FANO «The needs of private individuals must be integrated into a vision of the city, they must be framed in the general interest. This municipal administration is greatly influenced by the requests of private owners, without searching for improving solutions or even a simple verification of existing alternatives. We have already seen what is happening for the logistics hub for the port.”
Architect Giorgio Roberti turns on the computer in his studio and opens the tables and plans of the general master plan to show that it is possible to reconcile job opportunities (150 hirings announced by the industrialist Paolo Andreani for the food logistics hub) with the right to health claimed by the residents of the former sugar factory area.
The inconsistent forecast
There is a solution to overcome the forecast of a productive area within the city, with the resulting traffic inconveniences and inefficiency of road connections; a now anachronistic forecast more than 30 years after the decommissioning of the plant to treat sugar beets in the area which in the 1950s was the link with the countryside but which is now incorporated into the urban fabric.
Roberti’s methodological premise, a professional life as an architect with administrative experience in the city council and at the helm of the Fano transport company, recalls the precedent of the shipyard recently built at the port, which, underlines the architect, destroyed the waterfront, that is, the competition of ideas to redevelop the seafront, which should have been completed in the tourist development of the port.
It’s not just the bulky shape of the Wider building that alters the skyline, above all there are the associated activities and transport in contrast with the tourist vocation. The vision of the city, precisely.
The abandoned vision
«For the former sugar factory there was a vision in the first draft of the plan – underlines Roberti -, which in some way was linked to what emerged in the process participated by the citizens, which gave rise to 5 projects». A mixed destination (residential, commercial and services) suddenly canceled due to the uncritical acceptance of the property’s proposal.
Architect Roberti highlights the inadequacy of the road network adjacent to the former sugar factory for the heavy vehicle traffic load induced by a logistics hub. In Cremona, for a similar work (also located near the motorway toll booth), which leads the Fano committee of residents of Via del Ponte to fear the invasion of over 500 trucks per day, two slip roads and a new roundabout are planned.
Fragile and tortuous roads
In addition to the fragility of Via Mattei and the Adriatica state road, already overloaded with traffic, Roberti points out the tortuous nature of the return route for trucks that were to take the highway in the direction of Rome: the current road system would lead them towards Tre Ponti or beyond Sant’Orso .
The available surface
«There is an adequate location of the logistics center in the industrial area – underlines Giorgio Roberti -. In the Torno area, a land area is available, confirmed by the newly adopted Prg, of 577 thousand square metres, more than double that of the former sugar factory, of which 142 thousand are buildable, for a declared need of 40 thousand. It is at the Bellocchi exit of the highway, immediately accessible coming from Fossombrone while access from Fano can be improved, therefore also well connected with the A14″.
This is the completion area of the industrial area of Fano, at the end of via Einaudi, near via Albertario and La Malfa. «There is now the countryside there – concludes the architect -: the three main planned lots can be modeled to find the best solution for the logistics hub».
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