Waakirchen town center working group: "Constructive on-site visit"

Created: 09/14/2022, 02:00 p.m

By: Christian Masengarb

Lots going on: More than 30 participants came to the on-site visit of the working group Dorfmitte, 28 had themselves photographed.

Working group leader Balthasar Brandhofer

For more than two hours, more than 30 people from Waakirch discussed ideas for the development of the village center at the on-site visit of the village center working group.

Waakirchen – More than 30 people from Waakirchen spent more than two hours discussing ideas for the development of the village center at the on-site visit of the village center working group.

Around 20 citizens who do not belong to the 14-strong working group accepted the invitation, including around half of all club chairmen in the town, reports working group leader Balthasar Brandhofer.

His conclusion: "If you consider that we had to change the date at short notice, that was great."

Waakirchen town center working group: ideas deepened and new ones collected

As reported, the Waakirchen village center working group was founded in June.

A referendum stopped the residential development originally planned by the municipality in 2019, and the working group wants to plan how to proceed.

Brandhofer is therefore pleased to be able to welcome many new faces at the on-site visit.

They have deepened existing approaches with concrete suggestions and brought in new ideas: a community hall as a meeting place for young and old, a café with an ice cream parlor, a village shop - these ideas were already fixed, but are now underpinned, for example, with specific contacts for the operation of the café been.

The previously planned church square and the goal of offering information on local history have also been confirmed.

Brandhofer: "The meeting was productive and the people worked actively."

New are ideas for public toilets and the desire for more parking spaces.

At weddings and celebrations, things get tight in the town center.

"We definitely have a parking problem."

The participants also visited the Bäckervoitl property, which could be converted into a hall.

Brandhofer: "It seems to us extremely difficult to find a use for the business section." He sounds more optimistic for the residential building.

He only wants to say something specific - the building belongs to the municipality - after consulting Mayor Norbert Kerkel.

The meeting should take place promptly, as well as a request to the Office for Rural Development for advice and funding.

The ideas are there;

now we have to see with whom they can be implemented.

According to Brandhofer, the working group could soon present results.

"The last thing we're aiming for is a rush job." However, the working group will probably not need it until June 2023, as originally planned.

In two to three months he wants to present something tangible – ideas, contacts, funding opportunities.

Basic tenor: "Don't build."

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According to Brandhofer, the meeting also showed: “The working group does not work in private.

The public can get involved and will get involved.”