Piazza Verdi, Italy and our Legambiente: "The control over the health ... - City of La Spezia

La Spezia – Tomorrow there will be commissioned by the Municipality of La Spezia, a expert evidence on the state of health of the pine trees in Piazza Verdi. On the decision to intervene Stefano Sarti Legambiente and Serena Barbed for Italy Nostra.
In a long letter addressed to the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor Federici Ruggia list some considerations. Here is the letter.

The timing and procedure seems anomalous, as there is news that before the plants in question have never been subjected to such checks. I’ve never been considered potentially sick / dangerous? And if you are considered as such because just now? Verification of stability is clearly not significant for the purposes of verification procedure historic interest. Given that any instability could, for obvious statistical reasons, only cover some of the pine trees of the square, it is clear that the above stability analysis nothing can affect the investigation to assess whether the masts of the central square is or is not one of the founding elements of the declaration of historical interest in the square.
present there is an investigation of cultural interest over the whole square (and thus not only on its central part). Why act now without waiting for the completion of this investigation? Is this not a way to hack surreptitiously on the instruction in progress .
‘Purely coincidental that, after checking in incontrovertibly that the pines have more than 70 years and therefore under historical protection and landscape (as well as other events of the square, such as private and public palaces), is now looking for a way to ordain killing, due to forces greater
Why is the intention of the City of La Spezia accomplish this occurs without any , certificates and present, trusted experts of Environmental Associations
Moreover the assumption, unrealistic in the current state of the facts, that the pines prove unstable, the City would be responsible for not having started the verification of stability above. This will be the place of public access of the square could be a criminal and civil liability of directors and managers of the City.

In the light of the above, it appears that the expert report on the stability of the pines for the question relating to the redevelopment of the square is totally unnecessary and untimely.
The eight associations reserve so to take all measures necessary to establish a correct and transparent management of the affair.

Sincerely

To Our Italy
Serena Barbed

For Legambiente
Stefano Sarti