Toulouse. François Piquemal: “With Jean-Luc Moudenc, we remain in a software that is not up to the task”
Through David Saint Sernin
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“We are at 7 and a half years of Moudenc majority (he was elected in 2014, editor’s note) and there, it begins to be seen. In one year, two structuring files, the PLUI-H and the PDU, were canceled, which is rare at the national level. At the level of ecology, the budgetary choices are not at the level… Clearly, in Toulouse, we are still in a dated software which is not up to the stakes. Our metropolis is not advancing when others are advancing, especially on ecology. From now on, we are just harvesting the fruits that Jean-Luc Moudenc has sown ”.
New direction in housing
Faced with the observations that he is dressing, François Piquemal member of the opposition within the group Alternative pour un Métropole Citoyenne Toulouse Métropole, advocates changes of course, particularly in terms of ecology, of transportation and of housing construction.
On the latter plan, François Piquemal believes that the “new framework document”, put to the vote on Thursday, and which will replace the canceled PLUiH, “is a recognition that the current housing policy does not meet the strong demand for social housing. in our agglomeration ”.
It is explained:
“Today, we have 38,000 social housing applications pending. The new town planning document sets construction targets of 30 to 40% of social housing on the same project. But these are goals without obligation. They must therefore remain pious when we see what is currently happening in La Grave where out of 113 social housing units announced, we see that only 30 meet the criteria for social housing. From my point of view, in Toulouse, there is in fact a desire to use social housing as a tool for gentrification ”.
Renovate public buildings
On Thursday, his opposition group will therefore express the wish that public buildings can be renovated to provide social housing rather than being demolished and then rebuilt “a process which has a significant carbon cost”.
His political group pushes for the RER
In terms of transport, while the Metropolis will vote its financial contribution to the Bordeaux-Toulouse High Speed Line (LGV) project, Alternative for a Citizen Metropolis Toulouse Métropole will once again push for the creation of a Toulouse-style RER, “The only way to serve Toulouse from its outskirts on a regular basis”.
“There is urgency, conclusion François Piquemal. If it continues like this, we will find ourselves in the worst case scenario of the IPCC with a succession of heat waves by 2050 ”.
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