With a view to the regional plan, Josef Taffertshofer is different.
He fears that the update will lead to small communities being left behind.
And problems remain.
Wildsteig -
If Josef Taffertshofer thinks about the regional plan update, he can hardly stop shaking his head. The mayor of Wildsteiger accuses the Oberland planning association of a “completely wrong approach”. After consultation with the municipal council, he issued an opinion that should differ significantly from those of other municipalities - it does not focus on the situation in its own location. Instead, it says that the Wildsteiger committee "fundamentally rejects the approach of the planning association". All in all, the writing is four and a half pages. Wildsteig's anger can be clearly seen on each of them.
Taffertshofer & Co. are of the opinion that the regional plan should be updated in order to create a framework for how the Oberland can deal with the pressure of settlement, traffic and local recreation.
And how it wants to tackle problems such as the shortage of labor and housing.
But the Wildsteiger consider the approach to be wrong.
The municipalities' planning sovereignty should not be restricted
It starts with the creation of the draft. The plans had been drawn up by employees of the government of Upper Bavaria. The political body, the planning committee riddled with local politicians, “then just nodded. That's the wrong way round, ”says Taffertshofer. Rather, the ideas should come from the affected municipalities - planning region 17 includes the districts of Weilheim-Schongau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Miesbach and Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen. The planning association could use this to set a framework for action. However, "the planning sovereignty of the municipalities should not be restricted by regional planning".
But that threatens, fears the town hall chief.
Because the planning association wants to steer settlement development and define main locations with growth potential in each municipality, for example municipalities with train stops.
Outside of them, building should become more difficult.
It doesn't make sense for everyone to just look at themselves
“That weakens the little ones again,” complains Taffertshofer.
For his community, only Wildsteig itself has been classified as the main town - but without substructures and lower houses, which since 2012 with new buildings "Am Unterfeld" have grown close to Wildsteig.
The residential and commercial area "is not even included in the planning association's plans, they are 20 years old," says Taffertshofer.
"That is amateurish."
The main towns are not yet set in stone. Each municipality can comment on the planned update of the regional plan and make suggestions for its municipality. “Cleverly threaded,” comments the Taffertshofer sarcastically. "So each place only deals with itself."
That doesn't make sense.
On the one hand, because the move on the one hand means moving away from the other community, so the developments are related.
“If we want to be strong, we have to be strong across the board.” The fact that a view across municipal boundaries makes sense is also shown by the topic of “train stops”.
If a train station is to be “the criterion for increased settlement development, the correct demarcation for defining an area would be the geographical area or the temporal accessibility,” says Wildsteig's statement.
"For example, the train station in Altenau can be reached from parts of the Wildsteiger municipality in around ten minutes" - but this is not taken into account in the plan because there is a municipal boundary in between.
Taffertshofer fears "absolute problem" for Wildsteig
If the regional plan is updated as planned, that would be “an absolute problem” for Wildsteig, says Taffertshofer. In and around Wildsteig, only a small amount of building land can be identified - due to the moist soil and the hillside location. Morgenbach, sub-farmers or lower houses, in which building according to the plans should be made more difficult, would have much more options. “You rob potential.” And promote what you actually want to remedy: housing and labor shortages, migration of young families and companies.
And that, among other things, because not local public transport (ÖPNV) should be brought to the people, but the people to the local transport.
Also a wrong approach, according to Taffertshofer.
“You have to create excellent public transport services right down to the smallest village.” Of course, the demand has not yet been huge.
But you always have to make advance payments for innovations.
“You need what is on offer first, then people can get a taste for it.” Instead, according to the plans at hand, communities without a train stop would be left behind and their growth potential curtailed.
"I think they are betting on the completely wrong horse."
