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COMMENT Article "metropolitan cities? No, only provinces weakened" on lavoce.info
It seems useful to add a few comments. The first about the opportunity to break-up of the capital city already contained in Law 142 of 1990, and which now appears to me all the more essential if we are actually pursuing a path of administrative efficiency, it is not the mere reproduction of liturgies already arisen precisely after the enactment of the 1990 law, which did not give rise to practical outcomes, despite the development of a large scientific and cultural debate.
The disarticulation of the capital city is essential, as it is essential to the aggregation of the municipalities of the metropolitan area, this does not give rise to abstract and abstruse institutional arrangements, but rather to combine adequately the metropolitan scale correspondence between subjects and functions to be assigned to various levels of government. Otherwise it would reproduce only a change of name, as was the case of the Metropolitan Provinces, who would lose the noun province, along some additional real power. It must, however, give rise to a new institution: "The Underground City" with its own mayor, who has jurisdiction over land management, planning and programming. To it, because of the territorial complexity, should be integrated with the new municipalities (the result of the process of disarticulation and aggregation) with specific and exclusive competence on urban maintenance, the provision of public services to citizens and users inverando the principles of subsidiarity as set out by the Constitution.
And 'quite clear that such a re-design of the metropolitan city can not ignore the redesign and incorporation of other towns are able to overcome the current fragmentation administrative.
The second observation relates then the times and, therefore, the method. To think that these reforms will not arrive with the stimulus to aggregate a car from below, in Italy, it is wishful thinking! More pragmatically we must put hand to rewrite the DPR 616 concerning the allocation of administrative functions to municipalities and provinces, following the creation of the regions, and to define the criteria and timing by which the regions must ensure the territorial reorganization of local authorities, or municipalities, now considered to have acquired since the dissolution of the provinces.