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The 2035 master plan lifts the baseline floor area ratio to 360% in Dunsan from 226% and in Songchon from 239%. What the same document promises to house is 26,000 additional households, a fraction of that headroom.
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The arithmetic that matters to anyone holding a deed in Dunsan is 8.7 million square metres multiplied by the 134 points the city added to the baseline, which is roughly 11.7 million square metres of newly permitted floor area [4][1][3], and Songchon's 2.7 million square metres times its 121 points adds about 3.3 million more [6][2][4]. Call it 14.9 million square metres of entitlement written onto 11.4 million square metres of land, with the honest caveat that multiplying gross district area overstates real headroom, since roads and parkland are not building lots [5].
Now set that against what the same document promises to house: 26,000 more households and 51,000 more residents across the two districts [6][7]. Dunsan's 20,000 added households divide into its 11.7 million square metres of extra permitted floor space at 583 square metres each [5][8]; Songchon's 6,000 come out at 545 [7][9]. Those figures run well above ordinary apartment sizes. So the residential ceiling in these districts is set by the household target, not by the 360% line, and the implied household sizes behind those targets are small: 2.05 residents per new Dunsan household, 1.67 per new Songchon household [11]. Songchon also ends up the denser of the two on paper, 25,556 residents per square kilometre against Dunsan's 22,874, while receiving the smaller entitlement gain [10].
Daejeon is staging this rollout rather than releasing it all at once. Pilot zones picked this year are drafting their special redevelopment plans and seeking designation [11], and the rule for how much redevelopment volume gets allocated next year, to zones that missed the pilot round, arrives only after October [12]. Choi Jong-soo, who runs the city's urban affairs bureau, tied success to institutional support, alongside managing relocation demand and expanding infrastructure [13], which is the tell: the decant is the cash cost that arrives years before the sale revenue.
There are three possible readings here, and they don't carry equal weight. One, the household numbers are floors that zone-level plans negotiate upward, in which case the 360% figure really is the signal and this desk is too conservative. Two, consent stalls, because a representative committee needs a majority of landowners and rights holders on verified consent forms before it can even choose an operator [10], and aging districts with fragmented ownership are slow. Three, the uplift capitalises straight into land prices with very few extra units actually built, which is the outcome entitlement changes most often produce.
This could be wrong, but 26,000 households is the number worth underwriting here; 360% is not the driver [6][1]. The FAR line is a price input; the household allocation and the annual volume rule are the quantity, and quantity is what the city kept in its own hands. I would abandon that view if the first post-October volume allocation is large relative to 26,000 households, or if a pilot zone clears majority consent and gets designated with a population figure meaningfully above the 199,000 and 69,000 in the master plan [5][7].
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The baseline floor area ratio for Daejeon's Dunsan and Songchon districts, both designated candidate zones for special redevelopment, has been raised to 360%.
Daejeon said it announced the "2035 Daejeon Master Plan for Redeveloping Aging Planned Cities (Dunsan and Songchon Districts)" on the 31st, under the Special Act on the Redevelopment and Support of Aging Planned Cities.
The plan covers aging planned cities larger than 1 million square metres where residential land development was completed more than 20 years ago, and sets out the direction and principles for redevelopment projects from 2026 through 2035.
The Dunsan district spans 8.7 million square metres, and under the special act its baseline floor area ratio was raised to 360% from 226%.
Dunsan's planned population will rise by 41,000 to 199,000 in 94,000 households, up from 158,000 in 74,000 households, an increase of 20,000 households.
The Songchon district covers 2.7 million square metres and includes the Jungri and Beopdong areas, and its baseline floor area ratio was raised to 360% from 239%.
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One city announcement, faithfully relayed
The numbers are precise, internally consistent and attributable to a named official — and they all arrive through the same door. en.sedaily.com is reporting what Daejeon said it announced; the master plan document itself is neither quoted nor linked, and no second party confirms the 360% baseline or the household targets. Precision is not the same as verification.
Framework set, consent not collected
Nothing has been unlocked in practice. Dunsan and Songchon are candidate zones; committees still require a majority of landowners signing verified consent forms plus the designating authority's approval; only the pilot districts are drafting plans, and the next selection round has not been defined. The plan runs to 2035 and this is year zero of it.
Headroom framed as housing
The plan's own two halves do not match: raising the baseline to 360% across 11.4 million square metres implies something like 14.9 million square metres of extra permitted floor area on gross land, while the same document commits to 26,000 more households — roughly 570 square metres of new envelope per promised household. Add the report's line that projects are 'expected to gain momentum' while every zone still needs majority consent, and the overstatement is one of emphasis rather than error.
The announcer is the only witness
Daejeon has an obvious stake in this landing as a decade-long programme already under way, and the urban affairs bureau supplies both the numbers and the closing quote. The immediate beneficiaries of a 134-point uplift are the landowners inside the line; the parties who bear the cost — tenants facing relocation, whoever funds the tram and station works — appear only as a promise to manage relocation demand systematically.
Solid on what was said, blind past it
We are confident about the announcement and its stated figures; those are specific, sourced to a named bureau and easy to falsify later. We are much less sure what they will deliver, because the reporting is silent on buildable lot area, public contribution, funding and consent progress — and because there is no second account to test any of it against.