In Benediktbeuern, a major property swap has failed in the past few weeks.
This was announced in the local council on Wednesday evening.
The members had not discussed it publicly in the summer.
Benediktbeuern
- As Mayor Toni Ortlieb reported on Thursday when our newspaper asked, it was about the property at the AWO retirement home, on which the parking spaces are now. The municipality of Benediktbeuern sold this area - including the meadow - to the Lenggries building cooperative in 2014. The agreement at the time was to create housing in this area. However, that did not happen.
Ortlieb, who was not yet mayor at the time, now had the idea of agreeing to swap land with the Lenggries building cooperative.
His request was to bring the property at the senior citizens back into the possession of the community and, in return, to offer the building cooperative the area at the old fire station and the community-owned property on Benediktusstrasse.
These two areas are smaller than those at the retirement home, which is why the community should have made an additional payment.
Ortlieb did not want to say anything about the height on Thursday.
The building cooperative, however, agreed to the idea and the implementation, reports Ortlieb.
Mayor Ortlieb disappointed
The background to his concern was to create an expansion area for the retirement home, said Ortlieb. “Today the Loisachtal is well supplied with care places. But if you look at the demographic change, we will have a lot more needs in ten to fifteen years. ”Every municipality in the district must endeavor to ensure that more care places are created. “It is also the wish of the citizens that they get a place close to their home.” At the same time, the Lenggries building cooperative could have created new living space on the old fire station and in Benediktusstrasse. The community-owned building on Benediktusstraße is getting old and ailing.
The property swap has been “intensively discussed” in the municipal council in the past few months, reported Ortlieb. Ultimately, however, the committee could not bring itself to follow this idea - the decision ended with seven to seven votes, i.e. a stalemate. That means a rejection.
It is the first time that Ortlieb was unable to assert himself on the municipal council with a major project.
"I'm disappointed that it doesn't happen," said Ortlieb openly on Thursday.
"I think Benediktbeuern has missed an important future issue." When asked about the reasons, the mayor said: "I think that not every council member was aware of the importance of this matter." The community now has to think again about where and how to do more could create care places close to home in order to be prepared for the future.
CSU: "We discussed intensively"
The failed property exchange in the community of Benediktbeuern in favor of a possible extension of the retirement home is assessed differently by the parliamentary groups in the local council. Research in our newspaper showed that the members of the CSU and FWG had essentially voted against, the members of the “Citizens' Association” and “Free Citizens List Together” in favor.
In the report in our newspaper, Hans-Otto Pielmeier (CSU) criticizes the statement by Mayor Toni Ortlieb (“Bürgerervereinigung”) that not every council member was aware of the importance of the matter. "All the facts were examined in detail by the councils and discussed intensively," writes Pielmeier in a statement. The decision was not made easy, but “carefully weighed”. The debt of the community is well above the average for the district, and amounts in the millions will have to be spent on completing the mandatory tasks in the near future. “You have to see the swap against this background,” says Pielmeier. The community should have spent a sum in the high six-figure range.In addition, there were "no even halfway concrete approaches with regard to a possible expansion of care places".
In addition, according to Pielmeier, it would have emerged in the final phase of the discussion that the property on Kochler Strasse was allowed to drive.
“It was completely open whether the area could then have been planned in the interests of the community.” Overall, according to Pielmeier, the “financial and building law risks appeared to be unacceptable”.
The CSU will not lose sight of the topic of local care.
FWG: "We can also build there ourselves"
Members of the Free Voting Community (FWG) argue similarly.
"With the properties at the fire station and on Benediktusstrasse, you would have given two fillets," says Stefan Geiger, explaining his motivation for voting against.
A possible extension of the retirement home could also be solved differently.
“One could add to the building, for example.” This is also how his parliamentary group colleague Markus Schambeck sees it.
“The decision wasn't about care,” he says.
One also has to keep an eye on the debt of the community.
"We can also build on the two plots of land at the fire station and on Benediktusstrasse ourselves."
Regret for "Benediktbeurer Bürgerervereinigung" and FBM
Bruno Bacher from the “Bürgerervereinigung” had voted in favor of the property swap, but he is not disappointed now: “This is democracy.
I understand the arguments of the other side. ”You just have to look for a new solution.
For Bacher, the argument of demographic change played the central role.
"With the current decision, the problem is only postponing, but it will catch up with us again."
The failed property swap is “extremely regretted” by the “Free Citizens List Together” (FBM), as Rudi Mühlhans says.
A great opportunity has been wasted, both to be able to expand the retirement home and to create municipal housing.
Mühlhans is certain that the decision in the local council would have been different if more people were sitting on the committee who were themselves tenants.
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