Questão jurídica principal
Whether the federal appeal became moot after the building permit application was withdrawn.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The withdrawal rendered the federal appeal and the lower decisions devoid of object, so the case was struck from the docket.
Fundamentação extraída
Once the permit request was withdrawn, there was no longer a live dispute; the Federal Supreme Court therefore removed the matter from the docket and noted the mootness of the challenged decisions.