Below is the press note from the lawyer. Luigi Marino President of the Benevento Historic Center Committee:
“We waited for the Administration to take charge of the critical issues of our neighborhood, but all our expectations were shattered by the inaction of the Authority.
We therefore publicly ask that the Municipality of Benevento clarify why the entrance gates to the Historic Center are not activated. Let us therefore expose the impeding reason which cannot rest, of course, on the protection of any group of people to the detriment of the liveability and safety of the citizens who live in the Historic Centre. Why, then, despite having established the ZTL, having purchased cameras, the gates are not activated? Is it legitimate to ignore the documented and repeated exhortations of this Committee on this point?
Again, going into detail:
– The paving of the Historic Centre, in several alleys and open spaces, is uneven and exposes members to danger;
– There are many dilapidated buildings, not maintained, open and, therefore, a possible meeting place for ill-intentioned people, which (dis)adorn our neighborhood. The Municipality should proceed with a mapping of those that represent a danger and operate to the detriment or, at least, issue the contingent and urgent acts within its power;
– The area of Via Umberto I needs greater attention. In fact, they reported to us that the limit IMPOSED BY THE MUNICIPALITY ITSELF relating to noise emissions would not be respected. Furthermore, in the same area, in the middle of the buffer zone, citizens inform us that some furnishings would be left covered with sheets, on public land, with a closed business;
_ Piazza Piano di Corte and Piazza Arechi II are, too often, occupied by unauthorized cars that pass undisturbed (without any valid permit) and occupy the already limited parking spaces intended for residents (we are referring to those in Piazza Piano di Corte given that in Piazza Arechi II, despite the requests made to this effect, parking areas for residents have never been authorized). In the same area, we still hear loud music on weekends.
The ordinance that is supposed to act as a deterrent does not appear to be respected. We have no evidence of controls relating to noise emissions;
– There is, again, the issue of Via Manciotti (in truth already brought to the fore by a timely article in Gazzetta di Benevento): between the collapse of a cornice (with a barrier that delimits the perimeter of the fall and which, in fact, closes also the alley for vehicular transit), the new pedestrian area (but shouldn’t it have been limited to the period of execution of the paving works in the area adjacent to the Arch of Trajan?) and other construction sites in the “outlet alleys” (with trucks not marked blocking the passage), it was not understood how residents should leave and return home. Bear in mind that there are many disabled people in that alley. It is imperative to restore the concrete viability of this road.
We hope that the Municipality of Benevento will, this time, take action and follow up on our reports. The period is peculiar and, who knows, we might even be proven wrong and overwhelmed by unexpected activism on the part of the organisation.’
