ᐅ Building an End-Terrace House – What Technical Requirements Should Be Considered?

In the end, one wonders whether a uniformly designed entire building is actually more attractive. This variety might give it a sort of artist quarter charm, who knows.

Caspar2020 schrieb:
The criteria are clearly specified by the city before the selection process starts.

apokolok schrieb:
So now the original poster can go to their local authority and ask them to change it based on that?

I wasn’t talking about any change, but solely about equal treatment of individual applicants compared to joint applicants, who are required to plan together.

Maria16 schrieb:
if the local authority just quickly selects a few companies they are "allowed" to build with

No, that’s not what the local authority is supposed to do. They should only a) be able to allocate the plots in a way that groups developers working with the same builders into homogeneous rows, and b) require individual applicants to agree on a common builder as well. Which builder the applicants choose is up to them—the authority does not need to set any guidelines for that, just as there aren’t any for joint applicants.

As currently planned, the development area will have two aesthetic standards: harmonious rows among the joint applicants and a mix-and-match look among the individual applicants. For custom homebuilders, it’s better to reserve plots for detached single-family houses; with a 6m (20 feet) wind corridor, different rooflines will not be an issue.

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11ant schrieb:


That option doesn’t exist. He can only say “with X,” and then he will be assigned a plot located between or next to other applicants also choosing “with X”; or “with Y,” in the same way; or “either,” which increases his chances of allocation but leaves the surprise whether it will be an X- or Y-type building.

I didn’t mean that you should look in the bulletin for joint application partners. Rather, the mayor should post a call for single applicants to register whom they want to build with, so that the lottery can be adjusted accordingly.

Your quote refers to a comment about what happens if someone wants individual allocation. I interpret this as meaning that the municipality should specify that only companies X and Y are eligible. Or do you really think that out of dozens of construction companies, “purely by chance” all homebuilders pick only two or three @11ant?

Maria16 schrieb:
Or do you really think that among dozens of construction companies, all home builders just “randomly” pick only two or three @11ant?

No, besides X, Y, and Z, there can also be A, B, C, and others. The municipality should not mandate who to build with—except that everyone in each row must agree. This should apply not only to the joint applicants but also to the individual applicants.

So I will give another (terribly long!, but you can cut it out and chew on it until you’ve fully digested it) example: Suppose there are 32 building plots arranged in eight rows of four. Each row has a single, uniform builder (or at least planner)—the name does not matter; whether “solid” or “prefabricated” also doesn’t matter; there just has to be one common builder per row.

From the countless applicants, 32 are selected. Group Willi (building with Huber) has four people, forming a full row. Group Günter was not selected at all. Group Susanne (building with Pfleiderer) has three people, so one space remains. Five individual applicants said Dimpfelmoser, seven said Rossbauer, and thirteen—including you—wanted individual allocation but did not commit to any specific choice, so they must join a group somewhere.

Now there is a Huber row for Group Willi, a Pfleiderer row, two Dimpfelmoser rows, and two Rossbauer rows. You can either agree with other individual applicants to join one of the two “remaining” rows (one of the previously mentioned groups or another of your joint choice) or join the Dimpfelmoser builders (three spaces available), the Rossbauer builders (one space available), or Susanne’s Pfleiderer group (also one space available).

Rossbauer is way too expensive anyway. In the Dimpfelmoser group is Frank, who used to pull your hair back in school. Susanne is very nice, but Pfleiderer’s building style is just not your thing (just like the cheap wooden shacks from Häberle, which three of the other individual applicants are targeting).

So there are five builders left (including you), of whom one now has to join the Häberle builders. Then you can gather the remaining three around you to find a common architect. This architect will plan for you collectively, but you will all tender individually—regardless of whether you contract everything or take on some trades yourself.

So you see:
1) You don’t have to build with Häberle or Pfleiderer.
2) The municipality did not specify any builder’s name.
3) But it would be smarter to ask all applicants—not only those applying jointly—for their choice before the lottery.
4) Then, although you might have suffered the same fate as many others (including the entire Group Günter) by not being selected at all, you would have saved yourself the long process of reaching group consensus.

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The original question was, "Are there any laws or regulations when independently building terraced houses?"

What do you mean exactly? I understand your statement, "However, the municipality did not hire a developer for the construction; instead, you have to build the houses yourself," to imply that you think you have to handle the entire construction on your own.

So, what exactly does your question above refer to?

• Laws in the sense of "I am building a house"?
• Laws in the sense of "I am planning a house"?

Frank Hartung schrieb:
I understand your sentence "However, the municipality did not hire a developer for the construction, so the houses must be built independently by each owner." to mean that you now believe you have to manage the entire house construction completely on your own.

With a developer, a whole group of houses would be planned cohesively by one entity – this coordination individual builders have to organize themselves first (if they consider it necessary – I strongly recommend it, though there are differing opinions).

Frank Hartung schrieb:
The actual question was "Are there any laws or principles for independently building terraced houses?" What exactly do you mean by that?

The original poster probably wants to know if, when I build first, my house’s design profile becomes binding for them. In other words, whether they must then comply not just with some general eave height limit of up to 7.50 m (24 feet 7 inches) and building depth up to 12 m (39 feet 4 inches), but specifically with my 7.38 m (24 feet 3 inches) height at 11.87 m (39 feet) depth – including my 26° pitched dormers; simply so that our row of houses appears as a coherent, individually planned unit. Or at least if I could negatively affect their ability to build a pitched roof house by submitting my stepped-story building permit application first.

The answer is “no”: there is no building regulation paragraph enforcing “first comes, first served” rights; however, one would have to piece together a vague requirement for harmony from case law.

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