The Municipal Development Advisory Board Weißwasser/O.L. presented its recommendations for sustainable urban development to the City Council and Lord Mayor on 24 April. The advisory board had the demanding task of developing a comprehensive sustainability concept - a challenging task in a group of 28 advisory board members with diverse perspectives and interests. The dialogue resulted in a catalogue of concrete proposals for measures focusing on the areas of energy production and saving, climate protection/adaptation, species protection and the sensitive use of water. The recommendations supplement the measures of the integrated urban development concept as a "sustainability sub-strategy". For the members of the advisory board, they are not only an opportunity to do more for the ecological sustainability goals in the city, they also serve the attractive design, identity through participation and thus the quality of life in the city. A citizens' energy co-operative is already being founded.

The advisory board also organised a competition with three prizes worth 10,000 euros each. The three winning projects will see solar panels installed at the railway station to charge mobile phones, a meadow orchard planted and deposit rings attached to the city's rubbish bins.

The handover of the strategy marks the end of an intensive meeting phase. Around 25 members of the Advisory Board worked together on the strategy over four meeting days between August 2023 and January 2024. The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection funded the project via the KoMoNa - Municipal model projects for the implementation of ecological sustainability goals in regions undergoing structural change.