The solar park in the south of Weilheim, near the Trifthof, will be roughly doubled.
Almost all city council members are impressed.
Weilheim – The development plan process for expanding the solar park between Jörg-Ganghofer-Straße and Trifthof-Anbinder in the south of Weilheim is an important step further.
The owner wants to double the ground-mounted PV system built there in 2013;
the nearly 5,500 additional modules are expected to achieve an output of around 3,000 kilowatts peak.
Specialist authorities and citizens had until the beginning of January to submit their comments.
There were no major objections, according to the city council's building committee.
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Three trees on the east side of the area are still to be preserved.
"Ecological construction supervision" is also required.
All in all, according to the city building authority, "apart from a few small things" the original planning will remain - which, with these adjustments, will again be open to the public for one month.
FW city councilor calls for a time limit
The city council approved the considerations of the city planning department in its most recent meeting.
Only Romana Asam (FW) voted against: she asked for a time limit on the solar park project;
"Ultimately the district office also demanded that," as she said.
A dismantling obligation is agreed with the owner in an urban development contract, explained building administration manager Manfred Stork.
But that only applies if solar use is abandoned.
Discussion about agricultural use
Asam also called for the operator to be obliged to use agri-photovoltaics, i.e. to use the area for solar power generation and agricultural production at the same time.
Mayor Markus Loth (BfW) replied that this was "not included" in the development plan - and emphasized that they had discussed with "Energiewende Oberland" "the magnitude of this makes sense".
According to Rupert Pentenrieder (BfW), the city council officer for agriculture, "sheep grazing is already being done in the existing facility".
"This is agricultural use," he added, and that is "certainly also planned for the expansion area."
Mayor finds criticism of the project out of place
Either way, the farmers, as landowners, would have to decide for themselves whether there might be dual use, Horst Martin (SPD) interjected: "If they don't want it, we're in bad shape." the farmers have an effect", Martin continues, and not only always lament the loss of agricultural land.
Mayor Loth found criticism of this solar park generally out of place: "We have a functioning system here, the right location and a farmer who invests - what more do we want?"
