Question juridique clé
Whether the development-plan obligation for the Station X area could be lifted before any development plan had been prepared or realized.
Solution extraite
Yes. Because no public or private interests justified maintaining the obligation, and it had become an unjustified building freeze, the obligation could be lifted early.
Motifs extraits
The court held that a development-plan obligation is comparable to a temporary building freeze and may be maintained only if public or private interests support it. Here no sensitive-protection interest, no realistic basis for a collective development plan, and no interest of the owners in retaining the obligation remained. The planning assumptions had proven mistaken, so changed circumstances justified adaptation.