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Presscouncil City of Chemnitz
Pressrelease: 465

Street cleaning bylaws of the City of Chemnitz adopted

At its meeting yesterday, the City Council approved changes to the street cleaning and street cleaning
street cleaning fee statutes of the City of Chemnitz from 1 January 2023.

The bylaws will apply for the next two years (2023 and 2024)

The fees for road and pavement cleaning will increase by around 5.8 per cent.
This is due to rising costs for vehicle procurement, repairs and fuel as well as the reduction
reduction in working hours due to collective agreements.

In the street cleaning statutes, the paragraph on the use of salt on pavements has been revised.
was revised. In future, only "sand and fine-grained grit" may be used.

Salt and other de-icing substances may therefore only be used in exceptional cases in dangerous areas and during extreme weather events.
and in extreme weather events such as freezing rain. Tree discs should
be specially protected.