Hütten military-housing plans staying on schedule, mayor says

Hütten military-housing plans staying on schedule, mayor says
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, February 10, 2008

GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — Design flaws should not delay plans to build a 300-unit U.S. military housing area near Grafenwöhr by the end of next year, according to Grafenwöhr mayor Helmuth Wächter.

Last year, German government officials gave a green light to the build-to-lease off-post housing area for U.S. soldiers at Hütten, a small farming village a few miles south of Grafenwöhr Training Area. Under the plan, the houses will be built by a private investor and leased to the U.S. Army.

The Grafenwöhr City Council’s construction committee reviewed and approved a zoning plan for Hütten, Wächter said Thursday. However the plan did not meet the Army’s expectations or those of the German Federal Facility Management Agency, which procures housing for U.S. troops based in the country, he said.

“The houses were too close together. They were supposed to be four-unit complexes but some complexes in the design had five or six units,” he said.

The concept of the housing area reflected in the contract with the U.S. government was not shown in the plan, he added.


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uhc comment: File this under privatized military housing.