Building authority requires open space design plan for single-family house - experiences?

If you want to fell 20 deciduous trees for house construction, compensatory planting will likely be required. Unused arable land initially sounded like grassland. Today, most authorities take a more critical view of the ecological impacts when it comes to mature tree populations.

Maybe I missed it, but why did the architect actually draw in 19 trees on his own? He must have had a reason for that. Has that ever been clarified?

If trees actually have to give way for the house construction, it is now indeed the case that they have to be replanted.

And in general, the building authorities are becoming increasingly strict regarding greening, because in the last 10, 15 years violations, especially due to gravel gardens and unauthorized sealing, have increased explosively.
And because it is incredibly time-consuming to have something that has once been created dismantled again against the resistance of the owners.

I know newly built streets here where you won’t find a single plant in any front yard. Creepy.

In the backyard it hardly looks any better. A few square meters of lawn for entertaining the children, otherwise outdoor kitchen, outdoor lounge, pool area, all low-maintenance sealed in gray. Wire mesh fencing around, and the extended living space is done. A raised herb bed as a green accent. The garden as a status symbol has changed a lot in its design. Where once people proudly tended their roses, today stands the outdoor kitchen with smoker. You can't get people to give that up if they think that's what they need. As long as fruits and vegetables are cheap to buy, hardly anyone with a family and two jobs will start to change anything about that.

Submit the open space usage plan.
Slowly I’m starting to think you’re either pulling our leg or fooling yourself.

So now please stay factual and don’t get rude. You don’t have to help. And all your moral sermons have nothing to do with the basic issue.

Yes, but you can’t just give nothing. You have to at least prove that you comply with the development plan. Ergo, you have to submit the open space usage plan.

And now again: which requirements in the development plan am I supposed to prove if they don’t exist?!
Also, a design plan was requested here, not a usage plan.
Just an excerpt from an information sheet that is included in dozens of other municipalities as well:

In general, for larger residential developments (usually from 4 residential units), for commercial facilities, and if required by the development plan, open space design plans are necessary.

Does a single-family house fall under that?!

A house with a garden of your own is not something you grow old in and then sit rocking in a chair. Unless you then have the money for gardeners and housekeepers.

Well, from my environment I know it quite differently. Regardless of whether my grandparents, those of my wife, and now her parents or only her mother, the landlord of my parents, our neighbor, etc. No one wants to leave their house – their life – in old age. Only if it really, really can’t be done anymore. And then they usually don’t live much longer.

Your answer has nothing to do with what I said. Of course, no one wants to move out when they get old. But accordingly, the property and the house mostly look like that.

And even though the seniors do not sit in the armchair all day long, but work hard. A house and garden require work. Today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.
And especially when you are 70, 80, then 30, 40 years have passed and the renovations begin. Roof, heating, windows, etc.

You don't have to help.

You are right. Some people simply cannot be helped.