Land Consolidation Engineering Bureau, Ministry of the Interior, R.O.CLand Consolidation Engineering Bureau, Ministry of the Interior, R.O.C

Items described in the local briefing sessions for modernization and improvement of agricultural waterways in early farmland readjustment areas at the preliminary planning stage include the range and area of ​​the land to be readjusted, the planning and design principles of water supply and drainage channels, the planning and design principles of agricultural roads, cost estimations for agricultural waterway engineering, recommendations and matters for cooperation, and so on.

The provisions of the 'Standards for Determining Specific Items and Scope of Environmental Impact Assessments for Development Activities', promulgated by the Executive Yuan's Environmental Protection Administration, are used to determine whether or not to carry out environmental impact assessments.

The following lists the principles for selecting the land consolidation regions according to Article 3 that details the implementation of land consolidation in rural communities:

1. Obvious geological or topographic boundaries.
2. Community population pressure and demand for construction land.
3. Land use status.
4. Demands for overall community development or additional public facilities.
5. Desires of the land owners.
6. Budget.
7. Other specific needs.

1. According to Article 3 of the Regulations for Land Consolidation in Rural Communities, rural communities would refer to villages, agricultural or aborigine settlements and non-urban regions as defined by the Regional Planning Act.
2. Additionally, according to Article 2-1 of the implementation details of the Regulations for Land Consolidation in Rural Communities, agricultural and aborigine settlements would refer to the following - regions where total area is above 0.5 hectares, where annual population for the past 5 years had exceeded 15 households and 50 individuals. However, according to Subparagraph 4 of Paragraph 1 of Article 5 in the Regulations for Land Consolidation in Rural Communities, when implementing disaster zone reconstruction, areas that exceed 0.3333 hectares with populations exceeding 10 households and 33 individuals shall be considered as a:
(1) Agricultural settlement: Areas that lie outside non-urban rural districts and are not aborigine reserves, where boundaries of Class A and C construction land do not exceed 20 meters.
(2) Aborigine settlement: Aborigine reserves that lie outside non-urban rural districts where boundaries of Class A and C construction land do not exceed 25 meters.

Community roads, drainage pipes and sewage treatment shall be vastly improved. Plazas, parking lots, parks and public facilities shall be added to improve life quality in the community. Community streets widths, lengths and building sizes and architecture shall be improved to meet building qualifications. All community land owners shall enjoy clarified property rights, cadastral surveys, intact land blocks with accessibility to roads in order to improve land usability and value. Additionally, land consolidation in rural communities may integrate the Rural Reconstruction Project to provide synergistic effects and achieve goals of rural reconstruction.

According to Article 11 ofRural Community Land Readjustment Act:
The government should pay the expenses of administrative affairs and planning design for Rural Community Land Readjustment. The costs on the construction works are shared at the proportion formulated by the Executive Yuan by the government and the landowners.
The land for road, ditch, underground communication and electricity, sewer, square, activity center, green land and other land reserved for the public infrastructure satisfying modern life function should be substituted by the land for road, ditch, river and the unregistered land originally owned by the government. If the land is still not enough, plus the fee for demolishing and loan interest, then the lack land should be substituted by the proportion of the land in readjustment area in accordance with the benefit taken by the landowners.
According to theGuidelines forConstruction Fee Allocation forRural Community Land Readjustment,
the landowner shall bear 1% of the construction costs incurred forRural Community Land Readjustment.

Regions undergoing land consolidation in rural communities would need to implement preliminary planning, obtain non-urban land development permits, engineering designs, reconstruction, measurements and cadastral surveys in procedural order. The entire consolidation process would require between 4 to 5 years.

According to the regulations stipulated in Article 5 of Site Selection for Rural Community Land Readjustment, existing communities in the readjusted area that do not need to undergo general eadjustments or cadastral changes as well as those that would not benefit from consolidation while satisfying any of the following would not be targeted for Rural Community Land Readjustment projects:

Rural communities that only contain several buildings with cadastral registration with a majority of land in the periphery devoted for farming.
Where the original land for building use in the community has sound cadastral surveys, well-built housing, and clear property rights such that consolidation would provide little benefit.

According to Article 18 ofRural Community Land Readjustment Act:
The location of redistributed land shall be located in original order. The adjustment pattern is as follows:
The land been carried with built improvements and not disturbing the readjustment proposal and readjustment work is located at original site.
The every redistributed land beyond the minimum lot size should be distributed individually, if the landowners has several lots in the readjustment area. The land below the minimum lot size shall be merged to the larger one.
The redistributed land below one half of the minimum lot size even been merged should be applied to merge with redistributed land owned by other landowner or be compensated by currency. The land beyond one half of the minimum lot size shall be redistributed to the land beyond the minimum lot size in less depth area or lower land value area.
The individual common land agreed by more than one half of common landowners who have more than one half of the right and the redistributed land beyond the minimum lot size shall be distributed individually. If the right owned by common landowners is more than two-third of the land right, the number of the common landowners can be neglected.
The location of the land originally located at the land reserved for the public infrastructure site before readjustment is adjusted to another location by the competent authority.
The metropolitan or the county /city competent authority formulates the standard of minimum lot size mentioned in the preceding paragraph in the plan and design of readjustment. But the standard shall not be below the width, depth and size provided in the Rules for Using Odd Lots.