Even if the expansion of the underground car park under the spa garden has not yet been definitely decided, the Greens in the city council are already fighting against it.
Above all, they are concerned about the preservation of the linden trees.
With the support of the Schutzgemeinschaft Tegernseer Tal (SGT), an expert opinion was commissioned, the result of which is now available.
Tegernsee - Green City Councilor Marcus Staudacher, meanwhile also deputy of SGT boss Angela Brogsitter-Finck, leaves no opportunity to get rid of his criticism of an underground parking garage under the spa garden.
In the most recent city council meeting, he disintegrated the minutes of the meeting on October 5, when the Greens and the SPD had submitted a comprehensive motion on the state of affairs in the underground car park extension.
Green Council Marcus Staudacher wants "correction and clarification" of the protocol
Staudacher asked for a "correction and clarification" of some points. For example about the possible number of parking spaces, which could only be 158 instead of 178, as the city council decided in favor of wider parking spaces when it was first considering it. He also did not consider the cost estimate of 6.3 million euros realistic. It is from 2018, and even an annual increase of ten percent is no longer sufficient. Staudacher was also skeptical about the present subsoil investigation. “There is talk of conditionally favorable conditions,” said Staudacher, which the building authority manager Bettina Koch corrected: “In summary, it says that an underground car park could be built there. There are no concerns. "
Mayor Johannes Hagn (CSU) found Staudacher's approach to correct the protocol in this way "strange". "Is it now a statement against the underground car park or the minutes?" Asked Hagn, trying to be objective. The protocol is set in the council information system. A note to the administration would have been sufficient. Hagn referred to a soon-planned meeting of the city council, which will deal with the major topic of traffic. Managing director Hans Staudacher contributed to the clarification: It is not possible to change the minutes of a meeting. “Said is said, and we wrote it down.” The points could only be added. Green Council Staudacher, who was asked to submit his points in writing to the administration, was not yet at the end of his remarks.He also took a stand on the linden trees.
19 trees would have to be felled in the case of an underground car park - a circumstance that SGT also wants to prevent and which is also discussed in the current newsletter. A statement by the Federal Nature Protection Agency, carried out by Angela Burkhardt-Keller, a certified tree inspector, now provides tailwind for their negative attitude.
She basically assumes a high quality of stay for the people in the park and that the linden trees in the eastern of the two rows are somewhat weaker and therefore younger. On the west side there are five of the eight mighty and thus formative specimens with a trunk circumference of around two meters. At first glance, it attests that the linden trees have a "strong vitality", "the improper cuts in recent years in young trees and in recent decades in old trees require careful, sustainable and particularly competent care in order to preserve the trees in the long term." . The building authority manager had already reported to the city council that the condition was not the best.
According to the expert, sacrificing the trees for an underground car park would mean “visual and ecological damage”. It is doubtful whether the trees of this size can grow again at this point. “When building an underground car park, the underground sealing would be so strong that no large tree would have a chance of a long-term location there. Locations on underground car park ceilings are unsuitable for large trees. The verdict: The construction of an underground car park would mean the permanent loss of large trees. "Under the then prevailing conditions and space, the replanting could develop into trees of similar size in 50 years at the earliest as they are in the Kurpark today."
The statement confirms Marcus Staudacher in his opinion: "I do not think it is justifiable in times of climate change and increasing heavy rain events to seal such a large area and to sacrifice 19, in some cases very old, vital trees."
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