18 so-called chain houses are built in Jeginger “Mühlholz”. It’s mostly families who want to move into their new houses around September, for ten of them the dream of a house has temporarily – or temporarily – come to an end. Because of a missing wording in an RSB letter, their houses have been on grassland and no building land for a week.
As reported in the OÖN, the Constitutional Court overturned significant parts of the Jeginger zoning plan after a complaint from residents. The reason: “significant procedural violation”. That’s what it’s all about: In 2016, six plots of land were converted from green to building land. The project was announced on the notice board in the Jeginger municipal office, and the residents received an RSB letter – “without the exact wording that the residents can object to,” explains VP Mayor Christoph Weitgasser when asked by OÖN. The dog is buried here. At the time, however, things were going according to plan: A Walser company applied for a building permit in 2019, and the mayor granted the permit in May 2020. The construction of the residential complex is now well advanced, and the screed is currently being laid and the walls plastered.
Back to the beginning
A resident fears, among other things, “massive, health-damaging noise emissions” from the construction project and sent a complaint to the regional administrative court in Linz. This dismissed the complaint, also because the neighbor had not given any opinion in the hearing procedure for the reclassification. The person concerned turned to the Eggelsberg lawyer Gerald Priller, who lodged a complaint with the Constitutional Court in Vienna. With success, because due to the lack of wording in the RSB letter, the residents were not given the opportunity to bring arguments against the construction project and that is illegal.
Now it says back to the beginning: “There is nothing that cannot be rehabilitated. We are in good spirits and are working closely with the state on high pressure. Nevertheless, all deadlines must be met, and we will have to reckon with a six-month delay. It also depends on how quickly the authorities work. But everything has actually been approved before,” says the mayor, adding: “It’s very unfortunate. It’s about families, some of whom have already sold their homes and have their children enrolled in school or kindergarten.”
At the time of the talks with Mayor Weitgasser, no construction freeze had been imposed.
Source: Nachrichten
