As of: March 6, 2024, 12:00 p.m
By: Wolfgang Schörner
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New commercial areas are to be built in place of the forest strip (above) south of Roche.
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The Penzberger Association for Nature Conservation is criticizing the city: on the one hand because of the possible new BRK location in the forest between Nonnenwaldstraße and Grube, and on the other hand because of the plans for new commercial areas in Nonnenwald.
The Nature Conservation Association is therefore also skeptical about the state horticultural show.
Penzberg - The Penzberger Association for Nature Conservation has intervened in the current debate about a new BRK location, commercial space in the Nonnenwald and the state horticultural show with an open letter to the city council and mayor.
According to the Nature Conservation Union, there is “no doubt” that a new location is necessary for the BRK.
However, he criticizes the variant recently debated in the building committee: a location in the forest between Nonnenwaldstrasse and “Grube” street.
As reported, the possibility of creating a rescue center for the BRK, fire brigade and police was also presented at the meeting.
Federal Nature Conservation Association: Discussed variant is not responsible for the BRK location
The Nature Conservation Union considers this to be “not a responsible alternative to other proposed locations”.
Three hectares of inner-city mixed forest would be destroyed, which is an important biotope connection between the “green heart” of Penzberg, the Müllerholz, and the eastern forests up to the Loisach, and this “at a time of global warming, increasing internal densification and the “The resulting urgency of biotope networking”.
Compensatory areas for forests are missing
He also points out that the city lacks the compensation areas for forestry compensation (we reported).
He also reminds us of sentences from the integrated urban development concept (ISEK): “In order to network the districts and connect them with the landscape, attractive green connections are secured and newly created.” And: “The green corridors that flow from the landscape into the urban fabric converge in Müllerholz. The Nature Conservation Union asks whether these are “all just Sunday talk”.
Concerns about plans for new commercial space in Nonnenwald
According to his own statements, he is also concerned about the plans for new commercial space in Nonnenwald.
This is an almost 3.8 hectare wooded strip south of the Roche factory, which the city wants to transform into commercial space for a dozen companies.
However, at a development plan consultation in January, the district office and water management office warned that there was raised moor in the western part and fen in the eastern part.
The committee agreed at that time to have the soils examined first.
The Federal Nature Conservation Association is now warning of “further destruction of raised and fens as well as forest areas near the city for further commercial areas”.
He describes it as irritating that the city has already given the individual plots of land to companies, as the local newspaper reported, citing Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU).
This would make the building control process “a farce”.
Peatlands are important CO2 stores
The Federal Nature Conservation Association writes that apparently the word has not yet gotten around sufficiently that moors are important CO2 and water reservoirs.
At the same time, he reminds the city of its own climate action plan.
Climate protection cannot be cheaper than natural climate protection through the protection of moors.
“The city is investing in the renaturation of the Kirnberg Moor a few hundred meters west of the industrial park,” says the Association for Nature Conservation, which sees “contradictions upon contradictions” in this.
It should also not be forgotten that 13.5 hectares of forest were recently sacrificed for the Roche expansion.
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According to the Federal Nature Conservation Union, the fact that Penzberg “never gave itself a sustainable, realistic master plan” and reserved or bought land in a timely manner that could now be used for BRK or local businesses is taking revenge.
Federal Nature Conservation Association: Subdued euphoria for the state horticultural show
This, writes the Federal Nature Conservation Association, also dampens the euphoria for the planned state horticultural show in 2028. He asks what can be said about the statements in the city brochure that forest areas should be preserved and moorland and wetland habitats should be protected.
The Nature Conservation Union fears that nature and urban wilderness will be “massively disturbed and even destroyed by the staging for a large audience.”
As examples he cites the sealing of areas and paths, concrete and stone blocks on the banks of the Säubach, fashionable roundabouts in protected biotopes, a boardwalk in the track dirt and a 40 meter high tower with the necessary foundation on soft ground.
In the letter, the conservationists ask whether the city is primarily concerned with making the business location more attractive and revitalizing the investment climate.