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Tancredi: "10% is an adequate ceiling for a highly attractive context such as that of Milan. It is also right to increase the additional contributions so that they function as an equalization benefit for the citizens. I thank all the councilors who allowed the approval final within the deadlines established by law"

Milan, 20 December 2021 – Approved by the City Council by the deadline of 31 December, with 24 votes in favour, 8 against and 6 abstentions, the resolution governing the recovery and return to the city of abandoned and decommissioned properties, in application of the art. 40 bis of Regional Law 12/2005 which frames and regulates the matter.

The Municipality of Milan has therefore set the maximum increase in building rights at 10% (the minimum allowed by Regional Law) and identified a series of territorial areas in which this possibility will not be granted, for reasons of particular landscape, environmental and architectural. The abandoned buildings in these areas, therefore, will have to be recovered with the existing volumes.

In the absence of approval by the end of the year, the application of the 20% volumetric bonus would have been applied by default, as per the regional law.

The resolution lists 115 decommissioned properties already verified: 81 are in areas that provide the bonus, 32 in excluded areas and two may only have partial incentives. Already approved by the Council, during the passage to the council chamber it implemented, among others, an amendment according to which the recovery interventions for buildings exceeding 2 thousand square meters of surface area (31 out of 115 in the list) must be accompanied by an agreement with the Municipality , in order to divide the value produced by the economic valorisation between the Administration and the private party as an extraordinary contribution, linked to the creation of public works and services in the context in which the intervention itself falls.

The ancient nuclei, the course of the Lambro river, the North Park, the South agricultural park and all areas characterized by a recognizable urban design, such as those intended for greenery to be safeguarded, are therefore excluded from the reward mechanism; compact fabrics, with buildings aligned with the road network, squares and public green spaces (with the exception, as per the council amendment, of cases in which the increase does not generate a curtain that exceeds the roof of the tallest adjacent building) ; the fabrics of the garden city, characterized by low-density residential typologies set in greenery; the former rural settlements now incorporated into the city; the neighborhoods that represent different models of urban development, such as the first popular neighborhoods or those of architectural interest, even dating back to the 50s and 60s, created to experiment with new building typologies.

The interventions that will benefit from the bonus must necessarily be accompanied by an adequate provision of areas for public services and equipment and, in the case of properties with a gross surface area exceeding 10 thousand mXNUMX, by quotas of social residential housing (subsidized both for sale and for rent). The Administration will also apply additional charges, based on the quantification of the economic value of the transformation projects. These last points, already foreseen by the Council resolution, have been strengthened by the amendment approved by the Chamber which provides for the signing of specific agreements.

For the buildings on the list, the related properties will have two years (the minimum allowed by Regional Law) to present the recovery plans, at the end of which a process will start that will require them to be demolished and to lose, if applicable, the premiums volumetric. The list of decommissioned buildings will be updated every six months.

"The Regional Law, even in this latest formulation, is a law that could present aspects of unconstitutionality because it still limits the planning action of the Municipalities, but which we are still called upon to apply - explains the councilor for Urban Regeneration Giancarlo Tancredi -. doing so would mean extending the bonus indiscriminately and to its maximum allowed, 20%. We believe that 10% is an adequate percentage for a highly attractive context such as that of Milan additional contributions, so that they function as an equalization impact on the inhabitants not only of the specific neighborhood affected by the intervention, but of the entire city. I therefore thank all the councilors who gave rise to a debate which was calm in tone, interesting in content, and who have permitted final approval within the deadlines established by law".