Spatial Planning and Development Concept for South West Munich

The entire region of South West Munich is currently contending with seemingly insurmountable traffic problems. The gridlock is particularly severe along the various district thoroughfares. Infrastructure solutions that centre on the building of bypass roads tend to have a negative impact at on a system as a whole. Given the intractable nature of the problem, the various municipalities in South West Munich have joined forces to draft a spatial planning and development concept that will serve as a basis for a mutually acceptable, long-term solution.

EBP has been appointed to an interdisciplinary project consortium that has been formed to support the municipalities in their efforts to reach a consensus in the context of a moderation process. The enterprise is also playing an advisory role as a recognised traffic expert.

The aim of the project’s first phase is to produce a sufficiently accessible assessment of the area under investigation on the basis of a prior analysis of the existing settlement and transport system, as well as of concerns relating to the surrounding landscape. This assessment is to serve as a means of helping the municipality representatives participating in the moderation process gain a deeper appreciation of the interdependencies that exist between the crucial factors of settlement, transport and landscape.

Various development scenarios are to subsequently serve as a basis for discussions about long-range development goals and the priority of solutions based on internal development, i.e. as opposed to evasive external development. Indeed, solving the region’s thoroughfare traffic problems and thereby enhancing the attractiveness of the various municipalities will depend to a large degree on an improved alignment of the settlements in question to the public transport network (e.g. light-rail stations and bus stops).

Using the results of the discussion process as a basis, the project team is to formulate specific local and regional measures for all of the participating municipalities. These measures will relate to the subjects of settlement development, housing, public space utilisation, recreation, landscape conservation and transport efficiency. All of the developed measures are to be compiled in a regional vision of the future and are to be implemented with the help of a regional management team. The intercommunal cooperation that is initiated in the context of arriving at a spatial planning and development concept is to be continued into the future.