Question juridique clé
Whether the plan approval and building authorization for the reservoir project had to be denied because of the chosen site
Solution extraite
No. The court held that the site at 2b outside the protected perimeter was legally justified and the appellants did not show that the government’s balancing of interests violated federal law.
Motifs extraits
The alternative site 1a lay inside the protected zone and would itself impair the protected ensemble; the project at 2b was outside that zone and was based on technical and planning reasons that were not shown to be unreasonable.