As of: February 16, 2024, 6:00 p.m
By: Magnus Reitinger
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There are larger new building plans to replace this residential building on the corner of Eichtweide and Gartenstrasse.
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“With all our love for the creation of living space,” the Weilheim building committee said: What developers want to build on Eichtweide in Weilheim is “too much.”
The applications for two new buildings with a total of eight apartments were clearly rejected.
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- Demolish the existing building at Eichtweide 2 and instead build two apartment buildings with four apartments each on this and the neighboring property on the corner of Gartenstrasse: These are the applicants' plans, which the Weilheim city council's building committee had to discuss at its most recent meeting.
According to the building applications, the new buildings will each have two full floors and a converted attic with a gable roof.
The building applicants want to create the twelve car parking spaces required for this planning as “double parking spaces” in an intermediate building between the two residential buildings as well as as a carport and open parking spaces on the site, explained the city planning department.
The floor area number, i.e. the overall degree of sealing for both properties, would therefore be 0.59.
Overall, planning is “too compact and massive”
Because there is no development plan for the area, possible new buildings must be assessed based on the existing buildings in the area.
And there are already similar houses, said Stefan Kirchmayer from the city building authority.
However, he added, “the narrowness” of the two planned new buildings is problematic, even if the required distances are maintained.
“This will be very massive,” added Manfred Stork, head of the city’s construction administration;
The parking situation would also be difficult.
“This is simply maximum utilization, which is certainly too much here, despite all the love for creating living space,” is Stork’s conclusion.
Building committee members across the parliamentary groups assessed the plans presented in a similar way.
“This is definitely an attempt to get the most out of it,” said BfW parliamentary group leader Brigitte Holeczek.
For CSU spokeswoman Marion Lunz-Schmieder, these new buildings meant “a transformation of the district, which was previously characterized by single-family houses”.
The desired “storey size” would be “fine and contemporary”, but the overall planning was “too compact and massive”.
Both Lunz-Schmieder and Holeczek also expressed concerns about the “double parking”: These are “not a solution”.
City cannot require underground parking
“Without underground parking, I can’t agree to that anyway,” emphasized Horst Martin (SPD).
Since legally these are two separate building applications, the city cannot demand an underground car park here, Kirchmayer replied - “as much as it would make sense”.
As a compromise, the city building authority suggested allowing the planned multi-family house on the property directly on the Eichtweide, but to the south of it "only a classic semi-detached house".
That would be a total of six residential units.
Alfred Honisch (Greens) said this suggestion was a good one and should be negotiated with the building applicants.
“But I fear that higher authorities will approve the plans presented.” The approval authority is the district office, the city of Weilheim is only asked for its “communal consent”.
The building committee refused this and unanimously rejected the two existing building applications.
The majority were in favor of allowing the applicants to build a building with an apartment building and a semi-detached house.
The two BfW representatives also voted against this solution.
A building with four residential units on the corner property would be okay, explained Rupert Pentenrieder.
But according to him, the only thing that would fit next to that would be “a single-family home with a separate apartment.”