongyang 2-tong said that the city would naturally take action, but if they discuss “environmental pollution, land prices, image enhancement of Bongyang 2-tong, etc.” with Yangju City in the report on the results of the residents' briefing session, the Bongyang 2-tong attraction promotion committee will agree to the site of this business facility. It is known that he will participate.