Key legal question
Whether the complaints against the dismissal of the appeal and the refusal to restore the deadline were admissible before the Federal Supreme Court.
Extracted holding
The public-law appeal was admissible; the subsidiary constitutional complaint had no room. The Court did not enter into the substantive planning requests because the cantonal court had not examined them.
Extracted reasoning
The challenged cantonal decision concerned only non-entry and refusal of restoration; the appellants could invoke federal law, including Art. 29(1) BV, against formal denial of justice and excessive formalism.