This weekend, the Bund Naturschutz and the Eichenallee citizens 'initiative are launching a citizens' initiative “For a clinic - outside the nature reserve”.
You see this as the answer to the request for a council scheduled for June 27th.
The schedule is sporty.
Seefeld
- The discussion about the construction of a new clinic on Lindenallee in Hechendorf keeps the community in suspense. As reported, the district has a decision from the Ministry of Health for a new 200-bed clinic in Seefeld or Herrsching. To this end, a referendum will take place in Seefeld on Sunday, June 27, on a request for a council, after an area of around 25,000 square meters next to the cemetery on Lindenallee could be suitable for the project. The question asked by the council is: "Are you in favor of the Seefeld community creating the legal planning requirements for the construction of a new hospital on an area east of the new cemetery on Bahnhofstrasse?"
Bund Naturschutz (BN) and Bürgerinitiative Eichenallee (BI) are now opposing this with another question: "Are you in favor of the Seefeld community only creating the planning requirements for a possible new hospital building on areas outside the current landscape protection area?" their citizens' initiative, for which they are now asking for support. 530 valid signatures are necessary for the implementation of a referendum, that is ten percent of 5293 eligible voters.
"The question raised by the request for a council is problematic," says Dr. Linda Rüger from the BN local group. “It brings citizens into a conflict of conscience. One should choose between nature or health care. ”That tears the citizens apart. The place is already divided. Under the threat of closing both clinics in Herrsching and Seefeld, the apparently only solution would be to vote on an area in the nature reserve for a new clinic. “The citizens thus actually have no choice.” With the referendum, the allies wanted to lead to a solution that reconciles both basic needs: medical care and nature conservation.
BI and BN continue to argue that the BI's attempt to make the encroachment on nature transparent in relation to the questions raised by the Council's request was rejected. In addition, the size of the area to be built on is not mentioned in the text of the council request. “Theoretically, everything up to Eichenallee can then be built up,” says BI councilor Ortwin Gentz, and there is also uncertainty about the height of the new clinic.
The prescribed schedule for the referendum is tight, however, to be put to the vote at the same time as the council petition on June 27th. If there are enough signatures, the municipal council must first decide whether to approve the request. If this is the case and there is a referendum, the administration must write to all 5293 eligible voters. Until June 27th, that will hardly be possible. "The community could postpone the decision on the council request until the end of July," says Gentz. In the worst case, citizens would have to vote on two Sundays. “We don't want to leave any stone unturned,” says Gentz. The conservationists expect devastating effects on the entire Aubach valley, also due to changes in the water balance due to the sealing of the area above,which is in landscape protection and in the regional green corridor.
“The referendum is not unexpected,” Mayor Klaus Kögel commented on the situation on Friday. "We will approach this formally and objectively according to the criteria that are given to us." But he does think that BN and BI could have waited for the outcome of the council request. "There will be enough information on the subject, including at our event on June 8th in the Hechendorfer gymnasium." Kögel would have gladly spared his administration the additional work. If the area on Lindenallee were rejected, the community would be blank. "We just don't have anyone else."