“We have always expressed a opposition to this approved definitive project”. So the mayor of Villa San Giovanni, Giusy Caminiti, and the members of the City Council on the Cipess decision. “We believe – they add – that the phase of the studies requested by us had to be anticipated because only this would have given the community serenity. There is at risk the survival of the city of Villa San Giovanni for a construction site that impacts the entire municipal territory dividing it into two parts, a construction site compared to which the city is not prepared today. The protection of the city comes first”.
With the approval by the Cipess, of the definitive project of the bridge over the Strait, the municipal administration of Villa San Giovanni and the whole council majority share the “concern of the expropriations. The approval of the Cipess could mark the beginning of the expropriation procedures that the city council of Villa San Giovanni asked are suspended until the approval of the executive project “. “We will have to read the deliberate Cipess – continues the note – before expressing our position on the contents of the same: it is obvious that in the light of all the observations and objections placed in every location, which support the request for suspension of public utility by the Cipess we expect it to be accepted. We learned from the press, however, that the preparatory phase to the opening of the real construction site provides for two years of functional and preliminary processes to the same. Will there be two years necessary to prepare the city as required by its city council? Will the requests all be accepted as represented by the city? ».
“We expect – concludes the note of the municipal administration – that, even before the stamping of the Court of Auditors on the financial and economic aspects, the body receives both the program agreement and the deliberate Cipess to be able to adequately prepare for what will happen in the city in the coming months. Only in this way can you face each phase with the powers that the law recognizes to a territorial body, only and exclusively to guarantee democracy and in the interest of citizens “.