Military base of Coltano, the Mayor of Pisa intervenes – Chronicle
Pisa, 12 April 2022. The Mayor of Pisa Michele Conti spoke on the affair of the military base of Coltano by answering a question time during the City Council this afternoon. Conti’s words are as follows: “On the story of the military base that should rise in Coltano, the Municipality of Pisa has not received official documents from the Ministry of Defense. We only know the decree of the President of the Council of Ministers, signed by President Mario Draghi and by the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini, with whom in little more than a page and decrees “the infrastructural intervention for the construction of the headquarters of the Special Intervention Group of the 1st Tuscania Parachute Carabinieri Regiment and the dog center in Pisa – Coltano area”, recalling the application of the procedural simplification measures envisaged by the decree-law 77/2021, that of the governance of the PNRR. city of Pisa. Urban planning is a serious matter and, even more so for interventions that consume soil and a significant environmental impact ale, the territories and must be involved in advance, facing a shared path to explain and opportunities for criticality of a project, without reducing it from the opportunity of a ‘contralto’ project. “Adequate information in the coming months” cannot be enough, but the community must be fully involved in the choice. While not prejudiced against military settlements in the Pisan territory, I remember that in Pisa there has long been a fruitful coexistence with the armed forces, a source of pride for the city, and including the raison d’état for works “intended for national defense” , I let myself be interpreted by the feeling of the Pisan community in telling me that type of intervention in an area that falls within the Natural Park, in the announced size of about 70 hectares. I reserve the right to give more precise information once the Municipal Administration has made part of the details of the project, also by the Tuscany Region which, although competent in the matter, unlike the local authority, has so far remained silent on the matter. . We are aware that the urban planning discipline of the internal areas of the Park Authority is the exclusive competence of the Park itself and the planning tools of the Municipality of Pisa do not in any way overlap the Park planning tool. Certainly we will not fail to produce formal assessments if we are called to express ourselves at the conference of services on any environmental impact assessment. Meanwhile, I undertake to ask the Ministry of Defense for a meeting shortly to talk not only about the specific case, but more generally about the presence of the armed forces in the city, with spaces that could be subject to rationalization and more functional uses, for civil and military purposes “.