Questão jurídica principal
Whether the zoning revision could stand despite conflict with the cantonal and regional plans and the need to protect farmland.
Decisão extraída
The zoning revision was not tenable because the project amounted to a departure from higher-level planning and required a prior comprehensive balancing of interests, including farmland-compensation issues.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that a 'through-breaking' of the cantonal plan is only allowed in exceptional cases on a proper, comprehensive balancing of interests. For a major project on valuable agricultural land, the question of whether the land should be used at all had to be decided at the planning stage, not postponed to later stages.