The Republicans believe that ephemeral terraces, a legacy of the health crisis in the capital, are poorly supervised while environmentalists denounce their heating and air conditioning systems.
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“Paris is a festive city. We all participate in it. We all take glasses regularly on the terrace, summer. It’s very pleasant,” said Fatoumata Koné. And the elected official of the ecological group at the Paris Council, gathered until July 8, said: “I think it participates in an art of Parisian living that we are envied all over the world.” But the celebration n ‘does not prevent politics.
Thursday, July 6, the right (republican group, centrist and independent) and the environmentalists combined their forces to put in the minority the municipal majority led by the mayor (Socialist Party) of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, on the question of terraces cafes and restaurants. “The executive must make very short -term arrangements to respond to an anarchy that has imposed itself, considers David Alphand, elected LR. We cannot spend a summer in the conditions of the weeks that have just passed.”
In both camps, the challenge is not to return to this heritage of the health crisis. M Me Koné recalled that it was “a good idea”. The objective is “to better regulate this device”. In fact, the phenomenon is already supervised. In June 2021, a settlement of displays and terraces was published in order to perpetuate the ephemeral terraces created in 2020 to support restaurateurs during the crisis linked to the COVVI-19. And, after the 12,000 authorized in 2021, the city validated only 3,000 this summer.
There are “abuses”
But environmentalists, members of the majority of M me
é> hidalgo, recall that the law of August 22, 2021 on the fight against global warming has prohibited since April the heating and air conditioning systems at the ‘outside. “An ecological aberration” which broadcasts “half a million tonnes of co 2 ” per year in the atmosphere. However, there are “abuses”, they have noted, and “some Parisian restaurateurs have even declared in the press that they would not comply with the law”, take offense at elected environmentalists. They recall that “certain districts of Paris are stifled by a phenomenon of festive monoactivity” and that all this generates nuisance in particular sound.
They are in unison with the right. “The terraces are part of Parisian life, but Paris cannot be reduced to a gigantic terrace,” said Aurélien Véron (LR) in session, and “the lack of sanctions and the lack of control resulted in a nightmare for not bad Parisians, “he added. He listed “the dubious aesthetic of certain terraces, the overflow on the sidewalks blocking access to pedestrians, sometimes even to PMRs [people with reduced mobility] and the children’s strollers, the late closure beyond 10 p.m.” imposed by the June 2021 regulations…
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