As of: February 17, 2024, 4:00 p.m
By: Timo Aichele
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Timo aichele, deputy editorial director © Aichele
Growth and new developments in villages are both an opportunity and a challenge.
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Dorfen
- Dorfen is booming, and growing pains are inevitable.
“Progress” brings with it unreasonable demands.
Isn't that what commercial areas right on the highway are for?
Where, if not there, should a McDonald's with a neon sign be built?
A few city councilors may complain about blight and light pollution.
Thousands of burger and fries fans won't care much.
In the middle of the historic old town the situation is different.
The building committee unnecessarily gives up its design sovereignty when it quickly approves another neon sign.
One could easily have shown a little more sensitivity to the cityscape by referring to the townscape design statutes.
It is a boom region, heated up by motorway and rail expansion.
The trade-offs between new and old, new beginnings and history, economy and ecology continue.
The greatest dynamics can be observed in the Meindl area.
The city missed the opportunity to acquire the industrial wasteland and develop it itself.
It is not the municipality directly that makes profits from this, but investor Robert Decker.
The new district is well on its way to becoming a flagship urban development project.
What makes it even more attractive is that Decker is driving the future of construction forward with its wooden module factory there.
Here too, local politics must act primarily as an enabler and not as a source of concerns.
But be careful: Today, councilors like Martin Heilmeier are warning of future flood risks through ever-increasing sealing.
The city must ensure that these fears do not become a bitter reality.