In the meantime, many in Gronsdorf-Kolonie have noticed that not only discussions and decisions are made in the Haarer town hall – something is also implemented from time to time. Construction workers in orange outfits and small excavators are on duty in the streets to tear paving stones out of the asphalt. In the residential area, the parking areas marked in this way will be removed in order to implement a comprehensive parking space concept. New areas are to be awarded where cars can be parked. If you park elsewhere, you should expect a parking ticket as a result. The enthusiasm for this is limited in the district.
Karl Limmer from Dittmannstrasse, for example, can hardly believe that the community has nothing better to do than to implement the first major measure from the community’s mobility concept in his housing estate at great expense. That is simply superfluous, brings no improvement for the residents and does not solve any problems. Limmer cannot recognize the parking space problems in the settlement, which the town hall repeatedly cites. “I consider the whole thing to be a waste of money,” complains the resident, who has already given his opinion to Mayor Andreas Bukowski (CSU). “There are no chaotic conditions here,” says Limmer. What the community is currently doing is a shield prank. And he is not alone in this opinion.
Gronsdorf-Kolonie is a quiet residential area, where you would actually expect everything, but no chaos. Years ago the community laid out residential streets there in such a way that there was not much distinction between street space and sidewalks. The traffic is limited. But it is strongly condensed. The total number of cars is increasing. When visitors come and park, it can get tight. Some of the marked parking areas no longer fit because there is now an exit for a newly constructed building. Above all, however, from the point of view of the town hall, the parking pressure increases when bathers flock to the Riemer See in their cars in summer and park their vehicles in the Gronsdorf colony.
The community asked several times how the residents of the neighborhood experience all of this. In the course of setting up the mobility concept, there was broad public participation. In the end, a parking space concept was decided in the town hall, also because they felt obliged to ensure that ambulance vehicles had free access. But opinion in Gronsdorf remained unclear until the end. SPD councilor Peter Paul Gantzer, who lives there and once described himself as a kind of district mayor, therefore recommended in the decisive meeting that everything should be left as it is. There will only be trouble, he warned. The population is divided. Mayor Bukowski wanted another questioning. But the renovation was decided.
Karl Limmer now only has the stunned look at the construction workers. He would have found it better to issue parking permits for the residents. He believes that the fact that there is now talk of ambulance vehicles not coming through is an advance. Then what would be in the densely parked Munich-Schwabing? He asks. The parking problems in summer because of the bathers only affect a few streets directly at the Riemer Park. Limmer expects that it will be more difficult to find a parking space in the future when visitors come. In the future there will be 249 designated parking spaces instead of 220 previously; But if you park elsewhere in the future, you will be warned for a fee.