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Darmstadt: Planning for the old clinic site in Eberstadt is making progress

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City takes up suggestions from the citizenry. The FDP parliamentary group makes a major request for the development of the area and the SPD wants to ensure the largest possible participation of citizens in the implementation competition.

About the future of the previous site of the Darmstadt Clinic in the district Eberstadt Investors, planning and architecture offices should think about it in the coming months. The city wants to hold an urban planning competition for the four and a half hectare area in May. Mayor Jochen Partsch and City Councilor Barbara Boczek (both Greens) announced this.

In the past few years, numerous citizens have also come out Eberstadt Objections to the project were raised within the framework of the district forum and their own suggestions were made for the further urban development of the area. Volker Meinhardt, who is responsible for the work of the thematic group for planning the Clinic premises Coordinated within the framework of the citizen participation body, the FR said that initially the citizens were “shocked” by the city’s plans to densify the site.

Old clinic premises in Darmstadt: Eberstadt district forum brings in ideas

Meinhardt confirmed the representation of Mayor Partsch and planning officer Boczek that in District forum Eberstadt The future of the area had been discussed “intensively and constructively”. The suggestions made by Topic Group 3, including on the possible uses of the listed buildings, had been taken up by the magistrate and were also “largely taken into account in the announcement of the urban planning competition,” said Boczek. According to Meinhardt, offices, practices, small businesses and offers for senior citizens, students or families should also be set up in the old buildings.

According to the resolution of the city council, the former clinic premises are to be used primarily for residential purposes. Infrastructure and social facilities are also included in the plans. The buildings should be three full storeys high on average. That is below average in the Rhine-Main conurbation and also corresponds to new buildings that are currently being built in other parts of the city.

Space for 410 apartments on the old clinic site in Darmstadt-Eberstadt

The equivalent of 410 residential units are to be built on a gross floor area of ​​just under 41,000 square meters. According to the city, the structural density will be “moderate”. High-rise buildings are not planned. In addition, intensive greening is planned. And the “green center of the quarter” should also be preserved, according to the city. Planning offices and investors can apply as part of the competition at the end of the quarter.

In accordance with the city council resolution from spring 2019, 20 percent of the apartments are intended for middle income. The 25 percent apartments for low incomes are to be realized elsewhere. This excludes urban areas with special development needs, social hot spots or former areas within the framework of social city projects.

Clinic grounds in Eberstadt: FDP Darmstadt makes a request for development

The FDP, however, has put a major request with 17 questions to the magistrate. And the SPD requests in an application to “ensure the greatest possible citizen participation within the framework of the implementation competition”. Because of the special location and structure of the area and the importance for the further development, including the social structure of the district, the development of this property “must be dealt with particularly sensitively”, the SPD parliamentary group leader Michael Siebel and the building policy group spokesman Oliver Lott justify the request.

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