Senior Citizens' Home: Municipal Council declares citizens' petitions to be inadmissible

Created: 05/20/2022, 12:00 p.m

This is what it should look like: The senior citizens' home in Ambach will be designed by architects Matteo Thun.

Like the Wiedemann Clinic, the buildings are to be integrated into the site in a terrace-like manner.

© Visualization: Matteo Thin

The Münsinger municipal council has subsequently declared the citizens' petition for the senior citizens' home in Ambach to be inadmissible.

Two councils voted against.

Münsing – With two dissenting votes (Christine Mair and Professor Dr. Matthias Richter-Turtur, both Greens), the Münsinger municipal council subsequently declared the citizens’ initiative “Plan smaller retirement homes in Ambach” to be inadmissible on Tuesday.

In doing so, he followed the recommendation of the Munich Administrative Court.

However, this does not change the community's commitment that the housing complex of the Kuratorium Wohnen im Alter (KWA) should not be larger than the former Wiedemann Clinic, Mayor Michael Grasl (free voters) had already emphasized.

mistakes on both sides

So their action before the administrative court brought nothing at all to the project opponents.

On the contrary: The judges took a closer look and discovered some errors both on the part of the initiators of the citizens' initiative and on the part of the community.

Among other things, the court had complained that the question of the citizens' request violated the so-called ban on deception and misleading.

The opponents had taken the number of square meters 3918 for the old Wiedemann building from the municipality's website.

However, the number was subsequently described as incorrect by the municipality.

The opponents' assertion that the new residential complex would be 24 percent larger than the Wiedemann Clinic is also incorrect (it would have been 22.13 percent).

In addition, according to the verdict, the wording of the request did not leave the municipal council with the necessary “deliberation leeway” in the building management process.

Also read: Municipal council approves development plan for senior citizens' home in Ambach

Christine Mair critically asked why the community hadn't taken the wrong number out of circulation earlier.

After the recalculation by the municipality's architect and before the decision to recognize the citizens' request, it was known that it was not correct.

Professor Richter-Turtur also said: "You can't accuse the citizens of deception if we publish a wrong number." He fears that up to 7,200 square meters could now be built over in Ambach, including the permissible area overruns.

Susanne Huber (Free Voters) spoke up annoyed that the opponents were always looking for mistakes.

It is now “simply time to put a point underneath”.

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