The desks are tidied up before the summer holidays, things are no different in the city council than in schools. At least this year. Local politicians also collect a number of documents over time, so that the board of directors of the state capital recently gave them the homework to process outstanding applications by the general assembly this Wednesday. 130 came to light in the committees for business, culture and mobility alone.
Among them are some that a certain Georg Kronawitter once submitted. Of course, the man is not the former SPD mayor, but his second-degree nephew (the son of his cousin, who is also called Georg Kronawitter), who for a while sat on the city council for the CSU. It would be even nicer if Mayor Georg Kronawitter still had unfinished business lying around, 30 years after his retirement from office. After all, almost 15 years, half as long, was the oldest, so far uncompleted City Council application on the table. Posted by the same nephew Georg Kronawitter on September 30, 2008, addressed to the then mayor Christian Ude, adjourned in the general assembly on March 31, 2009, ended in a draw in the city council meeting on July 22, 2009. And now rediscovered.
The purpose of the application was to “promote retail structures in district and district centers in a targeted manner”, especially in the catchment area of the Pasing Arcaden. They were still under construction at the time, but have now been in stable structures for more than a decade. So the application sorted itself out, in the Economic Committee it was recently “done according to the rules of procedure,” as the official language puts it. In the plenary session, it will now finally be filed, then the collective resolutions on the “historical applications” from the cultural (ten) and economic departments (four) will be formally confirmed.
What remains, however, is a package from the mobility department. This was only set up in 2021 and received 116 pending applications from the district administration, planning and economic departments, as a dowry, so to speak. This includes, for example, a demand from 2018 to tackle “the underground car park under Wettersteinplatz, which has been planned since 1990”, obviously a leftover from the era of Lord Mayor Kronawitter. The list also includes illustrious topics such as “Prepare Pasing train station for air taxis” and “Cargo bikes to go” (both CSU, 2019), but also an apparently multi-part series of applications under the motto “Traffic planning with facts”, from which one can conclude that Munich also has traffic planning without facts.
The completion of these 116 motions was originally item 39 on the agenda of the General Assembly, but was withdrawn. In the past few weeks, the Mobility Committee has postponed its collective resolution to the next meeting. After the summer holidays.