It was the first major meeting: the four candidates for mayor in Unterschleissheim answered the citizens' questions. Impressions of an evening.
Unterschleissheim - Four applicants are looking for mayor jobs in Unterschleissheim. Their first meeting in the jam-packed town house is followed by a good 600 visitors. The actually very different men seem surprisingly united in the panel discussion of the Lohhofer scoreboard. Office owners Christoph Böck (SPD), Stefan Krimmer (CSU), Martin Reichart (Free Citizenship) and Tino Schlagintweit (Greens) respond to the questions from readers and moderators Niko Ponschab and Janine Jacobsen. They all see the challenges in mobility, nature conservation and housing construction. Their contrary positions hardly emerge. Neither the shared space idea of the SPD, Greens and ÖDP for the district street is discussed nor the CSU's no to the historic decision for the new city center. The question of where the candidates would like to see housing remained unanswered.
Schlagintweit - the only one not on the city council - surprises with outsider positions. "Can Unterschleissheim offer good living conditions in the long term without constantly growing? We don't need more businesses, especially not in the future Moos-Haide-Park. ”The 60-year-old surprises with the proposal to create housing on green areas in the commercial area. There is no contradiction.
One podium, four applicants.
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Böck appears relaxed, scores with concrete. True to his motto: "I campaign for myself, but not against others", the 53-year-old does not ride an attack. "The city will maintain its very healthy relationship between the resident population and jobs," he promises. He wants to get more people to cycle in the city center, "because we are lucky that we have practically no through traffic." The region needs "a quantum leap" in public transport. He wants to locate a magnet on the Esso site to increase the attractiveness of the district street.
A cable car? "Yes, I know that is difficult to imagine at the moment"
Böck suggests a “house of associations” - which goes back to a CSU application - at the Michael-Ende elementary school location as soon as it is newly built - and not in the commercial area. Krimmer relies on cooperative housing and "active location management", a job should be created in the town hall: "We have to actively ensure that companies subject to trade tax come to us." Also in the district street one should actively settle trade. To ensure that the clubs do not violate the General Data Protection Regulation, the 41-year-old marketing specialist wants to offer virtual storage space in the town hall. To reduce traffic, he also relies on cable cars and magnetic levitation trains. "Yes, I know, it's hard to imagine at the moment," he says, laughing as a listener.
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Reichart calls for more "willingness to make decisions and energy": "We get civil protests as soon as we have selected an area for housing construction." The Bavarian conurbations would merge. “We are part of a development. We will not stop the influx. We will feel even more pressure in the future. “You have to steer here. He accuses Böck: "No urban apartment has been built in the past seven years."
600 listeners follow the statements on city politics, they donate a lot of applause to all candidates.
The 61-year-old focuses on residential construction so that the 4,000 new employees in the business campus and Koryfeum do not increase commuter flows. The Capitol-Kino - “a pretty slipper cinema” - could relocate to the garden area. His competitors want to expand GTU geothermal energy, the architect has another proposal for builders: “We are sitting on a mineral resource. We could save a lot of CO2 in one fell swoop if we installed groundwater heat pumps. ”
We have listed the mayoral candidates for all municipalities from the Munich district in our overview article for the 2020 local elections. You can also find out more about the candidates running in our article on the district elections. All other background reports can also be found on our topic page on the 2020 local elections in the Munich district.