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Introduction
The Venice Municipality Strategic Plan has been presented
by the local administration in March 2003.
The Plan general goal is to build, in the next future, a
city characterized by its inhabitants high quality life, in his relational,
working and cultural aspects and by its environmental and physical structures
high quality.
It differs from urban planning because it is oriented to
integral socio-economic actions, rather
than territory planning and it differs from the classic medium and long term
planning because it is not limited to expectations adaptation to normal trends
but it is directed to new opportunities and new aims.
Venice Municipality
Strategic Plan characteristics
The Plan is the product of the work carried out by a
municipal working group, that has worked comparing besides with other municipal
structures and with Strategic Plan promoters (the venetian universities,
Industrial Associations, Commerce Chamber, Trade Unions), with a big number of
public and private subjects.
Venice Municipality Strategic Plan consists of:
- Medium/long period plan, for a
city of 300.000 residents (about 430.000 “daily” inhabitants), whose reference
context is a metropolitan system of about 640.000 inhabitants (25
Municipalities). The present resident population is of 270.758 inhabitants
(2002 Registry Office). It is clear that the aim of reaching 300.000 residents
can be obtained only with the implementation of effective policies that would
be able to consider as fixed points the present house/work balance, the
necessity of social, economic and cultural increase of the system and the
necessity of occupational increase and that could suggest actions for new residential patterns in order to slow
down the migratory trend and to attract new population, and intervention for
the consolidation of the present student population;
- plan promoted by municipal
administration but related to a metropolitan context. It has, consequentely, a
significant relevance in the plan choices the territorial ambit definition
where transformation and development phenomena take place;
- complex and articulated strategy
of local system development to read not only like summation and classification
of already decided and/or in course of realization projects;
- instrument that suggest the guide
lines that should be suitable for the city’s subject development demand;
- action tool aiming to redefine the
relationship with the city:
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with
the occupation/housing system to guarantee a everyday life high quality and to
facilitate social, economic and infrastructural management that conditions
local system development, and with a wide metropolitan area (so-called PATREVE – the Padua-Treviso-Venice
urban area), to enhance a system characterisation of such dimension as to be
able to compete with other urban systems of Northern Italy and Northern Europe;
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with
Veneto, to rebuild a virtuous relations system that maximize mutual advantages:
for the Region, to be able to have an emblematic capital of high international
impact; for the town, to value its resources within a wide and complex
territory and to develop already present
human and economic resources;
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with
the rest of the world, to allow to local actors to economically and culturally
talk and interact at an international level;
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document
where the contents are the product of a continuous dialogue with public and
private subject in order to define local system;
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document
that considered possible politics and relative interventions considering the
short/average/long period realisation and in reason of daily population
different components on which the effects are perceived;
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document
that assume like fundamental reference sustainable, plurality and participation
principles as than defined within the European Community (Agenda 21, European
Chart of Human Rights, Governance White Book,...)
It has finally to be remembered that Venice Municipality
Strategic Plan assumes as reference the Venetian area infrastructural system as
it is developing in reason of actions that different government levels (Europe,
State, Region, Province) and different network manager (Railway station,
Motorway, Anas, ...) are planning or carrying out (Mestre ring road, Romea
commercial road, subsidiary actions to one or the other, the so-called High
speed railroad, Regional Underground System – SFMR...) considering, as much as
possible, the scheduled finishing times.
At the same time, the Plan considers scenarios envisaged
by the Venice Municipality Territory Development and Mobility Central Office for
the drafting of a Urban Mobility Plan (s.c. PUM).
In this context for the possible impact that could follow,
it has emerged the need that Venice Municipality Strategic Plan considers with
attention the processes put into action (underway or at an early stage
politicies and actions) by the Administration, within its competence, or by
other subjects in the Venetian area, that deal with important matters leading
to longer period development strategies. Among them, for importance and impact,
important are for example not only those regarding mobility and accessibility
system actions (Mestre ring road), the historical centre protection actions
against high tides and for the lagoon morphology reclamation (Mose) and the decisions taken for the
environmental and industrial reclamation
of Porto Marghera but also those underway aimed to increase the value of Mestre
aske a urban unitary system within a metropolitan dimension and actions for
residence and urban welfare politicies.
Vision outlined by
the Strategic Plan and its specific components
Like plans of other Italian and Foreign cities, the Venice
Municipality Plan is organized in structural conditions and strategic lines and
provides for the specific aims achieving by means of the strategic development
and the implementation of intervention policies that consider a multiplicity of
single actions.
