Which property?

4 would also be something - pedestrian paths are usually not swept or cleared of snow. But why out of desperation? It seems to be a nice residential area after all?

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Out of fear of never having something of my own otherwise, maybe...?

At the moment, none of them really feel right. And spending a lot of money on a single compromise is not really my thing either ;)

It's just brainstorming here. That already helps immensely.

What does it actually mean that you are in the middle of the pack? Either there is an order in which the "applicants" can choose the property or it is decided based on priority and if necessary by lottery, or am I seeing this wrong? BTW, corner lots also have advantages! If the street is rarely used or is even a dead end or footpath, no traffic noise disturbs you and you also have an additional 5-6 meters of space to the neighbor, for which you don't have to pay. In addition, you have more freedom in how you, for example, arrange parking spaces or the house entrance, which can simplify planning, and it is often easier to get behind the house with an excavator or similar when landscaping is done later. Regarding street cleaning, it would be interesting to know if a footpath is laid at all (which in our Saarland is often no longer done in new developments) that must be kept meticulously clean? Even if so, for me the advantages outweigh this.

Originally, there were 130 interested parties. According to this list, we would be in 38th place.

Now only 35 remain and the list is getting smaller, we are moving up. I don’t know exactly where – so I estimate mid-field.

Everyone now selects 5 plots and receives one plot according to the ranking. Or not, if I am too far back and have submitted plots that everyone else has also selected.

The corner plot was already appealing to me because one side cannot be built on.

The "main" street that runs past there is the new development area's main road. There will be some traffic. It leads up and down out.

The plan was to have the terrace facing south. But since the regulation now stipulates that I am not allowed to build a high enclosure and thus have no privacy screen, everyone passing by can look onto the property.

The obligation to sweep and keep clean (there will be a pedestrian walkway + 2 public parking spaces (maintained by the city)) is not a problem now. We currently live in a house with a corner plot too.

But the missing privacy screen bothers me.

Now the question arises to what extent this will be controlled by the city. In the old new development area (10 years ago) there are also corner plots that have a tall hedge. But of course I don’t know what the development plan looked like. And I don’t want to speculate on anything (that no one will say anything anyway).

Sure, you can't really rely on that, but I consider it very, very unlikely that the city would take the initiative to go out and measure the height of the hedges.
It is much more likely that an overly picky neighbor, who probably exists almost everywhere, fulfills his German civic duties and reports it, although I also consider that unlikely.
In our area, for example, someone even built his garage right on the property line (which would still be okay), but he wants to build a terrace on it, so that with a railing he would exceed the 3m height limit.
Although he probably hasn't yet obtained the neighbor’s signature allowing him to build on the boundary, the thing is already standing and nobody seems to mind...
Another idea might be not to make the entire property invisible, but only the terrace, so basically tall plants around the terrace or a tree on the property, etc...

I completely agree with : hedge planting serves as a boundary, but not necessarily as a privacy screen. People also like to have a row of plants on the terrace. Meter-high hedges on the street obstruct traffic visibility, which is why there is often only a one-meter requirement.

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