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Where the trees rise up on Freisinger Straße (left in the picture), a so-called mobility hub, i.e. a hub for shared means of transport, will be created for the future “Neue Holzschleiferei” residential area.
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An expert presented the Hebertshausen local council with a mobility concept for the “Neue Holzschleiferei” residential area.
It even includes rickshaws!
Hebertshausen
– In view of climate change, some experts believe mobility will change in the future.
More people would travel by bicycle or public transport and fewer would travel in their own car.
In the planned “Neue Holzschleiferei” residential area, a mobility concept should take this change into account.
The aim is to strengthen public transport and bicycles as means of transport and to reduce the number of cars.
The area will have to make do with significantly fewer parking spaces than was previously usual and is stipulated in the municipality's parking space regulations.
As is well known, these parking spaces in the new district will be housed in a central high-rise car park, which also provides rental vehicles as a so-called mobility hub.
But how many private cars will there be in the future?
How much can the number of parking spaces be reduced?
After all, Hebertshausen cannot be compared to a big city where public transport is within walking distance everywhere.
A mobility concept from the Munich planning office Stattbau apparently caused a need for discussion at a non-public meeting of the local council in January, and a project group was convened.
Now Christian Bitter from Stattbau presented a revised concept to the local council.
A concept that takes into account the fears of local councilors that public transport may not be sufficiently efficient in the future and that residential streets will be filled with parking if there are not enough parking spaces available.
The mobility concept now provides for 206 parking spaces; according to the municipal parking regulations there should be 332.
A further 130 parking spaces will be temporarily created in the area where the Bamberg school is now temporarily located.
Visitors can park here for events; the area is only gravelled, not sealed.
Expert Bittner explained how and where fixed parking spaces can be saved in the house-by-house plan.
“Sporty” goals, but “supply creates demand”
While the municipality's parking space statute requires two parking spaces per apartment, the planning varies this number depending on the size of the apartment between 0.5 for small apartments to two parking spaces for large apartments, and even less in subsidized housing with a maximum of one parking space per residential unit.
In contrast, there are 509 bicycle parking spaces, including a considerable number of larger parking spaces for bicycle trailers and cargo bikes.
According to Bittner, in order to enable residents to do without their own vehicles, the mobility hub should offer rental services ranging from car sharing cars to rental electric scooters, pedelecs and cargo bikes, right through to rental rickshaws.
The expert explained that the latter are increasingly being used for trips with seniors.
The concept is now coherent and takes the council's criticisms into account, said Mayor Richard Reischl when Bittner finished his presentation.
“It’s going in the right direction,” said CSU councilor Stefan Ruhsam.
However, he considers “one or two assumptions to be too sporty”.
However, the alternative parking lot offers options.
Marianne Klaffki (SPD) praised the planned variety of shared vehicles.
“Because here supply also creates demand!”
The mobility concept was ultimately approved unanimously.
At the same time, the municipal housing company is commissioned to examine options for public transport connections.
Martin Gasteiger (FBB) considered this to be premature, as a better bus service would cause a deficit in the municipal budget.
In fact, attractive public transport must come in the medium term, replied the town hall boss.
“We can’t do this with car sharing and rickshaws alone.”