A Hohenbrunn citizen is now taking action against the planned gravel quarrying in the neighboring community of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn and the possible effects on her own community: Erika Hoffmann, who lives in the Luitpoldsiedlung, has launched the “citizens’ initiative to protect human life and Nature” submitted a petition to the environmental committee of the Bavarian state parliament. In it, she calls for no permission to be granted for the planned gravel quarrying or to revoke a permission that has already been granted.
Hoffmann justifies her petition with the dangers for Hohenbrunn school children from the expected additional heavy goods traffic, but also with the associated traffic noise. The delivery traffic – up to 216 truck trips per week are planned – should lead almost exclusively through the Luitpoldsiedlung and the Hohenbrunn town center because the municipality of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn had stipulated a ban on gravel trucks driving through the town center in an urban development contract with the entrepreneur.
Hohenbrunn Mayor Stefan Straßmair (CSU) supports Erika Hoffmann’s petition, mainly because of the already critical traffic situation in the village and on Luitpoldstrasse: Serious accidents are “practically inevitable,” Straßmair said on Friday. “As the mayor and as a citizen of our community, I am extremely concerned about the planned gravel quarrying and its consequences.” As early as July, the Hohenbrunn municipal council unanimously voted in favor of a lawsuit against the gravel quarrying.