Monday, March 22 City Council discussed, in paragraph 5 of the agenda, the Integrated Plan of action on the area to the station, including Galli in the streets and Locatelli. Well.
a major operation, expected and desirable to redevelop a central area, a ticket today for those who arrive in town by train, tomorrow even more through the interchange between the different means of transport, even a "window" on cityscape for those passing through and seen, in the setting between the mountains and the Adda. Also good for the initiative of individuals, at a time certainly not healthy and uncertainties, and that legitimately aspire to realize their projects. Certainly the remarkable commitment of traders and individuals to actively integrate and harmonize various interventions and try to optimize and (not least by the administration municipal) to make the most of this opportunity to get benefits to the community, beautify and enrich the city's services, to offer added value to citizenship. All right, all right then? Not really.
Group Board of United Calolziocorte voted against the unanimous opinion with reasons and even with different nuances and emphases. Not because he opposed intervention but for the benefits that we think could be better and also for details.
Before entering into details, a brief introduction.
The plan, initially proposing many different projects, and the idea of \u200b\u200bintervening area is actually under discussion for at least four to five years. The TMP should have been approved within the month of March, was postponed for the umpteenth time at the end of summer (or the aim is next year?), But with the uncertainty of being able to approve measures until the conclusion of its progress. The PII in question had been seen in the Territory of the Commission on February 2 last year, but was not expected so rapid a conclusion, relying on time for more extensive evaluations, perhaps with the involvement and citizen participation. Bearing in mind the forthcoming elections, and following the postponement of the PGT, it could not provide for a City Council meeting until Thursday 11 us when the summons came before the Commission meeting area (Tuesday 16) and then the Conference of leaders for the next day, Friday the 12th, in view of the City Council Monday, March 22.
Between days 11 and 22 (with the Commission on 16) then, the time to express assessments, possibly counter, suggestions, on any account has been reset.
landscape-aesthetic balance, functional, necessary compromises between the interests of public and private, to assess the actual conditions of feasibility. None of this has involved a minority in what is called the mayor "an opportunity that all municipalities would have during their mandate. " Political arena or lack of sensitivity in dealing with administrative
In his City Council was stressed that we are faced with an integrated plan of action interesting and important, that certainly fits in a meaningful context for the City. It is right not to delay the solution. We are a stone's throw from downtown, near the central road and opposite the railway station, beyond which there are production facilities and the area of \u200b\u200bexchange between the different means of transport and connection. If only for the volumes is a significant intervention.
not judge the project itself, and not denies the right of proponents to implement the Plan. Certainly leave the existing stands now it is not appropriate. One does not give a better picture of Calow.
Personally, we agree to a redevelopment, which is required to give breath to the area, provide a better perspective of Calow and those who arrive in the city, the traveler is passing, offer services and improve the viability and livability.
But we can not agree, and then approve the PII as it appears today. In fact, the evaluation of this project is to be included in a broader context and general, and this should be the very meaning of PGT. In the case on the agenda of the PGT proves useful and important factor because it is a significant area of \u200b\u200bCalow, if upgrading it can not be regarded as sufficient justification for the classification in the regional law 12.
Talk service (ask for some time in this administration the draft service plan to be submitted together with the future PGT), links and sizes, including aesthetic landscape, becomes a contribution to the growth and development of the City. Who lives and develops not only from its own history, from a reality of yesterday and today, with its population and its activities, social and productive, but especially so to speak, or draw, his future, his perspective. We want to be what we choose to be, we want to build the City as we should be, and will be.
So this is an opportunity, would be the opportunity to redevelop the area and not only from environmental and aesthetic point of view, but take the opportunity to improve traffic flow: for example, remains unresolved the knot around the post office, especially with the release from Via Locatelli turn towards Lecco (alternative to avoid the intersection: a mile and a half to move the station, get off at the underpass via Galli-way along the lakeside of the Sassi De Gasperi and go at traffic lights in Via Mazzini, to do all the rounds and return to the station is about 3 km). There is no indication in the draft harmonized a possible connection with the area under the railway line, beyond the pedestrian underpass, which is too small, not suitable for those who may be new requirements;
stable under one of the new variant being achieved will Underground 639: we were told that the province will evaluate the issue of quotas and that it still does not play a big problem;
however there is a study of harmonic complexity, connecting paths;
green space, always positive where applicable, would have been more usable located towards the center, however, the ideal would be outside the station, providing a true square, a square on a human scale and in a perspective that should be correct relationship in relation to the buildings that surround it (the axis central to the way Anne Frank, which is placed perpendicular to the front);
the completion of the complex of the former cinema Manzoni appears as a minimum recovery services that may require an increase in residents, and certainly more than just a large room would be desirable to provide a multipurpose facility as flexible as possible;
or more multifunctional services, as well as a study of the needs of the community dictated by the proximity of the downtown area and interchange (ie for large influx of people) already own services that may connote an actual and real (usable) redevelopment. Also
intervention requires considerable financial investment, and may be too optimistic prediction to sell or lease all housing units and commercial, given the availability of families and citizens in the face of more difficult access - today - to bank loans.
Always following economic reasoning, then we doubt (or at least the possibility that this is) that the municipality, it is true, "capitalization" to deduction of charges the construction of sidewalks, many amenities of the green, the "square" of the station (infrastructure works which are performed by individuals under the Convention in) and Manzoni former cinema (which, however, include € 400,000 of public funding) but it is equally true that the works envisaged and with certain value can be performed with less expense than is the value (actual) extent agreed (though regularly met by arrangement). This is because even the private proceeding according to law with the tender, with the possible downside of the starting price could spend less than income collected to estimate the difference. All regular, no doubt, but the savings might not be to the benefit of the City?
Nevertheless, for service to that extent also the private sector should "count" (depending on the meanings of the term).
should have been, as of now and not afterwards, intensify synergies with the PII RFI sit better with the existing interchange by not having to adapt so badly in the latter unit residential and commercial.
Finally, and regrets that, in our opinion this was the real opportunity to pursue a more ambitious project, maybe more costly and difficult to implement, but with an urban studies and more useful and meaningful in the context of Calow, to give new and (mainly) by providing the best service station in a real place, in connection with the urban center and surrounding areas.
