• The city of Paris on Tuesday acted on the principle of a moratorium on new construction projects near the ring road.

  • “The embankments of the ring road constitute the main unbuilt and continuous green space in the open ground of the capital”, asserts the wish of the ecologists, adopted by the municipality.

It was a request from environmentalists: the city of Paris on Tuesday acted on the principle of a moratorium on new construction projects near the ring road.

Ecologists pointed to the contradiction, according to them, of the executive in building more and more buildings around the ring road, while the city puts forward its ambitions of a "green belt".

“The embankments of the ring road constitute the main unbuilt and continuous green space in the open ground of the capital”, asserts the wish of the ecologists.

The text also notes the cancellation of the building permit for the Thousand Trees project by the administrative court last July – a building-bridge planted with a thousand trees above the ring road, Porte Maillot – on the grounds that the operation was "likely to harm public health".

"The concreting of the slopes of the ring road will also create a concrete wall between Paris and the cities of the first crown, generating urban heat islands", adds the text of the ecologists, who recommends a moratorium on constructions around the ring road, the “sanctuarization” of the embankments of the ring road and the prohibition of “all felling of trees other than phytosanitary”.

"We cannot sacrifice nature for a few m2 of office space"

In recent years, "dozens of projects have come out of the ground, they go in the opposite direction of our objectives", lambasted Emile Meunier (EELV) on Tuesday, for whom the future "green belt" vaunted by Ms. Hidalgo "is becoming gray as the concrete”.

In addition to the need not to "expose people to high levels of pollution", "we cannot sacrifice nature for a few m2 of office space", added the elected ecologist, recalling the felling of more than 70 trees of Montreuil.

“A green belt and not a gray belt”

The mayor of Paris will finally have heard the reservations of her environmental allies, and promises to study the implementation of a moratorium.

This compromise of the executive had been announced in half-words by the first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire, during a press conference devoted to the Council of Paris on June 30: “We want to design urban projects which respect the bioclimatic PLU, and no longer do those who would no longer respect him.

The revision of the PLU is a very restrictive legal process.

We respond to consultation issues in stages.

But obviously we want a green belt and not a gray belt.

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In mid-May, the mayor of Paris announced her wish to transform the ring road into a "green belt", with the creation of new green spaces in a strip of 500 m on either side of the ring road (over 10 hectares) and the passage of the latter in 2 X 3 lanes, including one reserved for carpooling, taxis and public transport.

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