Grünwald – town center again topic in the municipal council – district of Munich

After almost three years of standstill, the redesign of Grünwald’s town center is back on the municipal council’s agenda. At the meeting on Tuesday evening, Head of the Main Office Tobias Dietz announced that the topic would be dealt with on October 25th. In October 2019, a Grünwalder citizen submitted a proposal to the citizens’ assembly to redesign the town center. The motion was accepted by the majority. On November 19, 2019, the municipal council also passed a positive decision. The plan was for the council to hear several proposals from architectural firms and then have the board decide which concept to prefer.

However, things went differently, as some councilors complained at the meeting in July. It was only that evening that they found out what the community had done in the matter so far. At the time, Dietz read out a long list of dates and people who had met on the matter since 2019, namely with the representative of a planning office named Finsterwalde. This had apparently been hired without involving the local council – “on the recommendation of a CSU local council,” as Greens local councilor Ingrid Reinhart put it.

However, no agreement was reached at all meetings. That’s exactly what the Greens found incomprehensible. They said it was absolutely undemocratic for the mayor to go it alone on the project without involving the local council. “The town hall radio says that the mayor would like to leave everything as it is,” said Reinhart at the time.

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