does the floor plan refer to the max. floor area of the house
Yes, perhaps the approvers have found a practical interpretation of the mysterious urban planners’ thoughts. In any case, the stipulations are contradictory and IMHO inadmissible. In 3(1) it still says "... the specified allowable floor area of the main facility ...", in 3(4) floor plan is only defined as "allowable floor area per building plot". The allowable floor area is also determined according to the land use ordinance by specifying a floor area ratio, only here it is not generally based on the building plot but on the ratio to the area of the building plot. In 3(3), deviating from the land use ordinance, it is then formulated that the floor area ratio may be exceeded by floor areas. Of course, this is nonsense, since areas cannot exceed a floor area ratio. Nitpicking? Yes, but since a development plan is basically a municipal law, such inadequacies are IMHO untenable. Now one might think that the justification for the development plan could shed light on this. But – no sign. The stipulation of the floor area ratio is not even mentioned, at least not in the published version.
We won’t have a problem with either number
Based on the floor plan definition in 3(4) of the development plan in conjunction with §19(4) of the land use ordinance, it could get tight. But maybe only I, with my narrow surveyor’s perspective, see problems that don’t really exist. Still, I do not consider it wrong to raise this with the architect.