Many land-related criteria need adjustment.

As a locality planned to develop into an airport city and a modern industrial, commercial, and service center of the Southeast region, Long Thanh district faces the need to adjust its land use structure.

Commercial urban area project in Long Thanh district. Illustration photo: H. LOC

The district has reviewed and proposed adjustments, focusing on converting land to non- agricultural land in areas no longer suitable for agricultural development and areas planned for projects.

Major adjustments to land structure

Adjusting land use structure is an essential requirement to meet socio -economic development needs in each stage. For Long Thanh district, which is currently implementing and will soon implement many large projects, rebalancing agricultural and non-agricultural land areas is necessary. This helps to effectively exploit land potential, align with development planning orientations, and create room to attract investment.

According to Tran Van Than, Vice Chairman of the Long Thanh District People's Committee, the district has completed step 2 in the process of adjusting the district-level land use plan until 2030. This step includes determining the land use needs of various sectors and fields; compiling, balancing, and allocating land use targets by land type; and developing a system of tables and detailed planning maps.

Compared to the approved land use plan until 2030, Long Thanh district proposes adjusting the agricultural land target from over 25,800 hectares down to over 20,800 hectares; and non-agricultural land from over 17,200 hectares up to over 22,200 hectares.

During the implementation process, 5 previously planned projects were deemed unsuitable and needed to be removed from the plan, including Phuoc Binh 4 Industrial Park and Do Thanh Automobile Industrial Cluster. Seventeen projects required adjustments to their scale and location to better suit the current situation, including the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy and the auctioned land plot in Long Duc commune. Simultaneously, 50 new projects arose due to the rapid development of the district, especially in the areas of transportation, education , healthcare, public services, and industrial parks, such as the Long Thanh District Information Technology Park, the University Village, the Innovation Zone, and the Bien Hoa - Long Thanh - Nhon Trach urban railway line.

Based on this situation, the district proposed adjusting and reducing nearly 5,000 hectares of agricultural land, including over 1,000 hectares of rice paddy land and nearly 3,900 hectares of land for perennial crops, to be converted to land for the development of urban infrastructure, industry, transportation, and commercial services.

“The current area of ​​rice paddy land and perennial crops is less than the targets allocated in the plan. Meanwhile, the land targets for transportation, education, the construction of the information technology zone, and the development of the free trade zone are much lower than the actual needs. Adjustments are needed to ensure a balance between socio-economic development and the efficient use of land resources,” shared Tran Van Than, Vice Chairman of the Long Thanh District People's Committee.

Airport cities require non-agricultural land.

Long Thanh District is implementing many key provincial and national projects. Among them, Long Thanh International Airport is considered a "dual driving force" to boost local and regional economic growth in the Southeast region, requiring accompanying infrastructure to be ready to meet demand. Maintaining agricultural land quotas within areas planned for urban development could become a barrier to attracting investment in high-tech industries, logistics, smart cities, healthcare, education, and schools.

According to Dao Thi Thanh Hoai, Head of the Planning and Mineral Resources Department (Department of Agriculture and Environment), the need for non-agricultural land development in Long Thanh is necessary, and the district's proposed adjustments are consistent with the development orientation. However, these adjustments must be in line with the plan and targets allocated by the province to the locality. Therefore, the district needs to review and determine the priority order, urgency, and land use needs of each project to make appropriate adjustments. The Department acknowledges the district's proposal and will prioritize processing the land use planning adjustment application.

"Because district and provincial-level land use plans are drawn up before the national land use plan is approved, some of the targets allocated by the central government to the province and by the province to the district are lower than the actual needs," Ms. Hoai explained.

According to Deputy Director of the Department of Construction Huynh Tan Loc, the district needs to clearly define the boundaries between areas retaining agricultural land and areas being converted to non-agricultural land. The adjustment of the planning must have a long-term vision, be synchronized with regional and provincial planning to avoid overlaps and waste of land resources, and at the same time create the best conditions for the development of a modern urban area associated with airport infrastructure.

During a recent working session with Long Thanh district and relevant departments, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Vo Tan Duc, requested that the district quickly review and finalize the land use indicators that need adjustment, ensuring they align with the overall planning orientation and the provincial land allocation targets. If the district can complete the land use planning adjustment documents in time, it should promptly submit them to the Department of Agriculture and Environment for provincial approval before June 30th. If this deadline is not met, the allocation should be adjusted based on the priority, urgency, and effectiveness of each project.

In addition, the province requested Long Thanh district to immediately implement the allocation of detailed land use plans to each newly established commune-level administrative unit. This aims to create conditions for localities to proactively manage land and promptly facilitate the implementation of infrastructure investment projects.

Hoang Loc

Source: https://baodongnai.com.vn/kinh-te/202506/can-dieu-chinh-nhieu-chi-tieu-ve-dat-fb40d40/