these projects that will change Croix-Daurade and Borderouge
Seven projects, planned as part of the operation “My ideas for my neighborhood”», will change the Croix-Daurade and Borderouge districts in Toulouse. Their inhabitants will thus see trees being planted, an educational radar installed or even nesting traps against tiger mosquitoes deployed.
The operation “My ideas for my neighborhood” will trigger a whole series of projects in the Croix-Daurade and Borderouge districts. As a reminder, Toulouse residents were called upon to make proposals to improve their living space. 1600 had been filed. But after a pre-selection, a study of competence and a vote of the inhabitantsonly 83 of them will be realized soon.
Seven of these proposals concern the Croix-Daurade and Borderouge districts, but also the Trois Cocus, Paleficat and Grand Selve districts. Four, including the project with the most votes, are in the “nature in the city” category and the other three in the “living environment” category. The Toulouse municipality will invest an amount of 322,700 euros for these seven winning proposals.
Installation of nesting traps against tiger mosquitoes
The idea that received the most votes relates to the fight against tiger mosquitoes. The project leader is indeed asking for “a contribution from the town hall to the cost of nesting boxes for swifts and bats”. “These nesting boxes would be distributed to individuals who would place them in their homes. It could also be proposed, on the same principle, to participate in traps for larvae or adults of tiger mosquitoes”, considers this inhabitant. The town hall agrees on the idea, but some reservations about the nesting boxes. “It is very useful to promote the installation of bats on the territory but in the context of the fight against the presence of the tiger mosquito, other solutions should be given priority”, she believes.
The municipality relies instead on nesting traps, but she warns: “This measure must be adopted by the City Council to be implemented and, if this is the case, it will come to be generalized for the whole of the Toulouse territory, thus requiring a significant budget”. The latter would amount to 60,000 euros. The second project also proposes to install nesting boxes for bats and mosquito traps, but in the corresponding Croix-Daurade district. Again, the City indicates that these nesting boxes are not “a miracle solution”. She therefore prefers to prioritize nesting traps. “They intervene in a key and unavoidable stage of the life cycle of the tiger mosquito and are specific to this species. The installation of nesting traps in public space is therefore proposed, 40 nesting traps for 1,200 euros, ”explains the municipality.
Shade sails on the Borderouge playground
The third proposal does not aim to fight against tiger mosquitoes, but against “hot slides” and “hot shots” on public outdoor playgrounds for children in neighborhoods. “Several games for toddlers or older children are in the sun in Toulouse,” laments the resident who submitted this idea. He adds: “The town hall could quite easily install sails suspended in height added to pegs as is done in Portugal or Spain in order to make people shaded”.
The City of Toulouse considers this “relevant idea on playgrounds that do not benefit from natural shade”. She offers to test it. “The Borderouge playground can lend itself to experimentation,” she says. The municipality had to specify “more detailed costing and implementation” if this idea was a winner. But she did not give more information on this subject for the moment. However, the overall budget is already known. The town hall of the Pink City will indeed mobilize an amount of 10,000 euros for this project.
An educational radar to fight against noise pollution
“The noise pollution induced by the densification of the neighborhood is becoming very problematic and an obstacle to living well together. Two-wheelers are the main source of this (excessive speed, tampered engines and exhaust pipes)”, denounces the inhabitant at the origin of the third idea. To fight against this noise pollution, he is considering several solutions: an awareness campaign and the installation of sound radars, in particular on the Chemin des Izards and Route de Launaguet. But the town hall will not be able to fulfill such a request.
Indeed, “there is currently no radar-sanction vis-à-vis the noise of vehicles”, she informs. However, the Toulouse municipality offers an alternative. “However, we can install an educational radar, which, using a luminous panel, would indicate to drivers whether the noise level of their motor vehicle is compliant or not,” she explains. This educational radar represented a budget of 30,000 euros in investment and 5,000 euros per year of operation for the City, or 35,000 euros in all.
Fruit trees at the Cazal stadium sports complex
The fourth proposal, which obtained 29 votes in the vote of the inhabitants of the Pink City, will consist of planting “fruit trees to be harvested by schoolchildren for school canteens and voluntary associations”. According to the initiator of this project, this would have several advantages: supplying “organic fruit for canteens”, allowing “children to discover fruit”, leading to a “reduction in the cost of canteens” or even promoting “food local “.
The municipality believes that this “idea is feasible”, but in a specific place in the Croix-Daurade district. It actually plans to implement it “within the sports complex of the Cazal stadium”. ” This space is freely accessible and can be used by people in the neighborhood subject to respect for the trees”, she underlines. In all, “about thirty fruit trees” would be planted there. The town hall of Toulouse will invest 1,500 euros in this fruit tree plantation project.
Soon sports equipment at Maourine Park
Apart from fruit trees, the inhabitants of the Borderouge and Croix-Daurade districts would keep “sports equipment of the type” bodybuilding “in the open air” and “free access”. The resident who submitted this project proposes to install them “along the pedestrian paths, either in the gardens of the Museum, therefore in the greenery and in the shade”. The town hall of Toulouse agrees with this idea.
She suggests an installation in the park of Maourine. The latter can effectively “accommodate 3 pieces of apparatus” for sports equipment. But the City specifies that it will not be a “real sports structure of importance”. She will install three. Each of the structures representing a cost of 5,000 euros. The municipality will therefore mobilize a budget of 15,000 euros for this idea.
Revegetation of the Croix-Daurade cemetery car park
The latest proposal provides for the revegetation of the parking lot of the Croix-Daurade cemetery. For the project leader, he is “a bitumen flame”. “It made sense when it welcomed the high school buses but today it has come time to green this puddle of bitumen”. This resident therefore recommends create grassed parking lots and plant trees.
But revegetating and debiting the parking lot of the Croix-Daurade cemetery does not look easy. Indeed, the City of Toulouse reports that “it requires maintenance due to its degraded state”. This project, which counted 21 votes, will thus require an amount of 200,000 euros. However, the town hall does not specify what will be implemented to revegetate this parking space.