Military base: it will take place in Pisa, but not in Coltano – Chronicle
by Gabriele Masiero
PISA
The project to build a maxi military base of 70 hectares in Coltano finally disappears, but the hypothesis of “unpacking” it takes shape in widespread settlements in the municipal area. It was decided yesterday at the second meeting, in Rome at the Ministry of Defense, of the interinstitutional table to identify the best solutions for the construction of the headquarters for the special units of the carabinieri: the table will meet again in September and on that occasion the first preliminary project could come out. The solutions in the field are Ospedaletto, Cisam di San Piero a Grado and a small urban regeneration project in Coltano. Yesterday’s meeting, reads the joint note released by the authorities and the ministry, “lasted two hours and was attended by representatives of the Arma command, the president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani, the president of the Province, Massimiliano Angori , mayor, Michele president, the president of the Park Lorenzo Bani: the table considered the hypothesis of a 70-hectare center-functional center definitively over, towards a basic project spread over the multifunctional territory, addressing the urban of buildings of public property “. The mayor, Michele Conti rejoices: “The special departments of the carabinieri may be based in Pisa, but the risk of a maxi base in Coltano is definitively averted, which should produce land consumption and overbuilding in the Park: I managed to make the line of the ‘unpacking’, which satisfies the request of the carabinieri who need to train near the military airport and protect the environment and contain land consumption “.
For Conti, “It is right to listen to everyone but the institutions cannot remain immobile in the face of pressure or committees of the No to non-commissioned officer: as mayor I will be satisfied if I know, together with the other interlocutors, to make the general interest of the territory coincide as closely as possible with the national interest “. Bani is also satisfied: “The first result, thanks to the mobilization of the Park, the institutions and thousands of citizens, is the irrevocable renunciation of building the base in Coltano. Now we need to see the projects to evaluate their feasibility. Park the availability of the former radar station to create a reservoir that could be a birdwatching observatory and opportunities in case of drought for farmers and animals, avoiding possible future destinations incompatible with the territory “. But the No base movement is not there and relaunches the mobilization with a public assembly today at 6 pm in Largo Ciro Menotti: “The institutions put their helmets on and close ranks, reaffirming that they want to build the new military base in Pisa, near the ‘airport, transforms the city into a logistical platform for war, the impacts of which together with all its infrastructures they produce are incalculable, both in social and ecological terms. and that the 190 million euros are immediately earmarked for the social and environmental priorities of the area “.