Now Schongau should get a new regulation for fencing. Because the Schongau building authority and the building and environmental committee have to keep discussing exemptions for fences or hedges, the provisions should now be adjusted. The suggestion came from Ilona Böse (SPD), who had repeatedly encouraged this.
Schongau - The Schongau building office and the building committee regularly discuss exemptions for fence heights, the shape of the fence or a type of hedge. You have to deal with it again and again because someone in the urban area has not adhered to the stipulations and has placed a two-meter-high plank wall on the street side or a continuous opaque hedge wall has formed over the years. The latest building committee was again concerned with a fence. The applicant in Zugspitzstrasse wanted a fence made of natural stone and wood at a height of 1.60 meters. According to the development plan, however, only a wooden or wire mesh fence with a maximum height of one meter should be set up. With the higher, massive fence, the client wants to prevent larger dogs from jumping over the garden fence. "He wants to avoid that his therapy dog is traumatized by bad experiences," said city architect Sebastian Dietrich to the committee.
Dietrich had sample pictures in his luggage of the desired fence, which had already been built by another property owner a few meters further down the same street. "The comparison object is an unapproved system", he said, which is why the administration advised against giving the green light for the desired fence. Dietrich: "We are setting a precedent."
Do fences need to be removed?
For Ilona Böse, who is a patient advocate of more modern zoning plans, another point to hook. "One simply builds it up and then has it, the other asks well, and then you don't approve it," complained the city councilor. She demanded that all old development plans be revised promptly. "The logical consequence now would be that the other would have to dismantle his fence," continues Böse. "If we don't ask for it, we will lose face." Helmut Hunger (CSU) added that there are citizens who cut their hedges properly, while others grow the hedges far into the sidewalk - you also have to intervene to regulate this. "And we have a dog problem or dog owner problem," continues Hunger. He worried about children when dogs just jump over low fences into gardens. There are always dog owners who do not have their animals under control, who let them roam freely or who otherwise do not fulfill their duties. Hunger: "We have to take action as a city."
Topic is discussed again and again
Stephan Hild (UWV) saw it like Ilona Böse. "We will soon be discussing the topic every second session, we first have to think about what we want at all." If you refuse the exemption now, you will discuss it again in four weeks, only in a different color. Citizens' ideas had simply changed over the years, fences were built differently in the past. Hild advocated deferring the application. Dietrich pointed out that the problem was complex. "The compromise solutions also pose problems for us - there is currently a lawsuit against the city." In this case, a neighbor probably does not agree with the compromise proposal.
"There is always a neighborhood dispute, we will not be able to settle that," says Hild. In terms of content, the stipulations are about the topics of material, planting and height, you have to discuss the framework conditions again, not generally soften them. This was feared by Bettina Buresch, who considers lower fencing in the city area to be important - also as social control in the neighborhood. Approval of the fence, as Kornelia Funke suggested - "I can understand the arguments of the dog owner" - was out of the question for anyone.
Mayor: Adhere to building law!
"We have to comply with the building law," said Mayor Falk Sluyterman. His suggestion: In one of the next meetings, the administration should bring suggestions on how fences and hedges in Schongau could look in the future.
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