Tölz building committee decides on several housing projects in the district town

Created: 03/30/2022, 06:00

The city council's building committee was delighted that the Tölzer Sparkasse wanted to replace their residential building on Lenggrieser Straße with a new building.

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Bad Tölz – In its most recent meeting, the city council's building committee processed four building and preliminary approval applications in a rush.

All projects were approved in principle – but there were also fundamental concerns.

City master builder Florian Ernst and some city councilors were full of praise for the Sparkasse's plans to demolish their residential building with an extension on Lenggrieser Straße and replace it with a four-storey new building with 24 residential units and an underground car park.

The aging building with the adjoining travel agency has been abandoned by the tenants for some time and is empty.

Four apartments with less than 65 square meters and 20 apartments with more than 65 square meters are now planned.

To do this, the client requires 44 vehicle and bicycle parking spaces.

Ten spaces for cars are shown above ground, 34 in the underground car park, plus 14 bicycle spaces, 30 are above ground.

Two underground car park entrances are planned, which will be permitted as an exception.

Otherwise, according to the municipal statutes, there may only ever be one access road per property in Bad Tölz.

The city master builder particularly liked the children's playground with a size of 129 square meters.

However, because it is so large, it must be ten meters from the bedroom windows, which is not adhered to in the plan.

There is now the alternative of moving the space further away or reducing it.

Mayor Ingo Mehner (CSU) was pleased that the developer was "planning a large and well-exposed playground on his own initiative".

Second Mayor Michael Lindmair (FWG) saw the replacement building as "a new entrance to the old town" but wanted "a more pleasing architecture".

Josef Steigenberger (CSU) was pleased that the building could be connected to the local heating network of the public utility company and that other smaller houses in the vicinity would also have this opportunity.

Former Wiedemann bakery becomes a practice

Entrepreneur Mario Lössl is known to have bought the former Wiedemann bakery on Klammergasse and had it renovated at great expense.

A psychotherapeutic practice is now to be built on the first floor.

However, the practice, which is over 35 square meters in size, requires two parking spaces, which cannot be proven on the property.

Therefore, the developer has to replace a car parking space for 10,000 euros.

Bicycle parking spaces, on the other hand, are sufficiently available.

New apartments on Schützenstrasse

Two semi-detached houses with four residential units, a garage with carport and a triple garage are to be built on Schulstraße in Ellbach.

From the point of view of the city building authority, "living space can be permitted on the property", as city master builder Ernst said.

When asked by Johannes Gundermann (Greens) about design details, Christian Fürstberger, head of the building authority, said that details will only be discussed once the concrete building application has been submitted.

The first thing to do is to establish that it is fundamentally possible to build on the meadow orchard shown in the plan.

However, it is actually just a "normal meadow" that has no quality whatsoever.

13 vacation rentals on Flinthöhe

Developer Florian Rasch, who had already completed several projects in Bad Tölz, would like to build 13 holiday apartments with offices and manager's apartment on Anton-Höfter-Straße on the Flinthöhe.

The property is located opposite the southern entrance to the district office and offers a beautiful view of the mountains, which Matthias Winter (CSU) saw as a good location for tourist use.

The preliminary decision, which was approved by a majority, led to a lengthy discussion about the problems of manager apartments.

There is a danger that, as Mehner has emphasized several times, they will "undermine the commercial area".

Building authority manager Füstberger suggested making a strict distinction between commercial and residential development in future projects such as the Moralt site and not allowing any company apartments.

Otherwise there is a risk that the apartments on the upper floor would be rented out or even sold.

Although the district office is asked to check the approved use, abuse has repeatedly occurred in the past.

Even with holiday apartments there is a risk that they will be rented out permanently.

One such case - which was not specifically addressed in the meeting - is the Tölzer Jodquellenhof in the bathing part, owned by Jod AG, formerly a luxury hotel, which has been used for residential purposes for years without permission from the city.