The municipality of Pullach is heading for the second referendum in its history. On Friday, Christian Boeck, spokesman for the citizens’ initiative “Haselmaus” and the recently founded association “Protection of the Isar Valley”, presented Mayor Susanna Tausendfreund (Greens) with 770 signatures for a petition against the expansion plans of the chemical company United Initiators. The required quorum of 700 has thus been reached, subject to the signatures being checked. At the same time, the community is stepping up its efforts to actively counter the fears in the population.
To this end, she has scheduled an information event in the community center for Wednesday, July 28th, 7 p.m. Thousand friend also has in her weekly im Isar indicator Citizen’s letter published in the mood to get the readers in the mood. In it, she accuses Boeck and his colleagues of continuing to use false allegations that have been repeatedly refuted, and she does not resist a swipe at a minority in the local council who voted in the June session to suspend the proceedings. “Are you in favor of the Pullach community taking all legally available measures as well as building law and planning law measures to prevent (further) expansion of the chemical company (peroxide) United Initiators in Pullach?” This is the question of the citizens’ initiative that Alexandra von Reitzenstein, Kathrin Vögl, Walter Viktor Adolph and Christian Boeck want to initiate. In their justification it says, among other things, that the municipality wants to create the legal basis for the expansion of the chemical plant with an expansion of the land use plan and an enlarged development plan, which is the basis for future massive expansion of production corresponding health burden “of all Pullachers would worsen further.
Mayor Tausendfreund has recently contradicted most of the representations of the citizens’ initiative several times, and in her letter she does so in an unusually clear manner. “What is certain is that at least some of the statements made are misleading citizens in order to get their signatures. At this point, the question may be asked whether the focus here is on personal interests rather than serious concerns? Of course, these remain false Information is hanging as various bogeymen, because the project is extremely complex, “writes the town hall chief. Some citizens feared, on the basis of the circulating misinformation, among other things, an increase in building rights for United Initiators with various negative consequences. “That is not the case,” continues Tausendfreund.
Nevertheless, she takes their concerns very seriously. The fact that there are apparently still gaps in information about the course of the land-use plan procedure and the conditions that the municipality places on the procedure and the company was certainly also due to the more difficult framework conditions caused by Corona, which, among other things, resulted in the cancellation of the citizens’ meeting in autumn 2020 which should have focused on the project. This created space for uncertainty and fears. Therefore, now that the pandemic situation allows again, the community will invite you to an information event on July 28th – during the public display phase.
The voting behavior of the municipal council in its June meeting, when the reorganization of two development plans and the first amendment to the zoning plan were on the agenda and a decision was made on the continuation of the procedure was also echoed in Susanne Tausendfreund’s letter to citizens. The approval was not unanimous. “Although only small details have changed in the facts of the project, the CSU, FDP and parts of the WIP parliamentary group suddenly wanted the process to be interrupted, even though suggestions and concerns can be submitted again as part of the public display,” said Tausendfreund.
But Tausendfreund does not care about the dissenters in the committee and the “rightly insecure citizens”: “The big difference is that the municipal council has been intensively concerned with the matter for one and a half years and accompanies the project down to the last detail, examines and Everyone in the committee is well informed about the facts and about the false information provided, about what can and cannot be regulated within a land-use plan procedure. And yet there was a sudden U-turn in the vote. ” You, the administration and a large part of the local council did not want a standstill. “The standstill, on the other hand, is known to be created by precisely those who complain about it in the retrospective and use it for their own arguments,” writes the mayor.