Wiesbaden, the city, has this plan set up...to convert an area on the SE side of the city....from open farm-land....to a suburb....to be called the Ostfeld district.
If you asked me about how long this plan has been 'running'.....I would imagine ten-plus years.
How many people would end up in this new district? Well....minimum of 10,000.
So around a year or two ago....an environmental agency filed a lawsuit, and engaged in on the plan to halt the plan entirely. There were various reasons given....too much water to be required.....nesting grounds....urbanization....etc.
This past week....the state court stood up and said 'no'....there's to be no halt to the plan, and then issued a statement....there's to be no appeal. Well...naturally, the group has said they will go and appeal to the Constitutional Court....attempting to delay things another year (unless that court immediately says you have no appeal power).
How long will Ostfeld be delayed in the end? The city kinda believes they could start up the project in 2025, and have it done by 2029.
I expect court challenge after court challenge to occur. It'll shock me if the project gets done even by 2035.
What you have are two interesting issues now confronting the nation.....a fair number of Germans are attempting to prevent/halt urbanization and a fair number of Germans grumbling about the lack of affordable housing. Both groups are using political parties to even the playing field.
In the Wiesbaden case....once this district is done....the city population will likely be in the 310k range. I would also imagine that as much as you might think Ostfeld is the end-point....there's probably five or six more bulk projects being discussed....each in the range of 5k to 10k new residents.
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