The Gmund district of Gasse has retained its originality until now.
According to the will of the community, it should stay that way.
Gmund
- The alley is a picture of a place.
Traditionally built houses and neat courtyards characterize the loosely built district of Gmund.
The sun shines on houses, meadows and gardens until evening.
"The alley is particularly valuable, we want to keep it that way and keep it that way," says Mayor Alfons Besel (FWG).
He and the local council have to be particularly vigilant, because building requests have come up again and again in recent times.
These range from the demolition of a former agricultural building and its replacement by a residential building, to the conversion of a service building little by little into a stately single-family house.
The rumor is currently circulating that a stately farm is to be sold to a private investor because of immense inheritance tax claims.
There are rumors about a subsequent new building, also in Gasse.
How can unwanted buildings be prevented?
In May and in March before that, the local planning committee dealt with inquiries and specific applications from Gasse in public meetings.
Every time the concern about the alley was heard and was openly expressed.
Shortly before the summer break, the local council sought expert advice and discussed the development of the district with representatives of the district administration and the agricultural office behind closed doors.
It was about ways to prevent unwanted buildings as well as careful approval of building requests.
Above all, there is building law, which basically grants farmers privileges when they build outdoors.
And that's what the alley is about.
At their most recent meeting, the members of the Building and Environment Committee then chose a route that the experts had advised.
They drew a narrow border around an area in which there was a building request.
A 16 by eleven meter single-family house with two full storeys is to be built where there were previously additional garages.
The increase had already been requested in the 1980s as a "discharge".
Because a neighbor disagreed, the case ended up in court.
This confirmed the decision of the district office, according to which the house is in the inner area of Gasse and is therefore permissible.
Outdoor area statutes as an instrument of local planning
Now a clean solution was needed.
And this is called the "outdoor bylaws".
All buildings in the interior of this area thus become the interior area and are subject to the Bavarian building regulations.
Construction projects that are not privileged are also allowed in it.
In this specific case, the head of the building authority Christine Wild recommended that the boundaries be really narrow.
"We have to be aware that there would be a lot of vacant lots if we made the area inside from the back to the front of the state road," explained Wild.
The town hall chief also considered the outdoor area statute to be a clean solution that contributed to regulation and clarification.
The procedure was decided unanimously and the statutes are publicly interpreted.
