The Municipality focuses on Comotto castle and sports facilities: “The list of unsolved ones is getting longer.” Fresc is also critical
IVREA. Closed in September 2019 due to unavailability, the synagogue in via Palma remains closed. The air is that Ivrea will have to do without it for a long time, both as a site of tourist interest and as a place for small public events as an alternative to Santa Marta. Fixing it costs too much in relation to the priorities that the Municipality has given itself. In fact, he explained: “After examining a series of hypotheses on how to finance the restoration – they said from Palazzo civico – we opted for a castle and other interventions such as sports facilities “.
There is criticism from the opposition. Councilor Francesco Comotto (Viviamo Ivrea) says that “the failure to reopen the synagogue adds to the many unresolved issues that the current council has been carrying for some time: Movicentro, Valcalcino, Terzo ponte, library, Sala Cupola. The problems of the synagogue have been known since the previous administration – says Comotto -, but neither before nor after did any action be taken to stop the deterioration. By doing so, ordinary problems tend to become extraordinary and therefore much more expensive to solve ».
The problem of ordinary maintenance of public real estate assets, continues the advisor of Viviamo Ivrea, “although serious and strategic, it has never been dealt with with the necessary organization and planning, it always runs after emergencies and the past never teaches anything “. It is useless today “to hunt the witches of the past, we must go further, roll up our sleeves in silence and solve problems instead of raising useless fuss. Too often we have read proclamations in the newspapers which have not been followed up and in the meantime the city is falling further and further down and young people are abandoning it ». And he concludes: «We need public policies aimed at preventing rather than curing. With real estate it is done through a maintenance plan of the entire public assets in which the critical issues and priorities for intervention are identified. Every year something is adjusted precisely to avoid not having to reach closure ».
Massimo Fresc (Cinquestelle): «Unlike the 5 Star Movement, the Sertoli administration does not believe that tourism can be an important resource for the future of the city; it did not know how to coordinate actions for its development. The new master plan, stopped after the abandonment of professionals, is a useful tool for planning the development of tourism, a sector that the strategic plan of the metropolitan city of 2016 signed by our municipality showed as central to the development of our area “. In the written observations to the Regulatory Plan “we have presented concrete proposals to favor the establishment of accommodation facilities, we have proposed solutions for the parking lots and the viability of the lakes that will soon be part of the Park, aimed at enhancing the historic center by proposing the restoration of the castle it is of the streets that connect it to the commercial part. Through proposals presented to the Council we have solicited the recovery of the Sala Cupola and the La Serra area. We contested the delays in the initiatives relating to the important resource of our Unesco site. The new library with its public spaces that the city needs, after several legislatures and despite the available funds managed by the Guelpa foundation, is stuck, we await the first designs. The sustainable tourism we are thinking of promotes employment, binds itself to cultural vitality, recovers and protects the architecture of the city and the nature that surrounds it ».