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By: Vincent Fischer
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Vinzent Fischer believes that the plans for the Moralt area are a unique opportunity for Bad Tölz.
But you shouldn’t forget about affordable housing.
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The plans for the Moralt area are a unique opportunity for Bad Tölz.
But you shouldn’t forget about affordable housing.
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Whether it's the train station building, the Bruckfeld house or the Moralt area: Bad Tölz is full of dilapidated ruins and fallow areas from which the general public has absolutely nothing left and which also blight the cityscape.
It is therefore welcome - and everyone probably agrees on this - that with Thomas Scherer and Monumentneu GmbH there is finally someone who wants to create something useful from the huge areas on Lenggrieser Straße.
New Tölz trendy district in the former Moralt area: interested parties will be lining up
The investors' glossy plans trigger euphoria and a sense of optimism among town hall boss Ingo Mehner and many citizens.
A new Tölz trendy district, with space for businesses and events, living space for 100 percent selected target groups, daycare and high-quality playgrounds, access to the water and an event stage floating majestically above the Isar.
There should also finally be opportunities for young people to go out again instead of second-class hit studios.
And the city doesn't pay for any of it.
That sounds tempting, who doesn't want all that?
But the conditions are definitely tough.
Investors thus – as elsewhere – bear the full risk.
Who knows what will be uncovered when the wasteland Moralt area is dug up, including for the underground car park.
But you shouldn't feel sorry, because it will still be a few years before the planned completion of the construction work.
Real estate crisis or not – in view of the influx throughout the Oberland and the tense housing situation, interested parties will be lining up for the space in the “Moralt-Werke”.
However, until the detailed urban development contract is negotiated, it remains unclear how much of this will actually become affordable housing.
Comment: Zobon should not degenerate into a paper tiger
Thomas Scherer made it clear on Wednesday evening that his pain threshold was the 20 percent price-controlled housing demanded by the city council.
Or the city can contribute a third, as the investor would prefer - even if it is not entirely altruistic.
Despite minimizing risks and costs, the city should not forget what the actual goal of “future-oriented land use” is.
Affordable housing is an urgent problem throughout the Oberland, and it causes many others, such as the shortage of skilled workers.
With Zobon, the city has the opportunity to take concrete action itself instead of pointing the finger at Berlin or Munich.
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The loophole of tying investors to “specified urban development goals” may perhaps come in handy given the effort involved in disposal and flood protection in the Moralt area.
But if it causes the negotiations to fail, the city has nothing to gain from it.
Likewise, the Zobon should not degenerate into a paper tiger.
The plans for the Moralt area are a unique opportunity for Bad Tölz.
It is now up to both parties to quickly agree on a compromise in which not only high-gloss projects but also affordable housing receive sufficient attention.
(vfi)
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