The future, new recyclables island on Bergfeldstraße in Poing causes amazement: it is surrounded by high gabion walls.
Although the municipality demands “more green” in a statute.
Poing – A new open space design statute has been in force in Poing since May 3, 2021.
It is stipulated for properties of all kinds (private and public as well as those of property developers) that no stone or gravel gardens may be built.
Exactly this statute was mentioned by the residents of the west ring recently during the citizens' question time in the public municipal council meeting - they wanted to know why the new recycling island on Bergfeldstraße (transition to the west ring) is surrounded by a high gabion wall.
Why no wooden walls?
Why no shrubs for protection? they asked.
The answer from Mayor Thomas Stark (independent): "There is still planting." It was agreed on the stone wall as protection for the island of recyclables - also with a view to possible wind blowing of plastic / paper waste.
With the amendment to the Bavarian Building Code of February 1, 2021, municipalities have since been able to issue a design statute that prohibits rock/gravel gardens.
The municipal council's building committee approved the new statutes for Poing two years ago.
Comment: (rock) slap in the face
This sentence from two years ago now falls on the feet of the municipality of Poing, as heavy as a gabion wall: The townscape "in our municipality is traditionally characterized by a diverse garden use, local greenery, gentle lawn structures, near-natural areas, meadows, native flowering plants, woody structures as well as ornamental and vegetable gardens," wrote the town hall in a statement on the new open space design statute.
This includes not only private gardens, but also public properties and those of property developers.
The new forecourt of the newly built primary school on Karl-Sittler-Strasse and the neighboring town hall already shines in stony gray instead of green.
More green, more green spaces - but that was the intention of the open space design statute.
The municipality does not fulfill this with the new recycling island either.
Regardless of the usefulness of a gabion wall – the municipality is not a role model here.
Forbidding the citizens of rock gardens, but building one asphalt desert with stone/concrete walls after the other (see also the new pedestrian and bicycle underpass at the S-Bahn station), that is a joke and, figuratively speaking, a (stone) slap in the face the citizen.
Armin Roesl
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In the statement on the decision, the administration wrote at the time: "Due to increasing sealing of the undeveloped areas of the developed land and building plots, some with gravel rock gardens, the administration proposes to issue such a statute." And further: The site "is in Our community is traditionally characterized by a variety of garden uses, local greenery, gentle lawn structures, near-natural areas, meadows, native flowering plants, woody structures as well as ornamental and kitchen gardens".
In order to preserve this "green diversity", as the town hall wrote, the municipality issued the new open space design statute.
Violators face a fine.
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