So it’s finally here, spring. Every day it gets a bit greener outside, tender leaves are sprouting everywhere – at least almost. Because in one place in the city of Ebersberg it is not sprouting as it should be: in the shopping center in the city center.
Years ago, it was stipulated in the development plan that something should sprout there at all. The new shopping center – which was partly built on a former allotment site – was to be provided with ten trees and a total of six “mobile plants”. In addition, the facades should be greened and various shrubs, bushes and other vegetation should be planted between the buildings. According to the plan, the latter are expressly not mobile – but some of them have probably somehow made off the field.
It never got greener: the property on which the Ebersberg shopping center was later built.
(Photo: Christian Endt)
At the request of the Greens, the city administration recently checked whether it was really green everywhere as it should be. The good news: on the whole, most of the plants are where they should be: “No serious deviations were found,” the management concluded. However, it was also found that not everything is in the green area. In one place, gravel was laid out where there should have been a green area, in another place even “the greening has partially failed”. Even the planting on the facade does not meet the requirements, it appears stunted, according to the management. In one case, however, the lack of greenery even has a positive effect: the unplanted tree at the entrance to the monastery building yard should continue to be left unplanted. A “shrub group” is recommended at this point – because of the hose troop: This way the fire brigade can get through better if the worst comes to the worst.
Otherwise, the city doesn’t want to let grass grow over the matter – or actively ensure that it is sown where it belongs. It is not planned that the city gardeners will now move out like cavalry to produce the missing vegetation in a raid-like action, but the city could at least issue a planting order that would be subject to fines. But this would then be the last leaf that sprout from the administration tree, so to speak, initially only a request should grow from it to create the necessary vegetation – after all, it’s only April.