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D.T2.2.3 Spatial Landscape Assessment Report Project number: 639 Project acronym: trAILs Project title: Alpine Industrial Landscapes Transformation DELIVERABLE D.T2.2.3 Spatial planning and landscape assessment report - TUW+POLIMI Work package: T2 Activity: A.T2.2 TUW – Julia Forster, Isabella Schuster, Stefan Bindreiter, Organization: Michael Rinnerthaler POLIMI – Elena Solero, Paolo Galuzzi, Piergiorgio Vitillo Deliverable date: 2020-09-30 Version: 1 Dissemination Project partners level: Dissemination Project partners target: This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Alpine Space programme CONTENT 1 FOREWORD 3 2 ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMINOLOGY 5 3 PART 1: RESULTS OF THE AIL ASSESSMENT 6 3.1 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY 6 3.2 RESULTS OF THE ASSESSMENT – POTENTIALS AND PROBLEMS 9 4 PART 2: PERFORMANCE OF THE AIL ASSESSMENT 33 4.1 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY 33 4.2 ANALYSIS ELEMENTS REVIEW 34 4.3 CONCLUSION 39 5 PART 3: FEEDBACK OF THE REGIONAL PARTNER 39 6 APPENDIX 40 6.1 APPENDIX A – INTEGRAL FLOOD HAZARD MAP 40 6.2 APPENDIX B – REFERENCES 42 Page | 2 1. FOREWORD The assessment report has two parts. First part is a document providing essential knowledge of a specific AIL pilot area and second part is a record of reflection on the assessment method performance in the AIL pilot site. With the ‘learning-by-doing’ approach on four different pilot areas, research project partners identify and gradually specify key elements of individual assessments that work for the AILs. Assessment reports are part of the activity WP T2: Co-assessment of AILs actual conditions and in a set of five thematic assessment reports, five different deliverables for each pilot area: • D.T2.2.2 – Existing policies on local/regional level assessment reports • D.T2.2.3 – Spatial and landscape assessment reports • D.T2.2.4 – Socio-demographic assessment reports • D.T2.2.5 – Economic context assessment reports • D.T2.2.6 – Environmental context assessment reports Together with mini reports - D.T2.2.1, the assessment reports form an input for the workshops in the WP T3 (figure 1). The template of the assessment report is structured to facilitate two main parts of the Co- assessment of AILs: Part 1 – Assessment of AILs which constitutes main findings of the AILs actual conditions, results of the assessments, conclusions and recommendations. Its purpose is to be used for the activities in the WP T3 (the dossier) - workshops with relevant stakeholders. Part 2 – Performance of the Assessment that investigates how the Assessment and its parts performed on the given AIL site. It is conducted through a reflection questionnaire for the research partner and regional partner of that AIL. Its purpose is to evaluate the analyses used in the assessment process and to monitor variability of the assessments throughout the AIL pilot sites. Page | 3 Figure 1: Scheme of the WPT2 Assessment Framework with the general structure of the assessment reports, their input source (WP T1 and site visits) and output purpose (workshops). The assessment report of the pilot site Tržič in Slovenia focuses on the main spatial elements, needed as a base for the development of planning pathways on multi scale level. The report is structured in three main parts, the ‘results of the AIL assessment’, the ‘performance of the AIL assessment’ as well as on the feedback part prepared by regional stakeholders. POLIMI and TUW are responsible for creation and content of this report, based on WP T1 input “virtual site visit Tržič”, desktop research and GIS analysis. In particular the responsibilities of content are divided by scale level between TUW and POLIMI. The scale level 1:5000 defines in this manner not only the visual presentation level. Moreover, it presents the level of contents, the thematic focus level as well as the main structural elements of analysis within local and regional criteria. Page | 4 2. ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMINOLOGY region – the term region can be understood very varied. For this report we define the study region by the Gorenjska region. problem – the term „problem“ is often negatively affected, but problem means in our understanding unsolved, complex planning tasks, for which we have to find a planning solution infrastructure – in this report we focus on the technical infrastructure, not on the social infrastructure. Technical infrastructure includes facilities in the fields of communication (transport, communications), supply (water, energy) and disposal (waste water, waste). land use (CORINE land cover) – the land use by CORINE land cover shows categories and classes of land use based on digital satellite images. The land use by CORINE land cover is not related in any way with the land use plan. land use plan – the land use plan is a legal instrument for the development of municipalities. It determines a specific allowed use for every plot. This defined use is related to different possibilities and restrictions for the use and development of the plot. The main categories are building land, grassland and traffic areas. local development plan – the local development plan is a legal instrument for the development of a municipality and has a time horizon of 10-15 years. The local development plan consists of the local development concept and the land use plan (and, if present, of a zoning plan, which defines rules for how to develop a building plot). The local development plan contains aims and measures for the development of a municipality, and consists of a textual and a mapping part. Page | 5 3. PART 1: RESULTS OF THE AIL ASSESSMENT 1. