New Milan stadium, meeting with citizens of San Donato

San Donato, the point

Crowded hall and hundreds of people connected from home. Last night, a thousand people (200 in attendance and about 800 via streaming) attended the meeting addressed to citizens on the stadium project. During the meeting, the mayor explained the administrative process, describing the previous phases and the next steps that will lead to the opening of a Program Agreement to address and settle open issues in relation to the possible construction of the Milan stadium in the San Francesco area. Fully explaining the areas on which the activity of the subjects called to define the contents of the Program Agreement will have to be concentrated was Engineer Domenico Martini, manager of the technical area of the Municipality, who explained the main steps of the technical document on the basis of which, at the end of January, the Council had expressed a positive opinion about the viability of the proposed urban variant. Following this, the mayor and executive answered questions from people in the room and those that arrived at the e-mail address made available in the days leading up to the meeting.

For more than two hours, in front of a pressing audience, the first citizen did not è escape the confrontation in some moments harsh, answering the questions posed and listening to the opinions of the many citizens who took turns at the station made available to ask their questions. The mayor, in outlining the next steps in the administrative path, announced that he will appear before the Council next week to share with the city assembly his intention to initiate the Program Agreement outlined during the evening.

"Regrets – commented Mayor Francesco Squeri – that some among those present in the room misunderstood the sense of the meeting, which was intended to represent a moment of frank and serene confrontation, making a logic of ideological clash prevail. As said in the course of the evening, the known issues (and also reiterated by some of the speakers) will be evaluated in the’Program Agreement. Should adequate solutions not be found to address them, as an Administration, we would not hesitate to declare ourselves against the’stadium operation. However, we do not share’the approach of those who approach the issue entrenched in fundamentalist positions that make any form of confrontation".