Gravel mining: operators want to expand - community insists on asphalted access roads

Created: 2022-12-09 2:16 p.m

By: Andreas Höger

Two operators in Otterfing now also want to dig up the embankment strip between their pits.

The municipality agrees in principle, but wants the access roads to be asphalted (symbol image).

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Two gravel pit operators in the north of Otterfing want to dig an embankment between their pits and share the yield.

The municipality only agrees if access roads are asphalted.

Otterfing

- Two companies want to mine a little more gravel.

And the municipality wants two access roads to be asphalted.

In the gravel pit belt in the north of Otterfing, there are signs of a "deal".

As head of the building authority Hubert Zellner explained at the most recent meeting of the building committee, the Rohrdorfer and Fasching companies are planning to jointly excavate an embankment that previously separated the pit.

This requires an extra permit, to which the construction committee attaches conditions: the companies should asphalt the access road to the new excavation areas at their own expense.

According to Zellner, the companies want to connect their pits on Hienlohestrasse.

They could also excavate an embankment that is 340 meters long and 34 meters wide.

Three sections are planned to be tackled between 2025 and 2027.

"That fits in with the approval periods for the existing pits," explained Zellner.

After initial discussions with the operators, it is considered that they will asphalt the extension of Hienlohestrasse.

"Additional dismantling also requires additional traffic," explained Zellner.

It is important to the municipality that the trucks stir up less dust and do not carry dirt through the commercial area.

Only Rohrdorfer currently has a wheel washing system.

In addition, a dirt road is also to be asphalted, which leads 100 meters after the railway overpass in a straight line to the east;

where this dirt road bends to the south, another pit will soon be opened.

"The area is currently being deported," says Zellner.

In order to prevent the trucks from driving directly south through Otterfing's residential areas (Staudenfeldweg), the town hall wants to direct traffic westwards on the newly paved dirt road and through the commercial area.

"It would be best to cross directly onto the state road," said Second Mayor Gerhard Heimerer (CSU), who chaired the committee meeting, "but the land use just for a gravel quarry access road would be very large." Susanne Weitl keeps additional traffic through the industrial park (CSU) but also problematic: "The settlement of logistics companies has created a traffic bottleneck there."

Roberto Sottanelli (SPD) was fundamentally suspicious.

He pointed out that the strip of embankment in question is outside the gravel quarrying zone, which the municipal council had painstakingly identified.

He is not willing to hastily allow an exception now.

"Especially with a company that isn't native here, there were always problems." He fears a salami tactic: "If we make that possible, it could open the door for further desires outside the zone."

Georg Schlickenrieder (CSU) also insisted on making the most watertight agreements possible regarding the asphalting before the municipal agreement was given.

"We were teased out there for years," stressed Schlickenrieder.

However, the intervention in the landscape in the present application is limited, explained Heimerer.

"We're even getting new roads," added Andreas Eichhorn (SPD).

But Zellner agreed to teach the building agreements about the roads.

Only then will the City Council make a decision on the application.

Further information on the subject can be found here.