New development area: Expression of interest - Feedback

Can the protocols be viewed publicly?

Meeting minutes and council resolutions are as public as the meetings themselves. Typical municipal council meetings have public parts (almost everything) and non-public parts (concrete personal matters: dismissal of the municipal utility manager, promotion of Jupp Schmitz to senior administrative officer); the public part is not a secret.

Is there a rough schedule for such an application process?

Theoretically, there are also (public) council resolutions about that, but in the specific case it apparently is not about a "local resident model" or similar.

I have since looked at the questionnaire from your PM. According to that, it probably concerns a development area for which a development plan already exists, which is not yet legally binding or is to be repealed or amended – in any case, the municipality wants to take into account the wishes of the affected property owners. I do not read any indication of a selection of applicants (in the sense that the municipality would be the seller of all plots). A new school construction planning is apparently outdated by the development and influences the development plan so much that revising it seems reasonable. They apparently want to develop sections of the development area (e.g., city villa quarter, row house quarter or the like) further in accordance with demand. I do not recognize any improper or malicious questions. One is asked to sign due to the (later revocable) consent to the use of the information, whose purpose in my opinion is clearly stated anyway: "in order to be able to consider your ideas already in the preliminary planning (land-use planning procedure), we ask you to communicate your ideas regarding building plot and possible house type." From my point of view, this is completely without any dramatic factor.