Juze Landsberg: Farewell to the underground car park

Created: 05/27/2022, 10:04 am

By: Ulrike Osman

The planned underground car park under the new youth center in Lechstraße is passé: too expensive and too difficult a building site.

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Landsberg – There will be no other public underground car park in the old town.

The planned new youth center on Lechstraße will be built without underground parking spaces.

The reason for this is the exploding cost of building materials and incalculable risks during construction. 

In 2019, the city council had already cut the planned underground car park from two floors to one.

The project has now been completely scrapped.

Finally, it was assumed that there would be 66 parking spaces, which should be connected to the Lech garage with a tunnel.

However, exorbitantly increased costs make the project disproportionate.

Expensive pitches

As the planners Klaus Friedrich and Achim Koppold explained, the underground car park would currently cost 6.6 million euros - that's the equivalent of almost 100,000 euros for the creation of a single parking space.

Possible subsidies of 6000 euros per parking space are like a drop in the ocean.

Added to this is the difficult building ground.

Due to the proximity to the Lech, "astronomical security measures" would be required even with a one-storey underground car park, as planner Friedrich said.

Even a nine-meter-deep sheet pile wall with back anchoring cannot rule out the possibility of problems caused by high-pressure groundwater.

The construction schedule would have to be based on the seasons, and the excavation pit would have to be closed at a certain point in time.

However, this is precisely what cannot be reliably planned due to the current supply chain problems with building materials.

"If there is a delay in delivery, there is a high risk that the excavation pit will fill up," said Mayor Doris Baumgartl (UBV).

"In addition to the costs, this risk is the decisive factor for me."

Consent came - sometimes with stomach ache - from the parliamentary groups.

For the CSU, always an advocate of the underground car park, Harry Reitmeir said that you "can't bring it" to spend so much for 66 parking spaces.

The SPD also weighed up in favor of doing without the underground car park - with a heavy heart, however, because the additional parking spaces in the old town were absolutely needed in the eyes of the third mayor Felix Bredschneijder - especially if you wanted to get parked cars off the street .

The Greens had no problems approving the changed plan - they had already applied in 2019 to do without the underground car park, as Second Mayor Moritz Hartmann recalled.

ÖDP city councilor Stefan Meiser had also voted against the underground car park in the past.

The youth center itself does not require a large amount of parking space anyway.

The required 27 spaces can be proven in the Lechgarage, as Maximilian Tobisch, Head of Urban Planning and Mobility, said.

The same applies to resident parking spaces.

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Christian Hettmer (CSU) praises the city council for its "ability to reflect".

In his view, however, the parking lot issue is not off the table.

"We need a parking lot from the southwest." In this context, Hettmer brought a multi-storey car park near the train station into play, with which a mobility station could also be connected.

The decision to continue planning the youth center without an underground car park was unanimous.