Bertucco: «Verona sustainable? Serve a new model “
In the early 2000s, due to the Tremonti laws and related tax reliefs, an increase of over 165 million cubic meters was recorded in Veneto for non-residential and industrial buildings, it’s about 150 million for residential construction.
To make this calculation is the municipal councilor of Verona and Sinistra in Comune Michele Bertucco which returns to talk about sustainability and breaking the models of the past.
“We had unmasked the inflated forecasts by the Municipality of Verona again in 2015 when we demonstrated maps in hand as the surface of the municipal area is 198.8 sq km and not 206.6 sq km that had been used in the Territory Planning Plan to “inflate” the Transformable Agricultural area (SAT) of the Municipality of Verona. – Bertucco explains – In this way in 2007 and 2011 (with the Intervention Plan – PI) it was possible to make 1,678,000 square meters of agricultural land buildable, instead of about 700,000 square meters, resulting in an unjustified land consumption of more than 900,000 square meters which should have remained agricultural. For these plots of land with different urban use (buildable), an estimated premium has a market value of around 200 million euros“.
“We had asked, unheard, to this administration that before proceeding with other variants to the PI or with new overbuilding to rectify the provisions of the PAT, not only reduce the value of the transformable agricultural area to about 700,000 square meters with the consequent adjustment of the IP. – continues the former candidate for mayor Bertucco – Figures completely above the housing needs of Verona, which have created considerable damage to the territory, destroying the historical landscape of Verona and beyond: in particular, the dispersion of settlements has accentuated the hydraulic risk and the production of pollutants, generates energy waste, damage to health and unsustainable costs for transport and services to the population, costs that today affect the very competitive capacity of companies“.
According to Michele Bertucco there is a need for a new model of territorial development. In the first place it would be a problem of a cultural nature, which would put the questions of the government of the territory and the landscape as a common good back at the center of the debate and political action.
“They are needed new methodologies for urban planning, which primarily affect the relationship between interventions at the local level and more extensive territorial actions. In fact, alongside urban recovery policies, a more general reorganization of the settlements is needed. – underlines again – We also need a reinterpretation of green areas as focal points of a “network” that develops throughout the urban fabric, not only for the purpose of the urban fabric, but also for the advantages they have: they absorb atmospheric pollution, noise levels, and slow down the flow of rainwater, as well as mitigating summer temperatures in cities. In Veneto and Verona until now it has dominated the practice of “urban equalization“: The Municipality recognizes new building volumes in the former green spaces, in exchange for the free transfer to it of a portion of the areas affected by the Urban Implementation Plans. However, most municipalities have limited themselves to green areas in equalization areas, delegating possible projects for them to private individuals, and fragmenting Like this the landscape of the green in the city”.
“In any case – they conclude – these few considerations become evident that the revision of the Pact and the Plan of Interventions that we have been asking for for years, is more justified and absolutely necessary than ever.. It will have to be the first commitment of the next administration. Provided of course that citizens choose to send us someone who chews on these things and is not compromised with previous management or has no other interests, constraints or agreements to “honor”.
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