In recent days the Mayor Damiano Tommasi and Deputy Mayor and Councilor with responsibility for Urban Planning Barbara Bissoli received the associations at Palazzo Barbieri Legambiente, Our Italy And WWFalso representing the Verona Città Bosco Coordination, for a meeting aimed at discussing the future of the “Marangona”.
Representatives of the associations presented theirs doubts regarding the opportunity to proceed with the development of approximately 1,500,000 m2 of agricultural area, in the logistics and production area and on how they intend to pursue the European objectives of eliminating land consumption, already indicated in regional legislation, and the same programmatic lines expressed by the majority.
The doubts
The associations’ requests were summarized as follows: contain land consumption in the Marangona area and in general across the entire municipal area also in view of the drafting of the new PAT; activate the participation of civil society in discussion tables and discussion; review the PAQE guidelinesin dialogue with the Veneto Region: think about a regeneration plan for the historic ZAI to prevent new warehouses from arising.
The Administration’s responses
The Mayor and Deputy Mayor recalled how the Marangona area is bound to the territorial forecasts of the PAQE, the territorial area plan of the Veneto Region, therefore of a higher level, which has modified the municipal urban planning instruments in this regard, and how it has been subject of a previous Program Agreement (2016) which did not complete the administrative process and which provided for its substantial overbuilding.
The Administration also has illustrated the administrative process that led to the Program Agreement signed on 5 June by the Municipality, the ZAI Consortium and the Province of Veronaspecifying that it was started in 2019 and was characterized, on the one hand, by a significant revision – also on the opinion of the competent regional management – of the initial proposal for the Standard Sheet attached to the Program Agreement presented by the ZAI Consortium, which initially envisaged only a generic logistical destination for the entire C2 sector, while now all the destinations contemplated in the PAQE are foreseen (productive, artisanal, management activities with a high content of technological innovation, scientific research activities and production of services (libraries, meeting rooms , bank branches, catering centres, guesthouses) and distribution logistics), with the expectation that they will be implemented in a balanced and coherent way with the vocation for technological innovation and scientific research according to the principles of the ecological transition.
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On the other, the administrative process was also characterized by the carrying out of two participatory phases (one in September 2020 and one in November 2021), which also involved the publication on the website of the Municipality of Verona of the Program Agreement with the elaborate attachments and the possibility for anyone to present observations; the Administration also highlighted that, however, no comments were ever received from any environmental association. Therefore, she was transparency of the route is ensured, reiterating the administrators the importance of planning the development expected by the city since 2006, when the Quadrant Europe Area Plan modified the municipal planning tools by introducing this second production sector of the PAQE, dedicated to technological innovation and scientific research. On this point, Barbara Bissoli recalled how, in recent weeks, with an unnecessary but intentional resolution to ensure maximum comprehensibility of the process, the current Council adopted a resolution acknowledging the state of the proceedings before signing the Program Agreement, attaching the outline with the main documents, which introduces the urban planning of the vast area.
In making known by the Administration the possibility of sending proposals for improving and mitigating land consumption to the MunicipalityMayor and Deputy Mayor reiterated that there is still room to design the future of MarangonaSection C2 of the Quadrant Europe Area Plan of the Veneto Region, and to improve what is foreseen in the Program Agreement between the Municipality, the ZAI Consortium and the Province.
The representatives of the associations noted that the construction process of the Marangona area is progressing. In fact, the minutes of the decision-making services conference relating to the signing of the Program Agreement between the Municipality, the Province and the ZAI Consortium were approved, which will be brought to the City Council for ratification. This Agreement will allow the issuing of the agreed building permit for the construction of a logistics hub in the sector called “Corte Alberti” (20h), laying the foundations for the design of the other sectors through the approval of a shared Masterplan.
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In this context the Deputy mayor underlined the intention to guide the development of the other four unitary areas of intervention through the approval of a Masterplan by the signatory bodies of the Program Agreement which establishes the relevant functional criteria, following forms of consultation and participation of interested parties, including environmental associations, as well as subsequent distinct implementation urban plans. Based on the provisions of the Program Agreement, the implementation planning that will follow the urban planning must expressly adapt to the perspective of the ecological transition with particular reference to the permeabilization of the land and the drainage capacity of the areas and the construction of self-sufficient buildings from an energy point of view and that do not use fossil fuels.
He comes the request of the Associations was accepted activate a participation table on important topics such as that of urban planning, reporting how the departments are taking action to create specific thematic coordinations. The associations, taking note of the choices that have been made so far, the result of decades of planning that did not consider the environment and citizens, they appreciated this moment of dialogue and the possibility of being able to have a direct exchange of information on procedures and choices but at the same time they expressed their own concerns starting from the reasons expressed by the residents of southern Verona who suffer from poor air quality and fear that incremental transportation flow will worsen. Regarding that the Administration has highlighted its commitment to regenerating the historic ZAI areasubject of the PAT review.
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