Towards the new PTRC

Towards the new PTRC. Confrontation on ideas and themes (March 2007)

The meeting is a chance to discuss the first phase concerning the working-out of the plan and aims to connect the voices of territory and landscape major experts with the problems and needs arising from the activities of the regions, which are required to give their contribution in a synergic and integrated way. The Veneto region is one of the regions willing to take up the new challenges of modernization and therefore the drawing up of the Regional Territorial Plan is to be considered as an important moment to set the goals in terms of territory and use of resources, always with an eye to renovation. The plan must therefore be both normative and strategic and must define some major goals.

The Regional Development Plan underlines that the future must not be conceived in terms of a mere continuation and evolution of the past and that discontinuity is to be found in a development based on qualitative factors. The challenge of quality as an objective shared by the community must be faced keeping in mind some fundamental goals:

• re-orienting the development policies from a European point of view, in a context in which old geographic boundaries are losing the significance they used to have;
• strengthening the regional economy competitiveness, aiming at defining the production targets and the outstanding production chains which must be developed (mechathronics, food, tourism/hospitality, services, etc.);
• being able to protect fundamental depletable land resources;
• enhancing the Veneto cities as a driving force for the future, by favouring the rationalisation of new centres (trading centres, office districts, etc.), the transformation of the great production areas (Marghera, Padua industrial area, Verona agro-industrial area, etc.), the definition of innovative and advanced services (technology and science parks, fairs, medical areas, sports facilities, etc.), the reclamation of degraded outskirts and, last but not least, the limitation of use of ground for building purposes, also favouring the construction of multi-storey buildings for industries and the tertiary sector;
• sing the Regional Transportation Plan to define a fast mobility network (logistics, airports, European corridors, ports, etc.) and a slow mobility network (shipways, romantic streets, cycle ways, high routes, theme and food-and-wine routes, etc.) as well as “energy corridors” and technology networks;
• safeguarding country areas and singling out the most suitable interventions to enhance high-quality agriculture;
• indicating Veneto ecology network, to be connected with the European network, made up of natural parks and areas with high natural content;
• considering “landscape systems” as necessary elements to favour targeted interventions of territorial restoration and enhancement while searching for a new modern synthesis of culture and nature and a balance between man and the environment.

These different elements (competitiveness, being able to cooperate and to open up to Europe, preserving resources, strengthening regional town structures, etc.) must be combined together into a positive synthesis. For the Veneto region, territory must remain a competitive resource, both at a local level and at a national, communitarian and International level.

The challenge of planning is to support, by means of coordinated territorial policies, the achievement of a new development model, able to preserve resources, restore identity, offer high-quality services to companies and people.
Of course, the specific features and peculiarities of the regional area must be taken into account.

For each of the macro-areas that make up the region (mountains, piedmont areas, the great urbanized plain, coasts, low-density country areas) the different and complementary territorial vocations must be considered, integrating and enhancing the peculiar resources of the local systems.

Starting from this, the regional territorial plan, on which a preliminary document for the Strategic Environmental Assessment has been written (“Sustainability Analysis of the first orientations of the new PTRC”), is going to be a governance instrument, thus becoming a sort of manifesto of the integrated and coordinated action of the Regional Council that works in cooperation with people with competence and experience in this field.

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Verso il nuovo PTRC: confronto su idee e temi [PDF format, 697Kb]