Key legal question
Whether § 5 ABV exceeded the government's regulatory competence and violated separation of powers/legality.
Extracted holding
The ordinance provision was within the delegation in § 359 lit. d PBG/ZH and did not violate separation of powers or legality.
Extracted reasoning
The PBG expressly authorizes the government to issue ordinances defining building-law concepts and measurement methods. The definition of natural ground is a permissible concretization of an already statutory term and does not create an unusually heavy interference requiring a formal statute.