Par David Leduc
Published on 24 May 22 at 8:42
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It is a decision that is difficult to pass: in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), several century-old trees are about to be felled in future work. A petition has already collected more than a thousand signatures.
More than 1500 signatures
The centenary trees concerned are located not far from the Chérioux high school, where “every day thousands of people (high school students, college students, students, territorial agents and teachers, etc.) frequent this unique place full of history and above all this green lung in a territory which is nevertheless becoming denser at great speed”, specify the author of the online petition.
Why are they about to be slaughtered? Due to work to come: the Ile-de-France Region, which manages the school, decided a long time ago to part with a building on the site and replace it with an extension of another building: “Or , the architectural project will entail the felling of some fifty hundred-year-old trees in good health. The works are about to begin”.
The decision to remove these hundred-year-old trees from a “green lung” of the city therefore arouses emotion: “However, alternative solutions exist: renovating building B or building the extensions on spaces free of trees (as proposed by a company that responded to the Region’s call for tenders in January 2022). To compensate for the equivalent in CO2 capture, it would be necessary to replant 3,200 trees 5 meters high. Cutting down these trees would also mean the destruction of a rich and exceptional ecosystem: green woodpeckers, bats, bees, insects, mushrooms, etc…”
In all, about fifty trees are affected by this project. The petition put online to denounce him has so far collected more than 1,500 signatures. The protesters had the support in their approach of the opposition municipal councilor and departmental councilor Frédéric Bourdon (Vitry en Mieux): “This project highlights the responsibility first of the Region but also that of the former municipal majority which issued the building permit, and of the current one which validates it without discussion. The departmental councilors of Vitry also let it go during their last mandate, while the departmental council is a major decision-maker on the Chérioux estate. It’s urgent !
I contacted the president of the county council by mail. The President of the Region will be soon “.
On the side of the Region, it is indicated that the trees concerned (plane trees and chestnut trees) will be replaced as part of the redevelopment project.
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