No to concrete where the Suzon flows! – dijoncter.info
A natural and fresh space of 3 hectares is threatened with destruction in Dijon ! enough concrete ! On muffled ! Let’s say STOP At the mayor !
“More bikes, less concrete”, could have been the slogan of Sunday September 4: the Vélotour conveniently passed along a vast natural space that a collective is trying to preserve from concrete north of Dijon. The activists of “Save the banks of the Suzon” took the opportunity to inform the 5,000 cyclists of the Vélotour and proposing that they sign the request asking the Mayor to renounce the destruction of this natural space. 700 cyclists stopped for the signature, and quality exchanges took place with people who appreciate the banks and the plain of Suzon as a space of freshness. With the online petition driven at the same time more than 1000 people have been supported the request of the collective during this first day of action.
Recall of facts
At its meeting on June 27, 2022, the Dijon City Council decided to sell this natural space to the developers 4S Immo and Groupe Edouard Denis (subsidiary of Nexity) for a project, named “ Venice 2 », consumer of a total of 3 hectares of land. The construction of 37 collective dwellings and 48 houses, including a mini green space, jeopardizes the last plots of nature and freshness in the north of Dijon.
An exceptional biodiversity in the city
Located near the Japanese Garden, between Fontaine-les-Dijon and Le Suzon, these 3 hectares of orchards, wasteland and gardens are very popular with local residents and Dijon residents.True green lung of the neighborhood and the citythis natural space is the place of life or passage of many plant and animal species, which benefit from the large trees, the meadows and the humidity.
Naturalist inventories carried out on a voluntary basis since 2012 show that it is an exceptional reserve of BIODIVERSITYÉ in town, partly located in a flood zone.
This rare corner of paradise in the city includes a wooded area with hundred-year-old trees, a riparian forest with willows, old orchards (walnut trees, cherry trees, plum trees), copses, active vegetable gardens and a beautiful wooded meadow with orchids.
58 species of butterflies are present, including 7 “near-threatened” or “endangered” species appearing on the red list of butterflies in Burgundy Franche-Comté. Many other species of animals also live there, many of which are protected: insects, birds, amphibians, hedgehogs, bats…
A natural island of freshness
The combination of this large plant area with trees, gardens, wasteland and the Suzon which borders the land brings to humans and animals the freshness that is and will always be more necessary to them.
In this scorching summer, temperature readings taken by local residents showed very large temperature differences between the edge of the field and its heart: the island of coolness is real, with 5 degrees lessthank you trees !
These are indeed ecosystem services that nature provides for free … when kept intact !
And municipal democracy ?
Neither the Dijonnais nor the direct residents of the land were consulted before the decision to sell this common good.
These lands are certainly part of a project site of the intermunicipal Local Urbanism Plan – Habitat and Travel (PLUi-HD) approved on December 19, 2019. But given the total indifference of the mayor to the many substantiated remarks made during public inquiries by the population, this procedure is totally disqualified for taking into account popular expression and the needs of citizens.
While Dijon stands out as a pioneering city in local democracy with its new “ Citizen Participation Charter », No information of the population was carried out prior to this decision, contrary to the much vaunted Citizens’ Agoras.
Despite their ecological speeches that have punctuated the local media this summer, the logic of Mr. Rebsamen and his friends consists in urbanizing and concreting all the land and plots of nature still available, whatever the cost for the well-being and the health of citizens, biodiversity and climate change that construction at all costs contributes to aggravate.
However, the decisions taken in 2022 will impact the lives of citizens and the habitability of the city for decades to come..
Dijon Métropole must stop all new urbanization today consumer of natural or agricultural space in Dijon and the Dijon conurbation. Dijon has not yet made a commitment “ zero net land take in its objectives. She needs to do it urgently.
To sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/sauvons-les-berges-du-suzon
For information and to join the collective: [email protected]