To achieve this, the Action Plan focuses on two key actions addressing important governance challenges: strengthening stakeholder participation in strategic planning and promoting coordinated spatial planning among municipalities.
1. Developing a Digital Participation Platform to Strengthen Metropolitan Cooperation and Governance
The first action focuses on developing a comprehensive digital participation platform to strengthen cooperation and governance across the Metropolitan City of Turin. Inspired by a successful MECOG-CE pilot action and the City of Brno’s “Questionnaire among Mayors,” this platform is designed as a highly versatile, cross-cutting institutional tool accessible to all city departments and services.
Its primary function is to enable the structured collection of contributions, ideas, observations, and proposals directly from municipalities, local stakeholders, and citizens. By doing so, the platform will actively support the revision and continuous updating of the Metropolitan Strategic Plan. Furthermore, it will function as a practical operational channel, receiving inputs and requests that directly activate internal city procedures, such as providing technical assistance to smaller municipalities or managing centralized procurement.
Ultimately, this action provides a robust digital infrastructure aimed at fostering transparency, encouraging open dialogue, and facilitating horizontal cooperation throughout the entire metropolitan territory, ensuring more inclusive and data-driven decision-making processes for all involved parties.
2. Establishing Intermunicipal Spatial Planning Offices
The second action aims to improve coordination in spatial planning across municipalities, which is currently fragmented due to the large number of local authorities in the metropolitan area. To address this, the Action Plan proposes the establishment of intermunicipal spatial planning offices within homogeneous zones defined in the Statute of the Metropolitan City of Turin.
These offices would act as technical structures supporting municipalities in jointly developing and implementing spatial plans, ensuring stronger alignment with metropolitan planning frameworks such as the General Metropolitan Spatial Plan (PTGM) and providing technical support for smaller municipalities.
Their establishment requires a revision of Regional Urban Planning Law No. 56/1977, which currently lacks provisions for such structures. Following this change, pilot planning offices will be launched in selected homogeneous zones in cooperation with municipalities and the Piedmont Region, with expert support and training involving partners such as the Polytechnic and the University of Turin. In the long term, the model is expected to expand into a broader network of planning offices across the metropolitan area.
Strengthening metropolitan cooperation
Together, the two actions introduce complementary mechanisms that strengthen participatory governance and spatial coordination. The digital participation platform improves dialogue between the Metropolitan City of Turin and its municipalities, while planning offices foster metropolitan cooperation within homogeneous zones.
By institutionalizing these tools, the Metropolitan City aims to reinforce the metropolitan governance framework needed to implement the Metropolitan Strategic Plan, supporting metropolitan development based on dialogue, shared ownership and coordinated territorial action.