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U-turn in the case of coffee Rheinanlagen

Stephan Wefelscheid
Deputy Group pilot. BIZ

Construction As in the previous BIS Newsletter No. 9 reported, the City Council at its meeting of 16th September 2010 at the request of the BIS Group entrusted the management, the change in the inventory is located Zoning No. 126 "Café Rheinanlagen and adjacent areas" to the effect that the maximum building height (§ 9 para 3 Building Code) with two of only up to shot is fixed. The administration should examine the feasibility of such a development plan and present to the City Council passed the results of the test.

vehement insistence on the BIS group was the administration's report then on the agenda of public City Council meeting set after the matter should be properly treated in the non-public portion of the meeting.

The Template Under the direction of the administration had in themselves: they informed that there are enough arguments seem to make such a restriction was legally established. Here, the government relies on a nationwide nursing report by December 2008. Was so dangerous about it: This report was the Council in consultation throughout its extent until now not available. So far, there was always the part of the Building Authority that a determination on two floors, especially in view of the higher buildings in the vicinity of the Cafés, rechtlich nicht machbar sei.

Diese "neue" Erkenntnis wurde vom gesamten Rat mit Unverständnis kommentiert:

"Unzählige Stunden habe man umsonst getagt und diskutiert. "Von der Verwaltung an der Nase herumgeführt" (Gerhard Lehmkühler, SPD), "Im Regen stehen gelassen" (Marion Lipinski-Naumann, SPD), "Von der Verwaltung hintergangen" (Anne Schuman-Dreyer, CDU), "Enttäuscht" (Andrea Mehlbreuer, Grüne): Der Baudezernent musste herbe Kritik einstecken.", berichtete die Rhein-Zeitung am 6. November 2010.

Der Baudezernent Martin Prümm (CDU) then declared that they had given the opinion originally no such high importance. An error that had to give as he is. He apologized before the full City Council.

The seemingly "new" law allowed only one logical conclusion: the chosen path of recent urban development contract no longer seemed viable. The BIS group called because of the mayor to explain the failed negotiations with the operator as.

It also saw all the other groups:

"Es dürften nicht noch schnell Fakten geschaffen werden, indem der städtebauliche Vertrag doch noch unterschrieben wird, forderte Hans-Jörg Assenmacher (CDU). "Dafür gibt es keine Geschäftsgrundlage mehr im Rat." Dieses Signal nahmen Oberbürgermeister Hofmann-Göttig und Prümm auf: Der Vertrag werde nicht mehr unterschrieben, gaben sie zu Protokoll.", war dann in der Rhein-Zeitung vom 6. November 2010 zu lesen.

Damit ist klar, dass die bisherigen Pläne für das Café Rheinanlagen gescheitert sind. Es liegt jetzt am Stadtrat as soon as possible to set up a development plan that has the proper legal and factual account of needs. And that is for the BIS group, that the maximum building height (§ 9 para 3 Building Code) is set up with only two bullets.

By January, the new development plan will be submitted to the committees. A new chapter has opened in the "struggle for Cafe. In light of recent events remains to be seen what plans the administration of the City Council will now present. We'll stay tuned ...