2023-09-11 14:56:10
Bernhard: “No money for too much pavement – it should no longer be worthwhile for states and communities to create huge concrete deserts.”
Vienna (OTS) – “Now the ÖVP and the Greens just have to listen to the experts,” says climate and environmental spokesman Michael Bernhard, following NEOS today received an important comrade-in-arms in the fight once morest insane soil sealing in the form of the economic research institute. “We NEOS have been calling for decisive action once morest rampant concreting for years. To do this, we need a federal framework law for spatial planning with a restriction on municipal competence. It should no longer be worthwhile for the mayors to slam one supermarket following another onto green fields and create huge concrete deserts.”
Bernhard is therefore calling on the federal government to work towards reducing soil sealing in the ongoing financial equalization negotiations by creating a strong financial incentive for states and municipalities: “If a federal state exceeds the specified land consumption limit, there should be less money from the federal government. Maybe the states and municipalities will then think twice regarding whether they need the huge parking lot in front of the supermarket or the next ‘Little Dubai’ like in Grafenwörth. Soil sealing is one of the biggest environmental sins that we can solve ourselves. The other parties just finally need the political will to do so. We finally demand actions instead of words – anyone who pours concrete has no right to benefit from it.”
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