The meeting, held at AML headquarters, brought together the president of CCDR-LVT, Teresa Almeida, the president of the Lisbon Metropolitan Council, Carlos Moedas, the metropolitan first secretary, Emanuel Costa, and mayors from various municipalities. The need for the PROT-LOVT to include coordinated planning solutions for transport, mobility, water resource management, food systems, equipment networks, and territorial governance was emphasized.
The housing access crisis, particularly acute in the AML, prompted mayors to call for a more robust response. They proposed the development of a metropolitan housing charter, the creation of a metropolitan housing and habitat observatory/laboratory, the establishment of a metropolitan housing company to bring housing programs closer to municipalities, and a bank of underutilized public land and properties for affordable housing.
In the area of waste management, its administration is considered of paramount importance. The PROT-LOVT should identify relevant infrastructures and flows, preventing land use incompatibilities and promoting complementarities, with a reference framework for the metropolitan plan, including the decentralization of energy recovery plants.
The meeting underscored the need for greater coordination between the political decisions of mayors and the government on supramunicipal issues, which should be reflected in the PROT-LOVT revision. This revision is deemed pertinent and urgent, being fundamental for the strategic orientation of investments and funds, and for the territorialization of development and cohesion policies.
Mayors reached a consensus on a joint metropolitan vision for the new PROT-LOVT, with diverse contributions to be presented before the next consultative commission meeting, scheduled for November.
