Erding - street artists on Saturday afternoons in autumn in downtown Erdingen: It's not that easy to let them perform.
That showed a debate in the city council.
The Erding Jetzt (EDJ) voter group is committed to revitalizing Erdingen's inner city with small cultural events and thus creating incentives that more visitors come to the center and thus also to the shops.
That this - especially in times of the pandemic - is apparently not possible without great effort, became clear in the city council on Thursday evening.
At the end of the debate there was a compromise.
The committee dealt extensively and controversially with the EDJ's proposal to proclaim a kind of cultural autumn in September and October. On Saturday afternoons, artists should perform in various places until around 9 p.m.: regional bands, music clubs, jugglers, magicians, pantomimes and the like.
Ultimately, the city council approved cultural events in principle. Financial resources are also made available from the cultural budget. Individual groups and artists can contact the town hall if they are interested. There you can help with the contact to the health department because of the specifications of the infection protection and hygiene concept. However, the city will once again not be involved as an organizer. This was not feasible in terms of personnel at such short notice, it said from the cultural office. Other potential organizers such as the Stadthalle or the Sinnflut makers were also eliminated. Another component of the resolution: There will be no closure of parts of the city center on the autumn Saturdays, which EDJ is considering.
Just a few weeks ago, after an informal meeting of the faction spokesmen, it looked as if large parts of the city council were positive about the EDJ proposal (we reported).
It sounded different on Thursday.
Ludwig Kirmair (CSU), once cultural advisor, did not see “that the city center needs to be revitalized”.
Mayor Max Gotz and Hubert Sandtner (both CSU) reminded of the protection of residents.
"You have to endure the noise for a leisure event," said Sandtner, himself a victim: "It can't go on like this."
Helga Stieglmeier (Greens) said, with a view to the increasing number of corona cases, it is currently not at all possible to hold events as Erding now had in mind: “It only makes sense if we have come up with a concept.
It is not possible to simply put yourself together like that. "
Robert Buckenmaier from the municipal regulatory office had listed all immission guide values that must be complied with depending on the time of day, and put the cost of possible roadblocks in the old town at 2500 euros per weekend.
Thomas Schmidbauer (EDJ) recalled that the application was about a low-threshold cultural offer.
“The approach was that no major permits are required.
And it's not about blocking the whole city center. ”It's about something small:“ If you like, you can stop, if you don't like, you go on. "
EDJ parliamentary group spokesman Hans Egger made it clear: “I just keep hearing, that doesn't work and that doesn't work.
I don't hear from either side what should be done now.
Apparently we're not doing anything for now.
That's not enough for me. ”The city center is not a quiet residential area, but a mixed area.
“Anyone who lives here has to have a bit of tolerance,” said Egger.
To equate the inner city revitalization with noise is to be put very simply, he said addressed to Sandtner.
Gotz firmly rejected Egger's accusation that nothing was happening and said that the city had done a lot for the center over the past 30 years.
There are hardly any vacancies, low parking fees, high investments in festivities and parking spaces.
"That doesn't mean that we can rest on it."
The dilemma became evident in the debate: there would be no event without an organizer.
“Then I don't need to go on talking anyway,” said Vice-Mayor Petra Bauernfeind (Free Voters) regretfully.
Mayor Gotz finally formulated a proposal for a resolution that all city councilors could follow, and concluded with the following: “The message is out.
Look what comes out. "
