Eremo Clinic Battles Municipality Over Parking and Land Use Lawsuits

Among the most well-known arcane secrets outside the province boundaries is undoubtedly the Casa di Cura Eremo. Specializing in cardiorespiratory and motor rehabilitation, it welcomes hundreds of patients from all over Italy each year. This is well known to all. What most do not know, however, is that the managers of Eremo have been dealing for years with the problem of parking for visitors, and that the municipality has so far done nothing to help, quite the opposite.

There is even a legal case for building abuse promoted by the municipality and an appeal to the Tar (Regional Administrative Court) by the care home against the rezoning of a piece of land in Chiarano. The area affected by the Romarzollo school complex. The land, which is uncultivated, borders to the west on via Carducci and to the north on the parking lot of the “da Gianni” restaurant.

“It was purchased in 1987,” explains Sergio Fontana, General Director of Eremo, “by my uncle Giancarlo Crosina precisely to create a parking lot: visitors’ cars were scattered everywhere at the time. A large one was needed, also considering the garnì for the relatives of patients, which my uncle had planned on the land opposite the clinic entrance.

That idea was halted in favor of expanding the care home, which, however, did not go very far due to the land being designated for public parking in the PUC (Town Planning Regulation). But that’s another long story… Meanwhile, the part facing the road, as everyone can see, functions as a parking lot.

Returning to the field on via Carducci, last year the municipality informed us that they would proceed with expropriation for the new Vigne school complex. Shortly before, Eremo was acquitted in the first instance in the legal case for building abuse filed by the municipality for using the land on via Capitelli as a parking lot. But an appeal was filed against that judgment, so we are starting over.

Therefore, on the one hand, we cannot do anything because a judicial process is ongoing; on the other hand, our plans interfere with the school project. Last week, on the advice of our lawyer, we prevented municipal technicians from conducting surveys: it’s still a legal appeal, as I explained to the assessor Dellanna. He committed on behalf of the council to find and ensure solutions for Eremo. We’ll see.”