Vittoria, Scuderi: "Suspended construction sites and urban planning choices 'without logic' at the Emaia Fair and the Flower Market"

City Councilor Giuseppe Scuderi speaks out clearly about the recent initiatives launched by the administration of Vittoria in the area of Fiera Emaia and in the Flower Market area, calling them "urban planning choices lacking logic and vision".

Particularly in the crosshairs is the building that has risen in the center of the Fiera Emaia parking lot, intended – according to official communications – for a gym. "It is legitimate to ask what idea of the future this administration has. Building a structure in the middle of the parking lot of the Fiera means compromising a strategic space, without any assessment of the impact on the functionality of the area. The zoning plan has been rejected, and in the meantime, isolated interventions are being carried out, without an overall design. This way of operating does not meet the needs of the city."

Scuderi then recalls the case of the Flower Market, where a nursery school has been built next to a production area. "This is another incomprehensible choice. Placing a school next to a wholesale market means ignoring safety, livability, and common sense criteria. These are decisions that seem to be made without any prior analysis, without listening to the territory, and without a development strategy."

The councilor also points out that the construction work at Emaia is currently at a standstill: "If the project is ready, why isn't it opened? And if it isn't ready, why are the works blocked? Citizens have the right to clear answers. We cannot continue to see suspended construction sites, unused structures, and compromised public spaces."

The council member broadens the reflection, denouncing the absence of a coherent urban planning line: "Fiera Emaia and the Flower Market are two fundamental poles for the local economy. They should be enhanced with targeted interventions, with a serious program, with a development plan that looks to the next twenty years, not the next two months. Instead, we are witnessing disconnected works, lacking foresight, carried out 'just to do something'."

Scuderi concludes with a call for transparency and institutional responsibility: "I ask the administration to explain to citizens what the real purpose of these works is, what the completion timelines are, and what vision guides these choices. Vittoria deserves clarity, deserves planning, deserves an administration capable of looking far ahead".