It should become the attraction on the Alte Bergehalde and this year go into the implementation phase: The "pump track", which is particularly desired by the BMX riders of the Peißenberg Motorsport Club (MC).
The market town is now planning to clarify the architecture and lines in a design competition.
Peissenberg
- As is well known, the Alte Bergehalde is to be expanded into an attractive leisure area in the next few years.
At the top of the list of priorities are the creation of handicapped-accessible access in the northern part of the site and the construction of a “pump track” on the meadow next to the traffic training area.
The preliminary planning has begun for the access, including measuring the edge of the terrain south of the library.
And the “pump track” is also making headway.
As town hall employee Sonja Mayer explained in the latest building committee meeting, there have already been talks with the government of Upper Bavaria on how the “pump track” could be incorporated into urban development funding.
Accordingly, the government recommends organizing a design competition in which specialist firms - according to Mayer, there are only three - submit planning and implementation proposals that are cost-capped according to a set catalog of criteria.
According to Mayer, evaluation criteria should be cost-effectiveness, function and design: "It should be a system that is interesting for many users - that is, for both beginners and experts." A jury, including potential users, would decide on the best design MC people should also be represented.
So much for the administration's proposal, which is to be voted on in the Market Council on Wednesday.
After the response in the preliminary advisory committee, the body for the design competition should be correct.
In the committee debate, only Jürgen Forstner (Free Voters) was critical.
He described the envisaged procedure as "unnecessarily complicated".
Instead, the “right way” would be to contact municipalities that already have a pump track (“There is already one in Füssen”) and to discuss the planning with MC representatives.
“Then you get offers from companies and the most economical provider builds the system.
Done, ”argued Forstner.
In a competition you are ultimately bound to the winner.
It is also questionable whether the design competition - as Mayer claims - would replace the tender.
Mayor Frank Zellner defended the design competition.
The “normal way” would be to start a tender with a clear specification of services - but: “We don't really know how a pump track has to be designed so that it makes sense for the athletes.” Therefore, suggestions should be obtained from the companies.
“There is no standard pump track, but different designs,” added Mayer.
When it came to the question of the procedure, she countered Forstner, they weren't that far apart: “It's about how we get to the right company.” Robert Pickert (Peißenberger list; “I don't think that's too bad at all bringing the BMX riders on board increases acceptance ”) and Stefan Rießenberger (citizens' association) promoted the design competition:“ The pump track should be perfectly planned and a figurehead for Peißenberg ”.