Actually, it says Dipl.-Ing. Michael Ahn, he'll be happy to Steinfurt. Only yesterday that was not the case. "I need them to introduce here an issue that I thought it was already abandoned long ago."
What he meant was the change in the land use plan, which had the spatial and material sub-area planning of wind energy in Steinfurt to content. Following the Council decision in autumn this has been communicated to the approval process at the district government of Münster.
On Tuesday night the Planning Committee voted on amendment repeals that decision and carry out the disclosure again.
Two decisions of the Federal Administrative Court of the summer had thwarted the ongoing process. The judgment had a direct relation to wind power and demanded a re-evaluation of the determined frequency for the determination of possible concentration zones. This judgment has already been taken into account as far as possible from the town of Steinfurt. The implementation of a UN directive, the so-called Aarhus Convention - according to which a wider public interested in environmental decision-making and the willingness to participate should be encouraged - on the other hand, has not been adequately met from the perspective of the district government.
"The UN calls from us, a knock-on effect to achieve with the citizens," said Ahn. After the ruling, the information provided by the City of Steinfurt enough not complete. A mere naming of environmental information, it is said, is not enough.
"As things stand, the current interpretation of the plans did not take place," said city planner Ahn. "We now have everything again revised and meticulously made Significant even clearer."
