Abnormal parking space regulation - legal action or ignore?

Maybe this is also the reason why they don’t want to make any further concessions to you and are being stubborn about the parking spaces.

Little finger and whole hand and such :)

If the property runs parallel to the street, you can also make a kind of driveway that runs parallel to the street and where two cars can be parked one behind the other. Entrance at the office level and exit near the garages. Some here in the neighborhood have that and it works very well.

Regarding the prestigious offices: I’m sorry if you have to work with such narrow-minded clients. I am a department head myself and can only say that I don’t care much about the offices as long as the contractors do a good job. Due to Corona, there are plenty of options to “disguise” your office via software or some nice decorative items in the background (painted wall, presentable customer projects, ...) make an office attractive. The size of an office is hardly visible in an online meeting anyway.

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200m² is very large and two offices of 18m² each are also big. Companies often don't have that much space per person.

Basically, I agree :) I would estimate that the (desired) living space per household member has increased by at least 50% to 100% in the last three or four decades, assuming the mentioned 200 m² for three people. With higher demands, costs also rise. Certainly, space is a luxury and partly nice. We live as three people in about 170 m² spread over 6 rooms (bathroom and three rooms upstairs / living-dining room, kitchen, pantry, office, bathroom on the ground floor / laundry kitchen, office-"home cinema", other in the basement). From time to time, I catch myself thinking that it would be nice if every room were 50 cm longer and wider. The living area would thus certainly increase by at least 50 sqm. However, if you have to build or renovate this space (and later "maintain" it), the costs probably increase to six digits. Just two offices of 18 m² each alone come to almost €100,000 at maybe €2,500/m².

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as well as a few pictures of the property. In 4290 you can see the neighbor's garage to which the boundary development is to be attached. 4294 shows the other side. Around the property there are parking spaces along the street. 4312 shows the street with the parking strip that exists on both sides of the street. It is never tight here and there is also enough space for trucks if parked on the parking strip.

I see many red roofs.
May I ask – or has this already been mentioned here? – roughly (!) where the project is to be carried out?

Little finger and whole hand and so :)

If the property runs parallel to the street, you can also make a kind of courtyard driveway that runs parallel to the street and where two cars can park one behind the other. Entrance at the office level and exit by the garages. Some here in the neighborhood have that and it works very well.

Regarding prestigious offices: I’m sorry if you have to work with such narrow-minded clients. I’m a department head myself and can only say that I don’t care much about the offices as long as the contractors do a good job. Due to Corona, there are plenty of options to "camouflage" your office via software or have a few nice decorative things in the background (painted wall, presentable customer projects, ...) that make an office pretty. The size of an office is hardly noticeable in an online meeting anyway.

I believe the comment regarding the little finger and the comment from probably hits the mark. The statement from the building authority employee was along the lines of "that (2 full floors, parallel to the street) should be approved if you don’t want too much else." Maybe he was also alluding to the parking spaces with that.

I fear the variant with entrance and exit won’t be approved, since there is a public parking strip on all sides of the house, so a public parking space would have to be removed for both the entrance and the exit. Our planner assumes that we will not get more than one access to the house approved.

The office topic is also a psychological issue. Even without a person consciously controlling it, a large representative office is associated with "success" and a "high position." Whereas a small office is rather associated with "entry level" or "lower hierarchy level." Even if you consciously work against this, most people automatically form such prejudices in their brains. I don’t really care about it either, but if it helps to get contracts, you adapt. Especially in acquisition, it is important that the other party subconsciously feels "on the same wavelength." It is also still a conservative industry dominated at the board and department head level by "old white men." I find it incredible what is sometimes said when "among themselves," especially when no women are present. That has absolutely nothing to do with what is propagated in politics... but anyway, that’s not what this is about here. I just wanted to try to express that the office topic is important to me and should remain that way.

I see many red roofs. May I ask - or has this already been mentioned? - approximately (!) where the project is to be carried out?

Bavaria, in the immediate vicinity of Bamberg

But that can also backfire if it is too extravagant. With us, a consultant had to leave because the owner was bothered that he wore an EXTREMELY expensive watch and drove onto the premises in a Macan. I would also think that someone is charging too much if they smile at me from the home office in a fully equipped 20 sqm office at USM. Especially the conservative industry is very sensitive when they feel that someone doesn't know their place. But whatever.