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Electric cars with E-plates will be allowed to park free of charge in municipal parking lots in Bonn in the future. This was decided by the Council in its meeting on Thursday, 22 September. It thus followed a draft resolution of the administration for the implementation of the Electromobility Act. In addition, parking spaces are to be set up at charging stations for e-cars and the charging infrastructure is to be further expanded in coordination with the Stadtwerke Bonn.
Read the complete press release here www.bonn.de/rat_verwaltung_buergerdienste/presseportal/pressemitteilungen/31844/index.html?lang=de
The city of Frankfurt is initiating the largest urban development project of recent decades: In the northwest, 550 hectares of current agricultural land between the Frankfurt districts of Niederursel and Praunheim and the neighboring towns of Steinbach and Oberursel are to be turned into a neighborhood with up to 11,400 apartments.
It will be interesting to see whether sustainability criteria will play a role in the new district. Frankfurt is well positioned in the energy sector, but in the other areas I see a need to catch up compared to other municipalities.
Further information on the construction site:
www.immobilien-zeitung.de/1000043938/frankfurt-will-neuen-stadtteil-auf-550-ha-bauen
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News Blog Hesse, Quarters, Settlements, XXL settlements
A most welcome piece of news reached the city of Aachen this morning (17 March 2021): Federal Minister Horst Seehofer has announced this year's selection of the "National Projects of Urban Development" and announced that the development of the Büchel old town quarter will receive up to 5.5 million euros in funding. Aachen is thus one of four municipalities in NRW to have been awarded the contract. With the amount of funding, the city is in third place nationwide.
OBin Keupen: "We feel the spirit of optimism!"
"This is a great message for our city," says Mayor Sibylle Keupen in her first reaction. "We have long felt the spirit of optimism around the Büchel in Aachen. The demolition of the multi-storey car park is imminent, the planning workshop was a great success, many groundbreaking political decisions have been made, and more are on the horizon. Above all, many city makers are on board and want to be involved in a very concrete way. They want to participate, to shape, to plan, to build. The fact that this high level of commitment of all those involved here on site has now also triggered such a response at federal level encourages us to continue on the path of 'making a city at Büchel'."
City Planning Director Burgdorff: "Aachen can play in the Bundesliga!"
The municipal councillor for urban development, construction and mobility, Frauke Burgdorff, adds: "I am extremely pleased that Aachen, if it sticks together, can also play in the Bundesliga! Aachen's politicians have united behind the project and have given their backing to the state and federal governments. Thank you for that! But I would also like to express my sincere thanks to those who have done the substantive work here on site, to the municipal project manager Nils Jansen as well as to Christoph Guth and Antje Eickhoff, who have done an excellent job on the part of the municipal development company SEGA."
Making town at the Büchel
A special piece of the city at eye level is to be created at Büchel. It is being developed together with many committed people and institutions. With this approach, it has also precisely met the requirements of the call for proposals. The Federal Ministry's project overview states: "Knowledge, living, meadow" are the keywords under which a mixed-use, urban quarter is to be created in the heart of Aachen's old town in a cooperative and exemplary development process that is wanted and supported by the urban community.
The basis for the development is the exploratory procedure "Stadt machen am Büchel" (Making a city at Büchel), which the city of Aachen launched in spring 2020. City Planning Director Burgdorff sums up: "A multi-storey car park has been blocking the development of the old town for decades. We are tearing it down and building a new urban quarter. The urban community itself is developing the programme, urban design and investment strategy. This project offers a unique opportunity to find answers to the question of how a major wound in the old city can be healed with contemporary building-cultural responses."
The next steps
Following today's basic commitment by the federal government to fund the project, the detailed applications for funding will be drawn up in phase 2. In this ongoing process - and on the basis of upcoming landmark decisions of Aachen's municipal politics - it will now be worked out how the Büchel of the future will take shape with the funding millions.
National urban development projects
National urban development projects are nationally and internationally visible, larger-scale urban development projects with clear impulses for the respective municipality or city, the region and urban development policy in Germany as a whole. They are characterised by a special quality standard with regard to the urban development approach, the building culture aspects and the participation processes, contribute to the realisation of the federal government's building policy objectives and have innovation potential. National urban development projects are projects that generally solve tasks and problems of considerable financial dimension. The focus is on the major challenges currently facing cities and municipalities in Germany (e.g. preservation of existing buildings, conversions, sustainable neighbourhood development).
A total of 24 projects for forward-looking urban development are being funded by the federal government with a total of around 75 million euros. 98 cities and municipalities from all over Germany applied for the funding.
More info
Interesting facts about the Büchel can be found on the Internet at
www.buechel-aachen.de
From Aprill 2021 the Demolition work on the Büchel multi-storey car park. All the info on this has been presented as part of an online event. The stream is still available on the YouTube channel of the city of Aachen:
https://youtu.be/KQqFq6v_edA.
Within the framework of a cooperative planning workshop, three teams of experts developed three exciting designs for the Büchel, each with a focus on the major themes of "knowledge, living, meadow". The final presentation of the planning workshop, which took place digitally in January 2021, is also still available as a stream:
https://youtu.be/AWSb5Gx3gKA.
Source: PM of the city of Aachen from 17.03.2021
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DE-News, Funding, New building area, News Blog NRW, Mix of uses, Participation, Quarters, City, Transition Town
Climate-active municipalities and regions wanted! The "Municipal Climate Protection" competition, which has been running since 2009, is now called the "Climate Active Municipality" competition and will run from January to the end of March 2016.
© Difu /Anna Jolk
The new name of the nationwide competition emphasises the comprehensive commitment of local authorities to tackling climate change. We are looking for cities, municipalities and districts as well as regions in which topics such as climate-friendly construction and renovation, climate adaptation, climate-friendly mobility, sufficiency or transnational climate activities play a role. We are looking for successfully realised and effective climate projects.
Together with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) organises the annual "Climate Active Municipality" competition (until 2015 the "Municipal Climate Protection" competition). Co-operation partners: German Association of Cities, German Association of Counties and German Association of Towns and Municipalities.
The nationwide competition gives municipalities and regions the opportunity to present their successfully realised climate projects to a broad public and serve as a good example for others. To this end, we support the winners in publicising their award-winning projects. Among other things, the winning projects are presented as a film and in a competition documentary. The winners of the "Climate Active Municipality 2016" competition will be presented at the Municipal conferencewhich was published on 28 and 29 November 2016 in Berlin will be publicly announced and awarded prizes.
The winning municipalities will receive prize money of 25,000 euros each. The winners must reinvest the prize money in projects that serve to protect the climate or adapt to climate change and will be asked to name the measures before the award ceremony. In this way, the award does not mark the end of the activities, but is also the starting signal and motivation for continuing, optimising and for new activities. How the prize money from previous years was used.
The jury is made up of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, the Federal Environment Agency, the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Districts and the German Association of Towns and Municipalities.
The necessary application documents can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. There is a special application form for each category, which must be completed and submitted together with a detailed project description (see page 4 of each form). Multiple applications are possible. Please use a separate application form for each application. Please send your application documents by post or e-mail to: German Institute of Urban Affairs, Auf dem Hunnenrücken 3, 50668 Cologne, e-mail: klimaschutz@difu.de. Legal recourse is excluded.
The competition team will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the competition:
Telephone: 0221/340 308-12, e-mail: klimaschutz@difu.de
Keywords:
DE-News, Funding, Climate protection
