Key legal question
Whether the appellants had standing to object to the development plan under cantonal and federal law
Extracted holding
No. The lower courts were allowed to require a special personal and spatial connection comparable to Art. 89 BGG, and the appellants did not show such standing.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 111 BGG and Art. 33 RPG do not require broader standing in lower-court proceedings than in Federal Supreme Court proceedings. The cantonal interpretation was not arbitrary, and the appellants neither showed a special competitive relationship nor sufficient proximity to the site.