From my point of view, the municipality really dropped the ball: legally, I actually only see joint applicants obligated to coordinated planning here, but technically it should generally be like that. The application form should have included who you want to build with (equating prefabricated house manufacturers with solid construction developers); and then the plots should have been allocated accordingly so that it fits together. So, for example, a Weberhaus group, a Schwörerhaus group, a Huberbau house group, etc.; and applications for specific plots only if you join the majority within your group of four.
How else is that supposed to work? - the building authority would have to notify the others in each house group when the first applicant’s plan was stamped as received, and declare the first one’s sectional drawing as the standard for the others, or what? - someone clearly didn’t think this through.
A group of four is three times as complex to coordinate as a semi-detached house, and even there I clearly advocate joint planning.
I see no-basement owners, partial-basement owners, sloped roofers, and recessed top-floor owners heavily armed dragging each other before the judge. The mayor won’t need to run again in the next direct election.
Not giving the entire development area to a single developer is commendable – but here, in the details, it probably isn’t well thought out.