Pianificazione regionale al bivio: un piano territoriale regionale strategico a valenza sociale economica o un piano comprensivo

Abstract

With the approval of the regional law n.2 / 2021 the Sicilian regional urban reform has taken the start that has been completed with the last of the implementing decrees provided for in the regional law n.19 / 2020 relating to the sizing of general urban plans (PUG) that take the place of the PRG of the lr n.71 / 1978. This last law was part of the triptych of laws (urban planning, cultural heritage and tourism) that between 1976 and 1980 were alternately desired by Piersanti Mattarella before his murder at the hands of the mafia. The regional council has approved the act of address that constitutes the document of the guidelines for the new regional territorial plan of social and economic value. This approval is the first act in the field of regional planning since the special statute of the Sicilian Regional Autonomy exists since there are no other previous acts on the same subject. The act of address confirms and consolidates the highly innovative structure of the LR 19/2020 of urban reform, especially regarding the proactive role of the regional urban planning department that assigns the task of procedural construction of the cognitive framework to the regional territorial information system (SITR). The SITR becomes an operational hub for the coordination and spatial integration of the action of all the other regional departments: cultural heritage, transport, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, productive activities, and others, including above all the programming direction responsible for the resources of the Community structural funds and the NRP. In the act of address, the new PTR is also configured as a structural framework for verifying the potential for integration of the action of the various departments as missions that make up the Regional Economic and Financial Document (EAER). In the PTR, all EAER missions are considered with respect to the contents and objectives of the United Nations 2030 Agenda (17 SDG's goals). The contribution aims to provide a summary of the work carried out by the research groups of the various university departments involved in support of the Sicilian Region for the drafting of the act of address to specify the contents and purposes as well as the role of the regional territorial plan compared to other planning and programming acts at regional level, territorial and municipal. About this last objective, the contribution highlights the need for the regional plan not to have a cogency value with respect to the land use regime, also to avoid the emptying of the powers of the municipal councils but above all to provide a strategic framework necessary to qualify environmentally friendly territorial development policies spatially.