I find it so absurd to still plan > 180 sqm bungalows in the year 2021,
For the proper classification: I also think nothing of placing a 100 sqm house on a 2000 sqm plot (which is still possible in many places today!).
180 sqm is only a downright ascetic thirty percent of what was the millionaire villa benchmark in my youth. The belt really can’t be tightened any further ;-) For me personally, however, the plot is the most important thing: it has to be able to breathe around the house, the cat doesn’t stretch out in the basket. A house also needs a plot to “make an impression” instead of just a building site. The providers understand that too, you just have to pay attention: even the KfW cubes with their nine-and-a-half-meter floor plan edges always stand in parks in the brochure photo montages, never cramped between barren building edges that only serve as broom corridors for fence maintenance.
You go into the house in bad weather or to cook / sleep / shower, as an East German, a summer house is enough for me. The royal feeling I would derive in the example from the remaining 1,900 sqm garden (aka eco-bio speak “biotope and infiltration area”).
And that’s why there are development plans and small plots and densification — instead of rezoning and sealing arable land, meadows and pastures.
No, the Size Zero semi-detached house plots have nothing to do with space-saving for (short-sighted) ecological reasons, but with a stinginess in building land demand from people who want to build even though, even with low interest rates, it is only possible by cooking the numbers. They expressly look for plots as small as their wallets. Whoever has a five-hundred-square-meter plot to sell today can still not have gotten rid of it after three years — or else evaluate that interested parties push down his door to buy half of it. Municipalities do not promote this in the slightest, on the contrary: on the one hand, they write size caps into their development plans, for example in the form of requiring a minimum of 350 sqm plot area for buildability. And on the other hand, they stubbornly try to believe in the reasonable in people and designate areas for multi-family housing and terraced houses in new building areas. Then reality comes in, where they have to recognize: the multi-family housing is broken down into condominiums, which external absentee landlords snap up; and the terraced houses sell so sluggishly that the municipal savings bank does not want to take on this commitment a second time. So the development plan for section II is changed even before the first groundbreaking, and the two aforementioned areas are rezoned for semi-detached houses. The sick market is driven by no one other than the petty-minded Michel. And as soon as he has what he wants himself, he signals to his politicians that he will vote for them if they forbid it to others or alternatively make it unaffordable. Homo homini lupus est. The biggest villain in a democracy is the voter. And, worst of all, afterwards he doesn’t want to have been one:
the others always do everything wrong! (when in fact it is basically so incomprehensibly simple, you just have to ask him, pluralism nonsense baloney,
he knows what is
the only right thing). Cheers to that with a Dujardin!