Residential area

A residential area is by the German Land Use Ordinance ( BauNVO ) a construction area, which serves the living.

Descriptions

In the residential area is divided into:

Small housing estates

• Small housing estates under § 2 BauNVO - a construction area, which is basically used for accommodation of small settlements including residential buildings and corresponding vegetable gardens and agricultural sideline spots.

The small settlement area is a building area of ​​special purpose and character and serves not only the actual residential use in residential buildings, tenements, or even of self-sufficiency in the business section of the appropriate large property by horticultural use and small animal husbandry.

The self-sufficiency actually declined in recent years and largely taken the place of the livestock keeping of small animals as a leisure activity. With rising cost of living, this trend may change again, and thus win the small settlement in importance.

Purely residential area

• Purely residential area in accordance with § 3 BauNVO - a construction area, which is for the living. Shops and non-interfering crafts and small businesses and accommodation services that are used to cover the daily needs of the resident population, as well as social institutions are exceptionally qualified for admission.

A Purely residential area serves as a construction area normally only the living. Other uses are very limited and usually only eligible for registration if they have supply or supplement function. The focus is on residential calm: Even in a well desired mix of uses to the pure residential area of ​​apartment foreign influences remain largely unaffected.

The concept of dwelling is characterized by a stable long-term domesticity, self- organization of financial management and the domestic sphere as well as voluntariness of stay and includes all of running a household, related activities; this includes the use of motor vehicles and associated disorders.

For the connected to the living concept of domesticity, it does not matter if the inhabitants are logged in the appropriate continued use apartment formally with first or second home, and how often they spend there; also owner-occupied homes or apartments fall under the concept of living.

To distinguish between the long term but is landscaped housing and temporary accommodation: Forms of ( disposed ) provision of residential accommodation or fall would not normally be covered by the concept of living and are therefore inadmissible in a pure residential area.

In development plans Exclusively residential areas (WR ) are usually reported for reasons of compatibility of different uses for clearly demarcated detached houses. In general, residential areas are established as general residential area (WA).

General residential

• General residential area in accordance with § 4 BauNVO - a construction area, which primarily serves the living. Except residential buildings " the supply of the area serving " are shops and restaurants as well as non-interfering craft shops and community facilities permitted. Hotels, other non-intrusive business, administration, horticulture and gas stations are exceptionally qualified for admission.

The General residential area serves primarily as the residential building area. Here, the residential character of the area must fall to the viewer, despite a quite desired mix of uses by the number of apartment buildings in the eye. Here, the General residential area covers a broad range of residential areas; defined in this type of building use building areas differ from each other sometimes quite considerably in their urban density and the associated area specific confounders.

In addition to the residential living only compatible uses are permitted, which are mostly linked to the supply function for the area. The buildings are partly only for living, but partly used by shops also mixed and non-interfering craft shops on the ground floor, overlying offices and practices especially in the professions and of course apartments on the upper floors.

Special residential

• Special residential area according to § 4a BauNVO - a construction area, which primarily serves the residential, in which may be maintained and further developed also other uses but which are consistent with the typical and residential use for the residential area. Are permitted residential buildings, Beherbungs and restaurants, other commercial and offices. Central management facilities, entertainment places and gas stations are exceptionally qualified for admission. In the development plan can be established that above a certain floor apartments are only allowed in buildings, or that a certain area ratio is to use the housing.

The Areacategory special residential area serves the preservation and development of residential uses in predominantly built-up areas, which have a special character due to the fact exercised residential use and other existing pursuant to § 4a para 2 BauNVO permissible within the intended scope of equipment. By this respect, the Special Residential differs in the scheme of the other building areas; it may hereafter be fixed only those areas which include all the constituent elements listed.

Against this background, it will be in this area category to relatively densely built-up urban areas with a high proportion living with simultaneous mixing by service companies and smaller traders who despite a readable tendency to displacement of housing or because of the special environment ( " nature " ) the migration of ancestral population according to the identifiable target planning of the municipality worthwhile long-term preservation as a residential area. Due to the conflict situation characterized by different uses these old areas can be classified as a mixed neither clear nor as a general residential area.

In development plans the setting of a particular residential area (WB) comes only in special cases. Newly planned residential areas are as small housing estates, Pure residential area or fixed rule, as general residential area.

What types of building use are allowed in a general and special residential area, regulates the Land Use Ordinance.