“My door remains open”.
Emmanuelle Wargon was to receive this Tuesday the collective of 22 mayors * of Val-de-Marne, newly formed to defend "controlled town planning", while the SRU law (relating to solidarity and urban renewal) which sets the rate at 25%. of social housing to be achieved by 2025 is back on the job.
But the meeting did not take place.
"They challenged me, I proposed a quick working meeting, but they did not wish to participate, they were not ready", explains the Minister of Housing, requested on the subject, on the sidelines of her trip to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.
Not without having stressed that the mayor Philippe Gaudin (DVD) is not part of this collective.
"They call out to me but are not ready"
But the very val-de-marnaise minister, since based in Saint-Mandé, could not help highlighting the "paradox": "They call out to me but are not ready.
Others were.
In the morning, she had received the Association of Mayors of France, the Assembly of Communities of France, urban France, the mayors of the countryside, the coast and the mountains.
A week earlier, this collective, brought together at the initiative of the mayor (LR) of Bry-sur-Marne and composed of elected representatives rather to the right on the political spectrum, had issued an open letter to its attention, while it announced its desire to extend the SRU law.
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"We want to come up with proposals to co-construct the law of tomorrow, but not a fair meeting of posture or communication", justifies the mayor of Bry, Charles Aslangul, this Tuesday evening.
A first workshop is to be held in mid-March in the town hall of Bry with the 22 mayors.
“We must give us time to work,” he continues.
But the exchange will take place.
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In their open letter, the signatories pointed to the “untenable” objectives of the SRU law, “in total contradiction with the inescapable challenge of preserving the environment which requires controlling urbanization and soil sealing, but also creating new green spaces in urban areas ”.
And this, against the backdrop of a pandemic.
But it is not by chance that the right-wing mayors of Val-de-Marne react in this way.
It is in this department that four mayors (Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Saint-Mandé, Ormesson and Le Perreux) lost control over building permits.
In addition to these municipalities, there are six other deficiencies due to their lack of social housing.
A stake, in this department of 47 communes, which could, according to some, come even to feed the campaign of the departmental ...
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* Bry-sur-Marne, Charenton-le-Pont, Choisy-le-Roi, Joinville-le-Pont, L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Limeil-Brévannes, Maisons-Alfort, Mandres-les-Roses, Nogent-sur -Marne, Noiseau, Ormesson-sur-Marne, Périgny-sur-Yerres, Le Perreux-sur-Marne, Rungis, Saint-Mandé, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Saint-Maurice, Santeny, Sucy-en-Brie, Thiais, Valenton and Villeneuve-le-Roi.
