In Zurich, started the ice cream season. Since the beginning of November, the three-art, ice-skating rinks open in Oerlikon, in the sports center Heuried and Dolder. Last Sunday, before the inputs are already long queues, as the city’s population for the first Time “Free on the ice”, invited. Alone in Heuried, nearly 2,500 people have participated in the occasion.
Since the opening of the new sports complex has increased the interest in ice skating. No wonder, therefore, wanted the SP-local councils Duri Beer and Barbara Wiesmann draw together with five co-by the city Council, whether or not the former second outdoor skating rink of the sports complex could one day be put back into operation and how this fallow land in General should be used.
More than just one sports
Now the answer to the written question is – and it shows that the city was already active. Because the building code is currently permitted on the fallow second outer field only during six weeks in the year, the operation of the temporary sports facilities, has submitted to the Zurich sports Department at the end of October a planning application, with the help of a year-round use of the two ice fields as “multiple sports area” would be possible.
All want to be on the ice: in Front of the sports complex Heuried has formed on Sunday, a long queue. (Image: PD/city of Zurich)
“The neighborhood is growing and the demand for sports surfaces is increased in the whole city. Since we can’t leave two of the big areas is just wasted,” explains the responsible head of Hansjürg Lüthi the procedure. “We hope that we will receive at the beginning of 2020, the licence.”
Flexible to use with mobile plants
not set, The city has been aware of for a specific use. You want to be able to adapt with mobile sports facilities, the temporary supply each of the needs of the population. The plants would, however, noise protection, open reasons, open only from 8 till 22 o’clock.
The outer fields in the Heuried: The red marked area is used for ice-skating, yellow is signed, the wasteland is inserted (image: Googlemaps)
The existing ice rink would be leaking in the summer, the bathing, so that, for example, table tennis, football or Volleyball may be played. For the fallow, in turn, the establishment of a Pumping tracks for bikers would be a possible Option. Such has operated the sports Department there earlier in the year, from April to may, while six weeks to-noise measurements for the planning application. The offer was very well received, says Lüthi. There have been various complaints – but mainly because of the Pumptrack was reduced again. Only a few have complained because of Kinderlärms.
Temporary ice rink is out of the question
but Whether on the wasteland in the Winter, a second ice rink can be operated with depends on various factors. In the original construction project for the sports center Heuried a second outer box was planned, but was cancelled for cost reasons in the case of a round of cuts. The need of the population and the sports clubs to ice is increased, however, in the meantime, the request exceeds the supply.
“A temporary ice rink is out of the question for a facility of the city of Zurich for ecological reasons.”Hansjürg Lüthi,
head of the sports Department of Zurich
“of Course, it would be useful to the wasteland, a second ice rink to set up and use the existing infrastructure of the sports complex. In the best case, you could cover the fields even,” says Lüthi. A temporary ice rink in the Winter at other Points in the city of Private will built, come for a facility of the city of Zurich, for ecological reasons, not out of the question. “The second ice-field would also need to have a refrigeration system, the waste heat can be used.”
city to examine feasibility
Since the beginning of may the city, you can now check whether a re-commissioning would be technically feasible. After that, you want to decide on the further course of action. Luthi says that there is in the entire urban area, no land reserves, or premises, which would be better suited to it, and “nowhere is such a project would be to implement more cost-effective.”
can be at the sports center Heuried anyway, still nothing changed. “Created an urban system, we may for at least three years, no structural changes of it – even when the planning one or the other was overlooked”, says Lüthi. In the case of the sports complex Heuried, this period of time 2020 runs. “Then new ideas can be introduced and, if necessary, implemented.”
Created: 12.11.2019, 15:36 PM
