Overview
- Mayor Dieter Reiter and the SPD filed a motion to permit parking with two wheels on sidewalks wherever at least 1.60 meters of pedestrian space remains.
- The plan would be piloted in Laim and Moosach, with Reiter urging rapid signage and implementation if the city council approves the measure early next year.
- Reiter frames the move as a pragmatic response to months of stricter enforcement that ended years of tacit tolerance for partial sidewalk parking.
- Greens oppose a blanket approach as a safety risk for children, seniors and wheelchair users, arguing for street-by-street checks under a process slated to start in 2026.
- The issue touches hundreds of residential streets—SPD estimates about 550—with recent tickets of €55 and one Flensburg point intensifying tensions, including boos at a packed Laim town meeting.