A resident parking zone of Dachau-Ost advocated by the Greens and the Alliance for Dachau - it would be the fourth in the Dachau urban area - will not exist for the time being.
Reason: Despite long-term parking, small trucks and trailers, there is still enough parking space there.
Dachau
- June 22, 2021 was a “classic survey day”, as Dr.-Ing.
Friedrich Maier from the transport consultancy Commea told the Environment and Transport Committee on Tuesday.
The day was "friendly", a weekday outside of the holidays.
Okay, in the evening "Wolfratshausen flooded" during a thunderstorm, but the large district town hardly noticed anything from the foothills of the thunderstorm.
What Maier was offered on June 22nd during his investigation of the parking space situation in the area between Polln-, Sudetenland-, Würm- and Schleissheimer Strasse was a completely normal day in Dachau-Ost.
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After work it gets full in parts of Dachau-Ost (Photo: Liegnitzer Straße).
Non-residents of Dachau-Ost rarely end up in the residential area.
© Norbert H Farewell
And it looked like this: During the day, i.e. until around 6 p.m., the residential streets were between 60 and 90 percent blocked. Only after work, i.e. from 6 p.m., did it get full. Above all in the western area of Dachau-Ost, that is between Polln- and Theodor-Heuss-Straße, there was "considerable parking pressure" with a utilization of the parking areas beyond 100 percent, as Maier explained. His recommendation to the committee was therefore: A resident parking zone as requested by the Alliance for Dachau and supported by the Greens for the entire investigation area - in which there are a total of 1798 parking spaces - is not necessary. Only in the western part, that is between Polln and Theodor-Heuss-Strasse, should one take action by creating resident parking privileges that are subject to a fee;all non-residents, on the other hand, should be obliged to put up a parking disc with a maximum parking time of three hours from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Apart from the three Green or Alliance city councilors, the city councils did not want to follow this proposal. Peter Gampenrieder (ÜB) accused his Green City Council colleague Thomas Kreß of a "crusade against the car", the CSU spoke of necromancy and unnecessary bureaucracy. Kreß, in turn, emphasized that “we all want a city that is worth living in, and instead we have streets that are parked up and empty garages”! The discussion seems to him to be “ideologically charged”.
In the end, traffic officer Volker C. Koch (SPD) tried to make it more objective. Historically, it is easy to explain that the parking pressure is greater in the west of Dachau-Ost: The part is older, “the roads were not built for cars back then. There was no more than the VW Beetle ”. Garages have already been planned for the new district in the east. However, because of the shortage of parking spaces in some streets every evening, having to buy signage and vending machines and obliging residents to buy a parking permit is out of proportion.
Especially since: The parking disc regulation would end at 6 p.m. - at a time when there is still no lack of parking space. Traffic advisor Maier explained this regulation, which in the eyes of City Councilor Norbert Winter (CSU) was completely absurd, with the fact that the municipal ticket clerks were only available during the day. But at least you could at least scare off the parked long-term parkers with their mobile homes or trailers in this way. So in the evening you would only have 98 percent instead of a parking space occupancy of 108 percent?
In the end, the majority of the committee agreed to continue to monitor the situation, but not to ignore the residents in Dachau-Ost for the time being.
Peter Strauch (CSU) emphasized that this instrument has always been used to protect residents from third-party parking - such as at the clinic or around the train station.
In Dachau-Ost, however, there are no such third-party parkers.
With a parking zone one would therefore only “make parking spaces for residents chargeable without an emergency.
And that wouldn't be good ”.
