Planning association for the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main conurbation
The planning association for the Frankfurt / Rhein-Main conurbation was a corporation under public law and responsible for land use and landscape planning in the conurbation around Frankfurt am Main . In addition, he was an important player in the field of intermunicipal cooperation and the initiator of numerous projects in the urban and surrounding area of Frankfurt. The “Law on the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region” of March 8, 2011 regulates the legal succession of the planning association for the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main conurbation.
Since April 1, 2011, the new association has been called the FrankfurtRheinMain Regional Association .
Legal basis
The association was founded on April 1, 2001 by a Hessian state law. The basis was the "Act to Strengthen Municipal Cooperation and Planning in the Rhine-Main Region" (Ballungsraumgesetz, BallrG) of December 19, 2000. This also saw a council of the region consisting of mayors and district administrators responsible for the strategic control of the intra-regional cooperation should be responsible for setting up “voluntary” special purpose associations by the municipalities concerned. These should replace the sponsorship tasks previously incumbent on the Frankfurt Umlandverband , freed from the restriction of only being active within the association's territory. The second article of the law (law on the planning association for the Frankfurt / Rhein-Main agglomeration area, PlanvG) regulated the establishment of the planning association as the third pillar of the regional organization. The planning association was the legal successor to the surrounding association of Frankfurt (UVF), which was dissolved by the urban area law , a city-surrounding association that has been responsible for planning, sponsorship and implementation tasks in the urban region that are important across the municipalities since its foundation in 1975.
Structure of the FrankfurtRheinMain metropolitan region according to the Urban Area Act 2000 The former surrounding association was politically very controversial and was mainly questioned by the bourgeois parties. After they took office in Hesse in 1999, efforts were made to dissolve the UVF in order to return competencies to the municipalities and districts. The structures created by the Metropolitan Area Act were far less binding than the earlier ones. The planning association also had significantly fewer competencies than the previous surrounding association, as in contrast to the surrounding association (multi-purpose mandatory association) it only had the character of a mandatory association for planning tasks.
Members
In addition to Frankfurt and Offenbach, as well as 73 other municipalities belonged to the planning association. In Art. 1, § 2 of the BallrG, the statutory delimitation of the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main agglomeration with these 75 municipalities was defined. It does not coincide with the expansion of the FrankfurtRheinMain metropolitan region . Rather, the association area comprised the narrower urban region of Frankfurt as well as the neighboring rural areas in the Hintertaunus and Wetterau regions to the north . Member municipalities were the independent cities of Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach am Main , all municipalities in the Main-Taunus , Hochtaunus and Offenbach districts , the northern part of the Groß-Gerau district around Rüsselsheim am Main , the western part of the Wetterau district (the communities of the former Friedberg ) as well as the western part of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis (former Hanau district ) with the special status city of Hanau . The association came together exclusively from the cities and municipalities, not from the districts. The core cities on the edge of the Rhine-Main conurbation and their respective surrounding regions were not members of the planning association, nor were the cities of Wiesbaden and Darmstadt located on Hessian territory .
tasks
According to § 2 PlanvG, the tasks of the planning association consisted of the following tasks compared to the forerunner surrounding association:
- Preparation of the regional land use plan (RegFNP) for the 75 member municipalities;
- Creation of the landscape plan for the association area in accordance with Section 4, Paragraph 2 of the Hessian Nature Conservation Act;
- Participation in intermunicipal cooperation.
organs
The planning association has an association chamber as a decision-making body and an association board as a governing body. The association chamber, which met once a month in a plenary hall in Frankfurt's Römer , acted as the association's parliamentary body and decision-making body . The governing body, the association's board of directors, consisted of an association director, a full-time first councilor and an honorary councilor. A delegate from each member municipality was sent to the association chamber, but they had a different number of votes depending on the number of inhabitants in the municipality. The representative of the city of Frankfurt had twelve, that of Offenbach four, the Hanaus three, the representatives of Bad Homburg and Rüsselsheim two each, the other municipalities one vote. The return to the delegate principle reflected the lower competencies of the new association; the association day of the UVF was elected directly by the citizens. The association was based near the main train station in Frankfurt.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ "Law on the FrankfurtRheinMain Metropolitan Region" of the Hessian State Parliament, of March 11, 2011, (GVBl. II 330-48)
- ↑ "Law to strengthen municipal cooperation in the Frankfurt / Rhein-Main agglomeration" (Agglomeration Act, BallrG) of December 19, 2000, (GVBl. I p. 542)
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 27 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 39 ″ E