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The fuss about new restaurants on the Arbon lake shore is a tragedy
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The canton does not want to approve the planned container village on the harbor dam à la “Frau Gerolds Garten” in Zurich. The city and the initiators of the project are rightly disappointed.
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As early as 2017, a project for a restaurant on the harbor dam failed.
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For the second time the plans for a restaurant on the pier are shattered. The city assumed that the canton would turn a blind eye. However, he denies having given the prospect of an exemption. It should have been clear to everyone from the start that one is needed and that a large catering business will hardly be able to meet the criteria. It is therefore absurd for the canton to subsequently justify its no to “Hannah am See” with it. Then he could have said from the start that he would only tolerate one ice cream stand or something.
There are already two buildings on the pier. On the one hand the lifesaver container, on the other hand the harbor master’s house with kiosk economy. The limit distance of 15 meters, which the canton prescribes for the initiators of the container village, does not apply to either of them. There is only five meters of land between the buildings and the water. Of course, the lawyers will give good reasons why things are one way and another. You don’t have to understand the explanations. And just as little you have to understand why the strict rules should not apply to the adventure playground of the Swiss Lake Constance Shipping on the bunker meadow in Romanshorn. According to the plans, the camping huts will be right next to the harbor wall. You certainly shouldn’t ask yourself how it is possible that the Tiki Bar in Goldach serves drinks right on the water. Sure, different canton, but the lake is the same, one would think.
The President of the Arbon Parliament, Ueli Nageli, compared politics to a circus this week. Maybe he thought politicians were sometimes a joke. But what Arbon is currently experiencing is not laughable. It’s a tragedy that makes you cry.
The people of Arbon shouldn’t give up hope and try their luck again with the new building director of the Canton of Thurgau. His name is Dominik Diezi and he will be Mayor of Arbon until the end of the month. At his public farewell, he promised not to forget Arbon. If not he, who can untie the knot?
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