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The development plan contains stipulations regarding the type and extent of building use, the area that can be built on and the traffic areas.

The qualified development plan specifies in a legally binding manner which buildings and other facilities are permitted on a plot of land. Among other things, stipulations are made

• the type of building use (e.g. residential, mixed, commercial area),
• the extent of building use (e.g. number of storeys and floor area, height, number of full storeys),
• the construction method (open or closed construction method),
• the buildable plot area and
• the traffic areas.

The simple development plan, which does not meet the requirements of a qualified development plan, only contains individual stipulations as binding regulations and is supplemented by the regulations of the applicable Sections 34 and 35 of the German Building Code (BauGB).

A development plan is adopted by the municipality as a statute. It then becomes legally binding through publication.

The effect of the legally binding development plan for the developer is twofold: on the one hand, it "releases" the individual building plots for development and, on the other hand, it contains the legal, generally binding restrictions for the development of the plots.