Questão jurídica principal
Whether Art. 9(3)-(4) and Art. 10(3)-(4) GABE violate equal treatment by granting fee reductions for Minergie and passive houses.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The reductions treat comparable cases differently without sufficient justification and therefore breach Art. 8 BV.
Fundamentação extraída
Connection fees may be schematically based on building insurance value, but if a municipality departs from that scheme it must do so consistently. The ordinance grants reductions for energy-efficient buildings while excluding other equally cost-irrelevant but comparable additional expenses, such as special heating systems or barrier-free construction. For renovations, the large reductions are even less justified because no corresponding extra costs are shown.