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Ecological Compensation Measure Sarah Preisler Legislative (Germany) In Germany, all building and land use regulations stem from Federal laws, including the Federal Building Code (Baugesetzbuch) and the Federal Nature Conservation Act (Bundesnaturschutzgesetz) which require municipalities to develop land use plans and regulations which safeguard sustainable development, natural functions and landscapes. Any “intervention” (i.e. development) that impacts nature within urban areas requires compensation.The “Intervention Rule” is the decision making process that municipalities use to apply these principles. “The nature, which we have co.n our roofs, is a piece of earth that we have killed so that we could build a house on the spot” F. Hundertwasser Interventions generally include buildings, paving, changes to an area’s drainage pattern, the removal of vegetation and the like. Municipalities create their own classi?cations for interventions in their land use plans and also de?ne acceptable compensation measures within their localities. Once it is determine that a proposed project will result in an intervention, the developer and the municipality work through the following series of questions with the goal of limiting or avoiding the intervention if at all possible: 1. Can the intervention be avoided through designing the project in a different way? 2. If not, can the project be designed in a manner that minimizes the intervention? 3. If the intervention cannot be minimized, can it be compensated for on site, such as by adding green space or using a green roof to management stormwater runoff? 4. If not, can the lost value of the natural system impacted be replaced elsewhere? 5. If not, at the municipality’s discretion, the developer must either provide ?nancial compensation equal to the lost value of the natural system or the project cannot be approved. Any ?nancial compensation provided will be used by the municipality for nature conservation. Resources Ngan, Goya. “Gre