Mayor wants housing for locals in Warngau

Created: 01/29/2022, 06:28

By: Selina Benda

View of the construction site of an apartment building.

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Warngau – The planning association wants to update the regional plan for Region 17.

The municipality of Warngau has already issued a statement.

The first regional plan of Region 17 came into force in 1988 and has been regularly updated ever since.

In the most recent update in 2020, the bases of regional development and central locations were established.

The municipality of Warngau has now taken a position in the ongoing informal preliminary vote on the partial update on settlement development.

Sustainable spatial development in order to keep social and economic demands in balance over the long term and thus create a healthy living and working space - that is the concept of the regional plan of the government of Upper Bavaria.

The Planning Association Oberland of Region 17 deals with the framework conditions that also affect the district of Miesbach. This also includes the districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Weilheim-Schongau - i.e. 94 municipalities.

Desire for more public transport

Warngau's Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber recently read out a statement at the municipal council meeting in which the municipality welcomed the preliminary vote.

"The planning association's considerations of directing the disproportionate settlement development to the main towns is the right way to be able to offer the citizens an orderly local structure with the necessary infrastructure in the long term," the letter says.

This also makes it easier to implement the desire for more public transport in the developed settlement areas.

"We do not consider it expedient to allow disproportionate development in the municipality of Warngau in order to relieve the settlement pressure on Upper Bavaria and the mountain regions," the municipality makes clear.

Develop districts carefully

The aim is to control the organic development of the districts carefully and moderately in order to maintain a home for the local population and to create a new one in the best possible way.

It is also clear: "Any structural development is controlled solely by the municipality of Warngau as the planning authority."

Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber made it clear how important this paragraph in the statement is to him: "I don't want the planning association to tell us where we should develop structurally." It is particularly important to him to create living space for locals and not for all other.

Engelfried Beilhack (CSU) agreed: "We cannot relieve the Tegernsee valley and all of Upper Bavaria." The committee unanimously supported the statement.