The urban development contract, which the municipality has been negotiating with the company for a long time, is playing an increasingly important role in the construction management process of the Pullach municipality for the conversion and expansion plans of the chemical plant United Initiators (UI). But apart from the negotiating partners, who can probably be counted on one hand, no one has seen a single line of the draft, including not a single member of the municipal council. But now the spokesman for the Pullach Agenda 21, Peter Kloeber, is stepping up the pace and finding a supporter in Alexander Betz (FDP). Both are demanding that Mayor Susanna Millennial (Greens) and the municipal council decide on a public interpretation of the contract in the March 15 meeting. Both find it unacceptable that this contract between the municipality and UI is still the big unknown in the construction management process, although it mainly regulates the publicly disputed points such as production quantities, delivery traffic of hazardous substances, deforestation or emissions.
“As we understand it, legally secure public participation in land use planning also requires the public interpretation of the urban development contract,” the agenda application explains. All further procedural steps and measures can only take place when all contract documents have been made public, writes Kloeber. Otherwise the agenda and the citizens would not be able to give a qualified opinion without knowledge of the agreements
Councilor Betz complained that he was also not aware of the negotiations between the municipality and the developer on the urban development contract. “I am of the opinion that here – if not the public – at least the municipal council must be informed before the planning process can continue,” says a press release from the Free Democrats. He therefore endorses the motion on the agenda and requests that at least the municipal council be informed about the status of the negotiations at the next meeting before the interpretation takes place, “so that the municipal council can take further steps in relation to the interpretation and the progress of the planning process,” writes Betz and then adds a threat: “If the administration at least does not consider the latter to be necessary, I suggest consulting the legal supervisory authority at short notice.” Betz explains that he is of the opinion that the municipal council has a right to information here.