The city of Landsberg reserves land for containers - but suddenly they are no longer there

Created: 04/26/2022, 21:00

By: Werner Lauff

This is what the currently vacant property on Iglinger Straße will soon look like again, because the containers will be set up again indefinitely to accommodate war refugees.

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Landsberg – The city wants to create a new location plan for the decentralized accommodation of asylum seekers and refugees in the city area.

Mayor Felix Bredschneijder (SPD) announced this at the request of KREISBOTEN.

The new plan should be "feasible in the long term".

The locations specified in 2016 as a replacement for the container sites on Münchner Strasse and Iglinger Strasse are now being used for other purposes and are no longer an option.

This is apparently the background to the city's surprising decision to allow the district office to set up containers again indefinitely on Iglinger Straße.

In 2016, the city council unanimously decided not to continue using the location beyond the then permitted period, but to have six other locations within the city area available for it according to a priority list;

they were coordinated with the district office and the Free State of Bavaria.

In a first statement from the city, however, there was no mention of the fact that none of the plots of land were any longer available.

Administration spokeswoman Susanne Flügel had initially explained on the subject that the commitments from 2016 were known to everyone involved.

The situation today is not comparable to that of the past.

It is now only about the "temporary accommodation of war refugees, especially women with their children, not about asylum seekers".

She also referred to the fact that the property on Iglinger Strasse has already been developed and can be used quickly and cost-effectively.

opinion obtained

Mayor Doris Baumgartl (UBV) therefore had a non-public exchange “with the committee members and obtained an opinion”.

The city councilors were all in favor of continued use.

After that, she "wrote to over 300 residents and informed them about the situation."

From there, too, only one person objected.

However, the 13-line letter contained no request for a reply;

in any case, it was not to be understood as a questioning.

The fact that the problem may lie deeper only became apparent from a further statement from the city requested by KREISBOTEN.

There, Mayor Felix Bredschneijder (SPD) admitted that the land originally reserved was no longer an option.

The list "no longer works" because: "The locations are no longer possible, ownership has changed, infrastructure is not available".

It is necessary to make new location decisions and then "keep up to date and update" a new list.

It remains unclear why the city allotted all the places designated at the time and thus took the opportunity to react to further refugee crises.

That is not clear from the mayor's reply.

The topic should have been on the agenda at the latest when the new land use plan was being discussed.

It was to be expected that sooner or later the need to accommodate more asylum seekers and refugees would arise.

More ambiguity

It is also unclear why the city avoided formal consultation and decision-making on how to proceed in a public meeting and used a kind of internal consultation process that the municipal code does not provide for.

This could even be an incorrect legal basis for the continued use of the site, especially since no time limit has apparently been set so far.

A subsequent resolution on both topics - When and how will the new site list be created?

How long and how can the old space still be used?

– would therefore be indicated.

You can also read the landsbergblog on this page on this topic.