Duplex framework. Divide the plot?

Hello dear house-building community! We are planning to build a semi-detached house soon, which requires a bit of imagination due to limited space, but is definitely doable. The framework conditions are as follows, and I would be very happy to hear some opinions:

[*]The plot is located in the city, surrounded by other residential houses (so no fields, forests or similar) [*]27*16.60 meter plot [*]The 27 meters have a north-south orientation, the 16.60 meters an east-west orientation. [*]The house is set back from the street (backward construction), on the north side there is a shared driveway for us and our neighbor. [*]The dimensions of the house should be 12*12 meters [*]Now, there are setback distances to be observed, three meters on each side. We have agreed with our neighbor on the west side (who is also building) that he will cede 2 meters of setback to us. This means that he keeps a 5-meter distance to the property boundary, allowing us to build 2 meters closer to the boundary on this side and only have to maintain 1.30 meters (instead of 3.30 meters) distance. On the east side, the distance is still 3.30 meters. This allows us to have a 12-meter wide house on a 16-meter wide plot. [*]On the west side, a garage is to be integrated into the house; on the east side, a garage is to be built next to the house [*]Now it gets a bit complicated: Due to the different distances to the property boundary, the house is not in the center of the plot. However, since both halves of the house are the same size, there is no problem with the living space yet [*]It is different with the garden. Due to the different setback distances, the west half would be 7.30 meters wide (6 meters house + 1.30 meters setback). However, the east half is 9.30 meters (6 meters house plus 3.30 meters setback) [*]This would result in two gardens of different sizes, which we would like to avoid.

Question: Is it possible to divide the plot so that it is not split in a straight line? In other words, the house is indeed divided in the middle, but then the dividing line shifts one meter to the east and thus divides the gardens into two equally sized halves?

[*]I have also attached a rudimentary plan that describes the whole thing more clearly

I would be very happy if you could give me feedback (despite the complex babble) on whether such a design is legally possible and generally sensible. Many kind regards, your Hans

Is there the possibility of a boundary construction of the second garage in the upper left corner? Or at least a parking space?

Or also like this: If the community area in pink on the left side falls to the "rear" property, this property becomes larger and the size ratios are relativized. In addition, the rear house could then be shifted to the north

Hello Hans,

first of all, welcome to the forum!

In my opinion, it should be no problem not to divide the property in a straight line.

However, you should ask the responsible building authority how it looks with window areas in the eastern house. I vaguely remember that with such a small distance to the boundary (1 m), possibly no windows are allowed to be installed in this one meter wide part of the house wall.

You might also have to comply with the required distance area with this "corner."

Regards,

Dirk

Hello ypg, thank you very much for your quick response. The pink area is a shared area with our neighbor on the west side, there is still a property there that uses this driveway. However, I have not marked this property. Therefore, this area must definitely remain free. Moving further north is unfortunately not possible, there are restrictions here.

Hi Dirk,
thank you very much for your reply!
So you mean that the eastern house should not have windows all the way on the west side? So if the house is 6 meters wide, only the 5 eastern meters are allowed to have windows, because we don’t plan a straight separation? Did I understand you correctly?
That wouldn’t be a problem anyway, because the shared wall runs here anyway, where no window is planned (I don’t want to look into the neighbor’s living room )

Hello Hans,

exactly, I think that you might not be allowed to install windows on the westernmost meter of the south wall of the eastern house (now we will have covered all directions soon...) due to the insufficient distance to the boundary.

With direct boundary construction, that is the case, at least the window must not be transparent (so as an alternative, frosted fixed glass or glass blocks).

Best regards,

Dirk

Best regards,

Dirk