I once created a drawing of the new settlement with a description of the streets, as it was not clear from my post that all the streets there are very quiet.
Our plot is number 5 on the plan.
Pöppinghauser Straße is the main street there... although it is not heavily trafficked like a federal highway or anything. If you stand on the empty meadow of the plots now, you only hear a quiet hissing of the cars from the main street.
Emsring is already a side street. Only people who live there or come to visit drive there. You cannot get to other settlements via Emsring. You can drive a big circle there and have to take Pöppinghauser Straße if you want to go somewhere farther away.
Then we come to the new street Eichenforst. That will only be an access road to the new settlement. From Emsring you can no longer get onto Lotsenweg. For the residents there, that was the condition for Eichenforst street to be approved at all; otherwise many people who drive to Schleusenweg (at the very bottom) would take the shortcut over Eichenforst/Lotsenweg to Schleusenweg.
Finally, the red streets and our footpath (drawn thinner). These are only access roads to the individual houses. At the end of the streets it does not continue any further.
The footpath therefore belongs only to us and our neighbor no. 4. We are basically buying the area with our plot.
And if we should decide on the option to widen the footpath by 1 meter from 2 to 3 meters in order to make the access to our house via the path, the only neighbor who could even complain at all would be neighbor no. 4.
We have now decided to contact the neighbor and discuss the planning once. Maybe he also favors the option with the access to his house via the footpath.
Basically, it can be said that no matter how we position our house, absolute peace will prevail in the small new development area. Only cars that want to go to plots 1 - 4 will have to pass our plot no. 5 in the future. Plots 6 - 11 will already reach their access via the first private street or directly via Emsring (houses 9 - 11).
