Completion of Lucie-Aubrac Kindergarten Marks Progress in Paris Minimes-Barrière Neighborhood

The Minimes-Barrière-de-Paris Committee continues its requests to the town hall of Toulouse and draws up an initial assessment of their exchanges. “We are finally going to see the prefabricated kindergarten Lucie Aubrac leave the space of La Salade after ten years of presence, rejoices Serge Baggi, president of the Minimes-Barrière-de-Paris collective. At the start of the 2024 school year, a new “hard” kindergarten must accommodate pupils and teachers. Moreover, this 17,000 m2 green space that we recovered was very useful during the lockdown. On the other hand, still on this space, we are also awaiting the replacement promised by the City of the 15 dead trees in 2022. A noria, still hidden for the moment, should also be valued on this site. Finally, we are still in consultation with the City to assess the location and capacity of the car park along the Launaguet road.

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Another sensitive point of this district of Toulouse, the real estate operation of 800 housing units on the space left vacant by the Peugeot and Citroën car dealers. A real estate project which, according to Alain Soulard, vice-president of the committee, from an urban point of view, would be too high and too dense: “The insertion of this project in the residential network of the district seems to me inappropriate. I don’t think, despite what has been said, that tall buildings preserve green spaces. For the moment, in this district, we only have the canal, the only real green lung”. Still in this expectation of revegetation, the collective also asks for a better green transversal between the La Vache metro and the Fondeyre station planned to be installed on the Renault plot. “The district, like many, is very concerned about green links. In the same spirit, the beautiful green space at the end of rue de Tunis is still awaiting development”. Serge Baggi also recalls the City’s promise to create a green space of 20,000 m2 on the plot of the Renault concession. A request that the collective would like to see included in the local urban plan.