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Status of old quartier regulations and scope of definitive permit

ATA/450/1997Court of Justice / Administrative ChamberAug 5, 1997

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Omnilex summary

The case concerns a building project in which a definitive permit differed only slightly from a preliminary permit, by adding garages and swimming pools. The court held that these changes did not destroy the identity of the project between the two authorizations. It also held that norms contained in quartier regulations annexed to an aménagement plan are not zoning plans when they were not subjected to public inquiry. Finally, a communal development plan and quartier regulation from 1938 that were never published cannot be treated as binding zoning plans.

Omnilex headnote

Art. 146 al. 1 LCI; distinction between preliminary and definitive building authorizations; a minor modification of a project in the definitive permit, such as the addition of garages and swimming pools, does not affect identity of subject-matter. Norms contained in quartier regulations annexed to an aménagement plan are not plans d'affectation where they have not been submitted to public inquiry. An old communal plan and quartier regulation, never published, cannot acquire binding force as zoning plans merely by virtue of their age or annexed form.

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Descripteurs

CONSTRUCTION ET INSTALLATION; AUTORISATION PREALABLE; AUTORISATION DEFINITIVE; PLAN D'AFFECTATION; REGLEMENT DE QUARTIER; ARBRE; TPE

Normes

LCI.146 al.1

Résumé

Une légère modification dans l'autorisation définitive de l'implantation des villas, l'adjonction de garages et de piscines par rapport à l'autorisation préalable, ne modifient pas l'identité entre l'objet des 2 autorisations. Les normes figurant dans des règlements de quartiers annexés aux plans d'aménagement ne sont pas des plans d'affectation, car ils ne sont pas soumis à enquête publique. Un plan d'aménagement communal et son règlement de quartier datant de 1938 et n'ayant jamais été publiés ne peuvent être qualifiés de plans d'affectation dotés de force obligatoire.

Keywords

building permitpreliminary authorizationdefinitive authorizationzoning planquartier regulationpublic inquirybinding forceconstruction project

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Key legal questions extracted by Omnilex

Key legal question

Whether the definitive permit departed from the preliminary permit by adding garages and swimming pools so that the two authorizations no longer concerned the same object.

Extracted holding

A slight modification in the definitive permit, including the addition of garages and swimming pools, does not alter the identity of the object compared with the preliminary permit.

Extracted reasoning

The changes were considered minor and did not create a different project in a legally relevant sense.

Key legal question

Whether norms contained in quartier regulations annexed to an aménagement plan qualify as binding zoning plans.

Extracted holding

Such norms are not zoning plans if they were not subject to public inspection.

Extracted reasoning

Absence of public inquiry prevents them from being treated as plans d'affectation with binding effect.

Key legal question

Whether a communal development plan and quartier regulation from 1938, never published, have binding force as zoning plans.

Extracted holding

They cannot be qualified as zoning plans with binding force.

Extracted reasoning

Because they were never published, they lack the characteristics required for mandatory effect against third parties.

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