As of: February 9, 2024, 8:00 a.m
By: Hans Moritz
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Christa Stewens wants the airport region to grow closer together.
The neighborhood advisory board is therefore participating in the IBA Munich.
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The airport region will take part in the International Building Exhibition (IBA) that has just begun in Munich with its own neighborhood advisory board project.
Erding - The cities of Freising and Erding will be represented at the IBA with further ideas.
The latter with the conversion of the air base and its transformation into a new district.
Former State Minister Christa Stewens, chairwoman of the neighborhood advisory board, presented the “neighboring region” to the district council’s structural committee.
It shows two districts and 23 municipalities with 234,000 inhabitants and 111,000 jobs, said Stewens.
The IBA's motto is “Spaces of Mobility”.
In the airport region, people are hoping for the pull effect of the exhibition in order to make progress with their own infrastructure projects such as the S-Bahn ring closure, the Munich-Mühldorf railway expansion (“ABS38”) and the Erdinger northern bypass.
Stewens explained that mobility will always remain a central element.
“We have to take this need into account, especially in an economic and living area like the airport region.” During a visit to the State Chancellery, she was assured of the support of the state government.
According to her, the aim of the IBA contribution is to strengthen the region's connectivity, "also with the aim of combining more mobility with fewer emissions".
The aim is to operate across district boundaries.
As reported, a tour of the neighboring region took place in autumn 2023 in order to get to know the first local projects, such as the “Social City of Klettham Nord” and the creation of a new community center in Fraunberg.
For Stewens, more mobility does not necessarily mean more new roads.
A new collaboration could create synergies and make long journeys unnecessary.
Erding's Mayor Max Gotz (CSU) urgently recommended participating in the IBA.
“This is the bridge from Munich to the surrounding area.
If we don't actively participate, we will be left out.” He sees the IBA as a unique opportunity to finally make progress with the transport projects that have been urgent for decades.
It's just a region where people are moving in and interacts closely with Munich - and with traffic routes becoming more and more congested.
In terms of transport and economic policy, the progress of the planning is a “declaration of bankruptcy,” said Gotz.
The city of Erding wants to convert the air base in such a way that a new neighborhood is created for several thousand new residents in which car traffic no longer plays a central role.
Instead, according to Gotz, they want to implement alternative concepts around the new train station.