The urban sprawl initiative adds to the cost of Living

Who doesn't love the green, unspoilt landscapes? Whom it does not hurt if in the Alpine resorts of wilderness, sophisticated cities grow, or if in the village the last farm received? Exactly this longing for the green landscapes and the urban sprawl initiative on the first sight.

This people's initiative, the young Green-will in time prohibit unlimited, so irreversible, new building zones rigorously, if not elsewhere, a green area "of at least equal Size and comparable potential agricultural income value of the building zone is ausgezont".

The publicity around the urban sprawl initiative is all about Soil and landscape protection. However, many people are not aware that this is a referendum, it would be accepted, building land exactly where more expensive, where it is most needed. It adds to the cost of Living in the Agglomeration and the tenant is hostile. The required building zones exchange between town and country is a pious wish.

Video – Drone: Here, the urban sprawl of Switzerland is visible

The scarcer a Good, the more expensive it will be. The Federal office for spatial development confirmed this land inflation with an evaluation of the Swiss Federal statistics from 2012 to 2017 (study driving countries). Their conclusion: "it Is assumed that the urban sprawl initiative and the building zone on the national level, on the present state of frozen, this results in large Parts of Switzerland to higher real estate prices."

to assess the I have had 13 years as President of the Swiss tenants ' Association (German Switzerland), previously several years of the Bernese, and I mass me, the housing and construction market from a tenant perspective to some extent. From a social policy point of view, I would warn against this Initiative. It is surprising that the Swiss tenants ' Association was neutralized, and now on a response to this Initiative with tenants political explosives waived. The Association's internal critics say, because politicians have in the Association management, the tenants ' interests of party policy – something that is denied.

The initiators and some of the Ortsplaner propagate as a replacement for the land consumption will be of the "inward settlement development" with an "internal compression". That sounds good, but the reality is this: Where is, in old buildings, flats or be expanded, because tailor-made, extremely expensive. And where Neuüberbauungen arise, is built into the height, usually with less green space per inhabitant, less room for movement in sterile settlements with fewer playgrounds for children. The experience with compacted high-rise neighbourhoods of Le Lignon (Geneva) via Bümpliz (Bern) to Oerlikon, the first Generation mix; in the second Generation, a social segregation to be running slowly to the ghetto districts and school classes with over 20 foreign-language children.

the adoption of the urban sprawl initiative would make the cities even more commuters.

Now, there are instruments in place for a rational, price-stabilising origin. It would take a higher-level instance, the necessary force if a Federal exchange. But it is precisely such a lack of Initiative. It would also hoarding restrictions for land and pre-emption rights of municipalities. Also they are missing. The bourgeois Parliament is certainly restricted with a land exchange obligation, the municipal and cantonal autonomy.

exponents of the initiative Committee are accusing a family house settlements in the country of consumption. Such a polemic against the "Verhäuselung Switzerland" ignores the fact that the residential and housing estates today is a greater biological diversity with trees, shrubs, gardens, nesting boxes, pools than the Corn-, rapeseed - and grain fields next door in a agriculture, the fights eh surpluses with Production.

Would be accepted by the urban sprawl initiative, the housing in view of the demographic and immigration pressure even more into the Hinterland displaced to villages with existing reserves of Building land. The cities it would bring even more commuters. Exactly those in remote areas, displaced settlements destroy the landscape. The urban initiative acts as the landscape contactor, the Japanese counter-productive, the Federal Council.

The landscape is urban sprawl
outside the building zones, with the exception of authorisations for the construction lobby will press for.

Therefore, has distanced itself the Foundation for the protection of the landscape, which had launched the countryside initiative, the urban sprawl initiative. In the run-up to this referendum in the various landscape protection associations tried to move the young initiators of a realistic formulation, but technically unencumbered young party sought their own radical profiling.

The Federal Council rejects the extreme urban sprawl initiative and refers to the people of adopted spatial planning act, the forces already building land-return zonungen, where building zones are too big. By the end of April 2019 and all the cantons have to submit their indicative plans, which must be approved by the Federal government. Soon a second spatial planning revision is imminent, with the construction outside the building zones limited. Also, Pro Natura, and other landscape protection associations want to make with a popular initiative to pressure, in order to protect the landscape outside of the building zones. Such is urgently needed. Because the landscape is not within the settlement, but outside the building zones with Thousands of the exception of authorisations for the construction lobby will press for urban sprawl. This trend must be combated in a more targeted, rather than the agglomeration of municipalities and cities is a price driver of the corset, to impose.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 21.01.2019, 18:01 PM