Urban Renewal Act Article 22

The owners of the lands and legal buildings of an area that has been designated for renewal implementation may designate the renewal units by themselves as per renewal units defined by the authority, or based on the criteria for designating a renewal unit, conduct a public hearing. They may then present a project summary together with the public hearing records to the municipal, county (city) authority to apply for approval according to Article 29.After obtaining approval, the land and legal building owners may organize an urban renewal association to carry out the urban renewal project in the area on their own or delegate a corporation to execute the operations. The same procedure shall apply when changes are made.To apply as described in the preceding paragraph shall require the approval of more than half of all the private land and private legal building owners in the renewal unit and the total land area and total floor area of the legal buildings such owners represent shall also be more than half of the entire area of the renewal unit. Presentation of the project summary may be exempted if the ratio of approval achieves the threshold specified in Article 37 and the land and legal building owners may proceed with the planned urban renewal project in accordance with Articles 27 and 32.Before conducting the review described in Paragraph 1, private citizens or groups may present their opinions in writing, along with their names or titles and addresses, to the competent authority of the municipality or county (city) for reference when conducting the review.The competent authority of the municipality or county (city) shall announce the project summary approved as described in Paragraph 1 for 30 days and also notify all the land and legal building owners in the renewal unit, holders of other rights, agencies for registration of restriction requests and holders of the right to registration of caution.