Paketposthalle Munich: Investor can imagine smaller high-rise buildings, but wants to stick to plans
Created: 05/27/2022, 15:06
By: Sascha Karowski
Cause for discussion: The plans for high-rise buildings at the Paketposthalle.
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Do the towers at the parcel post hall have to be 155 meters high?
No, says investor Ralf Büschl.
Several smaller skyscrapers would also be possible.
However, he intends to stick to his plans.
Because the entire district development could only take place with the two high-rise buildings.
Munich – Instead of two large high-rise buildings, several smaller high-rise buildings would obviously be possible on the area of the parcel post hall.
This was confirmed by a spokesman for investor Ralf Büschl when asked by our newspaper.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung
had previously
reported.
However: Büschl wants to stick to his plans for the two 155 meter high towers.
Paketposthalle Munich: Investor wants to stick to the result of the referendum
However, should there be a referendum, Büschl would of course stick to the result.
"If the people of Munich really decide against the proposal to develop the district around the Paketposthalle, then we have to accept the result.
This means that the high-rise buildings could not be built," says the spokesman for the Grünwalder investor.
In this case, one has to consider in what form a development of the property can take place.
It is clear, however, that nothing will change in the building itself.
That means: The number of new apartments, for example, remains the same, they would just be distributed differently.
"However, we believe that the citizens will also speak out in favor of the plans in the event of a possible referendum," the spokesman continued.
This is the only way that the entire district development can take place.
This is the only way that the listed parcel post hall can become a lively, public center of Neuhausen and only then can 1100 apartments be built at this location.
"For us, there is no reason to question the master plan that the city council, the city design commission, the district committee and the participants in the citizens' report have all advocated."
Parcel post hall in Munich: Citizens speak out in expert reports for the construction of high-rise buildings
In the expert opinion, in which 112 randomly selected Munich residents participated, a majority voted in favor of building the towers.
The "HochhausSTOP" initiative wants to prevent the 155 meter high towers and started collecting signatures for a citizens' initiative two weeks ago.
The initiative criticizes that the report is non-transparent, unbalanced and not a democratic form of participation.
The high-rise opponents plead for a maximum building height of 60 meters.
"The skyscrapers at the parcel post hall would be a dam break," says initiator and CSU member of parliament Robert Brannekamper.
He fears that they are the prelude "to Munich's path to becoming a high-rise city".
At least 35,000 signatures are needed for a referendum to take place.
It would be the second in Munich to deal with the question of how high houses in the city can be.
As early as 2004, a majority of citizens had decided that no building in Munich should be higher than the towers of the Frauenkirche.
The legally binding effect of a referendum is one year, but most politicians felt morally bound by the vote afterwards.
That seems to be softening.
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Paketposthalle Munich: Politicians from the town hall are open to high-rise plans
In Munich City Hall, the tenor has long been that high-rise buildings can also make sense.
"Good architecture and climate neutrality are not measured by height," says SPD leader Christian Müller.
CSU chairman Manuel Pretzl also thinks: "If they are aesthetically designed, high-rise buildings can also be higher than 100 meters in selected places." Both the CSU and the Greens advocate a renewed discussion of the Munich-based company with the question of the maximum building height - albeit in general and not related to the plans at the parcel post hall.
"We don't think it's expedient to carry out city-wide votes on individual construction projects," says City Councilor Anna Hanusch (Greens).