“An important day for Ragusa”.
Thus the Mayor, Peppe Cassì, commented on the approval of the New Prg by the City Council.
A tool that puts “in black and white clear principles such as the stop to expansion, new services in urban voids already present in the built fabric, tree-lined cycle and pedestrian paths, freight yards and Metrorail at the center of mobility strategies, the demolition of dilapidated buildings in the Center to make room for car parks, sports areas, gardens.
Since the end of the last mandate – continues the mayor – a long process of sharing and review began, carried out together with professional associations, associations and citizens, during countless meetings.
The last phase was marked by a constructive discussion between the majority and the opposition in the City Council to reach a synthesis between different sensitivities and visions, up to yesterday’s approval.
The new Ragusa Town Plan is therefore the Plan of the Council and of the entire city”.
But there is no shortage of controversy, in particular after the intervention of the Deputy Mayor, Gianni Giuffrida, who had criticized the FdI councilor, Rocco Bittetti, who had left the room due to the failure to verify alleged further incompatibilities, in addition to those already emerged, by the representatives present in the room.
The senator, Salvo Sallemi, intervenes to defend him.
“The city council, the City Senate, is a sacred place of debate and democracy. Our representative Rocco Bitetti has always acted – and his story speaks for him – with correctness, courtesy and firmness in the interests of Ragusa and the people of Ragusa. Therefore the invectives – towards a representative of the opposition – from the deputy mayor appear out of place and unpleasant. Unpleasant invectives in the face of the request for transparency and clarity posed by councilor Bitetti regarding one of the most important acts that the council must hesitate: the master plan. In fact, a postponement had been requested to delve into situations worthy of attention and which went in the direction of maximum transparency; a responsible request as well as responsible was the action of councilor Bitetti along the entire path that led to the Plan’s arrival in the chamber. Institutional politeness and the ability to discuss, evidently, do not belong to everyone and this occasion is concrete proof of this.”
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