"Alcatraz" is a terrible example - the noise barrier against which Großweil braces itself.
The case that Murnau rejects turns out to be smaller: It's about the clearly too high board fence of a private house in Hechendorf.
After a lengthy discussion, the building committee decided: This wall cannot stay that way.
Murnau
- entrance streets that are lined for long stretches of walls and ramparts without greenery: some municipalities allow this.
Murnau attaches great importance to a charming look, the rules of this course are based on the local design statutes of 2017, which exclude bare, non-planted fence and wall structures.
Structural fencing, it says, should not exceed a height of 1.25 meters.
And: In the case of closed variants, planting "towards the public space" is mandatory.
In earlier years, many house builders had walls built around their property that would simply no longer be tolerated in Murnau today.
The larch fence is around 1.70 meters high
This now also affects the owner of a property in the vicinity of the Molopark.
Its approximately 1.70 meter high, closed larch fence clearly exceeds the permissible size and cannot remain as it is today.
That was decided by a 6: 3 majority of the building committee after an on-site meeting on Tuesday evening.
The result reflects the discussion: Opinions differed in this case.
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In the end, Julia Stewens (Free Voters) spoke out in favor of “following the local design statutes and not making an exception”.
Like most of the committee members, she doubted that the larch wall could be permanently greened on the outside.
Murnau: Boards and stone landscapes are not welcome
The fence stands on a concrete plinth, as the participants of the on-site visit showed, there is no space outside the fence for plants. This should, explained market architect Klaus Tworek, take root in the garden, grow outwards and green the wooden surface. At the beginning he addressed a consensus in the former discussion about the local design statute: One wanted to avoid the creation of “board and stone landscapes”. Tworek briefly touched on the by far more sensational Großweiler dispute case of a mighty noise protection wall, in which "Alcatraz" is mentioned (we reported). Not because it can be compared with the Murnauer, but: It is a good illustration of how the effect in public space can extend through fences.
Fence erected instead of a 2.40 meter high thuja hedge, which had caused trouble
Back to Murnau: The owners of the affected Hechendorfer property had erected the fence, which was supposed to provide sufficient privacy to protect privacy, instead of a 2.40 meter high thuja hedge.
This had protruded into a private access road and apparently repeatedly caused trouble with individual residents, which should be eliminated once and for all.
The applicants announced that they wanted to add fast-growing climbing plants to the fence afterwards and referred to the approval of three neighboring neighbors;
however, they have not reached all of them.
Franz Neuner (CSU) threw in at the meeting that “the whole thing got rolling”, precisely because someone in the vicinity reported the facts.
Construction committee: Opinions on the fence case differ
In the committee meeting, opinions differed: Veronika Jones (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) did not see any public space in the affected private road (“Who can see that big?”) And pleaded for an exception at such a point, Phillip Zoepf (More moving) confessed that he was "torn back and forth"; Anna Schlegel-Herz (ÖDP / Bürgerforum) found that “the thing should be given time, especially ivy overgrows everything”. Her parliamentary group colleague Stefan Lechner, professionally from the subject, expressed skepticism here, which Rudolf Utzschneider shared. The CSU parliamentary group spokesman said that he followed Lechner's remarks: "To plant inside so that the outside grows over, I consider sporty." Franz Neuner was also concerned with “a precedent”. He sees "no unreasonable hardship" in it,to have the fence cut to the correct height. Otherwise he is "fairly certain" that the matter will go to court.
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