The municipality of Eurasburg has bought houses and land worth around three million euros.
Now creative ideas are needed for the future use of the property.
Eurasburg - The question of how the community can meet the increasing need for affordable housing has been the cause of collective shrugging in local politics in Eurasburg for a long time.
There was simply a lack of suitable land and buildings.
That has changed fundamentally in the past year and a half when the mayor went on a shopping spree.
Now creative ideas are needed for the future use of the property.
Bruggen was the first approach
The refugee crisis was at its height when a small piece of land in Eurasburg caused heated discussions: Shortly before Christmas 2015, the community in the Bruggen district had acquired around 2000 square meters of land, with the so-called lock keeper's house on it.
This should be torn down and replaced by a social housing project.
The need for this seemed great - and urgent.
After all, at that time numerous recognized asylum seekers had to move from the collective accommodation to apartments.
Not to mention the foreseeable rapid growth in demand for “affordable living space”.
Bruggen was the first approach: two buildings of different sizes with a total of seven apartments - that was the last status of the project, which has been quiet for some time.
Development has overtaken us.
Mayor Moritz Sappl
“The development has overtaken us,” says Mayor Moritz Sappl today.
And in several ways.
On the one hand, the corona-related restrictions have delayed a lot.
On the other hand, the community was able to purchase four residential units through the local supplier, financed “according to the three-pillar model of the Free State” - ten percent must be brought by the community itself, 30 percent are subsidized by the community, and the remaining 60 percent are given a discounted loan from the state, explains Sappl.
The fact that the design of the property in Bruggen can be approached in a more relaxed manner is also due to the fact that the town hall chief moved through the community with a shopping cart in 2020.
At the end of 2019, he packed up the building known as the “Milchhäusl” on Beuerberger Strasse, which used to be a dairy and an apartment above it and which he “had always had in mind”.
“The local council will soon have to decide what opportunities this will open up,” says Sappl.
Affordable living space in town
This also applies to the approximately 1,300 square meter property at Birkenallee 23, which changed hands at the beginning of 2020 for 1.1 million euros.
The old house on the site is absolutely dilapidated and has to be demolished or refurbished.
“But there is the possibility of creating affordable living space in town,” explains the mayor.
The property is right in the village, only 600 meters from the next bus stop.
“The supply would be completely guaranteed, you could live there without your own car.
That would also be conceivable for older generations. ”Whether the municipality would like to realize this itself or look for an investor would still have to be considered.
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Mayor Moritz Sappl
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In March 2020, Sappl was able to remove the property at the corner of Bäckergasse and Königsdorfer Straße in Beuerberg from its shopping list.
The municipality transferred 940,000 euros for the two-building property that last housed refugees.
It used to be used as a savings bank, grocery store and grocery store, among other things.
He can easily imagine a combined use with a commercial area or commercial space on the ground floor and four to six apartments on the upper floor in the future.
Accommodation of asylum seekers is no longer an issue
The accommodation of asylum seekers is no longer an issue in Eurasburg and Beuerberg.
“Those who were here all wanted to head for the city,” says Sappl.
He suspects, however, that there will be an increased need for affordable living space “for people with normal to medium incomes” in the next few years - for young and old alike.
Sappl "wants to keep the young people who have grown up and rooted here as well as senior citizens who want to stay here in their old age".
Living with service
Especially with a view to the older semesters, great hopes are placed in Eurasburg in another project behind the Loisach-Hof.
On the adjacent property between Albert-von-Iring-Straße and Bahnhofsweg, for which the municipality had asserted its right of first refusal, “living with service” and, if it is economically viable, twelve shared apartments are to be built.
“All of these variants weren't even available when Bruggen was planned,” explains Sappl.
The new properties also open up completely new opportunities for the area between Uferweg and Anglberg.
“Semi-detached houses, three-in-hand cars”, muses the mayor, “you have game variants”.
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