GREVE IN CHIANTI - Certain and fixed rules for the shelters intended to accommodate the hunting dogs and the huts that will be admitted as light and temporary structures avoiding the risk of building abuse. It is the Municipality of Greve in Chianti, the first in Tuscany, to have foreseen it in an experimental form in a specific measure contained in the anticipatory variant to the Urban Planning Regulations. An unprecedented provision at the regional level, the result of an open table with the Tuscany Region and the Superintendency, which defines certain rules and methods for the exercise of hunting activities and in particular for the shelters of hunting dogs and the fixed positions of the teams. boar hunting.
"We have decided to intervene in this field - said the mayor Paolo Sottani - to respond to a deeply felt need in the area, the regulation of shelters for hunting dogs and fixed stalking will be able to give a timely solution to hunting activities, the whose environmental value is deeply intertwined with the agricultural world, by virtue of the fact that one of the most significant innovations is that the variant recognizes and identifies the huts not as building artifacts but as temporary structures and fixes construction methods so that they do not constitute building abuses ".
The document, in fact, as required by the Rules regulates shelters or those structures, light and reversible, intended to house hunting dogs. The beltlai teams present in Greve in Chianti are three in the areas of San Polo, Panzano and Greve. In addition to the shelters, equipment for hunting dogs, walking areas, an infirmary space and for the portioning of food for the animals are allowed. An opportunity that the Municipality offers to associations based in Greve in Chianti with the aim of responding to their needs. The shelters, duly distant from homes and accommodation facilities, can accommodate up to a maximum number of 40 dogs. According to the provisions of the variant, the shelters must be located at least 150 meters from scattered houses and 250 meters from accommodation and agritourism facilities.
Equally important is to have regulated the huts for fixed stalking, which for a certain period passed as building abuses and which instead, thanks to the first experimentation in Tuscany of coordination between the hunting and agriculture sectors and with the involvement of associations category and hunting sector, could be traced in the variant to artefacts no longer relevant from an urban-building point of view. For this reason, the sheds must be made of light materials, wood and tubular structures.