A reflection on the evolution of the right to development will be launched

The President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday compiled a particularly ambitious Grand Paris plans. "It is the will to think the development of Paris in a much broader perspective than the limits of the device, as the boundaries of the small Crown, much broader than those of the Ile-de-France", he said. "It is the will to think the future of Paris as a strategy for planning and development of the territories at the national level."

This "new city" should create conditions that will help to gradually sideline the image of the suburban and urban areas sensitive to the rank of memories. The union is also sought with local elected officials and the Ile-de-France who can speak in general States of the Paris Grand early next year.

"Building the city on the city".

To "build the town on the town" and the densify, the Government is out of the zonings which freeze the use of land, raise the coefficients of land-use and better use the available space. A reflection on the evolution of the right to development will be launched. It should facilitate the realization of 70,000 units per year, which would lower real estate pressure and therefore to overcome the lack of social housing.

At the same time, major equipment are planned: cultural autour and in Paris, logistical Achères and from the airport of Roissy Charles de Gaulle they would promote a shift to the South for the benefit of the France of the great maritime trade world or the judicial city in the Batignolles in the 17th arrondissement of the capital. Natural heritage is also highlighted, for example, in the plain of Versailles or the study of a project of forest in the cone of noise from the airport of Roissy.

As expected, the President also confirmed the development of a decade of economic poles around the capital. But in the shorter term, it is especially the improvement of the conditions of daily life of the Ile-de-France by providing the area of a network of transport meet his needs ("Les Echos" of yesterday). A cost of EUR 35 billion, the work must begin as early as 2012, which will require a law to speed up the procedures. Very complete, the proposed scheme is, again, negotiable with the communities concerned, but it must be stopped within two months not to delay. Nicolas Sarkozy also warned that it would ensure that this issue gives rise to no blocking.

A way of saying that it is possible to launch a major project without changing the governance of the Paris region. The President also announced yesterday that he left the record to his successors. A surprise then that it expected a Bill to the end of the year or early 2010.

This spirit of openness has been praised by the main elected Paris, starting with the Socialist Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, who noted yesterday evening with satisfaction a change in the position of the State in the sense that he has always defended. As the PS President of the Regional Council, Jean-Paul Huchon, he expected now that the State specifies the part it intends to take to the financing of projects. As Patrick Braouezec (FCP), President of the communauté d ' agglomération Plaine Commune, he welcomed that are finally recognized the potential and the dynamic that animates this territory in the North of Paris.