He is 53 years old and lives in the Cathedral City since 1986. His party, the oDP, operates since 2004 in the Mainz City Council and is actively involved the local politics in Mainz. Click-mainz.de: what are your issues? Wilhelm Schild: affordable housing for all, noise and more citizen participation. Click-mainz.de: what do you mean exactly with affordable housing for all? Wilhelm Schild: There are too few small flats for students in Mainz and Geringverdiener.Ich think that in a city like Mainz apartments are needed households for 1 or 2 people, because there are very many students, single workers and the elderly. If a property, like the Commission Bread bakery in the new town on the Rheinallee is free, fast new housing must be provided. Click-mainz.de: Mr shield that odp is committed for a long time for noise protection.

William shield: Noise protection has become indeed a theme in Mainz at the latest after the new flight routes, the by lead early in the morning to night over Mainz districts.We demand a consistent night flight ban from 22 to 6 hours so that the children, citizens can sleep at night and stay healthy. The noise protection legislation must be made completely new. A single look at the sources of noise, such as motorway, train rides, large construction sites, helicopters and aircraft, brings nothing. The sum is crucial. Public transport must be cheaper, that goes with the exemption from value added tax for the transit authority. The hub function for long-haul intercontinental flights should be located not in a metropolitan area and be expanded, but are outsourced to other airports in rural areas. So, the airport with the umgeliegenden population in the cities can all around better tolerated.

Click-mainz.de: Mr shield, in Mainz, there are some controversial issues in urban development, for example, the Construction of a new shopping center in the Ludwigssstrasse. How does the oDP the topic? Wilhelm Schild: More genuine participation of citizens is needed here: negotiations with the investors must be transparent and not behind closed doors. As a result, many citizens feel excluded. It is simply no longer up to date, that in a traditional commercial and university city such as Mainz, citizens type face for landlords with ready-made solutions. The legal situation moment pretending that in Mainz, 10 percent of all eligible voters must sign before a referendum held may., which is placed in terms of shopping center.