The discussion about the development plan “East of Schönlinder Strasse” has not yet been concluded.
Neighbors are appalled by what they consider to be massive landfills in the area for a street and want to appeal again.
City architect Sebastian Dietrich finds it difficult to understand the recent criticism.
Schongau
- It was not until the most recent meeting of the building committee that the committee dealt with the plans in detail, now the draft for the development plan "East of Schönlinderstraße II" is available a second time.
Since the documents have been on the table, "the entire local population has been in the utmost excitement," a couple wrote in a letter to all city councilors.
The reason can be read from the small concept drawing in the draft: "The most massive embankments are planned over a length of around 90 meters, so that the road along the property line to all neighbors at a height of more than two meters virtually over our heads", formulates it Dennis Holzbaur.
There was no mention of this at the meeting
"The terrain has been rising gently so far, and at the meeting it was said that they would align the development with the terrain," criticized his wife Andrea.
Now the first two meters from the property line are to be used to raise the terrain, so far they have been relatively flat.
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The new planning is a good compromise: the brown line shows the previous terrain.
© City of Schongau
What irritated the Holzbaurs, who were watching the building and environmental committee as a spectator: There was no mention of it at the meeting, although even the district office, as a public concern, had pointed out that the plan drawing contained “no indication of moving terrain” .
"The evenly high finished flooring information everywhere suggests that the area is flat," says the authority's statement.
The Holzbaurs also fear that the future residents will use the street regularly and that in the end, above-ground parking spaces will be created for each house.
There would be enough space between the houses.
"It's unbelievable what the city is doing there," says Dennis Holzbaur.
You have no choice but to make an entry for the second interpretation of the development plan.
"There were many improvements"
“The planned street is just a private road on which a moving van can drive, it is only used sporadically,” explains city architect Sebastian Dietrich.
He repeats what had already been emphasized at the meeting: Many of the neighbors' criticisms had been defused.
"There have been many improvements, it is difficult to understand where the big problem lies", says Dietrich.
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The neighbors fear this view in the future: cars at the top edge of the window, high walls.
© City of Schongau
The narrow private road north of the houses is only intended as a delivery driveway, "there is no need to drive back and forth there all the time," says planner Dietmar Hörner.
He also does not share the fear of the Holzbaurs that future residents will use the underground parking spaces very little.
As far as the wall is concerned, the Holzbaurs are right, confirms Hörner, who also knows plans in the area from his time as a city architect.
Problem significantly defused
What at first glance looks like a strip of green is a planted wall at least two and a half meters high and 3.50 meters wide along the property line.
Height information is now inserted.
The recommendations of the district office were followed overall, so Hörner, and the whole problem has been significantly defused by the new planning.
"I think the planning is justifiable," said Hörner.
You couldn't do much more to meet the neighbors, maybe move the building by half a meter, "but that's really not possible," said Hörner.
The architect points out that even apartment buildings would have been possible.
“The concerns of the neighbors are honored”, repeats city architect Dietrich.
“Nobody is happy when the neighboring property is built on, but a good compromise has been reached.” He makes it clear that Schongau urgently needs to create affordable living space.
"The prices are immeasurable, and you have to take that into account."