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Tree felling on Veterinärstrasse: the last stand?

2022-08-18T07:41:59.092Z


Tree felling on Veterinärstrasse: the last stand? Created: 08/18/2022, 09:36 am By: Andreas Sachsen Threatened: The trees on Veterinärstraße will have to go to give buses and cars more space. (Archive image) © Gerald Förtsch The expansion of the veterinary road in Oberschleißheim endangers up to 27 trees, the plans are now out, residents can raise objections. The environmentalists hope for thi


Tree felling on Veterinärstrasse: the last stand?

Created: 08/18/2022, 09:36 am

By: Andreas Sachsen

Threatened: The trees on Veterinärstraße will have to go to give buses and cars more space.

(Archive image) © Gerald Förtsch

The expansion of the veterinary road in Oberschleißheim endangers up to 27 trees, the plans are now out, residents can raise objections.

The environmentalists hope for this last resistance.

Oberschleißheim – Up to 27 trees are to fall on Veterinärstrasse in Oberschleißheim as part of the expansion of the LMU campus.

The citizens' initiative "Climate and Nature Conservation in Schleißheim" mobilizes the resistance in the fight for the avenue - and now senses a new chance, maybe even the last one.

The construction plans are currently in the town hall, the activists are hoping for objections from residents and environmentalists.

The Bund Naturschutz (BN) also reserves the right to take legal action.

The trees have been politically dead since the municipal council’s decision in June of last year. The procedure for the public interpretation of development plan 31b “Faculty of Veterinary Medicine south of Veterinärstraße”, which runs until September 20th, offers the citizens’ initiative one last opportunity to focus on the design of Veterinärstraße and thus the influence the fate of the trees.

The street serves to develop the campus.

The trees are to give way to increased bus and truck traffic and a footpath and cycle path on the south side.

"The will of the citizens was never sufficiently weighted"

The plans for expanding the road are available from the building authority and on the website.

Residents of the street and those affected are allowed to take a stand.

The "Climate and Nature Conservation in Schleissheim" initiative hopes for a change from below.

"The will of the citizens was never sufficiently weighted," says Gaby Hohenberger, referring to the list submitted last year with over 650 signatures for the preservation of the trees.

At that time, the citizens' initiative recommended regulating traffic using alternative bays and a modified timetable.

"The fact that not even the MVV demands that trees be felled says it all," emphasizes Hohenberger.

The Veterinärstraße would be misused by motorists in particular to avoid the Sonnenstraße intersection.

If you were to redesignate it as a resident, oncoming traffic would be automatically prevented.

Doubts about tree transplants

At the BN Schleissheim you can see it in a very similar way.

The municipality failed to examine alternatives, said Birgit Annecke-Patsch.

The BN spokeswoman recalls the first interpretation of the plans in 2019, when a maximum of five trees near Sonnenstrasse were to be removed.

The accusation of having overslept the decisive moment when the plans for the development of the veterinary faculty were waved through in March 2021 without protest from the parliamentary group gnaws at the Oberschleißheim Greens.

All the more Hohenberger, who belongs to the Greens and the BI, throws herself into what is believed to be the last part of the resistance.

In fact, 16 out of 27 trees are said to be saved.

The building yard wants to transplant seven, mostly younger, maples.

According to the town hall, another nine are to be implemented by a company.

Eleven trees have to be felled because of previous damage or because they are simply too big.

The fact that the municipality is trying to transplant trees does not comfort Hohenberger.

"No one knows if that will work." Even younger trees would suffer from the stress, but older trees would be lost in any case.

"Trees that provide shade and cool our climate." Elsewhere in the country, sponsorships would be established to save trees, avenues would be replanted.

The signs of the times were not recognized in Oberschleißheim.

More news from Oberschleißheim and the district of Munich can be found here.

Source: merkur

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