All of your criticisms of the planned industrial area in Schorn were now discussed by nature conservationists at an on-site meeting.
One conclusion: "The Schorn campus is a climate killer."
Schorn - It was a hot day when a group of environmentalists recently hiked through the Schorn Valley.
But it was still bearable for those involved, reports organizer Dr.
Ursula Lauer - because of the cool air flow generated by the surrounding forests.
A phenomenon that, according to the biologist and chairwoman of the Schorn Citizens' Initiative (BI), will no longer exist when the "Campus Schorn" industrial area planned on 47 hectares is built.
"The buildings and surface seals would bring the cold air flow to a standstill, and the CO2 released by clearing deciduous forest and the emissions expected in the later operating phase would further fuel climate change," Lauer wrote in a press release shortly after the hike.
Her conclusion: "The Schorn Campus project is a climate killer!"
The BI had organized the political excursion under the motto "Hiking against surface erosion" together with the Bund Naturschutz (BN).
In the idyllic landscape where at least 3,000 jobs are to be created.
On site, the conservationists addressed all the associated environmental problems that have preoccupied them for a long time.
There is the subject of groundwater: "The project is located in the downstream area of the aquifer that feeds the wells in Forstenrieder Park in the city of Munich," Lauer writes in the press release.
Infiltration of surface water endangers the groundwater, and during construction the topsoil would be removed, transported away, relocated and thus destroyed.
The surrounding wells Wangen and Schäftlarn would also be affected.
"Biodiversity and species protection are not taken into account."
The next point of criticism, according to Lauer: "The biological diversity and the protection of species are not taken into account." Experts from BI and BN have identified 179 breeding bird pairs from 39 species in the planning area. 31 percent of them are classified as endangered or precarious. Then there are blindworms, sand lizards, bats and butterflies, for which Schorn is a habitat.
The planning contradicts the new version of the Bavarian Nature Conservation Act, in which article one speaks of the "permanent safeguarding and development of biodiversity in flora and fauna". That is why Lauer and her colleagues like BN district chief Günter Schorn do not believe in the proposed reforestation as compensation for the ban forest. This is nonsensical from an ecological point of view. Because open grassland is a food biotope for birds including birds of prey, bats or the brown hares.
Apart from that, the existing Starnberg industrial park on Moosstrasse and Petersbrunner Strasse should first be fully exploited before planning in Schorn. “So far there is neither a transport connection nor any development. Everything would have to be created from scratch, ”says Lauer. In addition, on the guided hike, the group criticized the profitability of the planned project. Lauer: “The companies that are being thought of are not Starnberg-based companies, that is, a 'return of invest' is extremely questionable. In the end, the Starnbergers pay the follow-up costs of this bad planning with their tax money for decades to come. "