Toulouse.Faced with the demographic explosion, the model of the individual house threatened in town

Will the individual house in Toulouse become an exception?"Toulouse must understand that one cannot aspire both to nature in the city and to a city made up only of individual houses," said Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse, a few weeks ago."This is not how we house 490,000 Toulousains!»».

The city councilor took care to reassure his citizens, however:

Densify on the main axes

For several years, the urban planning strategy has indeed been densifying on structuring axes (boulevard de Switzerland, avenue de Fronton, avenue de Saint-Exupéry, etc.) while preserving the suburban areas that are connected.In summary, the closer we get closer to a boulevard, with its public transport, the more the local urban plan gives rights to build.

This model may one day be re -examined."At one point, we will be obliged to build elsewhere," said Stéphane Aubay, president of the federation of real estate developers (FPI) Occitanie Toulouse Métropole, projecting himself over fifteen years."The main axes can no longer offer available land".

Toulouse, a dynamic territory

Although some Toulousains have trouble accepting it, this densification is "logical", says Stéphane Aubay."We are fortunate to have a dynamic territory that welcomes new inhabitants".

To accommodate this population, the solution is no longer to spread out on the outskirts, by consuming agricultural spaces.On the contrary, "you have to accept to rebuild the city on itself," insists the Toulouse promoter.In this, "suburban housing is surely not the habitat of tomorrow".

A stake of acceptability

Est-ce donc la fin inéluctable du modèle de la maison individuelle à Toulouse ? Un autre promoteur à Toulouse, Jacques Rubio, directeur général de Kaufman & Broad Grand Sud-Ouest, se montre prudent, tant la démolition d’une maison au profit d’un immeuble est matière à contentieux.And to remember that a large number of projects are blocked for several years by remedies of third parties.

Consequently, Jacques Rubio prefers to bet on the requalification of former brownfields, for example on the avenue of the United States, or on the launch of new urban planning operations on the outskirts of the city center as in Montaudran or the Cartoucherie.

"A very badly lived renewal"

But for Guillaume Drijard, president of the Union of neighborhood committees of the Toulouse agglomeration, evil has already been done, in certain places:

Like chalets and Busca, or more recently from Monplaisir, Guillaume Drijard would like to see all the districts being the subject of "rules in the plot" which allow an evolution "harmonious with the existing".

A work, rue by rue

"We are impatiently awaiting this work to be generalized in Toulouse, reflecting together, community and associations, the desired evolution of each district in the details of the streets, islets, or even certain plots," he said.

In this regard, Guillaume Drijard is concerned about the consequences of the cancellation this year of the local inter -municipal urban plan of Toulouse Métropole."The return to the anterior increases building rights (on average about an additional floor)," he notes."How can the community commitments for certain districts, materialized in the Plui-H, be held with the return to the anterior PLU?»»

Densify, in sectors well served by transport

In addition to his call before the Administrative Court of Appeal, after the cancellation of PLUI-H, Toulouse Métropole launched the development of a new PLUI-H common to the 37 municipalities.The opportunity, hopes Guillaume Drijard, to "better integrate mobility issues by favoring the densification of the sectors well served by structuring public transport".

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