Question juridique clé
Whether the antenna project met the requirements for an exception under Art. 24 RPG, especially site dependency outside the building zone.
Solution extraite
The lower court had not sufficiently examined whether existing Swisscom antenna sites in Tentlingen and Plasselb were viable alternatives, so the site-dependency and balancing analysis was incomplete.
Motifs extraits
Relative site dependency requires concrete, objective reasons making the chosen site clearly preferable. Since existing sites might also technically work, the authorities had to compare the advantages and disadvantages of those alternatives before granting the exception.