Popular Sustainable Settlements 2018

From May to December 2018, the following sustainable settlements and neighbourhoods were the most accessed in the sdg21 web database:

	Settlement / Neighbourhood
1.	Bielefeld Forest Spring
2.	Ecostation Freiburg
3.	ESA student dormitory Kaiserslautern
4.	Hundertwasser House "Waldspirale
5.	IBA Block 6 Berlin
6.	ÖFrasenweg" housing estate
7.	Signal box 60 Cologne-Nippes
8.	Am round Berlin
9.	Ecological settlement Geroldsäcker Karlsruhe
10.	Solar City Wiggenhausen Friedrichshafen
11.	Student dormitory as mound houses Stuttgart
12.	Building Biology Settlement Friebertshausen
13.	Sustainable model district Vauban
14.	Farmsen trotting course
15.	French Quarter Tübingen
16.	Hermannsdorf agricultural workshops Hanover-Kronsberg
17.	Cologne-Blumenberg eco-settlement
18.	S.U.S.I. Freiburg
19.	Eco-settlement Allermöhe Hamburg
20.	Beguinage Bremen

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Höfken: "We are continuing to expand our successful solar offensive".

"Solar energy is a fundamental pillar of the energy transition. In order to further support this and to achieve our goal - a complete power supply from renewable energies by 2030 - we are further expanding our successful solar offensive: In addition to expanding the solar storage programme, which is in high demand, we are currently developing a solar register for Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, we will also promote solar carports, balcony plug-in modules, wall boxes or agro-PV projects in the future," announced Environment and Energy Minister Ulrike Höfken during the event under the motto "Solar Offensive Rhineland-Palatinate: Investments for Climate and Economy" as part of the series "Wednesdays at the MUEEF" in Mainz today. Together with guests from the solar industry, nature conservation and citizen energy, she discussed the opportunities of solar energy for the state, for example through the economic factor of the Solar Offensive or cooperative PV projects.
Rhineland-Palatinate is investing an additional 14 million euros alone in climate-friendly solar energy from the Corona-related second supplementary budget. Because energy from the sun not only protects the climate, but also stimulates the economy and generates added value and jobs in Rhineland-Palatinate, Höfken continued.

Solar storage programme: more than 3,250 applications submitted
Solar storage enables solar energy to be used even when it is cloudy or dark. "In order to cover more of their own needs from renewable energy sources, we support private households, schools, municipal properties, charitable institutions and companies in investing in a solar storage system in addition to a PV system. With success: more than 3,250 applications have already been received by the Energy Agency. And with the additional funds we can support many more projects", explained the Minister. The trades in particular benefit enormously from these investments: 1,000 new PV roof systems with solar storage bring around 19 million euros of investment to Rhineland-Palatinate, Höfken concluded.

Background:
By 2030, the electricity supply in the state is to be generated entirely from renewable energies. Every second kilowatt hour of electricity generated in Rhineland-Palatinate already consists of energy from wind, sun, biomass or water.
The solar offensive will contribute to further expanding the share of solar energy in the state. At the federal level, Rhineland-Palatinate is also campaigning within the offensive for the removal of obstacles and better legal requirements. For example, the Ministry of the Environment has lobbied in the Bundesrat for the abolition of the cap on installed PV capacity of 52 gigawatts without replacement.
In addition, the Solar Offensive includes the guideline on electric mobility in the state administration, an open space ordinance for the installation of PV systems on low-yield and species-poor grassland, as well as comprehensive advice and information from many partners.

Source: PM of the MUEEF RLP from 30.09.2020

Published 25. January 2018

City of Cologne reintroduces municipal right of first refusal

Housing to be created through more effective development of building sites

The City of Cologne has revoked its waiver of the exercise of the municipal right of first refusal with effect from 1 February 2018 and announced it in the Official Gazette of the City of Cologne. At the same time, the City of Cologne informed the Cologne Land Registry, the Cologne Chamber of Notaries and the Federal Chamber of Notaries of the revocation of its general waiver. The City of Cologne has thus cleared the way for an important legal instrument to secure its urban planning. The aim of the municipal right of first refusal is the more effective development of building areas, which in particular serves the creation of affordable housing in the still tight housing market in Cologne.

The right of first refusal is available to the city according to the legal requirements, for example, for the purchase of land

in the area of application of a development plan, insofar as it concerns areas for which a use for public purposes has been determined in accordance with the development plan,
in a reallocation area,
in a formally designated redevelopment area,
in the area of application of a land use plan, insofar as it concerns undeveloped areas in the outer area, for which a use as residential building land or residential area is shown according to the land use plan, or
in planned or unplanned areas that can be built on primarily with residential buildings, insofar as the properties are undeveloped.

The City of Cologne can thus designate by statute areas in which it has a right of first refusal in areas where it is considering urban development measures in order to ensure orderly urban development.

Insofar as the legal requirements for exercising the municipal right of first refusal are not met or the city does not intend to exercise its right of first refusal, it will issue corresponding certificates to the parties involved. Fees ranging from 61.69 euros to 89.11 euros will be charged for this. The contracting parties or notaries are now required to submit purchase agreements on real estate transactions in the Cologne city area to the responsible Office for Real Estate, Cadastre and Surveying for examination of the right of first refusal. The City of Cologne has a period of two months from the submission of complete documents in which to check the existence of the pre-emptive right and to execute its possible exercise.

On 18 May 2017, the Council of the City of Cologne decided by a majority to reintroduce the right of first refusal after the city had waived it since 1995.

Source: PM from 17.1.2018
www.stadt-koeln.de/...stadt-fuehrt-kommunales-vorkaufrecht-wieder-ein

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