LECCO – In recent days the issue of forecasting the construction of agricultural areas in the locality has been taking center stage in Lecco Cavagnainserted in Variant to the urban plan (PGT) recently discussed by the municipal administrative bodies. A detailed debate has developed on the issue, which is still ongoing, as well as the collection of signatures proposed byGiuseppe Bovara Associationwith which the cancellation of the planned building possibilities is requested.
The “LET’S DEFEND THE MOUNTAIN” Coordinationwithout entering into the merely political interlocution that lies at the center of the aforementioned civic debate, intends to express its “strong concern for the buildings envisaged in the Variation to the PGT under discussion. It also supports the action of civil society subjects who ask for the cancellation of the planned buildings, whose maturation by law, precisely because it has been acquired over time, cannot fail to be recontextualized to the current urban planning reality of the city”.
“Lecco has an already too high building rate also in consideration of the extremely valuable landscape context in which it is located – continues the Coordination -. An even more marked attention than elsewhere is necessary to the protection of the territory and a related great sensitivity towards its environmental peculiarities, which are integral and unavoidable parts of the city’s soul and identity. In this sense, peri-urban areas such as that of Cavagna, geomorphologically indispensable to the not only aesthetic perception of the mountain landscape of Lecco, represent both historically identifying rural territories and an environmental hinge of profoundly cultural value, which connects the urbanized part of the city to its geographical context and gives value to the relationship that makes them a unique landscape of great value. For millennia this foothill area, of which Cavagna is part, has been an agricultural area and has been fundamental for the rural economy of Lecco: there were human settlements since the Bronze Age and has numerous sites with great archaeological potential, under study, which a building intervention could compromise and destroy”.
“Also for this reason Cavagna had long been designated as a non-buildable public green areaas per the previous PGT, which makes the Variation under discussion even more questionable. Intervening in such areas, even if it were done with all the necessary precautions, means endangering the environmental and cultural integrity of the city landscape, consequently generating a risk, if not actual concrete damage, both to the territory and to the community that lives in it and relates to it. Furthermore, an intervention such as the one envisaged would represent a precedent – yet another, given the numerous cases in this regard that the city news has recorded – which would potentially put other similar areas of the peri-urban municipal territory at risk. These areas represent a collective heritage of inestimable value, which requires collective, political and civic duty and right, the maximum possible protection, for the good of the city and its entire urban community”, concludes the “LET’S DEFEND THE MOUNTAIN” Coordination.
