The long, dry and hot summer has shown that the consequences of global warming have also arrived locally and that there is a need for action. The Neubiberger and the Unterhachinger Greens therefore want to dedicate an event to the topic of how to deal more carefully with the areas in the municipalities and thus contribute to climate protection. The Green Members of Parliament Claudia Köhler and Christian Hierneis will report on this on Tuesday, November 29, in the Ho-Restaurant at Parkstraße 15 in Unterhaching (7.30 p.m.) and then discuss it with the participants. From their point of view, an important point is to keep certain areas free of development. It will also be about the chapel field, i.e. the free areas north of the Infineon Campeon, where the municipality of Neubiberg would like to locate businesses. Because all in all, the Hachinger Tal, where the Kapellenfeld is located, plays an important role in the fresh air supply of Munich and the neighboring communities.
“We want such a huge issue to be dealt with inter-communally.”
According to the Bund Naturschutz, around 13 hectares of undeveloped land in Bavaria are currently “used up” every day, which corresponds to around 18 football pitches. And sealed surfaces contribute to warming within communities as they store and release solar energy to the environment; sealed areas also mean that surface water can no longer seep away. “If it keeps getting hotter and drier, it will affect all areas such as living and building,” says Claudia Köhler from Unterhaching. An important point in this context is keeping areas free and unsealing them. You have to see where cold air comes from, which areas are important for fresh air and where such areas should be created. “We want such a huge issue to be dealt with inter-communally,” she says. The chapel field will also be an issue, as she confirms when asked. According to the results of the draft of the microclimate-ecological report commissioned by the city of Munich and presented to the affected communities by the Munich planning department in the spring, building on the chapel field is possible under certain conditions. As Neubiberg’s mayor Thomas Pardeller (CSU) explained to the SZ at the time, care must be taken in the event of development that the cold air volume flow on the chapel field is impaired as little as possible. Köhler, on the other hand, understood the report to mean that it would be good to leave the chapel field as undeveloped as possible because of its function as an area where cold air is produced. That’s how she sees it now. She also advocates taking precautions when dealing with the areas as a whole. “We have to think about how we can protect our air and water in good time,” she says.
Your party colleague Christian Hierneis, environmental policy spokesman for the Greens in the state parliament, proposes in view of the sinking groundwater levels and heat in the cities to convert the cities into so-called sponge cities. These are designed in such a way that “the rainwater does not run off quickly, but seeps away or is stored in the ground and is available in dry periods,” he says. He also sees a solution in preserving green spaces, fresh air corridors and the trees. All of this is to be discussed on Tuesday, also against the background of how citizens and nature would benefit from it.