Director: Andrea Felicioni

Tasks and activities

The Division is responsible for the Land Use Plan (Piano regolatore) and, more generally, for topics with territorial impact. It also deals with mobility and transport policies, as well as environmental and energy issues.

Services

It manages the procedures and projects related to planning and urban development of the City and constantly updates the Land Use Plan through amendment procedures. It also oversees the drafting and updating of the Piano direttore comunale (Municipal Development Plan) with the aim of ensuring unified and coordinated planning for the entire municipal territory.

Additionally, it participates in expropriation processes and improvement contributions; it manages the procedures for the publication of road projects and the municipal street register.

It addresses issues related to the management of mobility and transportation, including public transport, soft mobility (cycling and walking), and individual motorized transport.

It optimizes, in collaboration with the cantonal authority and neighboring municipalities, the regional strategy of the Piano dei trasporti del Luganese (PTL) and of the Piano della viabilità del Polo luganese (PVP), integrating parking management and proposing measures at the local level.

It supports the planning section in the development of Urbanization Plans for the Land Use Plans.

It participates in the publication activities for cantonal and local road project procedures, providing technical advice on their content. It also provides mobility-related opinions on building applications.

It deals with all environmental and energy issues of territorial impact in the Land Use Plan. In particular, the Division consolidates the municipal energy policy by following the process of certifying Lugano with the Energy City® label and elaborates the Municipal Energy Plan, providing support to the Administration on energy issues.

It also collaborates with the relevant Canton Services in the elaboration of Hazard Zone Plans, plans new locations for landfills for inert materials, and manages natural resources whose influence has direct consequences on the spatial development of the municipality (forest boundary, open spaces, waterways, lake shores, dog park, etc.).

The English version of this page was created with the aid of automatic translation tools and may contain errors and omissions.

The original version is the page in Italian.

Contacts

Città di Lugano
Pianificazione, ambiente e energia, mobilità

Via della Posta 8
6900 Lugano
t. +41 58 866 77 11