Questão jurídica principal
Whether the federal appeal had become moot after the applicant withdrew the building permit request.
Decisão extraída
The appeal was moot because the withdrawal of the permit application rendered the challenged permit and the prior cantonal decisions without object.
Fundamentação extraída
The respondent's declaration was interpreted as a withdrawal of the application for building permission. This extinguished the subject matter of the appeal and also deprived the lower-court decisions of their object.