Structural plan Siena, Capitani: “Municipality at work on the participatory program”
“The Municipality of Siena is following the legal process on the participatory path relating to the Structural Plan, in order to best conclude the mandate in the exclusive interest of the community”. This is how the councilor for urban planning of the Municipality of Siena Michele Capitani comments on the steps that the municipal administration is carrying out with regard to the Structural Plan, an important urban planning tool that the city will have to adopt in the coming years.
“After the operational plan – comments Capitani – that Siena has been waiting for years and has promptly launched by this administration, thanks to the work carried out by my predecessor Francesco Michelotti, by the entire De Mossi council and by the employees, we are carrying forward all those steps for the Structural Plan. In particular, article 36 of Regional Law 65 of 2014 establishes the process of information and citizen participation in the formation of territorial government documents. Among other things, the provisions envisage the appointment of a guarantor of information and participation, as well as the creation of a specific participatory path for the formation of the new urban planning tool. The Covid 19 epidemic has made it impossible to proceed with this activity, which makes it necessary to hold meetings with all types of stakeholders, including citizens themselves, during the period of the ongoing state of emergency. Once this was completed, the Urban Planning Department proceeded, given the specificity of the activity, to entrust the task to a company expert in the communication sector in general and this service in particular. Through a comparative process, the task was entrusted to the Cooperative Social Enterprise Socio Lab of Florence, which is currently working to develop the methodological proposal, in order to prepare the program of participatory events, whose start is scheduled for the middle of next January and will end by the end of May.
The path wanted by the administration – concludes Capitani – is not only normatively correct, but it is also administratively correct, in order to leave to those who will administer in the future already a completed step and therefore allow the adoption and approval of the Structural Plan in time faster. The fact that this administration faces an end of term does not mean that we should stop working in the best interests of the city. The mandate that has been entrusted to us has not yet expired and this majority will continue to operate in the interest of the citizens for the remaining time”.