An urbanization project presented and defended in the municipal council by the delegate municipal councilor Pascal Berillon. “We are attached to biodiversity, the environment, the living environment and respect for the architectural charter, but we must satisfy the general interest. We have a very strong demand for housing, and a State objective to comply with the SRU law (construction of a minimum of social housing. We want to offer quality housing to Testerins in a wooded setting. “
green barrier
But during this council, the municipal opposition is not convinced. For the ecologist Valentin Deiss, “this plot is a barrier of greenery and noise for residents, and this project is ecologically inadmissible on one of the last wooded plots in the city center”. For another opponent, Dominique Ducasse, it is “one of the last natural spaces cut off from urbanization which will disappear”. “We wanted to make seasonal accommodation chalets there in 2014, and there was a bronca, added the former elected official of the previous majority of Jean-Jacques Eroles. Consistent with your opposition to this project at the time, you should withdraw this deliberation”.
Opponent Marc Muret was the most virulent, also attacking the position of the mayor in 2014. “Where is the Patrick Davet who defended this forest? Today the mayor receives local residents and tells them… it will be like this and not otherwise! You are going to serve us your already worn speech of youth housing […] but in the face of this ecological crime you will not be heard. »
I receive requests for housing every week. There are 1,200 waiting”
Marc Muret also evokes “a pretty robust living forest, animated by life […] which makes the charm and the pleasure of all the families of the district”. “This deliberation is the death of more than 1000 trees. These trees are essential regulators for water management in the sector,” he adds. Only the opponent Alain Chauteau is in favor of it: “Replacing trees with children and families does not shock me. »
For families
For Mayor Patrick Davet, criticism of his 2014 position does not hold. “The project at the time was emergency chalets to accommodate people such as unaccompanied minors. We are in the process of building accommodation for families from La Teste, women and children. We want to allow Testerins to live in La Teste. I receive requests for housing every week. There are 1,200 pending applications. You are pitting Testerins once morest Testerins,” he explains.
