Neighbor wants to plant a mountain maple

Regarding garages, as a self-proclaimed owner of such a concrete structure, I naturally have a completely different view. As a responsible city councilor, you must do everything to make creating property affordable for your citizens. These garages are a small part of this concept. Holiday apartments, no, no soft solutions, no room for discretion, nothing. Nada, not an option. Such a development area must be completely uninteresting for investors. No backdoor. Otherwise, you end up where Sylt is now. The people of Sylt can no longer afford to live in their homeland. Tourism is both a blessing and a curse and only bearable if you control it. Karsten

That's exactly right: the architecture of a masonry plastered flat-roof garage is exactly the same as if the thing were a concrete prefabricated room module with the same external dimensions offering more than 20 cm more internal width or, with the same wall thickness, consisting of delivered pumice boards.

It's simply not exactly the same. If I hire a planner to design the house and garage together, something different comes out than if I buy the house from catalog A and the garage from catalog B. Prefabricated garages mostly identify themselves as such because they simply look "like they were placed next to it." They do not exactly match the appearance of the house, nor the quality. You can see the "gradient" when house and prefabricated garage stand close side by side.

That's how it is, Alex. You get what you pay for. But it is a usable, stable, permanent solution. With a few flowers in front also visually okay, not beautiful, but not completely off either.

So here in Bavaria, they all get a roof, which then restores the visual link to the residential building...

Oh? We always leave the ones upstairs open....

most identify as such because they simply look "out of place."

But this applies to every garage in which the house planner only sees an architectural stepchild: most masonry, fully site-built garages "betray" themselves solely by the width of the stone framing of the gate as non-precast garages and are otherwise a banal shoebox for the car. So not a bit better, and also distinguishable only with a trained eye. Ugly remains ugly, whether stamped or hand-crafted. The "love for detail" makes the difference, not the manufacturing process.

Garages that are allowed more than the 3m building setback in width can also feature wider wall strips on both sides of the gate as precast concrete garages, and the attic can also be ordered differently than the "08/15 economy" style. Likewise with the plaster texture, and you can paint the thing or clad it with bricks. Visually, there does not have to be any difference. Therefore, a regulation that legally discriminates against a garage because it was partially or entirely prefabricated is not appropriate.

But the builder is happy about it, and his lawyer handles it before breakfast.