Questione giuridica chiave
Whether Art. 36(2) EBV allowed the BAV to refuse approval of the tram shelter after a broad interests-based balancing, or whether approval had to be granted once legal requirements were met.
Decisione estratta
Art. 36(2) EBV did not give the BAV a general discretion to deny the shelter on broad neighborhood-interest grounds; if the statutory requirements are met, approval must be granted. The case was remanded to the BAV to examine the technical and legal approval requirements.
Motivazione estratta
The court held that plan approval is a policing authorization: the authority must approve the submitted project if it complies with federal law. Art. 36(2) EBV establishes a duty to provide a waiting room, with a narrow exception for tramways and dense service intervals; any balancing under that provision concerns the operator's interest in dispensing with a shelter against passengers' interests, not a neighbor's veto based on unprotected interests. The BAV still had to verify compliance with Art. 17 EBG and the limited relevance of cantonal law under Art. 18(4) sentence 2 EBG.