Plot selection & house orientation

I am also for 15 or 17. Thus, the survey does not work.

May I ask the reason?

Thank you

Regards

PS. The survey might be unnecessary and I was a bit overenthusiastic when creating this thread Just select your favorite.

Thank you very much for the detailed reply

It’s good that the other interested parties will also attend this appointment, then everyone can get to know each other. It is highly advisable not to plan a semi-detached house as if after the dividing line the flood will come (because then it will come, among other things see the Goalkeeper thread).
Who are the other participants: only the other three families for lots 14 to 17?
How will the building plots be allocated in/after this meeting: will the plots that only one person wants be assigned first, and then a draw held among competing applicants?

I called the municipality about this. Only the next four applicants on the ranking list who at least have an interest in one half of a semi-detached house are invited. We are those with the second most social points, so we should be able to select the second plot.
Primarily, the meeting is not directly about allocating the plots but so the builders can get to know each other and see if a consensus can be reached.

If I were you, I would be more curious about where the access to the underground garage is supposed to be located.

So that all tenants of the apartment buildings opposite our driveway don’t enter and exit there, or how should I understand that?
I would definitely ask about that at the meeting.

The most important points of agreement with the neighbors are the foundation depth, the construction sequence (with cellar before without cellar!) and the house profile on the "seam" side. Once that is peacefully settled, one can even build wooden and the other stone, or vice versa.

That is unfortunately a common starting point, see also the remark

This disappointment must first be processed so that the "bride and groom" left half and right half pull together.

Originally, we always wanted an existing property, actually an old building. However, we have only received rejections in this regard.
I wouldn’t call it a disappointment but also not plan A.

For example, we would only build in Swabian style (cornice, window shutters, divided windows); if no one else wants that, we would (for the time being) cancel the semi-detached house project.
A semi-detached house with parallel ridges would also be nice, but that’s not essential for us. A cellar is out of the question cost-wise.
Does it cause extra costs for one party if the other builds a cellar?

Enlighten us instead by naming "Hintertupfing No. 123, Huberwiesen II".

Gladly. Attached is the path on the municipality’s website.
Mertingen -> Building & Living -> legally binding development plan -> development plan Mertingen South III

Just yesterday I was glad to own a corner plot, but only have about 15m of footpath on the short side.

For that reason alone, 17 is out; the adjacent footpath is endlessly long.
Although... What is coming opposite and who owns the path or who has to clear it in winter?
15 and 16 are out because of the size.
404m², so besides the house, the obligatory 40m² stone terrace and 50m² double garage (so no one thinks one is too poor for 2 expensive cars) and paths, there’s hardly more than a 50m² lawn area behind the terrace and 2 flower beds left.

So 14. There are options against the showcase garden, starting with the hideous 2m high concrete wall (my neighbor opposite put it up, I’m waiting for the first “The wall must go” graffiti), to gabions, a nice green hedge(!!!) up to the classic fence, double rod mesh with plastic strips as a privacy screen (brrrr dreadful)...

You’ll get enough sun on the terrace behind the house because everyone will set their houses directly 3m from the street to have even a hint of a garden. None of the plots invite a nice large front garden.

And it really has the charm of driving onto the property from the other side and not having the entrance door right next to number 15.
I like that

I actually hadn’t considered that the path has to be cleared. I just checked Google, where a ruling states that the street must also be cleared so that two pedestrians can walk side by side. That would also apply to plot 14.
The question is, of course, do people really clear a street with a snow shovel? At least I haven’t seen that yet.

15 and 16 would be out for me as well because of the size.

A concrete wall is out of the question. We like a green garden and would plant a hedge. In this case, it wouldn’t be a makeshift solution to protect from the views of others. We would plant a hedge anyway, no matter which plot.

It would of course be nice if the builder of plot 15 wanted to set his house on the eastern boundary, so we would have a nice contiguous garden to the west and north. But you think this is unlikely and that the builder would rather set the house on the west boundary?
At first glance, I would consider a garden on the east of plot 14 a wasted space.

Thanks in advance

Best regards

I would be more concerned in your place about where the access to the underground garage is supposed to be.

How do you come up with underground garage? Did I overlook that? Especially if no basement is planned? I don’t think your choice is bad either, for the reasons you mentioned. Will it possibly be shady because the south sun is missing? Yes! But a clever planner counters that with large window areas on the other sides and from above. Afraid of snow shoveling? – that’s silly. My almost 80-year-old dad clears his 100m long driveway, the sidewalk, and for fun even the neighbors' path with his snowblower in winter. Those few meters shouldn’t deter you, right? With lot 14, I also see the best chance for a nice garden in the northwest. With the others, the only piece of green space is mostly taken up by the driveway. So yes – I would also take lot 14. :) What is the black "dotted line" supposed to mean? Can you place the garage directly adjacent to it?

WA3 (property 1,2 & 3), directly opposite, have presented a TGa boundary, so they will probably get one.

WA3 (plots 1, 2 & 3), directly opposite, have represented a TGa enclosure, so they will probably get one.

The previous construction phase of the new development area was developed about 6 years ago. The multi-family houses there also have an underground parking garage. Regards