Green regulatory determination - Your opinion?

Aside from that, my intention was rather to say that probably everyone consciously or unconsciously has not adhered to the development plan in every little detail. So one should think very carefully about whether they want to piss off the neighbor or if a bigger backlash might come.

I have to completely disagree. We always adhere to the development plan and also have all the necessary permits for buildings etc.
So far, I cannot detect any violations from our neighbors either.
Maybe it varies regionally, so you should not generalize from your situation to others.

You don't have to overcomplicate things now. But you can also keep trees small through targeted pruning. Or choose slender-growing varieties. Shade providers are becoming more and more important. I find hardly anything as creepy as south-facing gardens or playgrounds in new housing areas where you get dried alive.

Have fun trying to keep a large tree at 4m. That is simply not natural and harms the tree accordingly. I'm not saying anything against trees either, we have planted about 15, plus a whole bunch of small shrubs. This spring, bush trees for fruit are to be added. When that grows for a few years, it will be wonderful. But 4-5m is already quite tall and provides a lot of shade. That is completely sufficient for a small private garden. Planning for large trees completely misses the problem, and the fact that a fruit tree counts only as standard but not as half-standard can only be explained by a fetish of the authorities.

The councilor (even if he is from the opposition faction) is not a disciplinary superior. You might as well put the tabloid press on it.

Both are correct. And both ways often turn out to be more successful than the other in the end. You may like that or not, but for someone with an urgent concern, it is often the most pragmatic way to achieve their goal.

I have to completely disagree. We always adhere to the development plan and also have all the permits for buildings etc.

I didn’t say that you didn’t stick to it, sometimes you also misinterpret it or overlook something.

For example, I have now taken another look at our development plan. I am actually capable of reading laws, but despite reading it several times, I can’t tell you how many trees and shrubs we should really have planted. In our rear part of the property (edge area), a tree must be planted every 10 m or 100 m² according to the species list. Additionally, 1 shrub every 4 m². That would probably be 2 trees for 17.5 m width. The depth of this area is not precisely defined, so it can only be roughly estimated. You can imagine how exactly measuring works on a 25,000 m² construction site on A3 paper.

Furthermore, for all properties, one ridge-transcending tree or a fruit tree must be planted for every 300 m² of property size. For just over 500 m² of property area, in my opinion, that would be one tree. Whether the trees from both areas are offset against each other or must be cumulatively planted, or whether the m² from the rear edge area is deducted from the rest of the property and thus we come under 300 m² remaining area… honestly, I don’t know. Then trees are required according to the species list. Above the species list, however, it says among other things (presumably for among others), which actually once again leaves the door wide open for free choice. Even if we had fulfilled the number and type of trees, I would never claim that we had fulfilled the development plan 100%. It’s simply too vague for that.

I can’t see any violations of rules by our neighbors so far either.

Then how do you come to the conclusion that the neighbors might not have read the development plan?

I also wonder whether the 5 builders in our street have even read the development plan. Most probably don’t care. Not everyone is as crazy as some here (including me).

How do you come to the conclusion that the neighbors might not have read the development plan?

They didn’t build their houses themselves but had them built. Since so far no one has created an orchard meadow, one might suspect that they haven’t read the plan at all and have left everything to the respective company. But as I said, there is still time.