During the campaign, Mayor Nathalie Appéré pledged to plant 30,000 trees by the end of the mandate.
The tree charter notably issues recommendations on species to be banned or favored over the next few years due to global warming.
More green and less gray. During the last municipal campaign, the theme of nature in the city had emerged as one of the major themes of the election in Rennes, the candidates competing for ideas to green the city. Re-elected mayor, Nathalie Appéré has thus committed to planting a net balance of 30,000 trees by the end of her mandate. If the promise is kept, the Breton capital, ranked fifth greenest metropolis in France in 2019, will then have 150,000 trees in public space in 2026 and almost as many in private space. At the start of 2022, a symbolic operation will also be carried out with the planting of 18 trees on both sides of the town hall square at an estimated cost of over 200,000 euros.
This commitment figures prominently in the tree charter which has just been adopted Monday evening at the city council.
Resulting from discussions initiated during the Rennes 2030 consultation, this fifty-page document lists the city's 33 commitments to “preserve and develop its wooded heritage”, according to Didier Chapellon, deputy delegate for biodiversity.
"By 2100, Rennes will have the same trees as Toulouse"
Thanks to a mapping of the Rennes canopy, we learn that the foliage covers only 11% of the aerial surface in the city center, against 33% in the Maurepas district, which benefits from its proximity to the Gayeulles park. To remedy this, trees and green spaces will flourish in the coming months in the small squares of the city center such as Champ-Jacquet, Parcheminerie or Toussaint.
In its charter, the city also plans to promote tree planting in overhead, public or private parking lots, to create new shared orchards and to organize a census of areas that can potentially be planted. It is also a question of species to be favored and others to be banned. "By 2100, we will have the same trees as Toulouse so we are working in that perspective," said Didier Chapellon. With the consequences of global warming, birch, common beech or pedunculate oak are henceforth to be banned, in favor of country maple, holm oak or wild apple.
Lastly, through this charter, the city commits to “better informing” local residents about felling.
In this area, the municipality of Rennes has nevertheless experienced some hiccups.
In two recent decisions, the administrative court ruled in favor of the association La Nature en ville, which challenged the felling of trees along avenues Janvier and Buttes-des-Coësmes.
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