Whether the “UfA” project at the Urfahraner market area will ever be realized remains to be seen. While the water law approval is currently still missing, the city grandees are currently pondering the costs incurred for the planned water bay.
Another year is going by, and in the end nothing will have happened again at the Urfahraner market area in terms of redesign. Looking back: Planning to make the area more attractive has been going on for five years. First, the architect collective GUT presented the exciting design for the “Island for Linz”, whereby a branch of the Danube should have washed around the site. After these plans proved to be unfeasible, an agreement was finally reached on the “UfA” project: It includes a series of greening measures and the creation of a water bay. Approval is still pending And although the city officials said at the beginning of 2022 that they wanted the project to go ahead quickly move forward, nothing happened until the summer. The “Krone” then asked, and finally the authorities said: “The Danube Bay project could not be approved so far.” The responsible Green Party member, Stefan Kaineder, was confident and promised an early approval. It still doesn’t exist in the meantime, but that’s not the only reason why the euphoria of SP city boss Klaus Luger regarding the progress of the project is limited: “I just recently spoke to planning councilor Dietmar Prammer about it. If the approval comes and the bay can be realized for the around three million euros that were originally decided, we will do it. But if the project now costs seven or eight million because of the price increases, things look different.”
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