Fabienne Buccio, regional and departmental prefect. (Photo: Nathan Chaize)
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes prefect addresses more than 4,000 mayors in her region to correct the “information inexactes” that the president of the regional council addressed to them on “zero net artificialization”.
The rag burns between Fabienne Buccio, regional prefect, and Laurent Wauquiez, president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The subject of disagreement: “zero net artificialization” (ZAN), introduced by the Climate and Resilience Law of 2021.
To move towards neutral artificialization by 2050, the law imposes on local authorities a 50% reduction in the rate of land artificialization and the consumption of natural, agricultural and forest areas by 2030 compared to that measured between 2011 and 2020.
The president of the regional council Laurent Wauquiez announced, on September 30, to withdraw the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region from a system that he describes as “ruralicide”. In the process, after a letter addressed to the Prime Minister explaining the reasons for this withdrawal, he wrote to the mayors of the region asking them to support him in his fight.
“Clear any ambiguity”
Monday, November 13, the regional prefect also sent a long four-page letter to more than 4,000 mayors of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. “Faced with the inaccurate information contained in the letter contained in this letter (from the president of the regional council, Editor’s note), the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion asked me to provide you with the clarifications necessary for a good understanding of the device”. The prefect thus hopes “to dispel any ambiguity on this major subject”.
The State representative in the region explains that the Climate and Resilience law, adopted in 2021 and relaxed last July, was the result of a “broad consensus in Parliament” and that the “dialogue territorial” was thus “reinforced”.
And to recall the numerous adjustments voted on “almost unanimously” in the Senate which made it possible to “take into account your alerts” in order to make ZAN a “ambitious and practicable tool”.
Laurent Wauquiez “seems to ignore these advances and the latest state of the law”
Fabienne Buccio, prefect of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
The senior official tackles the president of the regional council who, she writes, “seems to ignore these advances and the latest state of the law”.
The prefect also refers Laurent Wauquiez to his own contradictions, insisting on the fact that if the objectives of the law are national, the variation is “territorial” and entrusted to elected officials. “If the approach was centralized, can we readthe objective would apply uniformly and directly to each PLU or municipal card, without taking into account territorial issues or specificities.”
Concluding that “this hypothesis will only occur if the region refuses to take ownership of the system”.
In response, Laurent Wauquiez declared in a press release that “the State panics and finally begins to want to garner the support of mayors after having decided everything behind their backs.” The president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council believed that the government wanted to “impose with forceps” the law “ruralicide”,
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2023-11-14 09:14:04
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