"Don't patronize the citizens"

Created: 01/18/2022, 19:00

By: Markus Schwarzkugler

Going into the next design round: The Kleinfeld West development plan offers space for 230 citizens.

© Architectural office Pezold

Housing development in Wartenberg is currently being determined by the Kleinfeld West development area.

In the market council meeting, statements from the public were on the agenda for the first time.

The draft development plan was approved after a lively debate, not without dissenting votes.

Not every council is happy with the planning.

Wartenberg - Planner Franz Pezold presented the objections. They would all refer to the first version of the plan from the end of 2017. It is well known that the plan has been rescheduled again since then. "But it's the same scope, so the opinions are relevant and not outdated," explained the architect.

Only one objector came forward from the citizenry, but in detail.

According to Pezold, the person has a house on the Weiherfeld.

You have observed that the groundwater continues to rise there.

According to objectors, the new development areas are to blame for this.

Pezold said he expects "only minor effects" on the groundwater, but the municipality will seek an opinion from the soil surveyor, who is already involved in groundwater monitoring in the Wartenberg West II area.

According to Pezold, measuring points had already been set up there after the same objection had been raised there.

If necessary, the planning can be adapted to the results.

With regard to another central point of criticism of the objector, Pezold assured that the flood area of ​​the Strogen does not reach as far as Kleinfeld West.

Various authorities had also issued statements.

For example, the lower emission control authority, which points out compliance with the noise guideline values, especially with regard to the two large apartment buildings.

However, as Pezold made clear, there is a mixed-use commercial area nearby.

First, however, comes the - logically not too loud - house of Wartenberg.

"I can imagine that no measures are needed here," he concluded.

However, as the market council decided, the property purchase contracts for the two eastern plots include the obligation that compliance with the guideline values ​​for the residential buildings must be proven, taking into account the commercial activity in the vicinity.

The construction and planning law department of the district office asked the perhaps surprising question about the need for the new development area: “In our opinion, the concrete need has not yet been explained and integrated into the urban planning argumentation.” For Pezold and the market councilors, however, this is obvious. Kleinfeld West is part of a 15-year development that was presented in the land use plan and further updated, explained Pezold. And: "The demand for building plots regularly exceeds the supply by far." 45 of 114 participants in the survey in the summer said they wanted to change their living space within the next three years. "21 want to build themselves."

The lower nature conservation authority praised the planned flowering areas and advised them to be demarcated with pegs.

Instead, it would be better to plant a row of trees right away, suggested Dominik Rutz (Greens).

But then it would be difficult with the access road, Mayor Christian Pröbst (CSU) pointed out.

Arable land borders to the north of the area.

2. Mayor Carla Marx (Neue Mitte) said that shrubs could be planted.

"But you can't drive over it either," said Pröbst and said: "Let's see what we can plant there."

Franz Ganslmaier (FWG) warned that care must be taken to ensure that the flower strips are not misused as a storage area for cuttings.

In his professional career, he has often seen residents throw mowed grass over the fence.

The residential area consists of four parts.

First, four semi-detached houses in the south, second, smaller single-family houses with around 400 square meters of land, third, larger individual plots - here Pezold recommends dividing them into two residential units each - and fourth, the two apartment building plots.

Included is a multi-generational house on the corner of Thenner/Pfarrer-Rotter-Straße.

"I think it's very successful," said Pröbst.

"We should take the ban on fossil fuels into our February 5 retreat," he said.

Because this topic has no place in a development plan.

Rutz said it was okay to leave out the local heating network because of the pending district concept.

However, he called for solar roofs to be prescribed in the development plan, which was not followed up at first.

At Rutz's request, a wording regarding gravel and crushed stone areas is tightened.

Pure areas of this type are now not allowed.

Josef Sedlmaier (CSU) was a little annoyed by Rutz' demands.

You also have to give the citizens freedom and not just patronize them.

He knows some who would not dare to install PV on the roof for fear of lightning strikes, he said.

The plan version was approved with four dissenting votes from Michael Paulini and Michael Gruber (both SPD), Eduard Ertl (Neue Mitte) and Martina Scheyhing (Greens).

As reported, not every council is happy with the planning and would have liked, among other things, to build more upwards instead of many single-family houses.

As a result of the planning variant ultimately chosen, the number of residents who will be accommodated in Kleinfeld West will be reduced from 300 to 230. The second interpretation of the development plan is to take place in February.