Last night, we took a walk through our residential area.
Our new development consists of five apartment buildings, each with five units spread across three levels. Nice buildings in Bauhaus style, with a penthouse apartment on the top floor, and the ground-floor units featuring terraces around the house and quite a bit of lawn. I assume there is a special right of use for the gardens.
The 30 km/h (about 20 mph) zone runs along these gardens, but the distance between the street and the gardens varies—sometimes wider, sometimes narrower. Where it’s wider, there are infiltration swales. A tree is planted every few meters.
So, we were walking along in the dark, and I noticed stakes by the roadside. My husband then saw electrical cables enclosing the area of a ground-floor apartment, running several meters directly along the street without any green strip, zigzagging along a tree. There are two cables—one at ankle height, the other at mid-calf level.
The electrical power supply unit is attached to a downpipe on the building and is clicking repeatedly.
Today, my husband saw that it’s an elderly couple who have a dog.
I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this... how would you handle the situation?
Our new development consists of five apartment buildings, each with five units spread across three levels. Nice buildings in Bauhaus style, with a penthouse apartment on the top floor, and the ground-floor units featuring terraces around the house and quite a bit of lawn. I assume there is a special right of use for the gardens.
The 30 km/h (about 20 mph) zone runs along these gardens, but the distance between the street and the gardens varies—sometimes wider, sometimes narrower. Where it’s wider, there are infiltration swales. A tree is planted every few meters.
So, we were walking along in the dark, and I noticed stakes by the roadside. My husband then saw electrical cables enclosing the area of a ground-floor apartment, running several meters directly along the street without any green strip, zigzagging along a tree. There are two cables—one at ankle height, the other at mid-calf level.
The electrical power supply unit is attached to a downpipe on the building and is clicking repeatedly.
Today, my husband saw that it’s an elderly couple who have a dog.
I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this... how would you handle the situation?
I clicked "don’t care" for now, but it’s not quite accurate. It really depends—if I’m just walking past and it’s not my neighbor, then it doesn’t matter. If it were my neighbor, I would definitely have my own fence, so still no issue. I don’t have children or free-roaming pets. My rabbits and the squirrels I release into the wild are kept in a marten-proof, enclosed aviary. The contact points behind my own fence would also be minimal. The clicking noise—it depends on how loud it is, but with the engine noise here and other annoying sounds (lawnmowers, brush cutters, etc.), it would probably be drowned out. So "don’t care" isn’t quite right; it’s more of a "depends!"—whether it actually becomes a concrete disturbance or limitation.
Jochen104 schrieb:
Could you please share a photo of the construction?
I find it a bit strange to have a fence built at that height. You shouldn’t form an opinion just based on the headline, but rather on the content. It involved only the two lines defined as a "pasture fence," even though there was actually no fence.
Well, I’d like to explain the situation:
Since I couldn’t find any definitive information on Google, and the general consensus seemed to be that it was more of an administrative offense, plus I couldn’t rule out a risk to playing children (as it was very close to the roadside—an adult could have tripped over it as well), I contacted the local police and my colleagues to inquire about the matter.
Of course, my husband and I also discussed whether there was a real danger, but we concluded that children living in this residential area don’t have the option to explore boundaries in some other way. That stuff simply has no place near the ground or in street-level areas. Also, my arguments wouldn't have been very strong regarding direct contact with the dog owners, who I don't know personally.
My colleagues offered to check the situation, which they did when they had time.
In summary, this resulted in a notice being sent to the municipality. Because the officer said that this had been coordinated with the municipality, although he couldn’t recall the name of the lady involved. He just wants to keep his small dog on the property.
When we walked past the area again yesterday evening on the way to the supermarket, the generator and wires had been removed. Only the two corner posts remain as evidence that the dog owners had planned something along the street. Today I learned that yesterday he also went to the police station to report that he had removed and given up on the fence. … So it can be done!
The funny thing about this is: if he hadn’t overstepped and had used the property boundary instead of the street line, at least those jogging by would not have noticed. Between them is a green strip that merges seamlessly into the garden but is planted with an avenue tree on this property. They carefully fenced around it. If they had left the green strip as it was, there probably would never have been a risk of tripping or any unnecessary problem caused by a startle.
- End of the story -
Comments are still welcome, of course.
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