As of: March 13, 2024, 6:41 p.m
By: Stefanie Zipfer
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The expert committee that developed the guidelines for the Dachau “Future Quarter” MD site: Johannes Karl, Siegfried Berg, Maximilian Stechele, Birgit Weber, Dr.
Sonja Rube, Kathrin Hess, Serge Schimpfle, Dr.
Johannes Gnädinger, Dr.
Steffen Wurzbacher and Christian Stadler (from left).
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The future of the MD site is becoming more concrete.
At a joint meeting, the Building and Planning and Environment and Transport Committees decided on guidelines for “sustainable neighborhood development”.
There was only a dispute over a 90 meter long section of road.
Dachau
- On Tuesday in the town hall, two city council committees - the construction and planning committee and the environment and traffic committee - met for a special meeting: the sole focus was on the MD site.
Recently, in the past few months, things had become quiet about the major project.
The mayor and administration hoped that the meeting would provide “points” and “guidelines” for the big picture.
In fact, the meeting quickly became bogged down in small detail, more precisely in the question of how the future cycle path should run along Ludwig-Thoma-Straße between Martin-Huber- and Ostenstraße.
After the committee had discussed this question a year ago without any result, the city administration presented a compromise proposal on Tuesday.
Accordingly, there should be a three meter wide, divided pedestrian and cycle path on the 90 meter long section.
According to building authority manager Moritz Reinhold and mayor Florian Hartmann, this ensures both the performance of the intersection of Ludwig-Thomastrasse and Ostenstrasse and also ensures traffic safety for cyclists and pedestrians.
There will then be 2.25 meter wide cycle lanes on Ostenstrasse, which will be upgraded to a state road in the future.
Alliance fears that pedestrians will fall under the wheels
Michael Eisenmann and Kai Kühnel (Alliance for Dachau) as well as Thomas Kreß and Luise Krispenz (Greens) did not want to accept this compromise proposal.
Eisenmann predicted that the area in question would become a “no-go area” for cyclists, that a “motorist gorge” would arise and that there would be “extreme conflicts”.
Kühnel explained that the section on Ludwig-Thoma-Straße was “already bad today”, but would become “even worse” with the solution of a shared footpath and cycle path.
Anyone who feels connected to the topic of traffic safety, says Kühnel, “will not agree with this”.
Traffic officer Volker C. Koch (SPD), who supported the administration proposal, did not want to accept this implicit accusation.
And you should keep in mind that the future new residential area will have numerous new cycle paths that you can take and that also lead through the countryside!
This suggestion made the Green Kress angry: “It'll give me such a hard time!
There are cyclists who want to get from A to B quickly.
They don’t want to go anywhere!”
OB doesn’t want to “bring about an apocalypse”
However, the majority of the committee did not want to join the “apocalypse”, as Mayor Hartmann called Michael Eisenmann’s dark fears.
No matter how often people think about it, Ludwig-Thoma-Straße will not be wide enough to accommodate lanes for cars, protected cycle lanes and sidewalks.
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Markus Kellerer (AFD) tried to end the discussion by reminding people that the numerous shared footpaths and cycle paths that already exist in Dachau are “not accident hotspots”.
And Andreas Gahr (SPD) expressed what many listeners in the room were thinking: “We are doing what we like to do: We agree on 95 percent, but then we find a small point of conflict.
We then get caught up and end up negating realities!”
The administrative proposal was finally accepted against the votes of the Greens and the Alliance.
And the rest of the meeting went comparatively smoothly, as Gahr described: the city councilors agreed on the future of one of the largest inner-city construction projects in Bavaria.
In response to an application from the Alliance for Dachau, one or more people responsible at Quarterback AG, i.e. the current owner of the MD site, should provide answers to questions about the company structure and project financing.
Guidelines for the “Future District MD Site” unanimously praised
The work of the expert committee appointed a year ago was also unanimously praised.
This group, consisting of urban planners, architects, a climate strategist and an artist, was supposed to develop guidelines according to which the future residential area, in which a good 2,000 people will live and 1,400 people will work, can be built and developed sustainably.
What was particularly important to the experts was to create an “identity” with the new district, a “distinctiveness”.
Often enough, as city planner Sonja Rube put it, residential buildings look the same everywhere: “You no longer know whether you are in Bremen or Dachau.” According to Rube, the MD site should therefore become something unique: “Everyone who has one When you see a photo, you should say: 'Wow, that's Dachau!'"
The plan of the expert council led by Rube as deputy chairwoman and Birgit Weber as chairwoman: The MD site is to become a “15-minute city” in which inclusion, art and green infrastructure are the focus.
While the north of the area is structurally reminiscent of the “steel and screws” of the old industrial site, the “wood and plants” towards the south are intended to become ever greener and more natural.
Of course, not all of the ideas from the catalog of guidelines can be implemented, as SPD man Koch emphasized - such as the proposed 30 km/h limit on main roads.
But there are many good ideas and “really good solutions” among them, as Robert Gasteiger (Citizens for Dachau) emphasized.
Only the CSU city councilors did not want to agree to the guidelines, even if – as spokesman Peter Strauch explained – “most of it is really great”.
However, taking the guidelines as “foundations” for future planning and thus simply “wiping away” existing city council decisions is going too far.
A green residential area that does not forget its industrial history: this is what the MD site should look like.
There will only be apartments south of Ostenstrasse.
A mixed area will be created north of Ostenstrasse - including a mill forum.
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