Le Figaro Nice
It’s a bit of irony that conveys deep astonishment.
In a publication on the social network .
The neighboring town of Cannes, on the Côte d'Azur, will have to pay a penalty of 1.6 million euros per year.
“Everyone will be invited to bring a shovel to block the waterways and an ax to raze the forests
,” he wrote to denounce
the “absurdity”
of the regulations, which imposes 25% of social housing.
The town in the west of the Maralpin department is used to being sanctioned year after year.
Since the implementation of this law in 2000, the bill has reached around 25 million euros, specifies the Les Républicains councilor in Le
Figaro
.
“It’s a total disconnection from reality against a backdrop of demagoguery, we are asked to achieve the undoable
,” he adds.
He keeps shouting in the desert to explain that 80% of his town is unbuildable because it is exposed to natural risks.
In October 2015, eight people died in Mandelieu-la-Napoule in tragic floods.
Others, again, had affected the territory in 2019.
“The criteria of the SRU law are completely delusional, we completely deny the major risks
,” he rages.
The letter received notifies him that he must build 737 social housing units by the end of 2025 and reach, within three years, 2,200 additional homes.
“That’s more than in 50 years!”
, annoys the chosen one.
The town today only has 9% social housing.
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"We walk on the head !"
The mayor insists that he is not opposed to social housing but that he simply cannot grant building permits.
“We cannot build because of different technical and legal standards imposed by the State... which then asks us to pay a fine because we are not building enough
,” summarizes Sébastien Leroy.
We walk on the head !"
The Maralpine prefecture and the departmental directorate of territories and the sea (DDTM) had for a time maintained that Mandelieu-la-Napoule could be exempt from the criteria of this law.
Ultimately in vain by decision of the minister at the time, Emmanuelle Wargon.
Three weeks ago, Sébastien Leroy sent a letter to the new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal.
The latter promised a relaxation of the SRU law.
“My town is being financially massacred in the name of an irresponsible dogma
,” he reprimanded the tenant of Matignon, referring to
“contradictory injunctions
. ”
“I asked him to have the courage to change this law”
, summarizes the elected official who directly compares this law to a
“Soviet diktat”
.
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Challenge before the courts
Even though it knows that the approach has little chance of succeeding immediately, the municipality indicates that it will challenge the order in court.
In the meantime, she will have to pay 1.6 million euros to the State.
“Money that we cannot use for our city
,” slips the mayor.
At the beginning of January, a deputy from La France insoumise came to Nice to denounce the non-application of the SRU law in particular in the south-east and present his bill to force its application.
For this parliamentarian, certain elected officials from the Alpes-Maritimes would
“knowingly”
refuse to put it in place for political considerations.
If Mandelieu-la-Napoule remains among the most penalized towns on the Côte d'Azur for non-compliance with the criteria of the SRU law, this time it has been overtaken by Le Cannet, a nearby town.
A fine of nearly 2 million was recently notified to him, the municipality confirms to us.
The situation is different there since there would no longer be room to build further.
Cannes, on the other hand, managed to overcome its deficiency with promises of new housing in the coming years, allowing it to avoid the fine.