The way seems clear for the new building plans for the MedeleSchäfer car dealership on the eastern edge of Weilheim.
But in the city council there was again criticism of the project - and doubts whether an east tunnel as a bypass Weilheim would then still be possible.
Weilheim - At its May meeting, Weilheim's city council had to make two fundamental decisions for the future, around 20,000 square meter car dealership area on the field between Wiesenweg and Renner building materials. The first dealt with the necessary changes to the zoning plan - which has now been finally decided with six votes against. No new content-related objections were raised in the public or government participation. City council member Ullrich Klinkicht (Weilheim Miteinander) was surprised, however, that the government of Upper Bavaria no longer considers the area to be as ecologically valuable as it was in earlier letters. The government had "reconsidered" its position, explained Manfred Stork on the part of the city building authority: It had "first assumed an incredibly species-rich diversity,that don't exist there ”. Klaus Gast (CSU), local councilor for Deutenhausen / Marnbach, also contributed to the change in the zoning plan, but emphasized that he “does not see future commercial development in the east of Weilheim”.
Decision against underground parking "possibly made on the wrong basis"
More pepper lay in the second decision, which concerns the specific development plan "industrial area north of Deutenhausener Straße". Here, the fact that the State Building Authority is recently examining an east tunnel as a bypass variant brought new doubts into play - also in view of the fact that the city council had waived the requirement in February that MedeleSchaefer build an underground car park for employee parking spaces got to. It would stand there in the groundwater, it was said in February, and would therefore mean “too high additional costs” for the dealership operators. Klinkicht now wanted to know whether the city administration already knew about the plans for an east tunnel when this decision was made. "No", answered Mayor Markus Loth (BfW): "But one thing has nothing to do with the other."
According to the Greens spokesman Manuel Neulinger, a statement emerged afterwards that "an underground car park would not be that difficult after all".
Therefore, the decision in the city council "may have been made on the wrong basis".
Loth countered that the underground parking garage refusal was less about the structural difficulty than about not imposing such a change on the client in an ongoing procedure: “A certain degree of reliability is necessary.” Claus Reindl (BfW) pointed the subject to a question to the city council colleagues: "Do you want to ensure that this company has to reorient itself and look for another location?"
Local bypass to the east due to new construction "difficult, but not impossible"
Of course, the “other side” also had questions: “Has it been checked that the new tunnel variant would be possible despite the Medele construction?” Neulinger wanted to know - and added that he “found it difficult to imagine compatibility”. The state building authority, reminded city architect Andrea Roppel-Sommer, had written in the process that a local bypass to the east was made "difficult, but not impossible" by the car dealership plans. At that time, however, there was still no talk of a tunnel. Nevertheless, it is not the job of the city to get another statement from the state building authority.
For Rüdiger Imgart (AfD), however, it urgently needs to be clarified whether the planned new car dealership will make "the east tunnel variant impossible".
Imgart was one of ten city council members who voted against the development plan - alongside Klinkicht, Romana Asam (FW), the two ÖDP councilors and all representatives of the Greens except Alfred Honisch.
However, the majority approved the development plan in its present form.
With minor changes - which, however, do not affect the main features - this is now openly displayed again for a month.
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