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The plans for a new school building and a near-natural district park in the Egelsee-Wyssloch area are now coming to the Bern city council and then to the people. The local council has passed the bill for the attention of parliament, as it announced on Thursday.
The template consists of a change to the zoning plan and a partial revision of the building regulations. If the city council gives the green light, the electorate is expected to make a decision on November 28, 2021.
The planning area includes the Egelsee-Wyssloch green space in the Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde district. It is already used today as a recreation room, but also as a school location.
Now the local council wants to develop it into a district park. At the same time, he would like to build a new schoolhouse in the park and convert the former Wysslochgut farmhouse into a day school. He wants to create urgently needed school space.
The planned district park will also include a park café at the western end of the Egelsee. The restaurant could be housed in the former disposal yard – or in a new building if the old disposal yard is demolished.
In 2017 there was already an experimental park café operation, which was met with both approval and rejection in the neighborhood. A legal dispute over the admissibility of a multi-year trial operation is still smoldering. Most recently, the administrative court of the city of Bern was right, according to which a park café was possible. The decision is not yet final.
The plans for a district park including a new school complex are also controversial. Resistance comes from the anglers and from Schosshalden-Ostring-Murifeld-Leist, among others. It is feared that the idyllic area around the Egelsee, which is the only natural small lake on Stadtboden, will be impaired.
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