Key legal question
Whether the zoning of the disputed land to conservation zone amounted to material expropriation requiring full compensation.
Extracted holding
The reclassification was a non-zoning, not a compensable material expropriation, because the land was not in the built-up area and no special trust-based circumstances justified compensation.
Extracted reasoning
The court followed its settled case law that Zurich's 1992 zoning adaptation was a first RPG-compliant planning, so conservation-zone allocations were non-zonings. The parcels were at the settlement edge, not part of the closely built-up area, and no special trust circumstances from past servicing costs, the 1985 vote, or the owner's conduct justified treating them as expropriatory.