Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal court could disregard the municipal planning commission's aesthetic assessment in the building-permit procedure.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The municipal commission had no parallel or equivalent competence in the permit procedure; the statutory competence lay with the building permit authority and the cantonal expert body could be relied on.
Fundamentação extraída
The cited municipal planning and zoning provisions governed planning autonomy and local regulations, not the allocation of competence in the permit procedure. The Building Act expressly assigned permit jurisdiction to the Regierungsstatthalter, so there was no room for a co-equal municipal decision-maker.