Strategic Environmental Assessment

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Strategic Environmental Assessment

• Territorial Plan of the Province of Milan (PTCP)
• 2003-2006
• Carolina Pacchi and Davide Zanoni, DiAP
  Politecnico di Milano
• March 2006

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• Step 1 - Context and Situation
• Territorial framework
• Institutional framework
• Policy problem
• PTCP main features, process (2003-2006)
• Integration between PTCP and SEA
• Step 2 - Action Arena (Topic Guide step 4)
• Identifying the action arena
• Actor mapping 2003-2006
• Step 3 - Governance arrangements (Topic Guide
  step 2)
• Network analysis
• Governance modes

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Territorial framework
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Institutional framework
Source Background Report. OECD Territorial
Review, 2005
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Policy problem

• The EU directive on SEA has just been implemented
  in the Italian law. The legislative decree
  29/04/2006 Environmental Consolidation Act
  (Testo Unico Ambientale) set out a comprehensive
  framework for environmental assessments
• The decree states that SEA of the PPPs represents
  an integrated part of the standard approval
  process and has to be implemented during the
  preliminary and planning phase.
• Lombardia Region has approved the Regional
  Planning Law (RL n12, 11/04/2005) which
  introduces Strategic Environmental Assessment for
  provincial and local plans.
• This should lead to a more sustainability
  oriented approach in territorial planning and
  governancethe challenge is issued

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Territorial Planning (PTCP)

• PTCP (Piano Territoriale di Coordinamento
  Provinciale) is the master plan of the Province
  area. Its features change due to the different
  regional laws, but there are some recurring
  aspects
• - it is not a land use plan, but rather a general
  plan that gives some overall rules for the
  transformation of the areas, then defined in more
  detail in Local Plans (PGTs) and an overall
  infrastructure framework
• - it has to be approved by the Region
• - the Province is the body in charge for the
  approval of Local Plans

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A locally rooted plan

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PTCP turning points in the process (2003-2006)

• October 2003 the existing PTCP (under Regional
  Planning Law 1/2000) is approved by the Region
• March 2005 Regional Planning Law (L.12/2005) is
  issued
• November 2005 Province formally opens up the
  Plan revision process
• July 2006 Guidelines for the revision of the
  Plan are issued by the Provincial Government
• September 2006 Public Participation Phase
• ....

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PTCP and SEA a cyclical process

• SEA in this process is seen as an element
  strictly related to the planning process itself,
  it is a cyclical process that gives feed-backs on
  the planning decisions rather than an ex post
  evaluation of the final plan.

Sustainability assessment
Initial statement
First draft PTCP
Environmental Report
PTCP final
Consultation
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Identifying the action arena

• In this preliminary phase, we have started to
  analyse the actors and the action arenas
  following the Gfors categories and using also
  tools for mapping complexity and density of the
  network in order to be able to define governance
  modes and arrangements.
• Actor mapping
  Network analysis
• Governance modes
• We started drafting two table on Sectoral
  affiliation and Roles in relation with the
  different Governance levels (from international
  to sublocal)

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Actor mapping PTCP 2003
Basin Authority
Sectoral bodies (ANAS, FS)
Region Lombardia
CIVIL SOCIETY, ECONOMY, THIRD SECTOR
ADMINISTRATION

Regional Parks
Province of Milan Planning Dept.
Technical Experts and Consultants
Strategic Assessment Unit
SUPRALOCAL ACTORS
LOCAL ACTORS
Local parks (PLIS)
12 Municipal Roundtables
Municipalities
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Actor mapping PTCP 2006
Region Lombardia
Regional Parks
Chamber of Commerce
CIVIL SOCIETY, ECONOMY, THIRD SECTOR
Province of Milan Planning Dept.
ADMINISTRATION

Other Provinces
Trade Unions
Private and sectoral bodies
Universities
SUPRALOCAL ACTORS
LOCAL ACTORS
Local parks (PLIS)
11 Municipal Roundtables
Local associations
Businesses
Environmental NGOs
189 Municipalities
City of Milan
Technical Experts and Consultants
Citizen committees
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The density of network to be measured in terms of
actors involvment in different phases of the
process
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Amministrazioni dello Stato
Agenzie tecniche
Imprese banche
Esperti/tecnici
Regione Lombardia
Tribunali
Camera di Commercio
Associazioni di categoria
Provincia di Milano
sindacati
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30
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Comune di Milano
Attori politici
Proprietari aree
Terzo settore
Ag. Tecniche
università
60 di compresenze 45 di compresenze 35 di
compresenze 20 di compresenze 15 di compresenze
Altri Comuni
Comitati di cittadini
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Governance modes