2023-04-17 22:00:15
Innsbruck (OTS) – Tyrol is a favorable location for real estate speculation. Leisure residences and chalet villages are also reducing the scarcity of land and land, which is why the Fall of Man requires a land-political purgatory for orderly regional development.
With almost seven percent permanent settlement in Tyrol, political thought must be given to what is being built and why. And how the communities want to use the valuable land. The mountains cannot be flattened into building land. The sins of the past are piling up to become political challenges in land management today. 3500 hectares of building land have been hoarded for decades, which means that the property market is becoming tighter. The result is skyrocketing building land prices.
(Municipal) politicians have half-heartedly opposed leisure residences in prime tourist locations, with 16,365 approved and 10,000 illegal leisure properties covering the country. The “cold” beds bring only a small added value in terms of tourism, but the price spiral for building land continues to spiral upwards. Nevertheless, state politics fell into the next land policy trap.
Investor models finance new guest beds with little hotel character, at the same time they open the door to unauthorized leisure residences. Space-eating chalet villages finally thwart the new path in Tyrolean quality tourism. Not to mention the land-saving construction and the effort to get hold of affordable land for socially acceptable housing. The misguided land policy now has to be corrected with political effort in order to prevent speculation with concrete gold.
The new spatial planning amendment should be judged from this perspective. The ban on new leisure residences in 142 municipalities with particularly high pressure on the housing market should be without alternative. The obligatory hotel infrastructure with at least half-board for large accommodation establishments and chalet villages is intended to reduce their attractiveness and curb the demand for investor models and alpine lodges. In terms of regional development and tourism. Only the mayors have to actively control and decouple the dedication and land management from the previous clientele politics.
The mobilization of building land that has already been dedicated, on the other hand, remains the big unknown: the planned building land tax might be a lever for this, in Salzburg it has been in force since this year. For 1000 square meters, an infrastructure fee of 1400 euros has to be shelled out there. Ultimately, there is no solution in land politics, but only purgatory with a package of measures to iron out political sins.
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