The controversial new industrial park for Oberschleißheim is now in the approval process. The “One Health Technology Campus” is to be built on an area of around 15 hectares south of Dachauer Strasse, which is to be primarily used by medical technology companies in close connection to the neighboring veterinary faculty of the University of Munich. For this purpose, 23 hectares of land must be removed from the “Munich North” conservation area. The municipal council started both procedures with 16 to 7 votes. Resistance came mainly from the Greens.
In the preparatory phase, the project was “discussed very intensively with all authorities involved,” assured Mayor Markus Böck (CSU). Planner Ingrid Dreer from “DB City Map” emphasized that “all issues have been given the best possible consideration”. Safety clearances to the listed Dachau Canal from the palace complex are maintained, as are the nearest residential developments in the Ertl settlement or on St.-Hubertus-Strasse, and biotopes between the university campus and the commercial area have been excluded from the area outline.
Between the campus of the veterinary faculty and the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) in the east and the new industrial park in the west, there will be a line with a potential expansion area for the LGL and with infrastructure facilities, such as short-term apartments, a day-care center, shopping facilities or restaurants. The result is a “campus of short distances,” said Dreer.
Greens reprimand the location
The commercial area is to be developed via the intersection of Dachauer Straße with the hoped-for bypass road from the west. A connection to St. Hubertus and Veterinärstraße is also planned in the east. At the beginning of the meeting, there were massive concerns from the citizens about these plans in the public question time. In the local council, Greens spokesman Fritz-Gerrit Kropp called this traffic connection “a catastrophe”. Since there is still no binding procedure for the bypass even after years of waiting, “we are planning to go into the blue here,” he complained.
Gaby Hohenberger (Greens) complained that the eastern connection via St.-Hubertus-Strasse should be kept small is a mess: “When the access is there, it is cemented.” She saw her fears confirmed that the heavily controversial expansion of the Veterinärstraße with the deforestation of the entire avenue of trees there would serve to develop the industrial park; It was justified with the need for two-way buses to the university campus.
The location of the commercial area is simply unsuitable because of the location in the landscape protection area and the traffic problems, argued the Greens and called for a reorientation to the once rejected alternative south of the university campus on Sonnenstrasse. Sebastian Riedelbauch (SPD) and Hans Negele (FW) also rejected the plans.
CSU, FDP and the clear majorities in the FW and SPD approved the start of the procedure. Peter Benthues (CSU) warned, “and do not talk to small and small things”. Casimir Katz (FDP) called the recurring demand to redraft decisions “bad style”.
As a third procedural step, it was decided to draw up a development plan for the industrial park. The local council had already commissioned the Asto Business Group from Gilching with the site development. It has now established an “Asto One Health & Technology Campus GmbH & Co KG” to handle the project. In addition to the close connection to the neighboring veterinary faculty and the LGL, they also want to maintain intensive contacts with human medicine at the LMU and the Technical University of Munich in order to implement the “One Health” idea, reported Bernd Schulte-Middelich from the company. The Helmholtz Center in Neuherberg should also be involved.