Municipality Wins Private Investment for Public Beach and Marina Development
Private Capital for the Restoration of a Public Beach. An 800 million euro investment for the completion of works to enhance the area owned by the municipality and the access road to the lake in the Bosca locality.
The City Council, in its recent meeting, indeed updated the draft of the convention and ratified the program agreement with the company Luigi Cesare Casarola for the valorization and redevelopment of the area, located halfway between the city center and the Pacengo district. The area is designated for a public beach, as well as for the construction of a marina.
Details of the intervention and approvals
The latest step, approved solely with the majority of council votes (with abstention from Giuseppe Grani of Lega Nord – Liga Veneta and opposition from Giovanni Montresor, Giacomone Scienza, and Andrea Manzati of the L’Ulivo group), concludes an initiative started more than twenty years ago.
The project covers an 1,800-meter area of the municipality, with plans to build a kiosk-bar with an accompanying first aid room, cabins, services, and a parking lot, located upstream of the lakeside promenade, offering 20-25 parking spaces.
At the same time, Casarola is working to acquire lands to widen the municipal road from 4 to 6 meters, flanked by a 1.5-meter-wide sidewalk, providing access to the lake from Gardesana.
Extension of the promenade and marina
This intervention will, among other things, allow the extension of a lakeside promenade, initiated in the 1970s with the approval of the city’s zoning plan, and once completed, will enable pedestrians to walk along the entire coast of the municipal territory, from Lazise to Gardaland.
Under the program agreement signed between the Veneto Region and the municipality, Casarola has finally received the final approval to build, on state-owned land, a marina for 90 boats in front of its nautical yard, an area of the lake used for nautical services for years.
The structure will be for public use, leased to Casarola, under a special 20/25-year agreement, after which ownership will transfer to the State Property Office (Demanio), which will subsequently auction it off.
Valuation and environmental conditions
This facility, included in the port development plan for the Venetian side of the lake, aims to promote recreational boating activities, although it is situated in a sensitive environmental and ecological area.
For this reason, the environmental and urban planning sections of the Regional Technical Commission and the Verona Superintendence for Environmental and Architectural Heritage have imposed specific conditions.
In particular, «precise adjustments» must be made to respect the coast, and the entire complex, old and new, should be integrated into the greenery with the planting of trees.
Opposition and final considerations
The L’Ulivo council group, firmly opposed to the initiative, considers it «strictly private» on public land, citing the delicacy of the site and concerns about further compromising the entire low-lake area.