Freiburg (dpa / lsw) – The Freiburg FDP city councilor Sascha Fiek wants to bring the dispute over resident parking fees in the southern Baden city to the Federal Administrative Court. The “Badische Zeitung” had previously reported on it.
Fiek reported that his lawyer had filed the appeal. “The actual revision is still in progress,” said the city council on request. He wants legal clarity. This then applies nationwide, “so that all municipalities in Germany know what is legally permissible,” argued Fiek.
At the end of last year, the city had increased the fees for a resident parking permit from 30 to 360 euros per year. The Administrative Court (VGH) in Mannheim had rejected an emergency application by the city council against this new regulation. Fiek sees the additional costs as an unreasonable burden for many people. The administration did not provide any justification for the increase based on technical criteria and comprehensible calculation bases.
The VGH argued that the fee regulation aims to reduce inner-city traffic and thus the emission of greenhouse gases in a permissible manner. In addition, the resident parking fee compensates for the special benefit that residents derive from being exempt from mandatory general parking fees and parking time limits. (Az. 2 S 809/22)
