Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the Letzau Nord area had to be treated as mostly built-up land under Art. 15 lit. a RPG.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The area did not have the character of a closed settlement; it remained separated from Montlingen by special-purpose zones and agricultural land.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court applied a narrow concept of 'mostly built-up land': decisive is settlement character, not merely that parcels are partly or fully built over. The existing buildings were scattered, small in scale, and functionally linked to special-use zones, so they did not form an independent settlement core.