Earlier, a municipal official wrote that he was afraid that if the house were sold, it would have to be bought back later for a lot of money, if the municipality still wanted to widen the Van Zijstweg. “(The) building (does) apparently no longer have to be removed for the HOV lane, but will there soon be other modalities that require space?” wrote an official in an internal memo in 2017. With other modalities, he meant, for example, a tram, an increase in electric transport on the cycle path, or autonomous driving cars. “It would be a shame if in 5 or 10 years we had to bend over backwards again, or buy back a renovated building for a lot of money”,
Monumental ‘Mien’s House’ to be given a social function
