Understanding allegations: Remove Uelzen residents to the city!

Understanding allegations: Remove Uelzen residents to the city!

in the Uelzen city estate, it is bubbling. Residents are outraged by the high contribution notices for the exchange of street lamps that were installed last year. One point particularly causes excitement: in the modest, the costs for a total of 34 trench bridges are noted, which cost 120 euros each. This adds up to an impressive 4080 euros plus VAT. Now the residents link their outrage with the accusations of usury and fraud. These allegations are rejected by the city and the commissioned construction company. The citizens' initiative, led by Matthias Heuer, plans to file a complaint and calls on the inspection of the filing into the final invoice of the construction company.

"There is something" - the citizens' initiative sees an example of unfair machinations in the exorbitant costs and suspected that the residents were not sufficiently informed when the trench bridges were set up in the city estate unnoticed. The construction company, on the other hand, remains calm and points out that all work through the city and an external engineering office were monitored, which is supposed to provide transparency. The city of Uelzen sees no reason to question the billed quantities and emphasized that a transparent tendering process was carried out.

comparison to other municipalities

The dispute over the costs for road construction projects is widespread, such as ndr.de. In numerous municipalities, residents have to pay themselves for road expansion. In Marne, for example, costs of 1.2 million euros are planned for the expansion of Klaus-Groth-Straße, with residents being confronted with amounts between 5000 and 20,000 euros. Citizens' initiatives such as Christian Stehli in Marne defend themselves against this practice, while in many places the mayors cannot offer relief due to financial bottlenecks.

In particular in Schleswig-Holstein, many municipalities have abolished the road construction contributions, which leads to different regulations. According to a survey, only about 20% of the cities in Schleswig-Holstein can make such contributions, while there are still around 60% in Lower Saxony. This partial situation has led to tensions in both the population and among the local policies.

look ahead

In Uelzen, many residents feel unevenly treated compared to other parts of the city, such as the Nordallee. While no contributions were made there, the residents of the city goods are faced with high costs. The city administration is accused of not guaranteeing sufficient equal treatment.

The citizens' initiative around Matthias Heuer is considering legal steps, possibly even a lawsuit before the administrative court. It remains to be seen whether a mutual solution can be found here or whether the matter continues to become a passionate dispute. While the residents urge the matter of clarifying the matter, developments in other municipalities show that the topic of road construction contributions is not only a hot iron in Uelzen. A fairer regulation, such as the model of recurring expansion contributions, could be a solution could be a solution.