Tensions are rising within the left in Paris. The elected environmentalists of the capital, rebellious allies of Anne Hidalgo (PS), acted on Thursday several “blocking points” with the mayor on the future local urban plan (PLU) currently discussed within the left majority. “The PLU, as it stands, is not votable for ecologists,” elected EELV Émile Meunier told AFP, who provides for amendments if the text is presented as is in the Council of Paris.
“For a week, it’s been a permanent setback, every day bad news, because Anne Hidalgo has imposed at the last moment things that seem unacceptable to us”, says this negotiator for the Ecologists, who accuses the mayor of “turnaround” .
The PS assistant for urban planning Emmanuel Grégoire hopes to have the new version voted in the spring – brandished as “bioclimatic” – of this technical document which will make law for the development of the last wastelands and the agreement or not of building permits.
But, while the Greens refuse towers over 37 meters in height and constructions around the ring road, “the mayor imposes that we build housing towers in Bruneseau and Bercy”, two of the last areas to be developed in the city. capital, “on two of the most polluted interchanges in Paris and Europe”, says Émile Meunier.
“There is no such thing as a green tower,” he adds. “You can’t make a bioclimatic PLU, adapted to global warming, and do 50-meter laps. »
In Bruneseau (13th), the mayor wants, according to him, a “building-bridge that appears out of nowhere” on the ring road, while environmentalists are already opposed to those planned for Porte de Montreuil (20th) and Porte Maillot (16th). ). The latter was challenged by justice for the risks related to pollution.
Among the other “blocking points”, according to the other EELV negotiator, Nathalie Maquoi, “the compromise” on the small belt, which made it possible to “preserve both the biodiversity on the embankments and the reversibility” of this disused railway line , was “all of a sudden abandoned”.
Émile Meunier also regrets the transformation of the “8 hectares of open land” negotiated at Porte de La Villette (19th), into “8 vegetated hectares” compatible with constructions. As for the Porte de Montreuil, the subject of an open conflict between ecologists on one side and socialists and communists on the other, the executive still wants to “cover the ring road with a slab” and “do the Nexity project”, deplores Nathalie Maquoi.
Since the re-election of Anne Hidalgo in 2020, environmentalists have not hesitated to vote with the right-wing opposition to prevent the projects of the former urban planning assistant Jean-Louis Missika (Tour Triangle, Austerlitz, Montreuil) to succeed.
