The elected officials must agree on the text that will supervise the development projects of Greater Paris for the next fifteen years. A failure would weaken the metropolis.
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Monday 24 January, the 208 councilors of the Greater Paris metropolis could advance the political structure that brings together Paris and 130 municipalities in the dense zone (7 million inhabitants), but since its creation in 2016, still still to exist. Elected officials should discuss a 1,300-page urban planning document, the Territorial Coherence Schematic (SCOT). With twelve large orientations and thematic maps, this text must supervise Greater Paris development projects for the next fifteen years.
If it was adopted, after public inquiry and a final vote that must intervene by 2024, this text would be the “spine” of the metropolis, explains its president, Patrick Ollier. Conversely, if the elected officials could not agree, even though President Emmanuel Macron announced, in 2017, to “drastically simplify” the rules of governance of the Millefeuille Francilien, it is the very existence. of the metropolis that would be weakened.
At first sight, the SCOT is a paved document of good intentions. For four years, at meetings that mingled elected and technicians, each word was weighed, each formula was negotiated so as to obtain the widest consensus. Nevertheless, it is the document that will give the mayors a common direction, but also the same elements of language to resist the pressures of the promoters, which, on a territory where the land is of gold, has nothing to Anodin, explain the planners of the Parisian Parisian workshop and the Paris Region Institute, the Apur, Labor Ankles of all this work.
Delicate question of the pavillonnaire
Legally, SCOT is not as binding as a local communal or intercommunal plan (PLU or plu). The latter must be compatible and not compliant with SCOT, that is to say respect the mind, but do not necessarily apply it to the letter. At the risk of minimizing the scope of the text, Patrick Ollier recalled it in a letter he addressed to advisers, hoping to rally those who still fear their diluted prerogatives in the metropolitan giant.
The cessation of consumption of agricultural and forestry spaces is one of the major progress of this work. In this, the SCOT anticipates the application of the net zero artificialization principle contained in the Climate and Resilience Law. Certainly, there are only 5% of virgin land left on the territory of the metropolis, but after the final approval, no project can no longer be expanding urban. On the other hand, the programs already voted are not concerned. Thus, aerolians, “the business park of tomorrow” (hotel, logistics, extension of the exhibition grounds), which must occupy a few tens of hectares, in the limit of Roissy, if it is not questioned, can see the light of day. Similarly for another project in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine).
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