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The Wartenberg Eco Account

2023-01-21T11:07:17.733Z


The market town of Wartenberg creates a so-called eco-account. To what extent it benefits from this, we explain below.


The market town of Wartenberg creates a so-called eco-account.

To what extent it benefits from this, we explain below.

Wartenberg – The Wartenberg market is setting up a new eco-account.

The building, environment and transport committee decided this unanimously and after a detailed presentation.

Mayor Christian Pröbst (CSU) explained that the municipality can use the concept to store areas that can be used in later development plans without a great deal of calculation effort.

They would be used for later compensatory measures.

In this way, nature conservation benefits early on, and the community is rewarded for this by lower demands on the size of the compensation area.

The first area in which something like this is being considered is directly adjacent to the allotment garden along the road towards Pesenlern.

This is initially about 30,000 of a total of 124,000 square meters.

The councils immediately warn of the area.

As Pröbst reported, this was preceded by an inspection of possible areas with members of the committee.

Also on board is the fruit and horticultural association, which was represented by August Groh and Lee Voithenleitner and was given the right to speak at the meeting.

The advantages of the now priority area are that it has to be developed anyway and is registered as a flood area as part of flood protection.

So no one is allowed to build there.

So it will now be a "species-rich wet grassland" and there is hope that the gardeners will be involved in the system in the tried and tested manner.

Groh was basically willing to do this, but he also indicated that the club had to economize on its strength.

Further training for the employees from the building yard would be a good thing, said Groh.

The whole thing has a background, because the ecological upgrading of the areas does not come for free.

Planner Franz Pezold calculates roughly EUR 2.50 per square meter, which would amount to around EUR 60,000 for the area now being considered.

However, he explained what the point of such ecological accounts is: The intervention in the natural balance was completed in a few working days.

However, ecological upgrading simply needs time for plants to grow.

If a community upgrades or builds up land to a certain extent, this time delay no longer applies, and the compensation for an intervention in the ecosystem takes effect immediately.

That's why there is an interest rate of three percent, which is where the name account comes from.

One example is the municipality of Langenpreising, which would actually have to create 12,500 square meters of ecological compensation areas for the expansion of the Straßäcker industrial park.

But because, unlike the Wartenberg store, they were already working with an eco-account, the need for compensation was reduced to 10,000 square meters, according to Pezold.

With the new considerations, the market is revising a plan for ecological areas from 2003, and in several places it is no longer up-to-date.

Some areas have been sold, while others have turned out to be such valuable arable land that they should no longer be used to compensate.

The Council gave its approval to the concept.

The architect was commissioned with the further elaboration of the first decided area.

The 2003 plan included concrete measures for a total of 36 sub-areas, which were only implemented in a few cases.

Today Pezold works with rougher targets, distinguishing between the higher areas and the gravel plain, for which he formulated different targets (report to follow).

The gardeners help

Langenpreising already has one

Source: merkur

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