Overview
- On Wednesday Stefan Evers, newly named CDU lead candidate, told reporters the September Abgeordnetenhaus vote should decide whether to allow Randbebauung, or edge building, around Tempelhofer Feld.
- Evers said he will not seek a new citizens’ referendum and argued the 2014 Volksentscheid that barred development no longer reflects Berlin’s housing pressure.
- Evers claims edge building could provide homes for about 50,000 people while leaving the roughly 200-hectare central green area intact; that figure is presented as his estimate rather than an independent projection.
- The Greens and Die Linke continue to oppose any peripheral construction, citing the 2014 referendum result and the park’s role as a major public green space.
- Evers’s pitch follows last week’s withdrawal of Kai Wegner as CDU Spitzenkandidat after criticism of his January crisis statements, a change that could reshape the campaign by tying housing policy directly to the election outcome.