The big day is finally here !
While Paris is gleefully deconfining, 9,800 ephemeral terraces of cafes and restaurants reopened this Wednesday morning.
Bringing Parisians back to life.
But some, too, to their traumas.
Last summer, in fairly similar resumption of activity conditions, many nuisances were singled out.
And they are again.
Consulted by the City of Paris for several days before the reopening of the terraces, most residents' associations assure that the account is not there.
Evasive assessment, hesitant consultation ... "We sail by sight", notes the majority of them.
While the municipality affirms, on the contrary, that the situation is perfectly in hand.
"We are in confidence, assures the City.
Professionals have suffered enormously and these outdoor spaces, while waiting for establishments to fully reopen, will allow them to play their game a little bit. "
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An analysis not entirely shared by the groups of local residents associated with the reflection on the new charter recently adopted: "We have no precise figures concerning the last financial year of the ephemeral terraces, not the shadow of a balance sheet, no insurance. on the controls that will take place, or not. And then, frankly, there are already 10,000 authorizations for permanent terraces in Paris, for some 15,000 establishments: do we really need these extensions? », Annoys Amélie Terrien, of the Right to Sleep collective, which has just published a study on the sleepless nights of Parisians. The terraces were particularly pointed there.
Also annoyed, Geoffroy Boulard, the mayor (LR) of the 17th century, who regrets the lack of power of the local councilors, to limit the size of the terraces in particular.
The elected representative knows something about it: rue des Moines, in its arrondissement, in the heart of the Batignolles district, a restaurant spreads out along the sidewalk a little less than 100 meters of terrace, depriving residents, rescue workers and delivery people of any access to the sidewalk on the perimeter.
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"They were able to do it with the agreement of the other traders in the street," he laments.
Which seriously questions: we, the elected officials, should be able to exercise real control!
I traveled several times with my assistants before the reopening of this terrace, but, like last summer, it is to be feared that control is almost non-existent.
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Another problem, pointed out by a collective of residents, the new charter, which normally provides for the ban on installation in delivery places and in front of building doors, authorizes ephemeral terraces for five months ... Renaming them "summer terraces" : “Summer seems to last longer in Paris than elsewhere,” they say ironically.
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Anne Hidalgo, the mayor (PS) of Paris, for her part, claims to trust traders.
"They will be checked," she explained this Wednesday on the morning of Europe 1. For several days, the teams of the municipal police
(Editor's note: the DPSP, the security of the City)
pass to see the restaurateurs and make everyone aware of the respect for barrier gestures.
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The fact remains that no specific legislation to date regulates the ephemeral Parisian terraces.
This will be done, assures the City, on July 1, the date on which a new text will be adopted, regulating all outdoor facilities in bars and restaurants.
Including non-perennial.
Establishments could be asked to restrict terraces to less than three parking spaces in front of cafes.
