The majority of the local councils are behind the aja hotel project in Mittenwald.
There is only one deviant.
This is the state of affairs after it became known that a referendum was to come.
Mittenwald
- Stefan Schmitz has been a member of the Mittenwald municipal council for the citizens' association since 2008. He has seen a lot since then. “Beautiful, as well as quite ugly events.” He and the rest of the community council carefully followed the reports in the past few days, among other things. The intended citizens' initiative is making waves in Mittenwald. A whole place is talking about the planned aja hotel project. But Schmitz worries that some hotel critics "unfortunately leave the mode of objectivity" and even accuse Mayor Enrico Corongiu (SPD) and the local council of "nepotism and corruption", as a letter to the editor recently revealed.
He also misses the objectivity of the initiators of the referendum.
Schmitz is downright shocked by some statements in the application paper, such as "the risk of competition for non-maintained companies and a strain on the labor market".
BV municipal council cannot understand why critics have not founded a political group
He advises critics to take a bird's eye view of the place from the Mittenwalder Hütte.
“There are some buildings such as the school, the Hotel Post, the brewery or the ice rink that have a large construction volume.
Are they spoiling our place? ”He asks.
And the job market in Mittenwald is tense.
"We still have a migration of jobs, which hurts the tax power of our place." He cannot understand why the hotel critics "did not found a new political group and ran for the local council last year?"
CSU parliamentary group wants to counter false claims
The Mittenwald CSU has responded to the criticism of the hotel opponents with an extensive statement on the Internet. They explain again in detail what additional income they hope for through the aja-Hotel for the community, retail trade, gastronomy and trade. They too want to get rid of rumors. "Contrary to false claims, neither the room prices nor those for the publicly accessible spa area are 'junk prices'", writes the parliamentary group under spokeswoman Regina Hornsteiner.
The parliamentary group also does not understand the criticism of the sales price of around 200 euros per square meter.
“It is a special area of tourism, comparable to a commercial area.” At the Fischweiher, for example, square meter prices of just 90 euros for commercial use are not uncommon.
To speak of a “low price” on Bahnhofstrasse is “simply not tenable”.
Free voters hope to be able to implement urgent measures through potential hotel income
The Free Voter Group will see it in a moment. "For a commercial property, prices are actually based on 80 to 120 euros," she writes in a statement. “Accordingly, the property will not be sold.” The majority are the free people behind the project. The parliamentary group hopes that the proceeds will be used to take urgent measures, such as paying for the maintenance of the partly ailing infrastructure. The off-season would also be strengthened as the house will be open all year round. And there would be no competition with other companies, since it is “a different clientele”.
Just like the Free, the SPD parliamentary group can make friends with the current plans.
“For us, the result of the negotiations is an acceptable compromise.” In the last term of office, on the other hand, the concept “has been significantly improved after difficult negotiations”, writes the parliamentary group chaired by Bärbel Rauch.
The majority of the SPD parliamentary group is behind the hotel project - only one councilor is against it
As is well known, only one of their ranks is resisting the hotel project: Councilor Ursula Seydel. “Centrally located properties are a valuable asset in the raging property market.” She therefore advises “to think carefully about whether we want to leave this property to an investor who wants to sell it on as profitably as possible immediately after development”. She would rather have a smaller, classified hotel on a less large property area in connection with a wellness area that is being built by the community.
Because Seydel is anything but satisfied with the planned size: The “oversized building block” can “no longer be embellished with wood cladding or ventilated paintings,” says Seydel. "The dominance of the hotel building is an expression of an economic power that will lead to a process of displacement in the domestic rental and hotel sector." The losses of the local landlords would have to be offset against the income of the aja hotel. And since the hoped-for income "depends on the tax and business model of the aja hotel group, nobody can yet estimate the actual amount of the income".
The remaining municipal councils point out, however, that no statement can yet be made about the appearance and that there are already reliable income figures from other aja hotels. The SPD parliamentary group does not want “an aja building like the one in Garmisch-Partenkirchen” because it “has to fit into the townscape”. But Mittenwald has closed ten hotels over decades and therefore "a lack of beds in this segment." The SPD sees it mostly as an opportunity for Mittenwald to open up new target groups.