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Fresh air corridor: "No further business in the cauldron"

2021-12-04T06:16:28.463Z


Since the plans for a “Hachinger Tal structural concept” became public two and a half years ago, resistance to the mega-project in Neubiberg has not stopped.


Since the plans for a “Hachinger Tal structural concept” became public two and a half years ago, resistance to the mega-project in Neubiberg has not stopped.

Neubiberg / Unterhaching

- petition, citizens' initiative, intermunicipal protest - and now an online discussion by the Neubiberg Greens on the explosive topic.

Around 25 hectares of green space are to be built on to the north and east of the Infineon site, 17 hectares of which will be used for business and eight hectares for residential space.

"The traffic is already at the absolute limit," said the member of the state parliament Markus Büchler in the online debate with 55 participants.

The traffic expert from Oberschleißheim thinks: "It would be foolish to further heat up this situation and draw even more business into this cauldron."

Traffic is only part of the problem

Traffic is just one of the many pieces in the mosaic, but they are all interrelated.

Joachim Lorenz, who was once environmental officer for the state capital of Munich for 22 years, sees a “glaring disparity between residential development and commercial development”.

For the 2300 new residents from the high-tech industry, you need “presumably high-priced apartments”, plus an infrastructure with daycare centers and school expansions.

On the other hand, "trade tax is very volatile", Joachim Lorenz warns: "Neubiberg would take over!"

Regional green corridor affected

More people, more traffic, more infrastructure - and at the same time less good air: That is the next big concern.

Because an investor's construction project would have a significant impact on the regional green corridor and thus the fresh air corridor in the Hachinger Valley.

As early as the 1960s, reported Joachim Lorenz, the effect of so-called alpine pumping was measured when cold fresh air flows from the edge of the Alps into the state capital Munich.

The effect could have an effect of up to eight degrees Celsius on hot summer nights - so would the construction project give the state capital a bad breath?

A microclimatic report is in progress, which should be available in early 2022;

the former Munich environmental officer urgently recommends "waiting for this as an important basis for decision-making".

State capital also affected

“The fatal thing is,” said Claudia Köhler, member of the Unterhaching State Parliament, “the development does not choke our air, but the state capital Munich.” However, this should not lead to putting one's own interests such as more trade tax above the common good: “We have to See the big picture. ”Her home community would also suffer from a new industrial park on Kapellenfeld near Infineon, which is connected to the Fasanenpark S-Bahn station in Unterhaching. Here additional burden (through more traffic), there additional benefit (through more tax revenue): "It is unfair if the neighbor alone benefits."

Neubiberg's Green Vice-Mayor Kilian Körner considers the plans to be "very, very unfortunate".

He was in agreement with CSU town hall chief Thomas Pardeller "that we should wait for the climate report, there is a clear consensus".

In the event of flooding, retention areas are required

In addition to the fresh air supply, which could be cut off, the issue is flooding: some parts of the planning area are located in the floodplain of the Hachinger Bach.

A supra-local flood protection concept has so far failed because Taufkirchen and Unterhaching refused to designate possible flood areas, including in the landscape park.

"Neubiberg thinks he can create his own flood protection concept, but the water management office is instructed to evaluate this question across the board," explained Joachim Lorenz.

“For large parts of the planned development along Unterhachinger Straße, there is currently a construction ban.” His advice: Neubiberg should better “use areas on the eastern edge of the municipality”.

Don't build everything up

Markus Büchler summed up the view of the Greens as follows: “We have enough jobs for the people who already live here.

What we need are additional apartments, good air and quality of life - we shouldn't build everything up, but rather preserve and upgrade certain areas. "

After exactly 90 minutes, the online round ended, "that was the length of the football game," said Green Spokesman Jörg Eichhorn, and looked ahead: "It'll be exciting."

Source: merkur

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