She has regained her appetite and says she has already gained one kilo.
After eleven days of hunger strike, Marie-Charlotte Nouhaud (LR), the mayor of Avon, stopped her protest movement, following a mediation meeting held under the aegis of Thierry Mailles, the sub-prefect of Fontainebleau, Friday.
“It was an ordeal but I obtained guarantees that the law will be respected,” assures the elected official, who says she is “tired” and has lost six kilos in this fight against the student social residence project on rue du Rocher, on the edge of Avon and Fontainebleau.
As a reminder, the permit, signed by the mayor of the imperial city, provides for 168 housing units.
This meeting was attended by Julien Gondard (SE), the mayor of Fontainebleau, and Michel Calmy, the president of the Mixed Economy Company (SEM) of the Pays de Fontainebleau, project owner.
“The president of the SEM gave me every assurance that the construction site would start within the framework of legality, that is to say on the basis of a legal building permit,” indicates Marie-Charlotte Nouhaud.
The town of Avon has reservations about the legality of this building permit, and therefore reserves the right to attack it.
My hunger strike was motivated by the fear of seeing the construction start without waiting for the end of the appeal deadline.
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“There is room for both projects”
The Avon city councilor recalls that she is completely ready to welcome students and that she proposes that this project be moved to the surroundings of the station, “on a more suitable plot”.
According to her and the local residents' defense committee, the Bellifontain project would be too far from the station, the campuses and poorly served by public transport.
“I remain, with the municipal team, fiercely opposed to this project, which is ecological and architectural nonsense, and which relegates students far from everything that makes up their daily lives,” she concluded in a press release.
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The standoff with the neighbor is far from over since Marie-Charlotte Nouhaud assures that she will challenge the building permit in court.
Knowing that a first appeal had been filed against the modification of the local urban planning plan (PLU).
A decision on this point is expected in early February.
On the Fontainebleau side, Julien Gondard is categorical: “I will not change anything about the permit,” warns the one who succeeded Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons) in the mayor’s chair.
Contacted this Monday, he believes that the announcement of the end of Marie-Charlotte Nouhaud's hunger strike is “positive news which puts an end to an incomprehensible and dangerous process for her”.
Regarding the alternative project proposed by Avon, Julien Gondard replies “that there is room for both projects because there is a real need”.
She denounces rents around 700 euros per month
Especially since he announces that phase 2 of the student residence project imagined for a while
rue du Docteur-Clément-Matry in Fontainebleau is abandoned.
The first phase was strongly criticized by the mayor of Avon who deplored “that the housing offer for students in Fontainebleau was primarily and massively oriented towards rental investment housing, which is not very affordable”.
On her Facebook page, she talks about 332 delivered homes sold at 6,000 euros per square meter and rents around 700 euros per month.
Between Avon and Fontainebleau, however, the dialogue has not broken down.
Marie-Charlotte Nouhaud talks about her desire to resume discussions and Julien Gondard highlights cooperation between the two cities in various areas such as culture, sports, or even security with the municipal police.
This hunger strike should therefore not prevent them from finding themselves at the same table.