Turin's new master plan clears regional review in 60 days under a fast-track law

Turin's new general urban plan, which is to replace the city's 1995 plan, received a unanimous favourable opinion from the co-planning conference of the Piedmont Region, the Metropolitan City of Turin and the heritage authority, Quotidiano Piemontese reported on 3 November 2026. According to the paper, regional law 5/2026 cut the deadline for the conference from 120 to 60 days, and Turin's is the first general plan revision under it. The opinion comes with requirements the city must build into its final plan, and the environmental assessment opinion is still pending. The plan uses urban equalisation (perequazione), defines transformation areas and sets a lower settlement capacity than the 1995 plan. Torino Oggi reports that the city must respond to 875 observations from citizens, associations and professionals, and that the council vote is expected by the end of 2026; Quotidiano Piemontese says the aim is final approval by the end of the mayor's term. Mayor Stefano Lo Russo called it a decisive step towards one of the most ambitious goals of his term.

Turin is a former industrial city planning for less capacity rather than more. The region's shorter deadline is a cheap procedural reform that other slow planning systems could copy. This is a procedural milestone, not final adoption.