The development project for the new district of Bercy-Charenton is back on track. Thursday, July 7, the Council of Paris, the deliberative assembly of the city, adopted a text which defines new objectives and the modalities of the consultation which will begin on July 9.
“This project is reoriented”, assumed Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy to Mayor Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party), hoping to turn the page on a particularly electric period. The initial plan for the complete redevelopment of this Parisian area of 80 hectares, now mainly occupied by railway tracks and warehouses, into a residential and business district, was narrowly adopted in 2018. And immediately called into question on all sides.
The municipal executive had therefore put the work back on the job and proposed, in April, a new version. There will be fewer buildings: we go from 583,000 square meters to 230,000 square meters, fewer inhabitants (3,500 against 9,000). The six skyscrapers that were to respond to the 190-meter tower to be erected on the Charenton side have been abandoned. The height of housing will be limited to 50 meters, that of offices to 37 meters. The idea of a district on slab was not retained. On the contrary, twice as many green spaces are planned (45% minimum of open ground) with a wooded park of 3.5 hectares.
The deliberation voted on Thursday specifies: “While maintaining these primary qualities, the overhaul proposed today aims to take into account the climate, social and democratic emergency by designing a more virtuous project, both in environmental and human terms, which better meets the challenges of fights against heat islands, promotes vegetation, carries many constructive innovations to offer spaces in all frugality to recharge, breathe and share. » A long sentence that says well the will of the municipality to embark everyone.
“Model of bioclimatic urban planning”
“I am delighted that a chapter will come to an end with this deliberation to allow us to start writing the next one”confided, before the Council of Paris, the ecologist Emmanuelle Marie-Pierre, mayor of the 12e district, specifying: “I savor these green victories. » Echoing this, the environmental adviser Fatoumata Koné insisted: “Through this deliberation, we are closing an important chapter, that of the end of the tower projects in Paris, which we venture to describe as historic. Because today we are burying an obsolete town planning. » For her part, Councilor Danielle Simonnet (La France insoumise) welcomed the fact that, “well, listen, the fight pays off”.
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