Penzberg has a new parking space statute.
The transfer fee that builders in the city center have to pay if they cannot build the necessary parking spaces is significantly lower than before.
The “Pro Innenstadt” association speaks of a “great success for Penzberg”, which removes hurdles for projects.
Penzberg - The building committee had discussed the parking lot statute several times in the past few months, which is intended to replace the old version from 2015.
Now the city council unanimously approved the new regulation.
Such statutes stipulate how many parking spaces must be built for new buildings or conversions.
For the inner city area in Penzberg it also provides the possibility of paying a transfer fee instead of building parking spaces.
According to the old statutes, this amount, calculated using a special key, could amount to over 20,000 euros for each replaced parking space.
A draft discussed in the previous year provided for similar amounts.
New parking space statutes in Penzberg: transfer fees decrease significantly
There is no longer any question of that.
For commercial and public new buildings as well as expansions in the city center, the new statute now provides a uniform fee of 10,000 euros per parking space, an amount that was already in the Penzberg parking lot statute before 2015.
In the case of new buildings for residential use in the city center, the fee is 17,000 euros per parking space, and 12,000 euros for extensions.
“Pro Innenstadt” sees the prerequisites for future investments in place
The businessmen in the city center are very relieved, said the “Pro Innenstadt” club, which had warned of high transfer fees in October.
The city council not only ended a long-standing, controversial discussion, but also created the conditions for future investments.
"These statutes are a great success for the further revitalization of the inner city, we are very satisfied with them," said "Pro Innenstadt" chairwoman Monika Uhl.
For many years, the ideas of businesspeople and the city council regarding the number of parking spaces and the fee have been far apart.
In the past few months, however, both sides have come closer.
“The cooperation with Mayor Stefan Korpan, City Builder Justus Klement and the new city council was excellent,” said Uhl.
The uniform fee of 10,000 euros for new buildings and renovations corresponds exactly to what “Pro Innenstadt” considers desirable.
The lobby group also welcomes the fact that all shops have to provide evidence of a parking space per 100 square meters of floor space and that hotels have to reserve a parking space for three guest rooms.
For offices, practices and restaurants, there is one parking space per 50 square meters.
"With this, Penzberg shows that investors are expressly welcome in our city", explained Jörn Millan, deputy chairman of "Pro Innenstadt".
With the new statutes, the hurdles for some larger projects in the city center are cleared and the prerequisites are created "so that the center of Penzberg can also come up with an attractive and diverse range in the future".
In this context, it is very important to note, according to Milan, "that this investor-friendly design of the parking space statutes means that no citizen is financially disadvantaged".
Old statutes were often referred to as a barrier to investment
In the past, the old statutes were often referred to as a barrier to investment, for example as a reason that the area opposite the train station remains fallow to this day.
It also proved to be an obstacle to an increase in the floor plan planned by the owners of the “K33” (formerly Hotel Olympia).
There was no longer a major discussion in the city council meeting.
BfP parliamentary group leader Armin Jabs said of the reduced fee that he hopes that the investment backlog will resolve and that property owners will see this as an opportunity.
Further innovations in the parking space statutes are that fewer parking spaces are required for publicly funded housing construction and when mobility concepts are presented.
Parking space regulation: fewer parking spaces with mobility concept
The passage about publicly subsidized living space caused some irritation.
John-Christian Eilert (Greens) wanted to cancel the concession for municipal housing in order to equate it with cooperative buildings.
According to Aleksandar Trifunovic (CSU), this would mean that the city in the new building district west of Birkenstrasse would not achieve the required number of parking spaces.
Günter Fuchs from the building authority confirmed this: the city would then have to find a suitable plot of land nearby for parking or submit a mobility concept for the new district.