City of Rapperswil-Jona SG approves Roger Federer’s boathouse
Published: Wednesday, Sep 4th 2024, 12:30
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The city of Rapperswil-Jona has granted permission for the construction of a new boathouse with jetty on Roger Federer's property. The pending objections were rejected by the city council and the relevant cantonal authorities.
The application was reviewed and approved by the relevant cantonal authorities, the town of Rapperswil-Jona wrote in a press release on Wednesday. "At its last meeting, the city council was therefore able to grant permission for the demolition of the existing boathouse and the construction of a new boathouse."
The decision is not legally binding. The objectors have 14 days to lodge an appeal against this decision with the Building and Environment Department of the Canton of St. Gallen. The planned project for the construction of a new boathouse triggered a total of four proceedings.
In 2019, it was announced that Roger Federer had bought a plot of land measuring almost 17,000 square meters in Kempratner Bucht in Rapperswil-Jona. Six buildings are now under construction on the site directly on Lake Zurich. Several objections, old development plans, a dispute over the lakeshore path and the pandemic postponed construction several times.
The Rives Publiques association was one of the opponents of the boathouse. It fights for free access to the lake shores and watercourses.
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