The garden city character is a kind of trademark of Neubiberg. It is therefore only logical that the municipality now wants to set certain minimum standards for the greening of undeveloped areas with the help of a regulation for the design of open spaces in building projects. The local council decided on Monday by a majority at the request of the Greens. The administration should prepare a draft for a statute or a guideline.
The background to the initiative of the Greens parliamentary group was that in Neubiberg there has been massive densification in recent years, as Pascal Kollwitz-Jarnac (Greens) explained at the meeting. Therefore it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain the characteristic townscape as a garden city. The new Bavarian building code, which has been in force since February, has given municipalities greater scope in terms of greening through statutes. For example, it has recently become possible, among other things, to ban stone or gravel gardens for reasons of local design. A draft by the Greens for a new statute provides for front gardens to be planted and forbidden gravel and gravel areas and for existing trees to be preserved. The Greens expect this to have positive effects in terms of global warming, flood protection and species protection.
What the regulation will look like in the end is still completely open. The feedback from the area of green regulations in the district office, from which the administration had gathered empirical values on the draft of the Greens, is positive. The administration also supports the idea of minimum standards for areas that are not over-planned in the development plan. Now she should work out a draft statute or guideline. A guideline because it was important to some local councils that the builders not be overly bullied. Nicola Gehringer (CSU) described a statute as too “a sharp sword”. Mayor Thomas Pardeller (CSU) also said that a balance was needed between what the community wanted to determine and what the citizens might restrict. The draft for a regulation should finally be discussed in the planning and environmental committee.
With a regulation for the design of open spaces, Neubiberg would not be the first municipality in the district. Kirchheim already has a corresponding statute, which is currently being drawn up in Ismaning.