Considerable changes are imminent for the health campus in Thalkirchen. Both the internal medicine clinic in Munich-South and the Artemed Clinic in Munich-South (formerly the Rinecker Clinic) are to be modernized and expanded. In addition, two residential towers are planned, which will primarily be reserved for hospital staff. A new development plan (“Am Isarkanal”) is drawn up for the entire complex in the area of the Isar Canal, Tierparkstrasse and Schäftlarnstrasse.
The Thalkirchen-Obersendling-Forstenried-Fürstenried-Solln district committee has now issued a comprehensive statement on this. Tenor: Preservation and modernization of the clinics, creation of inexpensive company housing, paths through the site for the general public, preservation of valuable trees – all welcome. Only the planned building heights of up to 40 meters are rejected.
Better more planning permission than high towers: The local politicians do not agree with parts of the planning by Goergens and Miklautz.
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“The danger of a high-rise skyline on the Isar, which was already discussed in the city planning commission, is not out of the world,” said SPD parliamentary group leader Dorle Baumann. The planned high points should be “at most as high as planned in the city’s high-rise study,” she demanded – i.e. lower. CSU spokeswoman Claudia Küng was also concerned to take into account the sensitivity of the location in the structural dimensions and not to overload the local infrastructure. Conrad Lausberg (ÖDP) went much further: In order not to distort the village character of the area, the planned eleven- and thirteen-story residential buildings would have to be reduced to seven to eight floors, he demanded.
Faced with such reservations, the largest district committee faction, the Greens, preferred not to vote for the opinion. “Building heights of 35 meters must be possible in a big city,” demanded Alexander Aichwalder (Green Party) categorically, “otherwise we will do without low-priced apartments that we urgently need”. Henriette Holtz, leader of the Greens in the BA, even called it “abstruse” to align the development of the clinic site with the idyllic village center that has long since ceased to exist. Anne-Margret Struck (Greens) called for more openness to new developments: “We have to live with changes.”
There are hopes with regard to car-free living
Nevertheless, the majority of the committee was more willing to accept a doubling of building rights than to accept unusually high buildings for Thalkirchen, at least if the lush tree population on the site between the Isar Canal and Schäftlarnstraße was guaranteed to be preserved. It is also important for the district council to have a contractual arrangement that ensures that the rental housing is built primarily for the hospital staff. A “well thought-out mobility concept” should open up possibilities for car-free living.
With the reorganization of the clinic district, the traffic conditions in Schäftlarnstraße are also coming into focus. This is “in great need of renovation” and must be more “oriented to the needs of pedestrians and cyclists”. The Schäftlarnstraße is currently “a dangerous obstacle” for weaker road users. There is no way around their conversion.