Assessment of our potential property

and I don't see the added value in putting living spaces in the basement and placing the garage next to the house instead. Am I misunderstanding something here?

Think about why you want to put a garage in the basement facing south (since the slope goes from north to south). Then maybe add a panoramic window next to it for the freezer room? That is planned without considering the property. The garage can be placed on the boundary development... The basement is ideally suited for living rooms on the south side with direct access to the south garden. Just as an example. On the south side, you then visually have a two-story building, on the north side a single-story. Towers are too tall for the plots to look nice. Besides, three stories are more expensive than two. Please take a look yourself here by entering "slope" in the search.

besides what Ypg already wrote

1. One more staircase, as the living rooms are one floor higher

Energy Saving Ordinance
Houses are insulated and airtight built. You place the garage inside the house, more area and more difficult to insulate

Only timber frame builders consider these towers good. That way they sell one more floor

A first draft from the urban planner was received by the municipality.

Gotcha! But there isn’t much concrete to be found. No wonder with so much lack of transparency on the part of the municipality when resistance is stirring among the indigenous people. But that was also initially crushed. Let’s see what else comes up when it goes to the public display. The minutes of the last municipal council meeting, where the resolution to initiate the planning was on the agenda, have not yet been published. Was the resolution to initiate the planning passed? Is there more openness in personal conversations?

The biggest downside is the driveway from the cul-de-sac

The sketch from the feasibility study did not yet have the unfortunate access. Has this option been definitively discarded?

Please have a look yourself here by entering Hang in the search.

Thanks for your ideas. Independent research is underway here, and we regularly check the surrounding building areas anyway.

... unfortunately, I don’t see any room for negotiation for you. You will probably have to swallow that toad. The municipality could have designated your driveway as a public traffic area (you can still record this during the public display of the development plan). But that not only reduces the profit but also causes additional costs. Why would anyone want to harm the community if there are enough builders willing to take the property as is.

Thanks for that as well! That was exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. We would also categorize the driveway under "die with one death anyway." Still, I would have been annoyed if someone had told me afterwards: "Why so complicated? If you had planned it that way, then ... ."

Gotcha! But there isn’t much concrete to find. No wonder with so much lack of transparency from the municipality when there is resistance among the natives. But that was initially steamrolled as well. Let’s see what else comes up when it goes to the public display. The minutes of the last municipal council meeting where the resolution to initiate the plan was on the agenda have not been published yet. Was the resolution to initiate the plan passed? Do they act more openly in personal conversations? The sketch from the feasibility study did not yet include the unfortunate driveway. Has this variant been definitively discarded?

What a coincidence! The "municipality - natives" issue is, in my opinion, a chicken-and-egg problem. Would you be so kind as to send me a PM? I am missing the necessary posts on that.

What a coincidence!

yes. Those who don't believe in coincidence call it geodata forensics. I call it geocaching for couch potatoes.

Uh,
Currently, there is a new thread on the topic of 2-story buildings on a slope. Please google it yourself, as I cannot provide a link.
It is a floor plan discussion. This is NOT about the floor plan, it is about the argument regarding the slope. But please read the posts for that.