A good 80 people from Dachau came to the citizens' meeting in the Thomahaus on Wednesday evening to present their questions and concerns to Mayor Florian Hartmann and his administration.
The most important keywords: traffic, vacancies – and Hollywood.
Dachau – The meeting was introduced with the obligatory annual report from the mayor.
As in Pellheim, where the first of this year's five citizens' meetings took place a week ago, Florian Hartmann again praised the solidarity and cohesion of the citizens towards the Ukrainian refugees and the work of the many volunteers.
The indoor pool construction site, he admitted, was a nuisance.
But at least Dachau has a bath – unlike Karlsfeld.
His appeal: "There must be an urgent change in municipal financing!
It is absurd that a community like Karlsfeld, which is home to thousands of MAN, MTU and BMW employees, can no longer afford an investment such as the renovation of an indoor swimming pool while trade tax is being paid to Munich!”
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Introduced the meeting with the obligatory annual report: Mayor Florian Hartmann
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traffic light switch
When Josef Januschkowetz asked the public questions that followed, the traffic lights in Dachau were also absurd.
Before Corona, pedestrians would have had to ask for “green” by pressing a button or using a touch switch.
Then this was changed - for reasons of infection protection - the traffic lights automatically switched to green.
"Will that change again?" Januschkowetz wanted to know?
The mayor was clear: "No, at the moment it is not planned that this will be changed again." The automatic traffic light switching without pressing has proven its worth, and the city council has already passed a resolution on this.
Januschkowetz: "It's great that we spent so much money on push-button traffic lights!"
light show
Claudia Gierke complained that in her eyes the Christmas lights in the city were far too lavish.
It's "like in Hollywood" in Dachau between November 15th and December 31st.
Neither for ecological nor for financial or traditional reasons is it justifiable that there are so many little lamps!
"It has nothing to do with Christmas, only with commerce," she scolded.
The Lord Mayor pointed out that there was another side to the topic, namely that "who definitely wants lighting at Christmas - despite the crisis".
Railroad Crossing
Elisabeth Peren asked when the level crossing in the direction of Steinkirchen, at the exit from the forest cemetery, would be reopened.
Hartmann had good news and bad news.
The good one: "According to the government of Upper Bavaria, the railways are obliged to restore the crossing!
So the transition will come again.” Unfortunately, nobody knows when this will happen.
"Unfortunately, the time," says Hartmann, "is not fixed yet."
vacancy
At the beginning of the meeting, an employee of the Technical University of Munich called on those present to take part in the “Transforming the Vacancies” project.
The researchers want to find out whether there is vacant living space in the city, why this living space is vacant and how it can be used better.
In this context, Regina Doll and Kerstin Eckstein suggested that the city should start with itself and take care of the occupancy of its own property.
Example: the tip house on Karlsberg!
That has been decaying for years, under the eyes of the city administration.
Mayor Hartmann admitted that the house was in very poor condition.
It was bought about 15 years ago to expand the town hall there.
However, the structural condition of the new acquisition was so bad that the renovation costs ran into millions.
Therefore, he finally admitted, "we as a city would actually have to consider whether we should part with the object".
In terms of location, with the beautiful view of Munich, the building is certainly interesting for investors.
risk of collapse
Regina Doll also wanted to know how things are going with Café Gramsci on Burgfriedenstraße?
Hartmann justified the closure, which came as a surprise to some, with the desolate condition of the building.
During an inspection in the basement, the structural engineer encountered crumbling beams and exposed electrical cables.
The city would therefore have to “take a lot of money into its hands” for a renovation – money that it currently doesn’t have.
Doll nevertheless asked for a renovation, because: "I can't let a building rot just because the renovation is expensive.
That’s not possible for a private person either!”
snow free
Gerhard Konat complained that in Webling - allegedly due to a lack of turning facilities - there was no longer a snow plow for clearing.
In the event of a health emergency, according to Konat, “no Sanka can get through”!
The OB promised to take care of it.
Bureaucracy delicacies
Josef Reischl was interested in the status of the planned public beer garden on the site of the former castle brewery.
According to Lord Mayor Hartmann, the project, for which the Free State is paying 144,000 euros of the total construction costs of 180,000 euros, is going according to plan.
There is only "a small issue with the access route".
In order to make access to the beer garden easier, especially for the construction site and later the standl wagons, the city needs a small stretch of road, which is currently owned by the Castles and Lakes Administration.
And they refuse to use the route for reasons of "competitor protection".
For Moritz Reinhold, head of the building authority, this is once again a real treat from Bavarian bureaucracy: “On the one hand, the Free State is massively promoting the beer garden.
On the other hand, he wants to protect his castle café." Hartmann still believes in an agreement: "In the end, they could complement each other: in the afternoon you go to the castle café and in the evening to the beer garden!"
Safe Dachau
The police report is available at every town meeting.
New this time was the speaker: Police Chief Bernd Waitzmann, who has been in charge of the Dachau police station since November 1, 2022.
His most important message to the citizens: "You can live safely in Dachau!" Sure, crimes would also happen in the large district town, but in terms of the so-called frequency of crimes, Dachau is in the good Bavarian midfield - and that despite its location in the Munich commuter belt !
According to Waitzmann, the decline in so-called crude crimes recorded over the past five years is gratifying.
Apart from the train station, there is no crime hotspot in the city.
In road traffic, mostly minor accidents with property damage were recorded.
In principle, Waitzmann emphasizes, crime has shifted to the Internet.
The amount of damage caused by so-called shock calls or grandchildren's tricks is enormous, and the victims are mostly bona fide pensioners.
The police continue to do a lot of preventive work here.
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