“We have to remake the city on itself. This Tuesday, Emmanuel Grégoire, Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy in charge of town planning, began the presentation of the future Local Urban Planning Plan (PLU) with this observation: in 2040, 90% of existing Paris will still be there. “We must stop throwing, demolishing, we must transform and magnify what exists. “
Following the 6,000 contributions of the public consultation carried out at the beginning of the year, from which emerged “the preservation and development of green spaces” and the quest for “affordable housing”, the municipality presented six major orientations for this “bioclimatic” PLU which is to succeed the previous “obsolete” which dates from 2006.
Priority to social housing and green spaces
All the town planning work will now have to be done in the service of the ecological transition to “adapt Paris to global warming,” said the first deputy. This transformation, which should lead to carbon neutrality, will involve “deartificialisation of the soil, which must intensify”. In addition to the development of “open ground” in the capital, Emmanuel Gregoire said he wanted to fight against heat islands in Paris. Thus, the woods will be protected, “out of the question to build anything there”, the revegetation of Paris will intensify, and the Bièvre river, buried since 1912, could even reappear in the open. All solutions are considered to create islands of freshness.
“Virtuous” building permits
The question of housing will have to take an important place in this PLU. Emmanuel Grégoire insists on the mayor’s desire to offer more quality housing for all in the capital: “It is essential to keep our social mix, unique in the world, the people who contribute to the city of the quarter of an hour must to be able to live there. This vision of the city also implies keeping local shops. “Since 2015, 1 / 8th of the shops in Paris Center have been transformed into tourist accommodation,” he regrets.
All these environmental and social issues justify the shock measure of this new plan. To obtain a building permit, a developer will have to demonstrate that his project “contributes to making Paris more viable and more resilient”. Thus, thanks to an evaluation grid filled in by the city, if the promoter cannot “show the virtuous effects” of his construction on the plot of a district, he will have to undertake to finance all or part of another. city project, such as the energy renovation of a building. “In addition to these positive effects, this plan will also have the advantage of clarifying the rules of the construction game,” promised Emmanuel Grégoire.
The deputy also wanted to reassure Parisians concerned about the city’s urban heritage. Thus, “respect for the Parisian heritage” is included in the main orientations of the Bioclimatic PLU which should come into force in 2024: “There is no question of distorting Paris, we want to keep the identity of the districts. “