LECCE – The game on the General Urban Plan is in all likelihood the most important of those underway.
With only a week left until the vote (the electoral campaign will close next Friday, with polls open on Saturday and Sunday), Mayor Carlo Salvemini, outgoing and re-nominated to obtain a second mandate at the helm of the city, has relaunched the issue today by putting it on the table a clear alternative.
The first path, in the event of success at the polls of the civic and progressive coalition, leads straight to the adoption of the urban planning tool as the first strategic act of the new council. The Pug has in fact already received all the positive opinions of the bodies superordinate to the Municipality, including, in March, the decisive one from the Basin Authority (for the delicate hydrogeological aspects of the territory). In short, it is a complex measure ready to be adopted in the city council after the long drafting work by the Urban Planning Department.
The second path, the one following an electoral victory by Adriana Poli Bortone, would lead to a different outcome, difficult to identify today, according to Salvemini. In fact, the centre-right candidate has spoken several times about the “revision” of the Pug, also placing emphasis on some specific points. Lastly, in the interview with Lecceprima (published yesterday) you expressed doubts about the “excessive constraints” that there would be in the area between the city proper and the coast.
To the vision of a Lecce countryside devoted, in Salvemini’s vision, to agricultural regeneration with bonuses for businesses and to the promotion of activities linked to sustainable tourism through the recovery of ancient farms with volumetric incentives and the possibility of changes of intended use for abandoned buildings in the context of the use of nature trails, seems to contrast with an orientation, on the part of the centre-right, of building expansion towards the sea. A significant divergence.
In a conference held at his committee, Salvemini insisted on the fact that any attempt to revive the Pug will lead to a delay which has been quantified, in the best case scenario, at five years, for a total of 40 from the approval of the previous one (in 1989 it was called General Master Plan). The mayor specified that this delaying option would be absolutely legitimate, but would objectively postpone the city’s appointment with the planning and regulation that residents, businesses and investors require to operate properly.
“It would be like a game of goose, we still don’t know how far it goes, in which we can also go back to the starting box,” said the mayor with reference to the need to reopen the procedural process in the event of changes to the Pug.
Salvemini then urged his opponent for words of clarity, on the choices and consequent times, recalling how the Centre-right in almost 20 years of government at Palazzo Carafa (from 1998 to 2017) was unable to arrive at the complete drafting of a Pug to be present to the city.
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