Building culture on MD grounds should be improved - "Shouldn't look like a UFO"

Created: 05/21/2022, 08:00

By: Stefanie Zipfer

A new district is being created here - construction work on the former MD site.

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The resolution for a design advisory board for the new Dachau district on the MD site was overturned.

They now want to find something "more binding" to improve building culture.

Dachau ‒ Six years ago, the city council decided to appoint a temporary design advisory board for the MD site.

This decision has now been withdrawn.

Reason: The Advisory Board could "only prevent the worst".

Instead, attempts should now be made to use other means to force the investor to develop quality buildings.

MD area Dachau: A new district "from a single source"

Recently, the voices of the citizens, who expressed their concerns about the massive development of the former MD paper mill site, had firstly become louder and secondly more numerous.

Above all, the obvious change of pace by the building authority and city council, which resulted in the approval of a preliminary development concept in February, led to the anxious question, especially among the residents of the lower town: will the mega construction project now be pushed through without regard to losses?

Can the private investor, the Isaria, simply build as it suits him?

Plans for MD grounds are no longer to be reviewed by the design advisory board

No, they say in the building authority.

And in order to underline this determination, the head of the building authority, Moritz Reinhold, made a surprising move to the city councilors in the building and planning committee last week.

Reinhold's plan: The decision to have the investor's MD plans checked by a design advisory board and modified if necessary is overturned.

According to Reinhold, this advisory board could ultimately “only prevent the worst”.

But even that only works “if the project developer gets involved with the design advisory board”.

Mayor Florian Hartmann described the problem of the design advisory board as follows: “It is only of a recommending nature.

When push comes to shove, he doesn't get his way." That's why the question arose: "Is there anything more binding than a design advisory board?"

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Realization competitions are intended to secure and improve building culture

Reinhold sees the answer to this question in so-called realization competitions.

From a purely procedural point of view, this means many additional "loops until it comes to construction".

However, investor Isaria has signaled its approval.

And in the end, this solution ensures that the new district fits into the rest of the cityscape.

The MD site should "look like it was made of one piece, and not like a spaceship that has landed".

In concrete terms, this is how it should now work: A committee of experts should propose “fundamental structural and open space planning design ideas”, which will be anchored in the development plan in a legally binding manner.

Subsequently, when the city council decides on this development plan for the statute and thus creates the building rights so urgently desired by the Isaria, realization competitions are to be carried out.

The jury for these competitions should also include members of the panel of experts in order to achieve “a certain degree of continuity”, as Reinhold explains.

Basis for the building application for a new district of Dachau by Isaria

There should be a total of ten to twelve competitions, for which the almost 14-hectare area will be divided into individual construction areas.

In principle, according to Reinhold, "I would like for us to hold a competition for every building".

On the basis of these competition results, Isaria can then submit a building application.

The city and Isaria should sign an urban development contract to ensure that the competitions take place at all and that the investor both finances and implements them.

ÜB city councilor Ingrid Sedlbauer was initially not enthusiastic about Reinhold's suggestion: it was her ÜB who had the idea of ​​the design advisory board in January 2016.

But in the end, like the rest of the building committee, she too was persuaded.

"Now we have an instrument to improve and secure the building culture in the MD area," promises Reinhold.

Whereby the building authority "design and construction quality is always important to the city building authority, not only in the MD area", as he emphasizes.

According to Reinhold, no one needs to worry that these additional “loops” will drag the process along until the end of the day.

Parallel to the realization competitions, the development measures – i.e. the construction of public roads, paths and green spaces – would be planned and then implemented.

Reinhold is convinced that the realization competitions "will be over long before the plots of land are ready for construction, i.e. can be built on".

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