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Monday, 12 March, 2012
Voters approve limit on secondary homes
Construction in some tourist areas is likely to come to a screeching halt. On Sunday, 50.6 percent of Swiss voters approved the initiative limiting secondary homes. Now the constitution says those secondary residences cannot comprise more than 20 percent of the total housing in a given commune. It was a hard fought victory for Franz Weber, the man well known for his crusading environmental battles. But the results of the vote have exposed serious divisions between urban and mountain regions, as WRS’s Jordan Davis reports from Bern:
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Bon! Principia pour le propere Allocation! Go Franz WEBER!! CONGRATULATIONS!! Grazzi!
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