- While neighborhoods and participatory democracy are strong themes of the municipal campaign in Toulouse, the neighborhood committees have decided to send their proposals to the candidates.
- Creation of boroughs, participatory budgets or even consultation on major projects are among the avenues to be dug according to them.
Democracy and proximity are among the priorities displayed by candidates for municipal elections in Toulouse. "Living well in neighborhoods, our priority" displays the outgoing mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR, supported by LREM), while Antoine Maurice d'Achipel pleads for "a more democratic city" and the socialist candidate Nadia Pellefigue wants to do cogitate the inhabitants on urban planning issues.
Enough to satisfy the Toulouse neighborhood committees. They decided not to present an inventory to La Prévert of the requests that everyone could have made. But they also did not want to miss the campaign, still an important moment to get candidates some commitments.
The members of the Union of Neighborhood Committees (UCQ), which has nearly 40 member associations, therefore published this Tuesday morning a list of several cross-cutting proposals concerning public facilities, local democracy or even major development operations .
“On major urban planning projects, it would be necessary to set up consultation workshops upstream, this would surely avoid a certain number of appeals on building permits. Operations are often carried out piecemeal, without vision or anticipation, sometimes with the arrival of dozens of homes without anticipating needs when the sector school is already saturated, "says Guillaume Drijard, the president of l 'UCQ. This could also involve consulting the associations on a building permit or on the sale of municipal land to private developers.
What participatory budgets?
And so that they are better heard on a daily basis, the neighborhood committees suggest that the idea of creating boroughs gain ground in Toulouse. “Today, district mayors do not have their own powers. The creation of boroughs would make it possible to have a little more dynamism in the debates and the functioning, just like having a budget, ”continues the man who is also president of the Saint-Michel neighborhood committee.
Pending a law that could set up the boroughs, everyone would like to see participatory budgets boosted. Today, a global envelope of 1 million is allocated to it. "In our district of Sept-Deniers, they took from this budget to soundproof the classes of a school while Education has its own budget and we have not seen anything go by regarding our requests", criticizes Marcel Martin from Sept-Deniers neighborhood committee.
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