the town hall wants to plant 170,000 trees, where will they be?
Over the next term, the Paris municipality aims to plant up to 170,000 trees, the number of births estimated in six years in Paris. A symbolic gesture as the basis of the Tree Plan launched by Anne Hidalgo’s team and whose outlines were detailed by Christophe Najdovksi, this Tuesday, October 5.
“The objective is to increase the tree cover of Paris”, explains the elected ecologist, deputy to the town hall of Paris in charge of the revegetation of public space, green spaces and biodiversity, who also wish “s ” include the objective of debiturating 100 hectares, ie 4 times the size of the Buttes-Chaumont park ”and“ creating 30 hectares of green spaces ”.
With this Tree Plan, the municipality has an ambitious roadmap “of 23 commitments and sixty measures”, which meet “4 main principles”: planting, preserving the existing, knowing the resource and mobilizing around this issue.
Where will they be planted?
The Municipality’s Tree Plan “assumes above all to plant wherever possible”, admits the elected, ensuring that the city studies all the possibilities available. [à elle]”, Such as” the streets, the squares, the embankments of the ring road, the municipal facilities, but also the private places which belong to the SNCF, to the RATP or to the AP-HP “.
In detail, 70,000 plantations will be carried out along the ring road, 45,000 in the woods to densify them, 24,000 in existing green spaces, 10,000 in public spaces, 2,000 in municipal facilities such as stadiums or schools, 4,000 in the private sector as well as 14,000 replantings. That is a total of 169,000. “Thus, we arrive more or less at our objective”, underlines Christophe Najdovski.
A charter to preserve heritage
“Without waiting for the PLU to be revised [Plan local d’urbanisme, ndlr] which will take place at the end of 2022 at the beginning of 2023 and which will make it possible to strengthen the rules in terms of town planning and tree protection, we have devised a Charter addressed to all of the city’s partners (social and private landlords, co-owners … ” , announces Christophe Najdovski.
Declined in ten commitments, this Charter “aims to ensure that private owners are concerned about the issue of tree preservation”, specifies the elected, who underlines that “half of the green spaces of the city” , ie 600 hectares of green spaces, “are private” and, in fact, “the municipality has no control” over it.
It will – like the Tree Plan – be presented and voted on by all elected officials at the next Paris Council, which is due to open on Tuesday, October 12.