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Refugees have been living in the Filigranhalle in Geretsried's north industrial area since 2016.
Now another accommodation could be built directly adjacent to it.
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The Geretsried building committee rejected three asylum accommodations.
Nevertheless, these could become a reality.
Geretsried
– Two new refugee accommodations could soon become a reality in Geretsried.
And an existing one could be used for another five years.
The members of the Building and Environment Committee dealt with building applications on Tuesday evening.
And even though they rejected all the plans, the city's no vote probably doesn't matter.
Extension for accommodation in Filigree Halls requested
The committee first looked at the former warehouses of the Filigran company in the north industrial area.
It is known that refugees have been accommodated on Blumenstrasse since 2016.
As city planning officer Rainer Goldstein explained, the city council issued a ban on changes to the north commercial area on July 25th last year (we reported).
This is intended to secure the commercial area and not displace businesses.
You can read the latest news from Geretsried here.
Due to this blocking of changes, the city administration recommended that the building committee reject the building application.
The district office would like to extend the use of the former Filigree Hall by five years, as the city planning officer explained.
The authority has therefore requested a deviation from the change ban.
Special regulations in the building code could make this possible.
Paragraph 246 allows the responsible authority to grant corresponding permits or exemptions.
The city expects that it will come to this.
“We expect this accommodation to be approved,” Goldstein said.
When asked, district office spokeswoman Marlis Peischer explained that “the district building office will examine the building application like any other.”
And further: “The community agreement will be replaced when this is covered by the legislation.”
Mayor Müller: “It is actually undermining the municipalities’ right to self-government”
Mayor Michael Müller (CSU) was outraged at the meeting: “This is effectively undermining the municipalities' right to self-government.” The city has issued a ban on changes because the municipality has planning sovereignty.
“This is a constitutionally protected asset.” The city of Bad Tölz is already suing the district office, Müller reported, because this paragraph 246 was applied there.
“That threatens us too.” The town hall boss also pointed out that there is no “deal” in Geretsried, as there was recently in Wolfratshausen.
As reported, District Administrator Josef Niedermaier (FW) had promised to close the multi-purpose hall in Farchet when the new accommodation on Hans-Urmiller-Ring was ready.
If the council now approves this accommodation, that does not mean that the middle school gymnasium, which is occupied by refugees, will therefore become free.
“That would be on top of that,” said the mayor.
Güner: “We have to let humanity prevail here”
For Ann-Kathrin Güner (FW), the chain of reasoning was understandable, “but the people are just there.
And just saying no is not an option.
People have to go somewhere.” Güner made it clear that she would not agree to the proposed resolution, which envisages rejecting the project.
“I have to let humanity prevail here.” Patrik Kohlert (Geretsrieder List) saw it differently: “We can't first impose a ban on change and then say: 'Why do I care about my chatter from yesterday'.” The city must remain consistent.
With the exception of Güner, the committee voted against an exception to the change ban.
In addition, everyone except Güner refused to consent.
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Geretsried could also be threatened with the district office replacing the community agreement in two other motions that were also on the agenda.
A modular asylum home is to be built in the immediate vicinity of the existing accommodation at Blumenstrasse 15.
This time without a time limit.
It should hold 243 people.
This time the committee voted unanimously against this application for a preliminary ruling.
Not all councils found the rejection easy
Like the previous application, it is “not permitted under building planning law” due to the blocking of changes, said city planning officer Goldstein.
Güner added: “The fact that so many people are supposed to come here again doesn’t help integration to take place in any way.” Nevertheless, it wasn’t easy for everyone to say no.
“I would love to go out and vote,” admitted Gabriele Riegel (Greens).
She worried that a rejection could be misinterpreted by the population.
She considered the accommodation of so many people in a small space to be “humanly simply unworthy”.
Franz Wirtensohn (CSU) saw it similarly: “In agriculture, we need comfortable stables with lots of space.
But with people that probably doesn't matter.
We’ll just cram them together.”
No blanket rejection of refugees
The committee was already aware of the next building application.
The city council had already dealt with the application to build three new container buildings as accommodation for refugees on Neutraublinger Straße in Gelting in October.
At that time, a change ban was issued “in order to strengthen and secure” the Gelting Ost industrial area and community consent was refused.
“We had the hope of setting up businesses there,” said the mayor.
Instead, he described it as a “brazen approach” by the property owner to want to build refugee accommodation there.
“If we put up with that, we no longer need commercial development.” Müller emphasized that this was not a blanket rejection.
“We stand for the accommodation of refugees.
But we as a city cannot put up with that.” The committee also unanimously rejected this application.
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