Köstinger on a dialogue tour in Salzburg: Curbing land consumption together
Initiative “My Region – Home. Future. Living Space.” – Regional minister with a dialogue tour station in Elixhausen focusing on soil protection
Vienna (OTS) – Third stop on the dialogue tour “My region – home. Future. Living space.” From Federal Minister Elisabeth Köstinger in Elixhausen: “We want to put innovative ideas in front of the curtain, network people and ensure equal living conditions between town and country.” Part of the initiative is a dialogue tour that the regional minister took to Salzburg yesterday. In Elixhausen, Köstinger exchanged views with Sepp Schwaiger, the regional regional planning and agricultural councilor responsible in Salzburg, and the participants about the main topic of soil protection and the reduction of soil consumption.
“Space and floor are limited. “Curbing land use and sealing the soil are the order of the day. I am particularly pleased that, on my initiative, the federal, state and local governments have agreed to develop the ‘1st Austrian Soil Protection Strategy’ 80 percent on 2.5 hectares by 2030 This is a paradigm shift for the protection of our valuable soils “, says Köstinger and states:” Healthy soils are the basis for regions worth living in. They protect against floods and heat islands, store CO2, provide us with regional and shape our unique landscape. That is why I started my dialogue tour just to exchange ideas with the local people. Because we will achieve our goal if we all pull together. “
Schwaiger: Measures against the erosion of the area
In the course of the event, Salzburg’s regional planning and agricultural councilor Sepp Schwaiger refers to the sensible and sustainable handling of land: with a bundle of measures in regional planning and building law, we are now building over supermarkets, building starter apartments for young people and repealing existing buildings “, proves Landesrat Schwaiger continuously and adds:” We will continue to work consistently and thus contain the dying of urban sprawl and the erosion of land and make a significant contribution to the future quality of life and the safeguarding of important agricultural areas. “
The next stops on Federal Minister Köstinger’s dialogue tour are on December 10th in Fernbach St. Florian and on February 11th in Strass im Zillertal. More information about: www.meine-regionen.at
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