Motion in the City Council for the Cemetery of the Animals

The City Council at its meeting in lunerdì last unanimously approved the motion presented by the directors PD Leonardo Bieber, Fabio Giorgetti, Alessio Rossi and Cosimo Guccione, for the realization of a cemetery of companion animals in Florence.

The Chairman of the Planning Commission Leonardo Bieber, first signatory of the motion, showed that this decision "is an act of civilization, not only to protect the health aspects, but attention towards our fellow citizens, increasingly numerous (a Florentine on two), that host animals in their own homes, over time, become real family members, representing an important link of social and affective ".

The act calls on the junta to "promote, in the context of urban planning, the location of a space for the realization of a cemetery for pets "and" to evaluate and take into account for the identification of the area above the eventual realization of services and infrastructure functional area cimiteriale (for example a crematorium)”.

"An important result - continues Leonardo Bieber - which was made possible by the regional law passed last 13 January. A text that finally recognizes the social value of pets in our homes, giving precise information on the health aspects is that the respect of the emotional relationship with the animal.

AND’ another important step in our political action on this issue so heard, after approval in the City Council's resolution for entry of companion animals in health facilities ".

In the motion, please note that the approval of the regional law reflects a "cultural climate that has meant that the institutions would extend the radius of action and which ensure the respect of environmental and public health as well as the continuity of the emotional relationship between the owners and their animals even after the end of life of the latter, through the construction of facilities devoted to house the remains or ashes of pets ".

"After these decisive steps you need to identify the area for the cemetery within the urban plan pending, in the municipal and / or level of City subway causing Florence it complies with standards already in place in other Italian cities and also Tuscan, as Grosseto, Prato and San Miniato "concluded Bieber.

Michael Lattanzi

By the number 54 - Year II 04/03/2015