As of: February 20, 2024, 8:25 a.m
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Several communities in the Würmtal want to build wind turbines in the forest.
For Planegg in particular, the hope of lower planning hurdles does not seem to be fulfilled.
The green corridor network is demanding improvements from the regional planning association, which should designate priority areas for wind power.
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The Würmtal green corridor network (GNW) criticizes the regional planning association's ideas for designating wind power priority areas.
Desired locations of Würmtal communities should be better taken into account, demands GNW chairman Herbert Stepp.
Würmtal
- Planegg's mayor Hermann Nafziger is not the only one who is critical of the draft project for the control concept for wind energy use in the Munich region.
The Green Zone Network Würmtal (GNW) regrets in a statement that the efforts of all Würmtal communities except Neuried to build wind turbines “unfortunately find no response”.
“The partial update of the regional plan for wind energy causes astonishment among the critical population and is a hit with opponents of wind power,” says GNW chairman Herbert Stepp from Planegg.
The GNW's statement runs four pages.
In it, the association deals intensively with the proposals for specific wind power priority areas that the regional planning association recently submitted.
This positive list contains 22 areas.
This includes Forstenrieder Park in Neurieder and an unincorporated area.
As reported, the cross-community project of Neuried, Baierbrunn, Pullach and Schäftlarn to build six wind turbines there has progressed so far that the communities submitted a joint application to the Munich district office on Thursday.
Gauting, Krailling and Planegg are left out
The areas on which Gauting, Krailling and Planegg would like to enable wind turbines were left out.
This does not prevent wind power, but it makes it more difficult to implement, at least in Planegg, because wind turbines are now not permitted.
Planegg's mayor Hermann Nafziger has already announced that the municipality, as a RPV member, would like to use the informal advance participation to achieve priority status, especially for the potential area in the west near the Dickwiese in Planegger Holz.
The area south of Buchendorf, where the municipality of Gauting would like to allow four wind turbines, and the Kreuzlinger Forest, where Krailling is planning wind turbines, are also not among the priority areas.
However, as part of the wind power land use plan that the Starnberg district drew up around ten years ago, these are concentration areas, which makes implementation easier.
“The GNW finds the approach to finding potential areas for the construction of wind turbines to be understandable and worthy of support.
However, we also recognize weak points that urgently need to be eliminated if acceptance among the population is not to be jeopardized,” writes Stepp to the RPV.
The GNW sees the fact that the RPV's plans do not correspond to those of the wind power land use plan in the Starnberg district as a problem and warns: "Plans that do not coincide provide points of attack for legal discussions about wind turbines!"
Positive planning is welcomed
The GNW expressly welcomes the fact that the RPV is pushing forward large-scale positive planning to comply with the onshore wind law.
“This should not hinder the planning considerations for wind turbines that have already been initiated by the municipalities.” This is exactly what is at risk if the conflicts in the Würmtal area are not resolved.
“Municipalities would be more helped if their positive planning were continuously harmonized with the positive planning of the RPV.” The GNW suggests obtaining the current planning statuses for wind turbines from the municipalities and completing the RPV planning.
“This would also save the municipalities the effort of identifying special areas or concentration areas themselves.”
RPV managing director Marc Wißmann has already responded to the GNW's letter, which the association would be happy to take into account as a statement on the advance participation process for the partial update of the regional plan for the control of wind energy.
This step in the process will start in a few weeks.
In terms of planning law, he points out that municipal designations of wind energy areas such as concentration zones or special areas in the land use plan generally remain effective even without an overlying designation of a wind energy priority area in the regional plan.
Stepp continues to see “at least a need for explanation.”
He fears that in the case of the Planegger wind power plans, for which there is no designation of concentration areas, it will be “even more difficult and, above all, more laborious” to achieve the acceptance of wind power.
In another letter to the RPV, he also points out that the municipality of Gauting “had to contend with strong headwinds from wind power opponents during the course of the concentration area designation and subsequent detailed planning.”
“The fact that the concentration area, which has already been legally designated by the municipality, is excluded with a thick red border,” is grist to the mill of opponents of wind turbines.