Despite the defeat before the Munich administrative court, the alliance behind the citizens’ initiative “Stop urbanization” in Taufkirchen wants to continue the legal dispute about its admissibility. According to the court, the initiators have lodged a complaint against its latest decision, which is why the Bavarian Administrative Court will now deal with the issue as the next higher instance.
This procedure is not about the actual lawsuit that the alliance around the Taufkirchen local group of the Federal Nature Conservation (BN) has filed against the non-admission of its citizens’ petition by the municipal council. A court spokeswoman said it was still uncertain when a hearing would take place here. The current legal dispute rather revolves around an urgent motion that was filed with the lawsuit and should prohibit the town hall from further measures to create residential space in Taufkirchen – until a decision in the main proceedings. The background is the content of the referendum, which aims to set narrow limits to the population growth in the town. However, the court rejected the urgent application. And what’s more: in its justification it made it clear that it considers the referendum to be inadmissible.
As a result of the decision, the municipality has resumed several proceedings that had previously been put on hold due to the dispute. Two development plans were announced for the areas on Rotdornweg and Birkenstraße and on Riegerweg west of the supermarket. This was “certainly premature”, criticized BN chairman Jörg Pötke. He is now demanding from the municipality “that no building law for the free private market will be put into effect until the complaint procedure has been concluded.”