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Weilheim wants to make room for tiny houses

2022-06-28T08:15:18.225Z


Weilheim wants to make room for tiny houses Created: 06/28/2022, 10:00 am By: Magnus Reitinger Part of this still undeveloped area between Eichtweide and Ammer could be designated for tiny houses in the future. Among other things, this is what the change in the "Adlhochstraße" development plan is about. © Ralf Ruder A small settlement with tiny houses could be built near the Ammer in Weilheim.


Weilheim wants to make room for tiny houses

Created: 06/28/2022, 10:00 am

By: Magnus Reitinger

Part of this still undeveloped area between Eichtweide and Ammer could be designated for tiny houses in the future.

Among other things, this is what the change in the "Adlhochstraße" development plan is about.

© Ralf Ruder

A small settlement with tiny houses could be built near the Ammer in Weilheim.

The city wants to make it possible to build the sought-after mini-houses on a municipal plot of land.

Weilheim – No details are known yet, planning is just beginning.

However, at the most recent building committee meeting, Stefan Kirchmayer, a member of the city building department, revealed that work is being done in the town hall to “allow experimental tiny house development on urban land”.

In this, a request from a private landowner was discussed as to whether building three to four tiny houses would also be conceivable on his property at the northern end of Schiessstattweg.

The committee members were rather skeptical – not because they would fundamentally reject such mini-houses, but because at this point, near the large apartment blocks on Merckstraße, “multi-storey apartment buildings are more appropriate”, as it was said (own report follows).

This is what Tiny Houses can look like: View of the Tiny House Wendland production hall.

© Jens Büttner/dpa

Not far away, on the other side of the Ammer, the city can very well imagine tiny houses.

Namely in the area of ​​the "Adlhochstraße" development plan, which regulates the building possibilities on an area between the "Eichtweide" street and the "Pumpenhäuserl" on the Ammer, north of the Winterstraße, which was previously mostly used for agriculture - and is currently being "generally overhauled".

The documents are to be made available to the public in July and the change procedure thus initiated.

Part of it is a municipal property, according to the city building department about 800 square meters, on which tiny houses are to be made possible.

An attempt to “establish this new form of living in Weilheim”

"This is our attempt to establish this new form of living in Weilheim," said Kirchmayer in the building committee.

In the past two years, there have always been inquiries in this regard in the town hall, the building authority employee explained to the daily newspaper, “it started with Corona”.

One wants to "deliberately try out such a development on a municipal property", Kirchmayer continues, "in order to really get what we want" - namely "a real living alternative".

It is therefore important to distinguish it from pure leisure use in the form of mobile homes or holiday apartments.

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Mayor Markus Loth (BfW) also confirms to the local newspaper: "It's a bit of a current trend." granting leasehold rights for this, for example, or creating temporary building rights, that has yet to be discussed.

"We're not that far yet," says Loth.

How sustainable are tiny houses?

According to the city building office, it could be ready in the September meeting of the building committee.

Beyond the “Adlhochstraße” development plan, it is important to consider “where you can imagine tiny houses in the city,” says Kirchmayer.

Despite all the sympathy for such mini houses, which are partly mobile and usually have little more than 25 square meters of living space, there were also slightly critical tones in the most recent building committee meeting.

So it is quite questionable "how sustainable tiny houses are," said CSU spokeswoman Marion Lunz-Schmieder.

And according to city architect Katrin Fischer, planning should also take into account that tiny houses are “usually just temporary housing”.

Source: merkur

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