Hello,
: The thing with the building envelopes is only partially correct. You can exceed or disregard them, you just have to maintain the minimum distance of the house to the boundary (4m in our case), you have to get it approved by the city (for example, we exceed the building envelope at three corners of the house because we oriented the house south differently than the building envelope), and you pay a bit more for the square meters outside the building envelope (I don't remember which fees those were).
In our building area, the plots and building envelopes are quite large, so each one has a lot of leeway. The driveway and garage are not defined at all.
What worries me the most is the future garage of our eastern neighbor. The plot is twice as large as all the others; surely someone with the necessary money will build there, who will afford a double garage with a pitched roof. Since his house will be located much further south than ours due to the plot size, the only question is whether he will place his garage on one boundary or the other, and if it's on our boundary, then the garage will be positioned so that we look at it from the living room and garden. Now that the plot is still empty, we see fields, with rising hills and forests behind them. :-(
: Yes, I also comfort myself with that variant. In an emergency, a long-term green, fairly tall plant frame around the garden, then at least I’ll always look at nature, even if it’s shaded. It’s just a pity about the great view, which we still hope for now anyway. :-)