After the vote in the city council, against the Democratic Party and the council, on the urbanization of Ghilana, Faenza Cresce returns to Tuesday evening where the majority in support of the Manfreda municipal administration was split. The council was called to give its opinion on the project to build villas in the Via Firenze area. The vote was the last step in a procedural process that lasted almost four years, in which the city council had previously always voted in favor, at the center of an intense debate. First, it was the presence of a colony of hedgehogs that moved environmentalist associations to block urbanization. Then the Ghilana was submerged by water during the flood and a large part of the citizens began to criticize the project to build new homes in a flooded area. The President of the Region himself, Stefano Bonaccini, expressly asked not to build in flooded areas. A conclusion also reached by the Manfreda administration, which until last year was always in favor of urbanisation.
“It is therefore clear that the attitude has changed, as stated by the councilor Ortolani himself and the mayor Della Godenza in the Council of the Union, following a precautionary principle” points out Faenza Cresce.
“It is for this change of direction by the Administration that our list tried to understand on the basis of which scientific evidence this lot would have been more at risk compared to the adjacent already urbanized ones, however we did not obtain an answer: to date there is only one draft of a Special Plan, which will be ready in June (over a year after the event), in which the risk areas are not highlighted.
We therefore believe that the hydraulic protection of a city cannot be achieved by preventing construction in an already built-up area and that therefore simple denial is an insufficient and incorrect response, because it does not make the city safe, but only says NO”.
For Faenza Cresce: “It is necessary to discuss major works for the Lamone and Marzeno valley, with safety works upstream (expansion tanks, embankments, cleaning of rivers, maintenance of drainage channels and hilly and mountainous terrain ), because only through these works will it be possible to give a real response to the city, even in the areas already inhabited and tragically affected by the floods of last May.
Furthermore, we cannot help but be concerned about the relocation of over 3,400 homes and businesses, already announced in the Plan, only due to landslides, in addition to which others will have to be added due to the proximity to the rivers.
We therefore hope that this relocation will not concern homes and companies within Faenza, a city that will have to be made safe with strategic works upstream and not through the movement of “pieces”, following vague precautionary principles, which turn opportunities into NO and they block the development of a city already on its knees that wants nothing more than to get back up.
Finally, we would like to dismantle some imaginative constructions that have appeared in the newspapers in recent days: our list is and continues to be constructively part of the majority and of the Council of this city, in which it renews its trust in all its members, while maintaining its ideas on development towards a more attractive future for students, families and companies”.
