Key legal question
Whether the approval procedure violated the landowners' right to be heard because they were not heard again in the cantonal approval stage.
Extracted holding
No. The overall coordinated planning and appeal procedure gave the landowners sufficient opportunity to raise objections; any defect in the approval stage was cured in the subsequent judicial review.
Extracted reasoning
The hearing right was respected through the objection and appeal proceedings. The approval and appeal functions are distinct, but coordination was ensured before the final cantonal instance, and the appellants could still raise concrete objections after approval.