CSU City Councilor Tobias Stephan would like more cooperation in the committee.
He “doesn't understand the attitude” of some colleagues.
Dachau - As CSU local chairman, he has felt “like a king without a kingdom” in the past few years, admits Tobias Stephan.
Because where “the music is playing” in the city is clear: in the city council.
That is why he is now all the more proud to have been a member of this body for 14 months.
However, he recently saw a bit of disenchantment: "The mood and the way we treat each other", he imagined differently and, above all, more cooperatively. “I don't understand the attitude,” emphasizes Stephan. “90 out of 100 municipalities would swap with us!” But instead of seeing the opportunities that life in the suburb of Munich brings with it, “everything is just talked to death”.
The latest example: the MD site and the surf wave planned there. The alliance for Dachau had criticized the investor Isaria, because on its website www.md-gelaende.de a picture of the future is painted, which consists of a lot of green, only happy people and a lot of leisure activities. “Yes, of course,” says Stephan, “that's just marketing.” But instead of gossiping about the still unclear financing of the surf wave, instead of gossiping about the still unclear financing of the surf wave, one should just see the opportunities: “The famous Eisbach wave at the Haus der Kunst will also be paid by the city of Munich. But people come from everywhere, Munich is world famous for the wave! "
Stephan therefore emphasizes that the MD site should not degenerate into an “ideological playground”.
In addition to the redesign of the station area, the future Mühlbachviertel - as the investor has already christened it - is "the most important development area in the city".
It is all the more important to “develop the thing together” and to “design the quarter for the future”.
What particularly bothers the CSU man: "the intellectual hunter fence" when it comes to the issue of immigration.
Sure, the district is booming, but maybe you should also think: “Young families seem to want to live in the Dachau district.
That’s great! ”In this respect, he does not think it makes much sense to brand every“ car driver from the hinterland ”or every property developer as“ the bad ”.
Stephan no longer wants to address the fact that the CSU itself was not always cooperative in the last legislative period. For him it is only important that the city council now "keeps an eye on all sides". When it comes to building, it is like traffic, the second important challenge of current city politics: “There are so many different lifestyles.” Just as there are not only cyclists on the street, when it comes to living there are not only tenants. “Of course tenants are an important group, in Germany a lot is rented. But if someone wants to create property, then that must also be possible. "
His local association therefore used the past, somewhat quieter months to “deal with content-related matters”.
Because each of his party friends had "noticed in their environment that the subject of living is a burning issue".
The result: "Seven theses of the Dachau CSU on building and living" (see box).
The local association unites “a lot of expertise” in this complex of topics, craftsmen, architects, building contractors and a ministerial councilor in the building ministry are among the ranks of the Dachau CSU.
The seven theses of the CSU
- We stand by privately used residential property
- We want to strengthen the acquisition of privately used residential property
- We want to prevent land speculation
- We want to prevent urban sprawl and erosion
- We want to make local models wider
- We want to revive the construction of company housing
- We want less bureaucracy in building
Stephan and Co. now hope that, given the urgency of the issue, a certain non-partisan cooperation could arise.
Sure, point 7 of the list of theses is likely to become controversial: According to Stephan, the CSU rejects the tree protection ordinance desired by a majority of the SPD, the Greens and the Alliance under all circumstances;
this is "counterproductive" and means "overregulation".
And in future too, anyone who wants and can should be able to own a single-family home.
Stephan advises his colleagues - all parties!
- In any case, to more trust in the citizens: “There has already been a rethink anyway.” The fact that a city needs green “we really don't have to explain to anyone”.
