In Bordeaux, the municipality will have to "undo before planting"

Illustration Bordeaux, trees at the docks -

• "We can no longer separate the issue of town planning and that of greening" announce the two elected officials who will therefore work together.

• Their plan will consist in identifying and reinforcing all the existing green networks, in order to draw a reinforcement.

• But there will also be surgical work to be carried out in the heart of the city to green the streets, squares or parking lots.

A million trees in the metropolis.

This is the ambitious program presented a few weeks ago by Alain Anziani.

met with the deputies to the mayor of Bordeaux in charge of town planning and nature in the city, Bernard-Louis Blanc and Didier Jeanjean, to take stock of Bordeaux projects in terms of greening.

The opportunity to talk about trees, putting aside the controversy over the Christmas tree which disrupted the political comeback of the new municipal majority ...

Didier Jeanjean (left), deputy mayor of Bordeaux in charge of nature in the city, and Bernard-Louis Blanc, in charge of town planning - Mickaël Bosredon / 20Minutes2

The greening of the city figured prominently in Pierre Hurmic's program.

Three months after the installation of the new majority, is a strategy established?

Bernard-Louis Blanc: In our delegations, we have kept a separation between "nature" and town planning ", but it is a view of the mind.

In fact, we have started to grind each in our corridors, because it is obvious that we can no longer separate the issue of town planning and that of greening.

But first of all, it will be necessary to define the urban frameworks which will then allow the more operational work of revegetation to be carried out.

Didier Jeanjean: My delegation of nature in the city no longer has the same outlines as the one under the previous term.

Nature in the city is greening, but also everything that is roadways, mobility.

For example, when there is a BRT project (Bus with a high level of service), we also look at it with an eye on greening, and that is a revolution.

Revegetation therefore becomes an urban planning project.

It is no longer a question of saying that we are going to plant a tree or two at the end of such and such a street - even if that can also be done at the margin - nor of making numbers to make numbers, otherwise I will plant 1,000 trees around the lake and voila.

The opposition of the right and the center attacks you precisely on this point, considering that your first announcements are not very spectacular ...

Bernard-Louis Blanc: She accuses us of putting trees back in pots on Place Tourny.

We are in the caricature.

But we are going to show that our urban thinking is much deeper than that.

The problem is that we arrive in an extremely constituted, hyper-mineralized city, and that we will have to spend a lot of time undoing before being able to plant.

It will also be necessary to map the city to identify and strengthen all the existing green networks and find a reinforcement.

For many it will be a question of extending the green networks of the metropolis, to the heart of the city.

Another example is located in the continuity of the Bassins à Flot going towards Jallère, where there is a punctuation of extremely vegetated areas, but which will have to be redeveloped to create continuity in the landscape.

In a year or two, we will have transformed a hitherto skinny corridor, which the Bordelais do not even see, to make it a real continuity under the trees, which we can borrow on foot or by bike from the quays.

Didier Jeanjean: The opposition wants things that take your breath away, that have the mouth, and well that, that has the mouth, but from an ecological point of view: it will be a corridor in which the birds, the insects will be able to move.

By the way, we are also preserving the Jallère area, which the opposition wanted to urbanize, I remind you.

But it is true that we will not repeat the Stewardship course.

Will there still be places in the heart of town that you can green?

Didier Jeanjean: Yes, it is less structuring than our global vision, more surgical, but very important too.

And this is a point that will have to be worked with the inhabitants.

We will be able to rearrange places, plots, parking lots… Wherever possible, we will create islands of freshness.

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