How do you implement guidelines?
Strict or situation-dependent?
The councils dealt with this question at the most recent meeting of the Hohenfurch municipal council.
Specifically, the meeting was about a new building at Schönachstrasse 13.
Hohenfurch
- The building at Schönachstrasse 13 in Hohenfurch is to be demolished and an apartment building is to be built in its place.
There is no development plan in this area, but a guideline unanimously adopted by the local council many years ago.
This means that one residential unit is permitted for every 250 square meters of floor space.
In the current case, the floor space is 750 square meters, i.e. three residential units could be built there.
So far, so clear.
But the client would like to accommodate four residential units in his new building.
That this was even put up for discussion was due, among other things, to the fact that there is a private driveway on the property, which is shared by several residents, but which, according to Mayor Guntram Vogelsgesang, could certainly be added to the area.
This would then be in an area between 750 and 1000 square meters, i.e. three or four residential units.
While most of the local councils already nodded their approval when the plan was presented, Josef Schmidbauer and Sieglinde Schuster (both SPD) faced hard headwinds: "I'm slowly wondering why we are working out guidelines if we never follow them," Schuster interjected sees the preservation of the village character endangered by a deviation.
And Schmidbauer asked: “Where do we draw a line?
For me, this property is clearly 750 square meters, so a maximum of three residential units are permitted.
This is also about the equal treatment of all citizens. ”Especially those who would have to adhere to a strict development plan.
But that's exactly what doesn't exist for the Schönachstrasse area.
“We have a guideline, this is not a law,” countered Mayor Guntram Vogelsgesang and went on to explain: “What I mean by this is that we set a direction.
Whoever is among them will definitely get a permit, whoever is a little over it, the case will be discussed, and whoever is very much about it has little prospect of approval from the local council. ”And councilor Helmut Huber (CSU) added: “Without a guideline, the client could add five or six residential units for us and we couldn't do anything.
So we can at least decide about it. "
Most Hohenfurch local councilors shared this opinion and put forward further arguments in favor of building an apartment building with four parties: “What would be the point if the client built fewer but larger apartments?” Asked Markus Rieger, for example, contradicting his own SPD party colleagues.
CSU councilor Albert Berchtold pointed out that the new building even had less floor space than the current one.
“We should also be interested in the issue of erosion, we are also responsible for that,” he said in favor of this type of redensification.
In addition, one must create affordable living space for young Hohenfurchers so that they can stay in the village.
“The housing shortage in Hohenfurch is neither getting bigger nor smaller with this project,” Schmidbauer admitted.
“I cannot agree to the proposal like that.” He stayed that way, along with Sieglinde Schuster.
But with eleven yes-votes, the client can now build his four residential units on Schönachstrasse.
Christine Wölfle
