Paying recurring contributions for traffic facilities

As a property owner, you can participate in the costs of the municipality for the expansion of traffic facilities.

Municipalities levy recurring contributions for the expansion of public roads, paths and squares (traffic facilities). Expansion includes all measures on facilities or installations created for the first time that serve to renew, expand, convert or improve them.

However, you as the property owner only bear part of the costs caused by municipal roads by paying the development contributions. The necessary maintenance and repair measures are borne by the municipality alone. The municipality has to bear its own share of the contributory development measures, the so-called "municipal share". This is between 20 and 75 percent. It is determined by the volume of through traffic in relation to the total traffic volume in the respective road or billing unit.

The remaining part of the annual costs for the expansion of traffic facilities in a settlement unit is allocated to all property owners in the relevant settlement unit when recurring road expansion contributions are levied. Settlement units can be the entire municipal area or parts of it. This depends on the size and structure of the respective municipality.

Please contact your municipal or city administration.

All properties that can be used for construction or in a similar way and where there is the legal and actual possibility of an access road or access to one of the traffic facilities within the uniform public facility are subject to the obligation to pay contributions.

Municipal contribution statutes

You can lodge an appeal against the assessment notice. This has no suspensive effect.

The collection of recurring contributions eliminates the high burden that is often associated with the collection of one-off contributions. The municipalities can therefore only levy one-off contributions in rare exceptional cases. The details of the collection of contributions are regulated by the municipalities.

They can apply for the contribution debt to be deferred or waived under certain conditions. In the case of one-off contributions, it is also possible to apply for payment in installments.

Road improvement contributions are to be distinguished from development contributions, which are levied on the basis of construction planning law. These are levied, among other things, for the initial construction of certain roads, paths and squares.