The 2 June 2012 We held the Ciclopedalata parks, a ride on two wheels that touched 5 parks at risk concreting: Talent Park (Via Fucini), Park Sannazzaro (Viale Jonio), Villa Blanc (Via Nomentana), Parquet Feronia (Via Feronia, c/o Metro B Monti Tiburtini), Parco regionale di Aguzzano (Via Casal de’ Crazy). Through this initiative we wanted to bring people to know some green areas of Rome that risk being submerged by a poured concrete. In every Park we made a stop, during which the representatives of the committees seeking to protect them have spoken: They discussed the current situation, future prospects and hopes of citizens adjacent neighborhoods. At the end of the last stage, lunch in the Park. In the afternoon, space dedicated to bicycle races for kids, organized by Oscar Salvi and Rita Dove, in the Park of Aguzzano.

Feature article on the history of parks visited:

TALENT PARK

The Urban Park Talent, inserted into the Plan of certainties (approved by the Municipal Council in 1997) how indispensable green space, It is the product of an agreement between the city of Rome and the workspace properties: the FINEUROPA S.p.A..

The agreement provides for the free sale of the area to the municipality and the construction, the company Pietro Mezzaroma and sons, public park 392.594 MQ, to offset the expected building volumes (now made) the "Rione Renaissance" produced by FINEUROPA. Specifically, the park covers an area of about Talents 47 acres, always split into two: 40 private acres, former Convention S.I.R.A., more outside the town, and about 7 acres of the former "green dot").

With resolution No. 183 adopted by the Municipal Council of 12 September 1997 the bureaucratic process establishing the urban intervention program "Park Talents" on a proposal from the Company FINEUROPA.

The 22 may 2001 the conclusion of the "Convention Park Talents".

Besides the coordination for the Park Talenti (Today Coordination ecological network Rome Montesacro) with Legambiente Lazio, They proposed (with the press conference 28 July 2009 and the dossier Marcigliana http://www.organizzazionealfa.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Dossier_Marcigliana.pdf) to extend the Marcigliana nature reserve Park area Talent, through the agricultural area located between Via di Casal morsel and Detrick Street, broadening of 120 acres perimeter, to lock the design of golf course; to remove from the plan of the reserve the overflowing International Center for breeding thoroughbred horses brought by ISAIV of the Ligresti group; to prevent the expansion of ben 16 acres of Via Vallericca in order to ensure the protection of the beautiful protected area and enrich the agricultural quality.

The extension, that would complement inside the Marcigliana an agriculture of about 80 acres (one of the few remaining intact within the G. R.a.), identified by the Regional Landscape Plan as agricultural area of considerable value, and the urban park Talents around 42 acres, (subject of an historic mobilization of environmental groups and posted as indispensable by the plan area of certainties, approved by the City Council of Rome in 1997), would create a green wedge of connection with the city (http://www.organizzazionealfa.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Tav.-Parco-Talenti_Marcigliana2.jpg), bringing the reserve within the built, with the desired effect of creating a more direct relationship between the citizens and the same. Finally, This "continuum" environment and ecosystems, would prevent the solder industry building northeast of the town.

PARK SANNAZZARO

In November 1993 a citizens ' Committee to defend the green area called Park Sannazzaro destined, in the PRG then in force, to public services by neighborhood (M3) and building completion (D), In addition to passing a fast road connecting the A1 motorway and the tangenziale est.

The Committee promotes a collection of signatures, demonstrations over the area of the Park and participatesactively in the Go Green formed in the Capitol and, subsequently, in the fourth City Hall.

The results of the mobilization are: the resolution No. 15/1994 with which the City Council requires the suspension of the project for the construction of the motorway link road in the Park and is committed to the protection and conservation of "pratoni di viale Jonio" and municipal resolution No. 92/1997 (Plan of certainties- Annex B, paragraph C2) which provides for the change of use of the Park Sannazzaro in zone N (public green).

Achieved the main goal, the Committee continues in years to oversee the Park, denouncing local Government any transaction deemed suspect (earthworks, unloading of materials, etc.).

With municipal resolution n. 18/2008 approving the new town plan (PRG) of Rome. The Park area Sannazzaro marker is intended to public parks and local public services, that is potentially destined for construction of schools, houses, places of worship, public and private parking, equipment for the collection of municipal solid waste, etc.

This means that the Park could be fully built!

The Committee, then, He returned to make the population of the area on the need to defend and improve the few green spaces in the neighborhood, no more and only marginal areas or to comply with an ever-expanding road system and articulated, but as community heritage and central element in the overall policy of change and qualification of metropolitan areas.

Through a new collection of signatures, events in the Park, planting of trees, the Committee was successful in obtaining:

• the approval of theagenda # 5/2012 by the Council for the protection of the Park Sannazzaro;

• the creation of achildren's play area in the only municipally owned surface at the entrance of the Park;

• the approval by the Assembly of the CapitalAgenda No 9/2013 in favour of the preservation of the Park Sannazzaro.

VILLA BLANC

After 12 years of spontaneous activity, the Committee was established formally in Villa Blanc Association, not for profit, the 1 February 2013, with the aim of strengthening and consolidating the efforts to defend and preserve the environmental heritage of the villa.

