Dachau flagship project survives bureaucratic madness

Created: 08/19/2022, 18:49

By: Verena Moeckl

The housing project at Amperweg 18 in Dachau is still a construction site.

At the beginning of 2023 there will be a day care center there.

At the press conference, Mayor Florian Hartmann reported to the representatives of the Bavarian Municipal Council Uwe Brandl, Matthias Simon, Franz Dirnberger and Jürgen Roith (from left) about the nerve-wracking construction project.

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We are building a day care center and above it social housing!

A great idea, thought the Lord Mayor of Dachau, Florian Hartmann.

And then the problems started.

Dachau – A pilot project is to be built on Amperweg in Dachau, near the fire station: a day-care center with social housing above it.

What initially sounded uncomplicated turned out to be a bureaucratic monster.

The city is frustrated.

According to the mayor, one does not want to tackle such a housing project again in the near future.

When the mayor of Dachau, Florian Hartmann, came up with the idea for a kindergarten with social housing built on it in Dachau during a city council excursion to Vienna, he had no idea how complicated this undertaking would become.

"In my youthful carelessness I thought we'd do that in Dachau too," he reported on Thursday - more than five years later - at a press conference of the Bavarian Municipality Day on the subject of "Creating Affordable Housing" at Amperweg 18 behind the fire brigade in Dachau.

The location of the press conference was deliberately chosen.

A day-care center with apartments built on it is currently being built there.

Actually, it could be a prime example of how good living in town and country could succeed.

Actually.

Because the construction project was one thing above all: complicated and cost everyone involved a lot of nerves.

The idea initially sounded very simple: the city commissioned its subsidiary, Stadtbau GmbH, with the construction of social housing - and while Stadtbau is already at work, it should take over the construction of the day-care center right away.

Today Hartmann knows: "That was a naïve idea."

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There were many legal hurdles to overcome before the shell of the residential project on Amperweg was complete.

Apart from the complicated building standards that have to be taken into account when a building is used for two purposes – extra light shafts and different room heights – tax issues brought the builders to the brink of despair.

Since it is too complicated to delve into the depths of tax law, the managing director of Stadtbau GmbH, Hendrik Röttgermann, summarized the situation to the municipal council representatives on Thursday as follows: "It is difficult from a tax law perspective that we build something for the city."

The best example of the tax law problem: the regulation of underground parking spaces.

Some are intended for the employees of the day-care center and are therefore owned by the city;

the other parking spaces in the underground car park should be able to be used by the tenants of the social housing and therefore belong to Stadtbau.

In short: an underground car park, two parking space owners - big problem.

"There was a lot of bureaucracy madness," complained Hartmann, who is happy that the housing project is now more or less complete.

At least the shell is there.

Apartments, a daycare center and an underground car park

At Amperweg 18, 19 social housing units and a day care center with two kindergarten groups for 25 children each and a crèche group for twelve children are being built.

There is also an underground car park and a relatively small outdoor play area for the children's home, measuring ten square meters per child.

The square meter costs between 6 and 8 euros.

The apartments are already taken.

The construction project costs 10 million euros.

7 million euros are for housing construction, 3 million euros for the day-care center.

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Bureaucratic hurdles had already brought down a similar construction project in Dachau.

At that time it was a mixed model: As reported, in a residential complex built by Stadtbau on Otto-Kohlhofer-Weg, half should be rented out as social housing to low-income citizens, and the other half of the apartments should be sold cheaply to Dachauer in the local model will.

The mixture of freehold and rental apartments, whose users share one and the same underground car park, was "not feasible under current law" according to the city's view.

The sale of apartments in the local model was therefore called off, and the apartments are now all rented out.

Hartmann does not want to tackle a project like the one on Amperweg again in the near future, as he said several times at the press conference.

"The legal framework is so cumbersome that it's difficult at the moment to do a project like this again." Sure, he admitted, this resignation was the "wrong approach".

But first the bureaucracy had to be reduced.

"The legal hurdles have to go!" Because this not only delays a construction project, it also makes it more expensive.

Hartmann sees responsibility with the Free State, but also with the federal government.

His demand for all those responsible is therefore clear: "We must all pull together!"