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The Municipality also intervenes on the reduction of construction costs. Maran: "Let's stem the sensational damage of a regional law that goes in the opposite direction to regeneration"

Milan, October 30 2020 – The increase in the maximum building index up to 20% provided for by Regional Law 18/2019 in a generalized and widespread manner throughout the municipal territory does not have regeneration purposes and is in contrast with the strategy with which the Government Plan of the Territory links the increase in building capacity to accessibility to the public transport network and landscape values.

Furthermore, the reduction of urbanization charges and the contribution to the construction cost due foreseen by the same Regional Law generates critical issues with respect to the possibility of guaranteeing the creation of primary services such as schools, parks, roads and sports facilities as part of regeneration interventions urban in the area.

The resolution, approved today by the Council and in the next few days under discussion in the City Council, starts from these two considerations, which identifies the municipal areas that can be excluded from the increase in the maximum building index and modulates the reduction of urbanization costs and the contribution of construction, thus reducing the applicability of the measures provided for by the Regional Law itself.

“With this resolution we try to stem the sensational damage of a law that goes in the opposite direction to regeneration, allowing an indiscriminate increase in volumes in derogation of the PGT and morphological regulations and reducing the urbanization charges to be paid – declares the councilor Urban planning Pierfrancesco Maran -. If these are measures that could perhaps help other Lombardy municipalities, they certainly would not help Milan. Suffice it to say that in eight months as a result of this law we had 30 million less revenue to be allocated to the construction of fundamental public works for the city".

As regards the first point, the Municipality of Milan therefore establishes that the volumetric increase of up to 20% must not be applied to the entire municipal territory, but only in five areas characterized by high accessibility and a widespread need for regeneration of the urban fabric: Certosa, Lambrate, Corvetto/Rogoredo, Piazza Maggi and Segesta/San Siro, excluding the derogatory possibilities envisaged in terms of heights, quantitative and morphological rules, types of intervention and distances envisaged as they are already consistently regulated by the PGT devices.

Certosa: area between via Triboniano, the Certosa-Villapizzone railway line, via Varesina, via Ermenegildo Cantoni, via Angelo Brunetti, piazzale Cacciatori delle Alpi, via Espinasse, piazzale Santorre di Santarosa, via Vittorio Locchi, via Giovanni da Udine, viale Certosa , piazzale ai Laghi, via Barnaba Oriani, via Mario Pannunzio, appurtenances to the south and east of piazzale Cacciatori delle Alpi, via Alassio. The area is characterized by a fragmented urban fabric, in which artisanal and productive activities prevail over residential and tertiary functions. The presence of the Ghisallo flyover represents an element of marginality but the Certosa FS railway station guarantees good accessibility to the area. The current PGT recognizes the need for a regeneration of the Certosa area as it is a poorly consolidated urban area, located on the edge of the city, within which to recompose spaces of fracture with the more central areas.

Lambrate: area between via Pordenone, via Ludovico d'Aragona, via Ronchi, via Staro (with the exception of the residential complex identified as an area by the Recognizable Urban Design along via Bellincione), via Maniago, via Durazzo, via Crescenzago, via Rombon, via Predil, via Rodano, railway embankment. The area sees the mix of artisanal and productive activities still persisting in a residential and tertiary fabric. The area is characterized by high accessibility thanks to the Lambrate station and the metro line 2.  

Corvetto/Rogoredo: area between via Sulmona, via Toffetti, via Pallia, via Cassinis, via Brizi, via Boncompagni, via Avenzana, via Caviglia. The area is characterized by a particularly fragmented urban fabric, in which artisanal and productive activities prevail over residential and tertiary functions. The presence of the motorway connection gives a marginal character to the area which however enjoys good accessibility linked to the presence of the Rogoredo station and the metro line 3. The area is located between the two regeneration areas relating to Piazza Corvetto and the Rogoredo interchange hub for which the PGT develops a series of devices capable of redeveloping the urban space, improving the integration between public and private space, build new relationships between parts of the city.

Piazza Maggi: area between Piazza Gian Antonio Maggi, Giovanni Schiavoni overpass, Alzaia Naviglio Pavese, via Don Rodrigo, via Renzo e Lucia. Despite the presence of important barrier elements that determine the physical isolation of the neighborhood, accessibility is guaranteed by the proximity of the Famagosta station of metro line 2. The proximity to the regeneration area relating to the Famagusta Interchange Hub can become a driving force for renovation interventions of the existing building stock, in a more sustainable and efficient way from an environmental point of view.

Segesta/San Siro: area between Piazzale Segesta, via Albertinelli, via Dolci, via Ricciarelli, via Civitali, via Paravia. It is one of the largest public housing districts in the city, in which the maintenance of the typical design of the public housing developments of the 30s can be combined with an improvement in efficiency and sustainability, as well as in the liveability of public spaces . The accessibility guaranteed by the Segesta station of metro line 5 can become an element of revitalization of the existing public housing stock, through renovation interventions which can also involve replacement operations of those complexes where a possible maintenance and renovation intervention would be inconvenient in terms of costs-benefits.

As regards the reduction of construction costs and contributions envisaged by the Regional Law, the Municipality establishes that it can only be applied in the presence of three certified conditions, and in any case up to a maximum of 15%: compliance with the principle of hydraulic and hydrological invariance; remediation of contaminated buildings and soil if it is carried out by the person not responsible for the contamination; use, also in relation to any reclamation operations, of innovative protocols and technologies for the tracking of construction site waste and by-products, as well as the adoption of internal subcontractor evaluation systems and workplace safety mechanisms.