Neighbor wants to plant a mountain maple

Alex, I’m not puffing myself up, I’m just genuinely liberal at heart. I only like regulations where necessary. As few as possible, as much personal responsibility as possible. Yvonne, I also don’t like sorting by high-quality or ordinary. It’s enough that we humans sort ourselves by milieus. If different milieus should at least live mixed together, then our municipality always also has resettlers, then refugees housed decentrally and mixed in everywhere. Result: no ghettos, hardly any problems. But that’s a wide field. Of course, we also have a plan B with specifications, but these are comparatively sparse. Plots between 500 and 800 sqm. Floor area ratio 0.25. Maximum 1.5 stories, no knee walls. Roof slope at least 25 percent. Only gable or hip roofs. No shed roofs, no flat roofs. Only long-term rentals, no holiday apartments. No changing rentals. Facade doesn’t matter, roof in red, brown, black, anthracite with roof tiles or shingles, not glossy. No paved driveways, slope location, so apart from the terrace nothing should be sealed. At least one tree per plot. To protect the neighbor, the plots must be centered. No slab foundations on pedestals, no extreme digging into the slopes. Since rainwater infiltrates poorly in the clay soil, each house must be connected to rainwater drainage. Each plot has shafts for that. At least five meters of space in front of carports or garages. The ridge direction specified in the building envelope is binding. Tent roofs on square floor plans are allowed. I wouldn’t have considered some specifications necessary. The roof shape, for example, would be free for me. The 1.5 stories maximum without knee walls protects the neighbor’s sunlight. The mandatory tree, well, Ms. Stolte-Kirchberg in the city council probably wanted to find herself in that again. Unnecessary. Almost everyone plants one or more anyway. Just for the topping-out ceremony, there were three given as gifts. The mix of bungalows with semi-seniors and family houses with young people is healthy and good. The style mix too, the area already looks far from sterile. Since there is no obligation for fences or hedges, and hardly any are being erected, the area, where already built up for longer, naturally has stone walls, earthen boundaries, few plastic wood fences. Some landscape very low-maintenance with lots of gravel and granite, looks cold to me, but, whatever, it’s their will. A few dared to use bold colors like turquoise or pink for the facade, it’s somehow funny. Let them. Besides clinker and plaster, many wooden houses, which is also nice. Karsten

Did you ask your neighbor if he really wants to plant a Norway maple? We also had all sorts of plants and trees on the planting plan for the building authority, but we designed the garden quite differently. Maybe his construction company just entered it like that? Here with us, the new development plots are pretty small. Plots for detached houses are sometimes not even 300 sqm, usually only around 400 sqm. On such small plots, I also find a Norway maple inappropriate. I don't think the leaves of one's own trees should end up on the neighbor's property to a large extent, or that the neighbor should only get shade because of a huge tree. I see no problem with large plots, but with dense development, one should definitely be considerate.

Best regards
Sabine

beautiful is relative - a maple is beautiful

And done.

We also had and still have a pretty strict planting plan in the building application. However, it’s nowhere near as strict for us. Still, we tried to make sure that when planting, the neighbors are disturbed as little as possible by shade or leaves. I think I would first politely ask if you could agree on a smaller maple. It might be completely unimportant to the new neighbor and you’re worrying unnecessarily.

So after I saw the plan, I immediately asked if he really wants to plant a [Bergahorn]. Haven't received an answer yet. However, a friend of mine, who also wants to plant one, told me that you can keep it at 7-8m.

However, a friend of mine who also wants a plant now told me that you can also keep it at 7-8m.

I imagine that would be quite labor-intensive. Is the neighbor willing to constantly climb up there and saw around? Better to keep it smaller right away.

My grandma has a 5 meter tall pear tree standing on the property. The cast shadow is very limited. Only around it is always nicely shady. As soon as I stand 3 meters away, I can fry again. In other words, the shadow of the maple will also be limited. And it first has to grow to 16 meters high! But I can understand your fright. I am also looking forward to my beautiful sunny lawn. Have you ever talked to the neighbor about the tree?