Key legal question
Whether a final building permit may be revoked despite being unlawfully granted
Extracted holding
A building permit, as a police permit, may be revoked only under the strict conditions of § 22 VRG; after construction has begun, revocation requires a particularly serious violation of substantive law that affects important public interests, which was not the case here.
Extracted reasoning
The boundary-distance rules were mainly of private-law character, could be modified by neighbor agreement, and civil law already offered protection. The violation was minor, and there was no indication of bad faith by the permit holder.