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY STRUCTURE OF THE ANALYSIS TUW mainly analysed the “territorial scale”, which is defined in different ways. To give an overview of the location of Tržič and the main road/rail network as well as the connection to other cities in the Gorenjska region have been considered. TUW analyses on an overview scale that goes at most up to 1:5.000, whereas POLIMI does a more in-depth analysis of the municipality Tržič in a scale between 1:5.000 and 1:500. The spatial assessment of TUW is structured in four analysis topics: • the environmental analysis, which covers the analysis of the topographical situation, the landscape and the natural environment, • the settlement analysis, which contains information to the settlement structure and the existing building stock, • the mobility network analysis, which covers the analysis of the reachability, the traffic and transport network and the public transport services and • the supply and disposal infrastructure analysis, which covers a description of access to ICT and energy infrastructure, water supply as well as disposal infrastructure POLIMI mainly analysed the “local scale” that involves the pilot site and its next surroundings. The chosen scales are 1:5.000 and 1:500. In particular, the spatial analysis of POLIMI includes the evaluation of the following aspects: the current situation, project in progress and urban planning rules. Current situation The current situation is structured in three analysis topics: • Mobility framework, which covers the analysis of the transport network and the public transport services • Environmental and landscape framework, which covers the analysis of the topographical situation, the landscape and the natural environment • Settlement framework, which contains information to the settlement structure and the existing building stocks Project in progress Plans and project in progress relevant to mobility, environmental and settlement framework are necessary to understand in which direction future development is going on. Urban planning rules Existing planning rules are important to know the intentions of local municipality and regional administration. Page | 6 DESCRIPTION OF THE PILOT REGION The municipality Tržič is located in the Gorenjska region in the northwestern part of Slovenia, which borders in the north Austria and in the north-west Italy. More precisely, Tržič is located in a side valley of the Sava Valley and surrounded by the Natura 2000 - protected area Karavanke. Tržič is a municipality with approx. 14.900 inhabitants and a size of about 155,4 square kilometers. The administrative centre and the biggest settlement of the municipality is the city of Tržič, which has approx. 3.670 inhabitants. The population decreased slightly in the last years (SiStat). The next larger city is the capital of the Gorenjska region Kranj with approx. 56.300 inhabitants. The examined pilot area is accessible via the street E652 from Naklo, which connects the municipality in the south with the highway A2/E61 and in the north with Austria over the Ljubelj Pass. The capital of the region Gorenjska, Kranj, and the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, are reachable over the highway A2 in the south. The distance from Tržič to Kranj is approx. 18 kilometers and approx. 45 kilometers to Ljubljana. There is no direct train connection to the municipality of Tržič since the 1960s. Today the closest train stations are located in Podnart (approx. 11 km) for local train connections and in Kranj (approx. 18 km) for international train connections. Several bus connections per day from Ljubljana to Tržič ensure the accessibility of the municipality by public transport. In the Gorenjska region, also the international airport from Slovenia is located, 28 kilometers in the south of Tržič. The Gorenjska region is a predominantly Alpine region where the population and main economic activities (except parts of tourism) are concentrated in lowlands in the southern part of the region and in the valleys along the Sava river, which crosses the region in the northwest- southeast direction. With the exception of the river areas the region is mountainous and mainly covered by forests. Gorenjska region is rich with underground water and river streams as well as with well-preserved nature. The only national park in Slovenia is located in the region and more than 1/3 of the area is protected by Natura 2000 - protection zones.
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