A few weeks before the debate at the Paris Council on the future local urban plan (PLU) that must draw the city for the next twenty years, the elected representatives of the Parisian right, under the voices of David Alphand and Jean-Pierre Lecoq, presented some measures that they intend to defend to establish "another urbanism in Paris" in the face of a municipal record that they consider very bad.
"Anne Hidalgo and her municipal team have a past but also a liability in terms of urban planning and quality of life in Paris," says David Alphand, deputy vice-president of the Changer Paris group. "We can talk about oasis courses but we must remember that the mineralization of the Place de la République, which is now a cauldron, is the work of this same municipal team," says the elected representative of the sixteenth.
"The mayor was in charge of urban planning and it was under her impetus that encroachments were carried out, particularly on the botanical garden of the greenhouses of Auteuil on the occasion of the extension of Roland-Garros," he continues. Those who claim to present a bioclimatic PLU are the same who gave their approval to the triangle tower (Editor's note: also voted by a part of the right, including Rachida Dati), and who went to inaugurate the Duo towers which we already know is an environmental and climatic aberration. »
Too much social housing
"For the past ten years, the record of Anne Hidalgo and her team has been the loss of more than 120,000 Parisians. This loss is a sign of the failure of the City's urban policy," says David Alphand.
According to him, the next revision of the PLU does not propose any break. The Parisian right castigates the pastillage of hundreds of buildings to transform them into social housing. "We reject this low hand on real estate and prefer to work on incentives by working with the private sector," says David Alphand.
"The PLU is not a new form of close-up and the patrimonial interests of private operators must be taken into account, judges the mayor (LR) of the VIe, Jean-Pierre Lecoq, while defending himself from being the spokesperson of the Medef and investment funds. Our group will propose a pragmatic, realistic, responsible and massively pro-climate PLU. »
18,000 vacant homes
The Parisian right evokes seven priorities to be implemented as part of the future PLU: better housing, fight against the densification of buildings and concretization, restore quality of life to Parisians, create new green spaces and protect existing ones, ensure economic and commercial attractiveness, improve energy efficiency and finally sublimate Parisian aesthetics.
Some proposals were outlined by David Alphand and Jean-Pierre Lecoq, such as the fight against vacancy of premises. "It is now the main tool to fight against over-densification and concretization while reviving social and economic diversity," says David Alphand. 3% of offices are vacant in Paris, you have to work there. But at the same time, 8.5% of homes are also vacant, 18,000 of which have been vacant for more than two years. It is also a subject. »
To finance the energy renovation of buildings, the Parisian right proposes to transform 1% of the social housing stock into a real solidarity lease, "to anchor tenants in the territory and release new funds for the renovation of buildings," says David Alphand.
The right wants to lower the height limit of hotels
On green spaces, the group Changer Paris evokes the creation of a large park in place of the heliport in the fifteenth, a valorization of the small belt and castigates the "hollow" PLU of the municipal majority whose "one of the strong measures is to finally respect the protected green spaces (EVP) created by Jacques Chirac. They want to bring them up to date even though they have altered them a lot since 2014," denounces Jean-Pierre Lecoq.
The Parisian right even wants to be "better-bidder" than the ecologists in terms of the fight against densification since the group pleads for a limitation of building heights to 37 m and even suggests lowering it to 25 and 31 m in certain districts and on the banks of the Seine, "as in Bercy-Charenton".
The group Changer Paris will defend its proposals at the Paris Council devoted to the PLU in early June and hopes that the public inquiry that will be conducted on this project for a year will make it possible to move the lines of the plan written by the municipal majority.