The extraordinary contribution in General Regulatory Plan of Rome

Among the innovations introduced by the new General Regulatory Plan for Rome, is the introduction of the socalled "Extraordinary Contribution" to urbanization, an amount in addition to the costs of primary urbanization and those related to building permits borne by the promoter of urban transformation or development projects. However, at a distance of eleven years after the adoption of the new General Regulatory Plan for Rome and more than six after its final approval, the regulation for the calculation of the Extraordinary Contribution still has not been formally approved by the Rome City Council. One of the reasons for this delay is identified in the legal basis of the additional financial obligation of the project developer, and an appeal brought before the Regional Administrative Court of Law [T.A.R.] was put to rest with the Legislative Decree No. 78/2010 converted into Law No 122/2010 where Article 14(16) permits the introduction of Extraordinary Contribution with the exact wording of the technical conditions of the new GRP for Rome and with the decision of the Council of State, Section IV No 4545 of 13/07/2010.Several attempts have been made to regulate this additional cost, the last of which was the approval by the Board of Councilors in February 2014 of a regulation stating, in summary, that the real estate value to which the extraordinary contribution for urbanization must be applied, i.e. at the rate of 66.6% as described in Article 20(3) of the Rule for Implementation [implementing technical standards, NTA], is equal to the difference between two distinct transformation values (below VT) of the property transformed: VT1- VT, i.e. the difference between the Value of the Transformation of the property, calculated taking into account the additional construction foreseen by the proposed intervention (VT1), subtracted from the Value of Transformation of the same property under normal urban regulations without further negotiations, so setting the parameters and the method of calculation.