"We have to save, save, save"

Created: 12/30/2022, 6:54 p.m

Something is moving forward here: Gauting's mayor Dr.

Brigitte Kössinger at the Handwerkerhof on the Ammersee, where four plots have already been developed.

There is still a problem with the development of other commercial areas.

© Andrea Jaksch

This will be important in Gauting in 2023: Mayor Dr.

Brigitte Kössinger wants to postpone projects.

Gauting

- "You can tell the great relief after Corona," says Gauting's mayor Dr.

Brigitte Koessinger.

In the annual press conference, she looks ahead to 2023 and also looks back.

Interpersonal contacts would have suffered greatly.

Kössinger is pleased that large numbers of people gathered around the "Krapf" pub until the early hours of the morning on Christmas Eve.

But the sack of problems - refugee immigration, lack of childcare places, financial and housing shortages - that the mayor and municipal council have to deal with in 2023 is huge.

refugees

"Because we have the most facilities," says Kössinger, the district office and government of Upper Bavaria will primarily accommodate refugees in Gauting.

The owners made the vacant AOA factory building on Ammerseestrasse available by mid-2023.

For the time being, refugees could also stay in the former nurses' home on Unterbrunner Straße.

It could also be that more refugees are housed in the former nursing home on Alpenstraße in Stockdorf.

The government of Upper Bavaria wants to accommodate around 100 people there.

The community is against it.

The district office allows it anyway, while lawsuits from neighbors are pending.

She has already complained to the government, says Kössinger - "because they don't talk to the community".

After all, Gauting has to bear the consequences, such as childcare places.

Affordable housing

"We urgently need affordable housing," says the mayor, for nurses and educators.

With a project-related development plan, she therefore wants to determine the uses in the northern part of the planned socio-ecological model settlement Patchway-Anger with the council, i.e. for the area with AOA factory premises, where, as is well known, a supermarket and apartments are planned.

Because that way the approval process runs faster, so that in 2024 "the excavators can start rolling." The Association for Housing also wants to start building housing on the southern part of Patchway-Angers quickly, probably in 2024 or 2025.

The community will be the last to get started on their part of the property: Because it is still unclear how many affordable apartments are to be built in what sizes, whether for the elderly or for families with children.

Another question is

childcare

"Not the hardware", i.e. the building, but "the software", namely the staff such as nannies or educators, explains Kössinger.

The problem can be seen in the new Waldorf kindergarten, where the crèche group cannot be filled because there is no teacher.

At the BRK, up to three groups could not start due to a lack of staff.

The result of the feasibility study for a four-group day care center on the municipal property on Wiesmahdstraße will be presented to the municipal council.

But the municipality must also replace the old container of the "Lebenshilfe" daycare center on the Postwiese with a new building from 2025.

"We will develop a concept for this." The question is: "What can we afford?"

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train station

"We're trying to find someone" who will renovate the historic station building according to the results of the urban planning competition, says Kössinger.

"Because the community can't afford it."

A five-storey front building with a post office, medical practices and offices is to be built there.

two residential buildings in the rear area on Hubertusstrasse.

Business

The mayor celebrates the craft farm at the western entrance to the town as a success.

Four plots have already been developed.

The new police building is being built next door.

However, Kössinger reports that there are still problems with the connection to the planned commercial area Gautinger Feld next to the Asklepios Clinic.

And for the commercial area at Oberpfaffenhofen Airport, which belongs to various landowners, "we are still in negotiations" about the drinking water protection area.

finance

Because there was no trade tax revenue, the municipality relied on a key allocation of 2.5 million euros from the state.

Nevertheless, according to Kössinger, the following applies: "We have to save, save, save to balance 500,000 euros in the budget." That means that all voluntary services have to be put to the test.

But the summer pool, community library, the Bosco culture and community center and the island "are important," Kössinger clarifies.

The municipality could cut the property budget and push new projects, such as the energetic renovation of the town hall.

Because: "We only have 13 million euros in reserve - and it won't get any better in 2023."

outlook

Kössinger looks ahead: “We want to work out an overall concept with the neighbors for the municipal Wunderl property on Starnberger Strasse.

In 2023, 50 years of partnership with Clermont l'Hérault will also be celebrated.

Public participation in the urban development competition "Stanz Schmid Stockdorf" is also on the agenda.

In addition, the Gautinger traditional costume association "d'Würmlust" will be celebrating a big Gau festival in 2023.

Christine Cless-Wesle