Genoa – Change of use with controversy for the Campostano a Nervi area which, from green space becomes an area intended (for now) for public services and in particular for parking. With a provision which, however, according to the minority in the city council, would actually pave the way for the future construction of a supermarket that has been hovering for some time. The resolution to update the Puc (Municipal Urban Plan)which changes the destination of the area, was approved yesterday by the city council with the votes of the center-right majority, while the entire minority (Pd, Rossoverdi, civic Genoa, M5S and United for the Constitution), voted against.
The area in question is the one located between via Franchini, via Somma and via Campostano in Nervi: a green area of about 4,000 square meters, owned by the large-scale retail group Sogegross, indicated in recent years as a possible space where to carry out the project of a supermarket with parking and swimming pool on the roof. In the resolution approved yesterday, however, there are no references to this project. The change of use of the area, which was included in the context of conservation of structured urban greenery, to allocate it to functions of public interest, and in particular to public car parks, is explained by two sets of reasons: the need to adapt to a ruling of the Tar of 2016, which had annulled the current urban planning regulations, and the need to equip Nervi with new parking lots.
“This resolution fills a planning gap, emphasizes the fact that public parking spaces must be built in that area and it is also a necessary act with respect to the Tar ruling,” said the councilor for urban planning, Mario Mascia.
The buffer zone from the cemetery
The measure, however, also reduces the cemetery buffer zone from 200 to 50 metres, the radius of distance from the cemetery within which it is not possible to build, after the Asl3 has given a favorable opinion to the Municipality in this sense. Mascia argued that the building could be used to create, for example, underground car parks there, but “this resolution is the key to making this area buildable while the greenery had to be preserved beyond everything”, denounced Mattia Crucioli, of Uniti per the Constitution. And the junta gave a contrary opinion and the classroom rejected by a majority an agenda of the councilor of the Democratic Party, Alberto Pandolfo, who asked to “categorically exclude the settlement in the area of Campostano of a medium or large sales structure, or in any case a “supermarket”».
“This agenda enters into the merits of a project that does not exist and then – Mascia commented – among the complementary functions admitted by the destination to public services there are also compatible or functional neighborhood businesses”. Words that did not reassure the minority at all: “Eventually a supermarket and private parking will be built in that area”, the prediction of the leader of the Democratic Party, Simone D’Angelo. —
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