The design of front gardens is often a tricky business. The area between the sidewalk and the front door is a kind of calling card. Well, some homeowners don’t care about the condition of this area, but not the community. Zoning plans regulate exactly how it should look there, in the front yard. In any case, Unterhaching has not yet planned a greenhouse at these locations. But that can change.
The application came from Lilienthalstraße, from the district near the Perlacher Forest. The front gardens are on the east side and the owners think: Here you could grow a few tomatoes, peppers, maybe cucumbers or lettuce under glass. The problem with this idea, however, is that such structures are only permitted in the garden behind the house, but by no means directly in front of the front door. The administration now found that it should be left at that. The request should be rejected, as greenhouses may only be built within the building limits. If this were to be postponed as an exception, everyone could come. “With this determination, the front garden area should be kept free of buildings, so that the character of a garden city is reflected”, is the argument from the town hall. After all, a lot of work has been done with the development plan, emphasized Mayor Wolfgang Panzer (SPD) in the building committee.
But most members of the committee did not find a greenhouse in the front yard of a garden city so reprehensible. Finally, there are also numerous playhouses and garden tool sheds in the residential area. And whether they are in front of or behind the house plays a subordinate role in the deliberations of local politicians in the case of covered flower beds. Because actually everyone likes the idea that people want to grow their own vegetables. Do you have to change the development plan accordingly. “When we talk about the climate, it is better if someone eats the tomatoes from their own greenhouse instead of buying those from Spain,” said CSU councilor Franz Felzmann.
The Greens also see the idea of ”self-sufficiency” as positive. Beate Gsänger is convinced that such a greenhouse would not interfere with the overall look, contradicting the view of the administration, which sees the basics of planning affected by such a construction project and therefore considers a greenhouse in the front garden to be no longer justifiable in terms of “urban planning”.
A majority in the committee still wanted to approve the greenhouse for the vegetable lover from Lilienthalstrasse. Mayor Panzer didn’t seem too happy about it and said: “I’m curious to see how many greenhouses people will set up.” We still have to talk about that.