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With a vote of 16:13, the city council decided at its first meeting of the new year to stick with the planning process for expanding the Schorn commercial area.
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Starnberg - With a vote of 16:13, the city council decided at its first meeting of the new year to stick to the planning process for expanding the Schorn commercial area.
Previously, the arguments for and against had clashed once again: While the green parliamentary group, the SPD, parts of the UWG and the Alliance Mitte Starnberg (BMS) were against this, primarily because of the consumption of the landscape, the interference with nature and the traffic burden on surrounding districts The CSU, BLS, FDP, WPS and parts of the UWG consider the concept of a “TCS Technologie Campus Starnberg Schorn” to be indispensable for the future as generating trade tax revenue through such an expanded commercial area.
Opinions in the plenary session also differed as to what the “shrinking” of the original Schorn concept by the Council decision of December 18, 2023 actually meant:
At that time there was criticism of the sheer size of the planning scope, so it was agreed to treat the almost 47 hectare site in three planning phases - this was also done with a view to the district council first removing the area in question from the landscape protection area has to be removed to make everything else possible.
The meeting template for the city council said at the time: “The areas designated for commercial use should be reduced by around half from around 20.4 hectares to around 11.1 hectares.” When it came to assessing such a shrinkage , criticism was voiced again - surprisingly also from Eva Pfister (BMS), who had previously been one of the supporters of the expansion of the commercial area: "I doubt that today it is about a changed concept, I don't see any intention to downsize, I just see a drawing,” she said to city architect Stefan Weinl, who had presented the planning sections.
Pfister continued by saying that she recognized – despite weighing up the pros and cons – that the district was “being overwhelmed”.
A lot of forest will be cut down if Schorn is realized as outlined.
And: “This salami tactic bothers me.
The problems cannot be solved even through formally smaller planning,” said the former mayor.
Franz Sengl and Ursula Lauer from Wangen (both Alliance 90/The Greens) made no secret of their fundamental opposition to “Schorn” - Lauer took exception to the depiction of so-called “compensation areas” for destroyed habitats and forests in the planning and said: “Everyone Animal species would require its own compensation concept.” In addition, the follow-up costs of the planning “would fall on our feet over the years,” says Lauer.
The fact that the direct development costs are borne by the property owner, as Mayor Patrick Janik pointed out several times, does not change their fears.
She also saw the area's planned "semi-connection" to the A 95 motorway as a planning risk in the event that "Schorn" was ultimately not realized.
Kerstin Täubner-Benicke, who appeared on the city council for the last time, also gave a dramatic assessment of the project: "I'm horrified - we had the world's hottest summer in 2023 and we've already seen a collapse in biodiversity, surely we can't care less?"
Angelika Kammerl (CSU) was immediately bothered by such prophecies of doom and the fact that the Greens in particular would like to see everything housed in the future “MOOSAIK” commercial area: “These are all fears that none of you can substantiate,” she said -Opponents suggest, “Setting up a paint shop in the mosaic – surely no one can be that naive?
You have no alternative - if we now have to cut 10 million euros from the budget discussions - where do you want to get the money from?" said Kammerl.
If Starnberg doesn't generate any commercial income in the near future, this city will go to the dogs.
The keyword “naivety” in turn angered Franz Sengl: “When it comes to business, we should finally focus on Starnberg instead of somewhere outside.
Originally there was talk of a high-tech campus, and where there is suddenly vacancy in the city, we want to move craftsmen - that's economic naivety!", rumbled Sengl.
Otto Gassner (UWG) recalled that Schorn had already been added to the city of Starnberg as part of the regional reform in 1971 “in order to strengthen the middle economic center”.
He will follow this idea and not refuse further Schorn planning, said Gassner, even if he knows: “Wherever the city of Starnberg goes, it will draw the wrong card.” Hilarity in the group.
It was then up to Ludwig Jägerhuber (CSU) to make a little effort to calm people's minds: Jägerhuber suggested a district meeting in Wangen to present the planning there, and this was also accepted in the form of a motion with 29:0.
The resolution proposal, consisting of six individual points, was "cosmetically" reformulated from an approval to acknowledgment resolution, but it only received a narrow 16:13 majority: Accordingly, the planning concept for the Schorn industrial area, which was changed in December, should be continued at the level of the land use plan, the relevant considerations are made and the draft development plan is drawn up to initiate the further steps.
(Further) discussions are to be held with regard to the necessary removal of the areas to be planned from the Landscape Protection Area Ordinance, and discussions will also be held with those involved "as early as possible" to initiate the formal plan approval procedure for the "required semi-connection to the A 95 federal motorway".
Mayor Patrick Janik had advocated this approach at the meeting and appealed to Schorn's critics: "Not starting a development plan process out of fear of a possible negative outcome would mean throwing the baby out with the bathwater."