In fact, Villa Blanc – located at via Nomentana 216 in Rome – despite being intended for public green areas and local services from the planning scheme and protected by several other historical and landscape interest constraints, undergoes a transformation project in a private LUISS University campus with guest quarters and 8 private parking for about 5000 MQ – authorized in December 2012 by the city of Rome- that could undermine completely and hopelessly preserving its historical and environmental, closing the Park to the enjoyment of the citizens.

In June 2012 Thanks to our reports, Legambiente complaint and decided intervention of State forestry and wildlife, were stopped cutting trees and starting the deforestation that LUISS was performing at Villa Blanc, in anticipation of the start of work, contravention of the provisions of law (L 157/92 and L 189/2004, Eec Directive 79/409, L 503/81 adoption of the Berne Convention) and regulation of the municipality on the protection of wild fauna and flora, in a region defined as wooded area from regional land use plan.

For these reasons it has been presented by some members of the Committee, along with Our Italy and other citizens, an urgent appeal to the TAR against the building permit issued by the city, in examining what the hearing took place on 5 June 2013 next and which awaits the judgment.

With our battle we intend to reaffirm that the Park and historic buildings of Villa Blanc should be stored as a unique collection of different elements, related to each of them, with monumental buildings and artifacts and furniture and a park of trees, floral and plant, to make available to all citizens.

PARCO REGIONALE DI AGUZZANO

The regional park of Aguzzano, (set up by regional law 8 August 1989 # 55 – Plan May trim 1995), with its 57 acres, is the smallest of the Lazio regional parks and reserves, but of great importance given its inclusion within a densely built area. The Park has preserved over the years by the looks of "the last piece of the Agro Romano and preserves, with its 5 Casali, the testimonies of ancient agricultural activity which makes today an "outdoor museum". The Park plan, of the rest, with its highly harmonious structure model, It highlights and enhances these features, giving the Park (situated between the via Nomentana, the Via Tiburtina and the GRA) the characteristic of green lung, and is an ideal leisure and meeting place for the citizens of the area east of Rome.

THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PARCO DI AGUZZANO

Unfortunately, This green space within the 4th district is seriously threatened, as well as the same stately homes. Le assegnazioni dei casali, For example,, they are completely out of any management logic of that plan to Trim that he would appoint them rather to host cultural activities, serving the surrounding neighborhoods and the city. We see their situation:

The CASALE SUNRISE 3 (said "THE HERDS") seat of the ECA Centre of ecological culture, is the only farmhouse converted into activities open to citizenship, but that is threatened with closure and that the Convention has not been renewed by the municipality of Rome. The A.T. The. (the temporary Business Association which holds open the library and manages the activities of the Centre) working voluntarily and is self-financing activities. For this reason thousands of signatures were presented to the municipality of Rome in support of maintaining the CCE and the continuation of its activity. Is currently an ongoing opposition to TAR and is awaiting judgment;

The near casale (named "THE STABLE OF BULLS") intended to "room for meetings and public meetings of the district and bio-refreshment point"it was occupied in July 2010 the civil defence of the city of Rome by way of derogation from the floor trim and, with blatant abuse, destined to offices of civil protection, removing a farmhouse to citizens;

The CASALE SUNRISE 1 (told of "OUR FATHER") where the plan of regional Park includes a "Theatrical Centre", in stark contrast to its destination, was awarded without tender to the cooperative housing and environmental activities integrated with Artemisia. The cooperative Artemisia inter alia is currently performing renovations in economy without project and uses that space as an Office/residence;

The RURAL HOUSE SHARPEN NEW (told of "DEEP BASIN"), designed in the regional Park "Museum of the agro romano"and left in a State of total abandonment, seems to be involved in a project for rehabilitation of the disabled, with financing private millionaire and city of Rome that leaves many doubts and many perplexities;

The Casale SUNRISE 2 (said "The Stables") recently renovated by the city of Rome, had to be made according to the plan of arrangement "House of music"for cultural and musical activities for the neighborhood and the city, but the administrations, including that prison authorities, I want to turn it into a surveillance attenuated detention facility for mothers held (ICAM project). The measures include an expansion of volumes, construction of an outdoor enclosure at least 4 meters and climb system with double fence, accommodation of dirt roads of access to the House (asphalt ...), installation of lighting at night, night motion detection sensors, for any vehicle access control barrier at the entrance of the Park, transit vehicles in service with its parking area inside the Park… As can be seen, anything that would lessen the impact of children actually prison reality.

Other interventions have focused directly on Park: planting of trees by banking and petroleum sponsors of which you do not know the true aim; the installation of equipment by the municipality of Rome for their shape (Steel on concrete plinths) rural and agricultural nature of the suit the sore place; the reclamation activities of s. Basilio performed with bulldozers and tractors that have put at risk the fragile biodiversity of the place.

WHAT IS THE COORDINATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE REGIONAL PARK OF AGUZZANO

The Coordination, formed by associations, Committees, citizens, students, arises spontaneously at the beginning of 2012 as an expression of dissent against ICAM project in Casale Alba2 and against changes in the attitude of the Park plan. Defends Aguzzano Park as a common good and intend to build viable alternatives for managing Casali. Coordination want this green area can continue to exist in its present form without being overrun by concrete and asphalt, militarized or made into consumer goods. Want also that are retained the current uses of the houses as places of social and cultural activities for the neighborhood and the city, in which BREATHE culture, sociality, participation.

If today we speak of Parco di Aguzzano is due solely to the achievements obtained by citizens within 30 years, that have helped to save this public good by building speculation, then enhance it.