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Controversial incentive: fewer parking spaces should lead to fewer cars

2021-06-13T21:03:37.565Z


Property developers who submit alternative mobility concepts - for example car sharing - should be allowed to build fewer parking spaces than actually required in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn. Fewer parking spaces, fewer cars - that was the idea. But can this be used to urge citizens to give up their cars?


Property developers who submit alternative mobility concepts - for example car sharing - should be allowed to build fewer parking spaces than actually required in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn.

Fewer parking spaces, fewer cars - that was the idea.

But can this be used to urge citizens to give up their cars?

Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn

- While community council members of the SPD, the Greens and the UB see the step as future-oriented and important for a traffic turnaround, CSU representatives in the building and property committee have expressed concerns about the feasibility.

"I think that is not the right way," said CSU parliamentary group leader Roland Spingler.

Is the time ripe for such models?

The municipal administration had previously presented the draft of the new parking lot statute to the committee as a basis for discussion. The current statutes are from the year 2000. They were adapted nine years ago, but because the range of forms of mobility and the need for parking spaces of all kinds have changed in recent years, the administration and the municipal council consider it appropriate to issue a new statute. For example, in future it will not only be stipulated how many car parking spaces are to be built per residential unit, but also how many bicycle parking spaces and barrier-free parking spaces.

Andrea Hanisch (UB) liked the fact that developers also wanted to promise that they would have to build up to 25 percent fewer parking spaces if they presented a qualified mobility concept, because it is assumed that the residents will then have fewer cars.

The time is ripe for such models, she said.

Gudrun Hackl-Stoll (Greens) also welcomed the advance.

There are now many young people who want to “get away from the car”.

“There is a different way of thinking,” says Hackl-Stoll.

Stasi comparison does not go down well

Spingler and his group colleague Peter Guggenberger expressed skepticism. Even if you negotiate a corresponding contract with the developer, you have no influence later on if a residential complex is sold or if the owners do not adhere to the specifications, they argued. If the concept does not work and the residents buy more cars, there will not be enough parking spaces and the cars will be on the street. "We have introduced the parking regulations so that the cars are away from the road," reminded Spingler. He also expressed concerns about spying on local residents. Rupert Franke (SPD) was indignant that he drew a comparison to the Stasi time: "That is a strong piece."

"There is no basic right to a parking space," replied Janine Schneider (Greens) to the CSU parliamentary group leader.

It also does not assume that 20 property developers will come up with such models.

“We have to be realistic.” It is important that there is the possibility for such projects.

Reserve space for missing parking spaces

Norbert Mayer (UB) suggested that the developers, if they have to build fewer parking spaces, at least reserve the space for the missing parking spaces should the envisaged mobility concept fail.

Spingler, in turn, spoke out against any concessions to the developers.

Nevertheless, the residents could do without cars: “People should live the way they want.

Nobody is forced to put cars on the parking spaces that they buy.

It can also be cargo bikes. "

Source: merkur

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