Munich rejects new residents' underground car park for Franziskanerstraße parking zone

Munich's mobility department has rejected calls for a new residents' underground car park in the Franziskanerstraße permit parking zone. It has also refused to convert parking spaces on Sieboldstraße so that teachers and examiners can park outside a vocational school.

The proposals came in a motion dated 12 February 2025 from city councillors Ulrike Grimm, Hans-Peter Mehling, Manuel Pretzl and Thomas Schmid of the CSU with Freie Wähler group on the city council. They asked the city to examine building a residents' underground car park on public land in the zone. They also asked for the spaces on Sieboldstraße alongside the municipal vocational and master craftsman school to be changed to mixed parking, or adapted in another suitable way, so that teachers and examiners could drive to the schools and park there.

In his reply, Georg Dunkel, head of the mobility department, said that in recent years the city had funded additional residents' parking spaces in Regerstraße and Welfenstraße, well within 400 metres of Franziskanerstraße. The money came from payments made in lieu of providing parking spaces. According to the operator, around 90 spaces at the two sites were still available for long-term rental by residents in April 2026, at a current monthly rent of roughly 107 to 130 euros including tax. Given this, the department said neither the level of demand nor the principles of economy and thrift justified examining an additional residents' car park or funding one from these payments.

On Sieboldstraße, the department said the street lies in a permit parking zone with very high pressure on parking, which falls heavily on residents who have no spaces on private land. It said visitors to the vocational school can use mixed parking spaces within reasonable walking distance, for example on Sieboldstraße south of Barnabasstraße and on Franziskanerstraße, where charges apply on weekdays from 9am to 11pm. It added that reserving spaces on public streets for the school's teachers and pupils is not possible under road traffic regulations.

The motion had already been dealt with by the city council's mobility committee on 28 January 2026, as part of a collective decision on outstanding council and district committee matters. The department said the council therefore does not need to consider it again and regards the matter as closed.