The municipality in Pullach rejects an application from the Greens to temporarily close the church square to traffic.
Pullach - The Kirchplatz is the living room of Pullach, and not only in Corona times do people sit, the sun hardly shows up on the benches.
There is an ice cream parlor and two cafes here, and around a fountain, even if it's not a gem, there is enough space for children to play.
The Greens in the local council have therefore requested that the quality of stay in the center of the village be further improved - and that the church square be temporarily closed to traffic with vehicle-blocking bollards.
However, the request was not passed in the most recent meeting.
Fabian Müller-Klug justified the initiative of his parliamentary group: "Even in the local development plan, traffic calming is a central goal, we want to give people more space." His group colleague Renate Grasse said it was a matter of changing perspective - away from the car to humans.
Measures by the Greens go too far in administration
But the measures proposed by the Greens went too far even for the Green-led administration.
Mayor Susanna Tausendfreund suggested a kind of compromise, she wanted to quasi shut down three angled parking spaces in Münchner Straße near Kirchplatz - by redesignating these parking spaces as a disabled parking zone, which would probably remain free for the most part.
Then pedestrians and passers-by would have more space, she argued.
However, the committee also found their idea to be unsuccessful.
Caroline Voit (Pullach Plus), herself a mother of two children, said: “I can't tell my three-year-old that you can play here in this parking lot, but the parking lot opposite is forbidden.
Reallocating the parking spaces: That doesn't help at all. "
Take parking spaces out of circulation: the council is not enthusiastic
Other councilors were also not enthusiastic about the idea of pulling parking spaces out of traffic.
The shops and doctors on the church square are urgently dependent on people being able to park their cars, Cornelia Zechmeister from the WiP said: "We fought for every parking space on the church square." Her parliamentary colleague Angelika Metz said that you just couldn't have everything - on a square: "The egg-laying woolly milk sow does not exist." Uwe Eisenmann, CSU, again argued that there is not so much need for action in the center of the village: "We should be proud of our place."
Andreas Most: "Topic too complex"
Andreas Most (Pullach Plus) said in the discussion that the topic was too complex to be quickly discussed in the local council.
The future traffic routing on the church square is not to be thought in isolation either, one always has to consider the station area, which Pullach will build on at some point.
He called for the matter to be entrusted to the mobility officer, who will start in the community this spring.
Most was also not happy with the fact that the Greens application would have meant that nine parking spaces on the church square would have been eliminated.
"I don't think people will all bike around to go shopping then," he said after the session.
Many would then stop coming, that business people could not be expected to do.
The bollards suggested by the Greens would have cordoned off the church square on two sides - once at the level of the Brotzeit bakery, then opposite at roughly the Raben pharmacy.
The place would not have been accessible even during business hours.