Memmingen - During a final public information session on the Preparatory Investigations (VU) Old Town, the Memmingen residents were presented with the results, the renovation goals for the future of the old town and an insight into projects that had already started.
In the small hall of the town hall, Sylvia Haines from Haines-Leger Architects, Urban Planners, Claudia Zimmermann from brenner BERNARD ingenieure and Uwe Weißfloch from the Memmingen Town Planning Office presented the developed concept of measures for the development of the old town to around 50 interested parties.
Sylvia Haines and Claudia Zimmer gave a review of the individual steps in the VU Altstadt. First, the project started with an analysis of the current situation and an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks. As the next step, goals, fields of action and the overarching development model for the municipality were defined in cooperation with the citizens. This then resulted in the strategies, concepts and measures that were discussed and developed in a public project workshop and then transferred to the master plan. At the end of the process, the concept of measures was drawn up after weighing up various interests, priorities and a financing plan. This includes the spatial fields of action west-east axis "traffic calming and design",Old town south-west "renovation and living environment design", north-south axis "development and strengthening" and moat and city wall and the thematic fields of action green and open spaces, strategies and concepts, building renovation, mobility and traffic and design of public space.
15 years to implement
Various measures and projects are to be implemented over the next 15 years, such as the closure of the wine market to through traffic until 2025 or the revision of the parking and pedestrian guidance system.
Initial measures such as the crossing aid at Königsgraben have already been implemented.
In his lecture, Uwe Weißfloch gave an overview of the implementation of urban redevelopment measures, their funding opportunities for the “old town” area and the rights and obligations of residents.
The municipal funding program supports the renovation of facades, the renovation of open spaces and demolitions to remove the core and improve the quality of open spaces with up to 30 percent of the total eligible costs.
For owners or leaseholders, it is important to note that the applications must be submitted to the city treasury as the approval body before work begins.
The head of the city planning office also addressed the maintenance and design statutes, which were passed by the city council on October 18, 2021.
Impulses and suggestions
Following the presentations, those present had the opportunity to bring in questions, requests and suggestions. The most important issues were the parking situation for residents and the traffic flows in the old town. In answering the questions, Lord Mayor Manfred Schilder also referred to the citizens' workshop on the traffic and mobility concept, which took place on November 2nd. The participants brought in impulses and suggestions for sustainable mobility in order to shape future mobility and not just to cope with traffic. For Memmingen as the model region "Future of Mobility", an integrated mobility concept for all modes of transport and user groups will be developed by the end of 2022, which will allow different forms of mobility such as walking and cycling,Does not see electromobility or sharing systems and different modes of transport on roads and rails as individual systems, but rather encompassed them in an overall concept. With the expiry of the current concession contracts at the end of 2022, decisive improvements can be implemented in local public transport.
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