Creating an additional apartment for a caregiver in your own family home: That's actually a good idea, as Weilheim's construction committee also thinks.
But the specific plan for a corner row house in the west of Weilheim would have severe consequences for the entire city - and was therefore rejected.
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It's about a completely normal terrace house on Karolingerstraße in Weilheim - and about a comprehensible wish: The owners would like to create an additional residential unit for a carer in their house.
The top floor is to be separated as a granny flat and an external staircase is to be built on the western gable facade.
There are also plans to add a winter garden three meters deep on the south side on the ground floor.
Nothing speaks against the latter, was said in the November meeting of the Weilheim building committee on the part of the city building authority.
The additional residential unit would also be basically okay - but not the access via an external staircase: the situation is too cramped for this, the building limits would be exceeded, in addition to the private front garden, there would even be no public parking space in front of the house.
At the same time, another parking space would be required for the new residential unit, but there is probably no space for it on the property.
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So the situation is clear in this particular case, but the discussion in committee quickly turned to fundamentals.
"We find that our development plan is not age-appropriate," said Green Party representative Alfred Honisch, who is also Weilheim's 3rd mayor: Although it is "okay in terms of the development plan" to reject the request at hand, it is "absurd" in terms of content, Honisch continues: Such cases would "increase in number in the next few years" and the city must find regulations for them.
In this case, the additional apartment would have to be accessed via the internal staircase, replied Manfred Stork, head of building management in Weilheim's town hall, and pointed out that a nurse was already working in the house.
"A 24-hour carer is like a family member", emphasized Brigitte Holeczek (BfW): As senior adviser to the city council, she "fully understands the application" and is therefore "split - but the urban planning perspective weighs heavily for me Fall more ”.
Stefan Zirngibl referred to the “rat tail of consequences” that an approval would have in the current case: “We would undermine our parking space statutes and the spacing area regulations,” warned the CSU representative, and for reference cases it would then “do not matter whether it is an apartment for a carer or a completely normal granny flat ”.
Zirngibl's conclusion: “As difficult as it is to reject this application.” In this development plan area alone, there are “six to eight reference cases”, added Stefan Kirchmayer on the part of the municipal building authority.
As far as the need for care is concerned, according to him, a rethink is not only required from politicians, “but also from the population”: With regard to this, “the demands on living space must be reduced”.
The current request for Karolingerstraße was ultimately rejected by a majority by the building committee (against Honisch's vote).
But it was expressly stated that the client wanted to signal that the winter garden and the apartment itself (without external stairs) would be possible.
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