The Structural conditions are the elements through
which city and territory can be read and interpreted. In the plan context they
consider: services, urban welfare and environment and territory management in
its physical and institutional aspects. They represent at the same time
essential development factors, necessary to suggest strategies and politicies
aimed to the existent structural system improvement (new services, evolution of
territorial structures, etc.) and reference politicies conditions to which
relate admissibility and sustainability evaluations of intervention suggestions
drafted in plan guide lines. It means that the plan choices can be put into action
only if their realisation does not imply negative impacts in terms of
sustainability.
The Strategic Lines are the strong points of
Venetian system, that are linked to competitive and development factors of the
Venetian area, recognised like elements able to address strategies, politicies
and actions to which, in a medium and long period, the city will have to aim to
carry out the vision suggested by the Venice Metropolitan City –
quality, work, culture Strategic Plan.
With these, the plan has selected and arranged the main
factors of economic productive and social world of the Venetian territory
suggesting a strategic reading that helps the urban system to evolve towards
more acquainted and safer forms of self-regeneration and development.
The Strategies organize and thematize the aims each time
enunciated. Each strategy is structured in politicies and actions.
The Politicies, as a whole of actions, plans,
programs through which every strategy derives its structure, express with a
certain degree of precision, programmatic objectives that the Strategic Plan
has selected for the implementation of the vision and its lines.
The Actions are single actions, plans and programs
promoted by municipal administration and/or bodies, institutions, public or
private associations, etc. through which politicies and selected strategies are
put into action. The Plan collects and
organizes then either underway or planned ex-novo actions.
The Venice
Municipality Strategic Plan building process
To close a stage that has privileged the thematic ambits
of relevant interest analytic investigation and the dialogue with privileged
interlocutors, Venice Strategic Plan drafting will be discussed by municipal
administration so that it could be modified and integrated with the contents
necessary for its following approval.
The Plan version is subscribed by the Plan process
Promoters that have supported, with continuity, the drafting; it follows the
results of an intense phase of coherence and effectiveness verification of the
suggested scenario developed by the Plan Office in accordance with an effective
comparison with privileged interlocutors and researchers of Venice 2000
Foundation, whose contents have been presented at a public meeting held in
Venice in March 2003.
In next stage the Municipal Council licensed plan version
will be presented to the political interlocutors of the City Council and to the
technicians either inside or outside the municipal administrative structure.
Inside, to the managers, to allow them to evaluate the suggested actions
feasibility and the possible answers to give to the impact on work routine that
could derive from its implementation; outside the administration, to the
subjects that constitute and paricipate to the local system, in order to share
decisions on the suggested scenario and to accept possible modifications or
integrations relative to politicies and actions to be carried out.
Successively, the Plan Office will harmonize the
development plan contents in accordance with the new indications and will draft
a final version on the ground of these demands to organize the subscritpion of
a new agreement for the city development, both generally (to share and be
committed into the suggested general strategy) and more specifically (to share
and be committed into specific objectives implementation).
Networking process
The Plan Office has identified the whole of the local
subjects, both public and private, interested in the Venetian area strategic
planning process and it has collected informations regarding action power,
planning, interests mobilization and representativity, funds raising and
results achieving.
At a following stage it has selected, among them, the Plan
Process Promoters: a small number of privileged interlocutorsin a content
number of privileged interlocutors bearers of general interests and specific
and peculiar objectives, considering them as constant reference points in the
trategic Plan building process development.
With all these subjects, the Plan Office has promoted and
carried out, in a continuous and interesting way, comparison moments and
collaboration relationships, enhancing thus the creation of some elements of a
process stretched to agreement
acquisition to share the Plan objectives.
The choice to progressively attain to the partnership
processes building and governance that are a necessary condition for the
achievement of strategic planning experience is consequent to the awareness of
a number of different factors but in particular it is consequent to the will to
have, during the entire document
drafting, a strong and qualified contradictory, with organized actors, able to
have a city development planning vision, interested from the beginning to
strategic planning processes and provided with their own long period strategies
and politicies regarding the Plan possible choices.
To these interlocutors, a lot of them already involved in
important territory actions and provided with experience in cooperation and
concerted actions with the public sector, it has been requested firstly to
share the strategic approach to development topics promoted by the
Administration and then to share the ambitious and imaginative idea of Venice
possible future in relation to its reference local system like something able
to generate resources and development.
A first involvement in the Plan process of other actors of
the “city system” has instead been realized by means of direct contacts and
through their cathegories organizations involvement, and in active
participation, by means of specific deepening seminars on possible Plan sectors
actions.
See full text document (in
Italian language): Piano Strategico di Venezia
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