After four commission sessions and 253 votes, the Third Advisory Commission expressed a favorable opinion on the counterarguments to the observations for the new Rimini beach plan (the majority in favour, the opposition abstained).
A substantial work which will land on the benches of the City Council as early as next week, thus arriving by mid-June at the adoption of the new urban planning instrument intended to guide the redevelopment of the beach, with a view to greater innovation in services, reception, sustainability, accessibility.
The counter-declared plan is the result of the examination of the approximately seven hundred requests presented by citizens, professionals and categories that arrived following the publication of the plan adopted by the City Council and the participatory process made up of public assemblies and almost seventy meetings with citizens, associations of category and environmentalists, professional associations.
The ideas and contents of this participatory process contributed to the formulation of the Administration’s observation of the plan: a complex observation, illustrated in detail within the Commission, which touches on various strategic themes, including the deseasonalization of the beach, which represents one of the key objectives of the plan.
Through official observation, it is expected to integrate the rule through a public tender for the winter sea; the proposal is to assign any additional surfaces (to be recovered from those not used overall in the plan) so that bathing establishments and public establishments can develop diversified activities (sports, entertainment, cultural functions) even beyond the summer season.
Again with the aim of making the beach live twelve months a year, the rule will be integrated with a further opportunity: in the context of the so-called micro-aggregation interventions which are developed in correspondence with the squares and the new accesses to the sea, the possibility of grant the use of zone C (the one intended for shade) for the organization of temporary events and shows during the winter period, without limiting the public use of these areas. For macro-aggregations, however, the construction of works for the deseasonalization of bathing establishments will be allowed and must be included in the project presented for the request for the housing permit.
The possibility is also envisaged of granting private entities the use of municipal areas also within the squares and areas of the sea park, especially if these areas have not yet been subject to redevelopment, with the aim not only of guaranteeing deseasonalization, but to anticipate and trigger recovery and valorization processes.
Other strategic issues covered in the plan observation concern passages and free beaches. Both strategic objectives of the Plan have been confirmed: the increase in free-to-use beaches (+37% compared to the current surface area) and the strengthening of the connection between the sea and the seafront through the passages, as new spaces available to people.
In southern Rimini the openings, maintained in correspondence with the main axes, will be places of connection between the beach and the Sea park, free from artefacts on the model of Piazza Kennedy. The increasing free beaches will instead be obtained by proportionally distributing a reduction in frontage between the neighboring concessions and implementing, where possible, the existing ones. In Rimini north which has different morphological characteristics from the south, the Administration proposes to maintain the integration between the passage and the free beach, modifying its location.
The official observation intervenes, among other aspects, on the new pedestrian path on the beach, differentiated between the north and south coast. The promenade on the southern coast is planned in the current position, offering an alternative to the pedestrianized seafront and linking public businesses with the seafront. The proposal includes the introduction of greater flexibility for the location of public businesses within the aggregation interventions between Piazzale Boscovich and Benedetto Croce, with the aim of differentiating the service. The pedestrian path on the north coast, on the other hand, will have the aim of recovering the view of the sea from the beach, currently closed in some places due to the presence of artefacts and villas, and will support the Sea Park, which is not entirely pedestrianized in the area.
