Toulouse. Impasse des Pasteliers, the conflict over parking is looking for a way out
“We’ve had enough. Here it’s a private road with three homes and three parking spaces to which we never have access, does not take off Thierry, resident Impasse des Pasteliers, Route de Seysses. For three years, they have been regularly occupied by the customers of the car dealership installed next door. It’s a real headache”.
A situation that stirs the anger of each other in this apparently quiet housing estate close to the Reynerie. “One morning, I couldn’t go out to work, remembers a neighbor. Do you find that normal?” “The dealer is neither aggressive nor annoying,” continues Cyril, another neighbor who says he is living in hell. “He always says he’s going to do whatever is necessary but we don’t see anything coming.”
Very close to this subdivision, the car dealership seems to be willing to resolve this problem which has become recurrent: “It’s very complicated, admits Mohamed who, with his son, runs this dealership. Customers are unpredictable. They arrive in waves. It’s very complicated to manage. Maybe delimiting the places with a barrier would fix things”.
“For every problem, he is made responsible”
Owner of the land, Maryse Chiron admits that things have only gotten worse for some time: “All the customers of the surrounding businesses come to park in these places. It’s practical but abusive and intolerable for the residents of the impasse. every time a problem arises, it is the concessionaire who is singled out. It is also unfair because he is far from being responsible for all the evils”, she is moved. “When we bought this land twenty years ago, we were alone. Over time, residences were built and the situation deteriorated,” adds the owner. According to her, to appease the spirits and find an answer that suits everyone, it would be good to gather around a table and discuss. “It is not by regularly and mutually insulting each other that the problem will be resolved. On the contrary. Let’s open the dialogue and we will see”.