As part of a 1 1/2-day future workshop with stakeholders from a wide range of areas (tourism, retail, nature conservation, agriculture, etc.), various fields of action emerged as a core result. In a subsequent editorial meeting, these results were reviewed, refined and expanded, and finally assessed according to their importance for the region.
Central areas of action in the Blue Land
Fields of Action
Project ideas
The central areas of action at a glance:
What do we want to achieve?
- Reduction of private transport
- Attractive public transport offering with mobility centers
- Reduction of parking spaces (conversion of areas, parking space management, mobility centers, mobile home parking spaces)
- Expansion of the cycle path network
- Optimization of rail connections
What needs to be done (areas of action and projects)?
- E-car sharing
- Blue country bus
- Double-track railway expansion Weilheim-Hechendorf
- Expansion/improvement of cycle paths + networking of localities
- 1/2 hour service Munich-Murnau + direct connection Munich-Oberammergau
- Joining MVV
- Active parking area management
What do we want to achieve?
- Create affordable housing
- New living concepts & construction concepts (e.g. multi-generational projects, tiny homes, shared apartments, care farms)
- Reduce land consumption
- Preserve/include existing resources (preserve the townscape)
- Green building / close to nature / shading
What needs to be done (areas of action and projects)?
- Revise local planning regulations
- Change development plans: densification
- Acceleration of the building permit process
- Old & Young: Living space that is too large vs. space requirement => Offer incentives and new concepts
- Strengthening a sense of community and raising awareness of new forms of living
What do we want to achieve?
- A good cooperation between the different groups
- Reduce prejudices/fears/strengthen “weaker” people
- Create meeting places and enable experiences
- Change in consciousness
- Keeping young people in the village
- raise awareness of local products from craft businesses.
What needs to be done (areas of action and projects)?
- Mentors / sponsorships á la “I’ll take you to our village festival / to pray”
- A booklet / village guide / instructions for use “This is how our village works” with general parts and community-specific content
- New forms of living
- Neighborhood support platform
- Old & Young apartment information platform or communication of events
- Explain village life/customs in kindergartens/primary schools
- Seniors talk about the past (their childhood, village history)
What do we want to achieve?
- Preservation and restoration of the cultural and natural landscape, re-wetting
- Preservation of biodiversity, species diversity, habitats for rare species and animals
- Open-space photovoltaic systems instead of biogas / energy crops
- Hydrogen from manure / organic waste
- Awareness creation / sensitization / education
- Nature-related visitor guidance
What needs to be done (areas of action and projects)?
- Promoting the appreciation of small-scale agriculture
- Preservation and restoration of natural and cultural landscapes (meadow orchards)
- Introduction of Digital Ranger: digital information about protection zones in digital platforms
- Establishment of energy cooperatives
- Mandatory program for schools/daycare centers to raise awareness, children's environmental association
- Higher compensation payments to farmers for landscape management and species protection
- Circular economy (repair cafés, exchange checks, recycling at recycling centers, etc.)
What do we want to achieve?
- Promote flexible working time models
- Creating co-working/co-living spaces for locals and out-of-towners
- Create an attractive wage level (high minimum wage, being able to afford a good life with honest work)
- Create craftsmen's farms (efficient use of infrastructure)
- New “Working & Living” concepts
- Employee and machine sharing
- Mobile communications and internet expansion
What needs to be done (areas of action and projects)?
- Educate and communicate
- Identify and plan locally suitable buildings/areas
- Everyone for themselves - do it!
- Establish cooperative models and companies
- Record the current status, identify and implement deficits
What do we want to achieve?
- Uniform guest card
- Invigorate times when there is less capacity utilization
- Positioning as a sustainable region
- Strengthen positive attitudes towards tourism
- Strengthening stay tourism
- Better management of day guests
- Promote quality tourism (sustainable, high quality, gentle, individual)
What needs to be done (areas of action and projects)?
- Branding Blue Land
- Bad weather offers (rainy hike, culture / museums / exhibitions, shopping, farm visits, etc.)
- Data collection for visitor flows
What do we want to achieve?
- Our products are processed and marketed in the region
- Small-scale businesses are strengthened and maintained.
- The valuable work of agriculture is more recognized and respected
- The dialogue between consumers and farmers is strengthened.
- Regional controls should also be sufficient for regional direct marketing.
- Raise awareness of alternative business models for agricultural businesses.
What needs to be done (areas of action and projects)?
- Positive reports to educate about the value of agriculture and its work for the region (especially in the new media).
- Put food production at the center of teaching in schools.
- Maintain regional sales structures (e.g. district slaughterhouse) and open up new avenues (welcome basket apartments, events, joint communication from farm shops
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