In the middle of summer, mayors feared that the executive will pass a regulatory text which would categorize in businesses what they consider, as mini-entreposts, harmful for their urban fabric.
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It was enough for a tweet published in the middle of the weekend of August 15, this moment when the political world is traditionally a break, so that most of the mayors of the big cities in France unite against the government . At the heart of the subject, the “Dark Stores”, these places allocated to express delivery in the city center – “your shopping in a few minutes”, promises advertising. Suddenly, all of them feared that the executive will pass a text in the middle of the summer which would legalize “in fact” in businesses what they consider, as mini-entreposts, if the latter have a ” collection point “.
Now, in a context where everyone denounces the anarchic boom in this activity turned towards delivery, nuisance – societal, environmental, social – which go with it, and the absence of sufficient means to stem the phenomenon, it passes Obviously bad. The official blow started from Emmanuel Grégoire’s Twitter account, the first assistant to the mayor of Paris. But the initial alert arrived from Villeurbanne (Rhône) and Lyon, where the services were the first to tick on the turn taken by the revision of two regulatory urban planning texts. One concerns the ministerial decree of November 2016 which relates to the “destinations” and “subdestitations” of constructions.
An essential text, since it defines the categories (office, housing, trade, warehouse, etc.) in which each construction must be stored on a territory. However, the elected officials are alarmed, the document under study introduces in the right the possibility for Dark Stores to be considered as businesses. Faced with this sling, Bercy and the Ministry of Housing have tried to appease. These are “working documents”, “Consultation continues”, “local elected officials will be received at the start of the school year”, they insisted in the middle of the week, without much success. Suspected the hand of the lobbies behind and fearing a struggle of influence within the government between the supporters of regulation and those more sensitive to innovation and the creation of jobs, whatever they are, the mayors preferred Strike higher.
“In contrast to what we want”
Six days later, a letter was leaving for Matignon. This letter, dated August 19 and addressed to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, went around France. Paris, Lyon, Villeurbanne, Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux, Besançon, Strasbourg and Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) signed. Besides these officials of left-wing communities and environmentalists, figures Stéphane Beaudet, the mayor (Les Républicains, LR) of Evry-Courcouronnes and president of the association of mayors of Ile-de-France, or Patrick Ollier, President (LR) of the Metropolis of Grand Paris. To the question of Dark Stores was added that of “Dark Kitchens”, these restaurants devoted to delivery.
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