Agreement on the left in Paris on the local urban plan with heights limited to 37 meters

"The PLU will go into a public inquiry" after a vote by the Council of Paris in early June, welcomed during a press briefing by elected environmentalists Nathalie Maquoi, one of their negotiators on the subject.

The first PS deputy for town planning, Emmanuel Grégoire, confirmed to AFP the main points of the compromise. If the elected officials still have to validate it, "we are taking the path of an agreement and it is a great satisfaction", he declared.

"It's a step forward for the majority, it's not one camp that has won over the other," said the leader of the elected Communists Nicolas Bonnet-Oulaldj.

In these tight negotiations between the three branches of the left in power in the capital, socialists and communists agreed to limit the height of future towers to 37 meters in the few areas remaining to be developed, Bruneseau (XNUMXth century) and Bercy-Charenton (XNUMXth century). ).

"It's the end of the towers in Paris", rejoiced Emile Meunier, another negotiator for the ecologists who also announced "no more new concrete construction" in Paris.

"The application from 2025 of the RE (environmental regulation) 2028", with more restrictive carbon thresholds, will lead promoters "to use materials other than concrete, or to demonstrate that there is no 'alternative,' said Emmanuel Grégoire.

The Greens also emphasize having obtained the lowering to 150 m2 of the threshold of the plots from which a progressive obligation to leave open land will apply. "It's a PLU where we can hardly build anymore," summarized Emile Meunier.

The elected EEVL also announces a "moratorium on the office" in the west and the center of Paris already provided, as well as the ban on "all new tourist accommodation".

Accommodation rented all year round on platforms like Airbnb will be "examined on a case-by-case basis" by the town hall, which will be in a "position to prohibit" in areas already provided, said Mr. Grégoire.

As for the ring road, subject of dissension within the majority, the Greens say they have obtained "a 25-meter non-constructability zone" around the road ring and the end of "bridge buildings" such as that of the Porte de Montreuil, a project they oppose.

"Nothing in the PLU can stand in the way of the Porte de Montreuil project", replies Emmanuel Grégoire, who plans to file "as is" the planning permit, likely to be subsequently amended "in particular by removing the bridge building".