Another no to the tree protection ordinance

A tree protection ordinance for the city has again been rejected.

Both the Planning and Construction Committee and the Environment and Transport Committee voted against the introduction of such a regulation.

Fürstenfeldbruck

- It was already the third attempt by the Greens to enforce a tree protection ordinance for the district town.

It won't be the last, as Jan Halbauer (Greens) announced at the joint committee meeting: “We'll try again.

We are persistent. "

It will be a while before this attempt comes.

With the current majority in the city council and its committees, the number of opponents of a tree protection ordinance is still too large.

But they don't want to see themselves as tree enemies.

"We have to preserve trees worthy of protection and rebuild our city a little bit for climate change," said Andreas Lohde (CSU).

And Christian Götz (BBV) also commented positively on the content of the regulation: "There are many good and right things in it."

Could the shot backfire?

The danger they both saw was how citizens would react to the introduction of a tree protection ordinance.

Your fear: Before the regulation comes into force, the big sawing begins.

Trees that would soon be under protection would be felled quickly by their owners.

"The risk that this shot backfires completely is too great for us," said Götz.

Franz Höfelsauer (CSU) spoke of nudging the citizen, and party colleague Markus Britzlmair, himself a forest owner, even felt himself dispossessed.

Markus Droth (FW) also spoke out against the regulation: "We don't have a comprehensive problem."

Sharp headwinds came from those in favor of the motion.

Both Mirko Pötzsch (SPD) and Halbauer considered the fears of the sudden deforestation to be unfounded.

However, they were unable to change their committee colleagues.

Johanna Mellentin (Greens) saw an urgent need for action because of climate change: “The hut is on fire.

If we don't act again now, my generation can pack up, ”said the 29-year-old.

Especially after the decision of the previous day that the city should become climate neutral by 2035, the attitude of the committee members is disappointing.

In the end there was at least something like a small tree protection ordinance.

Alexa Zierl (ÖDP) had suggested that the city should use the content of the regulation as a principle for its own areas and development plans.

Both the Planning and Construction Committee (11: 4) and the Environment and Transport Committee (9: 6) approved this proposal.