The TAR rejects all appeals against the sale of San Siro

The appeals against the sale of the San Siro stadium and the surrounding areas by the Municipality to Inter and Milan were all rejected by the Milan Regional Administrative Court.

The administrative court rejected the five appeals presented by associations and citizens that have been presented over the years, the oldest in 2022, against the sale of the Meazza to the clubs for the construction of the new stadium, as stated in the sentence that brought together all the proceedings. Six grounds of appeal were rejected. Now the clubs' project for the construction of the new stadium and the consequent demolition of the Meazza can move forward.

The administrative court does not go into the merits of the "grievances" presented by the appellants in their appeals, except in one case, because as stated the "positions would be non-homogeneous since", for example, "depending on the territorial proximity, the type of injury alleged, the intensity of the damage alleged and the concrete benefit that each appellant could obtain from the possible annulment of the contested acts would change". "Therefore, the prescribed requirement of the identity of substantive and procedural positions constantly required by jurisprudence for the admissibility of the collective appeal would not exist - explains the TAR -. The appeal would be configured, in essence, as a collective initiative aimed at contesting the entire urban planning-patrimonial operation by asserting a plurality of non-overlapping interests and, in part, attributable to a civic or political criticism of the administrative action, which, as such, would not be admitted in our order". The TAR instead rejected on the merits the appeal presented by the municipal councilor of the mister group Enrico Fedrighini who contested the methods with which the Council had given the green light to the sale of the stadium, complaining about the failure to convene some commissions for example and then the use of the so-called kangaroo sub-amendment, with which 214 amendments were eliminated during the discussion. But the TAR rejected the objections.