The vote opens this Friday and for a week. After the citizen consultation organized around the controversial statue of Saint-Michel, the town hall of Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée) is renewing the experience. On the Internet or in one of the five polling stations in the municipality, residents are invited to talk about several issues.
The town hall (DVD) has chosen four subjects “which affect both our daily lives, but also the future we want for Les Sables-d’Olonne”. The first is the possible closure of the open-air pool at Le Remblai this winter with a view to saving some 100,000 euros. The second proposes the extension of the smoking ban on all the urban beaches of the seaside resort. A third subject, which is already arousing strong reactions elsewhere in the region, proposes to debate the construction of a wind farm at sea “visible from the beach and the coast”.
Because with this vote on certain subjects for which it does not have the competence, the town hall also wishes to alert public opinion, and why not rally it to it. As on the sensitive subject of the delay in the deployment of optical fiber, where she would like to win the support of the population. “Would you like the town and conurbation of Les Sables d’Olonne to ask the State […] to financially sanction Orange for not having met its deadlines and its commitments; as well as not to extend the contract with Orange, so that it is a Vendée public player, Vendée Numérique, which finalizes the deployment of fiber […] ? »
A question removed
Very late about the construction of social housing imposed by law, the town hall also wanted to put this thorny subject on the table. But this last question: “Are you in favor of the strict application of the SRU law which requires that the next 4,000 housing units built in Sables-d’Olonne be exclusively social housing? was finally withdrawn, at the request of the prefecture.
“We want our relations with the State to remain constructive and peaceful. This is why we accept to withdraw this question and hope that it leaves room for a sincere dialogue to return to more realistic construction objectives which perpetuate a necessary balance between social housing and private housing”, justifies the mayor Yannick Moreau.