Land development afterwards - when is the invoice issued?

Hello,

in search of enlightenment I have ended up here. It is about the land development:

The following situation:

I wanted to build a house in the outer area on an undeveloped plot. Before submitting the building application, I spoke with the municipality: "Development would be no problem." Costs: "we'll manage that. There is a table with the construction contributions on the municipal homepage".... ok.

Building permit came on 15.08.19
At the beginning of December development work started and was completed in mid-December 19. The house has now been inhabited by us since July 2020.

However: the actual building plot was not developed, but an adjacent third-party plot. The municipality's reasoning: the last 25 meters were too much for them.... We then completed the remaining development ourselves.

Until today no invoice for the development has arrived. How long has something like this taken for you?

And: I wonder which cost factor they use: the actually developed (third-party) plot, which is only about 200 sqm, or ours with 1200 sqm?

I no longer want to ask directly because I am afraid of "awakening sleeping dogs."

The municipality should have a development contribution statute, which is mandatory according to §§ 127 - 135 of the Building Code (especially § 132). I understand your posting to mean that you are connecting your "self-constructed" road to the public facility? That would then be a case of § 129 para. 1 sentence 2 of the Building Code for me.

The statute of limitations for the claim takes effect if no notice has arrived with you after 4 years following the occurrence of the factual contribution obligation. (Of course, there are exceptions again...)

The municipality should have a development contribution statute, which is mandatory according to §§ 127 - 135 of the Building Code (especially § 132.)
I understand your post to mean that you are connecting your "self-constructed" road to the public facility? That would be, in my opinion, a case of § 129 para. 1 sentence 2 of the Building Code.

The statute of limitations for the claim applies if no notice has arrived with you 4 years after the material obligation to contribute has arisen. (Of course, there are exceptions...)

Thank you very much for your answer. I don’t quite understand this legal jargon, but at least I would have something in hand if they now wanted to pass the entire cost on to us.

There is a table on the homepage about the construction contributions, based on which I calculated the worst-case scenario. For the 1220 sqm version, I would be at about 6000 euros in development costs. The 200 sqm would then be correspondingly less.

But now I’ve heard from an acquaintance (in another federal state) that he had over 80,000 euros in development costs. However, this was known beforehand and also notarized in the property sale contract. And now I’m just afraid that for unknown reasons it might become five digits.

6000€ development contribution would be quite cheap, the number from your acquaintance fits better. Of course, it always depends on what kind of (size, usability, possibly front meters, ...) plots are connected to the development system. In the last new development area I calculated, for 1200 sqm, the development contribution was just over €100,000.

No one in the municipality could tell me anything definite. The fact is that two years ago a village renewal took place in the village and at that time (if we had already known that we wanted to build there) we would have basically gotten it for "free". And the money available back then was not used up (of course, that is closed and basically then moved into another pot).

For construction, the price per square meter for a fully developed plot in the village is 29 euros per sqm. Then 100,000 for the development now would be a real bomb.... You know what I mean? Especially since my plot was not even developed.

They basically just dug up their own gravel road, extended the supply lines by 50 m and wanted to leave the ends there. But somehow the construction company didn’t see the boundaries and then finished the connection 6 m onto the neighboring property. We pulled the remaining 25 m ourselves through the neighboring property to our house.

Oh, such a dilemma, the complete construction is finished and this point, which is still up in the air, is really worrying me.

To this day, no invoice for the development charges has arrived. How long did something like that take for you?

Well, the last invoice for the development charges came to me after about two years. (Sewer) Everything else shortly (2 - 4 weeks) after completion.