The city Council must make the garden city settlement in the Frisian mountain under protection, a crash is unreasonable. The judgment of the administrative court on the first two building stages of the city of Zurich settlement is pleased to announce the Zurich home protection , how the Association tells. He fought successfully against the demolition.
The city Council had wanted to allow the family home-cooperative (DGC), the two settlements to cancel and to create, on the Area of denser buildings. Thus could be realized on the Area around 94 additional residential units. The construction appellate court had protected this interest considerations in the first instance: There is doubt as to the seniority of the old buildings to be hanged, decided it.
The judge also referred to the “very poor” structural condition of the building and the necessary remediation that would cost about 54 million Swiss francs. The building could be received for a further 60 years, but with markedly Rents increased. The owners expect prices of at least 2585 Swiss francs for a 5-room house, and in 1936 francs for a 4-room apartment. Such rental rates are with a cooperative residential purpose is not consistent, found the lower court.
The administrative court has now lifted the inventory of dismissal of the city and the judgment of the planning appeals Tribunal. The public interest in the preservation of this unique founder’s settlement was more important than the entirety of other private and public interests.
counter-proposal to build “tenements”
The first two fall, the settlement created from 1925 to 1928 by the architect Fritz Reiber. According to the Zurich home protection bribe axes through the leafy landscape with a variety of spatial references and Views. The two settlements were”heart” and the “pearl” of the frieze hill, and was not considered an exemplary example of the alignment of the former policy.
The garden city model was the antidote to the awkward living conditions of the workers in the tenements of compacting cities, and the response to a maximum allotment use. No other contemporary settlement in the city of Zurich and in Switzerland is of a similar Size, Unity and architectural quality such as the Fritz driver.
compaction is not a sufficient Argument
For the Zurich home protection is the “clear instructions of the administrative court” also set a trend for future cases: Even considerable private interests of the Landowner on Decommissioning should not lead to the demolition of high-level protection objects. The same is true if a compression is causing a significant increase in the value of a property, wrote to the Association in the message.
That may be a Precedent, will also have an impact on the FGZ and the city of Zurich, when it is a question of whether you want to appeal against the judgment. Currently, you can be this open. The Zurich city Council regrets the decision by the administrative court. This will show that a balancing of interests very different views of law could be.
No response from the city Council on the question of what would happen if it remains in the present judgment. It remains also unclear, which means there would be, at best, to lower the Rent in the lavishly renovated old buildings. The FGZ is nothing to learn. Known is only, that there are within the cooperative’s many voices, which is how the homeland security is much in the preservation of the old buildings. (lop)
Created: 05.02.2019, 13:09 PM
