The Urban Planning Commission of the Municipality of Napoli, chaired by Massimo Pepe, discussed today with the Councilor for Urban Planning Laura Lieto and the head of the Urban Planning area Andrea Ceudech the proposed regulatory variation to the General Regulatory Plan (PRG) regarding the reform of neighborhood facilities. Councilor Lieto highlighted the main objectives of the reform: improving the regulation of public services, reviewing demand based on emerging needs and redefining the areas of implementation.
He stressed the importance of a plan that is not aimed exclusively at the resident population, as required by the legislation on reference needs, but that also considers the non-resident population, students, workers and tourists, thus extending the sphere of rights and ensuring a more equitable distribution of territorial resources. A central point of the reform is the revision of the reference need, currently identified in the Ministerial Decree 1444/68 with a minimum provision of 18 m20 per inhabitant, updated to XNUMX mXNUMX by regional legislation.
These standards, divided into different categories (schools, public green spaces, parking lots, services of common interest), have been rethought to respond to the changing needs of the city. Another important aspect concerns the regulatory alignment between the Western variant and the general one, approved at different times and with different contents, in order to harmonize the provisions and simplify the regulatory framework for public and private operators. The reform also introduces greater flexibility in the production of services, allowing the intended use of spaces to be adapted according to needs and encouraging the involvement of private individuals in the creation of public utility facilities.
Among the proposed initiatives, a particular focus was dedicated to the recovery of urban ruins, a legacy of the war, especially in the historic center, for which a temporary use is proposed to create small green spaces, thus contributing to urban redevelopment and the quality of life in the most densely populated neighborhoods and those without green areas.
Services, he said, need to be rethought and redistributed based on the needs of citizens and territories, moving away from the model of the past in which urban planning developed responses in a standardized and non-differentiated way.
Another central element is the census of existing facilities, including infrastructures built in the last twenty years and not yet registered, with the aim of optimizing the distribution of services. A significant fact that emerged from the review is the availability of 140 hectares of public property to be allocated to projects of subsidized housing, public student housing and cohousing.
The equipment upgrade has allowed to maintain the minimum expected standard and to obtain a surplus that will be redistributed in a targeted way to ensure a balance between the different areas of the city. During the discussion, Ciro Borriello (5 Star Movement) focused on the need to simplify the regulatory framework, eliminating those rigidities that over the years have discouraged private intervention. It is now necessary to make the plan more immediate and easy to apply, in order to create more proposals and development opportunities.
Gennaro Andreozzi (Napoli Solidale Europa Verde Difendi la Città) stressed the importance of putting the issue of housing at the center. This is a complex but fundamental task, because the structures built and not used must be recovered and allocated to a social housing plan. Naples needs dozens and dozens of structures like the building on Via Nilo to provide answers to the most fragile segments of the population, who risk being expelled from the territory due to the lack of adequate housing solutions.
” The president of the commission, Massimo Pepe, highlighted “the importance of the work path that the commission is carrying out and that will lead to the revision of the General Regulatory Plan. Today's discussion, as well as the previous one on short-term rentals, constitutes another fundamental step towards reaching the goal we have set ourselves, that of building a more modern urban vision that responds to the real needs of the city and its inhabitants”.
Article published on March 18, 2025 - 20pm
