The announcement by the mayor of Chartres, Jean-Pierre Gorges, to create three parking spaces for the residents of Chartres provoked a reaction from the opposition, which called for a local referendum. In vain. The debate was heated, late in the evening.
One is planned on the side of Porte Morard, another under the old prison with access under the Butte des Charbonniers and a last one under the gardens of the Bishop’s Palace. It is the latter that ticks the most.
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Jean-Pierre Gorges explains that these gardens threaten to collapse at any moment, according to experts, because nothing is holding them back. It is necessary, according to him, to have a kind of retaining wall erected in the subsoil to attack the hard layers, and therefore to keep these elaborate gardens, according to him, on the banks.
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Hence the fact that it was then used to dig to build a parking lot for the inhabitants of the lower city who have difficulty parking, buying or renting. Jean-Pierre Gorges revealed that similar projects had already been mentioned in the 1960s.
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For the opposition, the projects developed in the 1960s, at a time when there were two cars per house, are not necessarily the key to the problems that arise today, quite the contrary. They assure us that this goes “against the evolution of practices and needs and knowledge that we did not have at the time and that we observe today. “
Jean-Pierre Gorges replied that he has received many letters from residents who would like to return to the city, but who do not do so because they cannot park the car.
Francois Feuilleux
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