Modernized lighting, more green spaces: Paris is working on its town planning

The Paris town hall, which launched a wide consultation at the start of the school year, thus brought together 26 people (17 Parisians and 100 metropolitan) from September 70 to October 30, in a citizens' conference, to discuss new measures of materials, architecture, cleanliness or mobility.

There were added 1.084 contributions made by Internet users from September 26 to October 17, in addition to letters or online votes.

Among the recommendations, the citizens suggested to "put bicycle spaces in underground car parks and near the RER metro station", to "cover the ring road with green spaces", to "rehabilitate office buildings and build student residences "," to "increase the urban agricultural surface" by creating in particular "shared gardens in schools" or "agricultural plots in Parisian parks and woods".

For 94% of the participants in the vote, it is necessary "to force the use of eco-responsible materials in urban infrastructure" to reduce "noise, visual, environmental and light pollution". They therefore advocate the use of "local materials that adapt to the climate" when it comes to new buildings.

To fight against noise pollution, many of those polled demand the ban of two-wheel heat engines in the capital. "It is the contribution the most voted by the citizens", noted Emmanuel Grégoire, the First Deputy to the Mayor of Paris, in charge of Town Planning.

At the Paris Council scheduled for December, elected officials will officially launch the revision of the PLU, before "the diagnostic phase scheduled for 2021, a regulatory phase in 2022 and adoption by the Paris executive at the end of 2023, early 2024", according to Mr. Gregory.