It was the last major text of the quinquennium. Parliament definitively adopted on Wednesday the so-called “3DS” decentralization bill (for differentiation, decentralization, devolution and simplification of local public action) which intends to put “oil in the wheels” of the institutional landscape, following a final vote of the Senate with a right-wing majority. The text, criticized by the oppositions, was voted on Wednesday by a large majority of senators by 301 votes in favor, 32 once morest and 10 abstentions, the day following the vote of the National Assembly on Tuesday.
The Modem Minister of Territorial Cohesion, Jacqueline Gourault, at the maneuver of the bill thus wants to “improve the institutional landscape rather than upset it”. The bill, which is supposed to give a legislative response to the aspirations that arose from the great debate following the “yellow vest” crisis, includes measures to decentralize, decentralize, differentiate and simplify local action.
SRU law extended beyond 2025
At the transport level, the text authorizes the transfer of the management of national roads and highways to departments and metropolises. It also allows communities to set up automatic speed cameras, while the management of small rail lines is transferred to the regions.
In terms of housing, the bill provides for the extension of the Urban Solidarity and Renewal Act (SRU) beyond 2025, which sets a minimum percentage of social housing for certain municipalities. In the areas of rural revitalization (almost 15,000 municipalities concerned) and the priority districts of the city policy, communities will be able to acquire abandoned property following ten years (instead of thirty). Finally, the communities that wish to do so will recover the power of sanction once morest landlords who do not respect the rent control mechanism.
The installation of wind turbines framed by local urban planning plans
The bill also looks at wind power – the installation of new wind turbines will now be regulated in local urban planning plans – social, with the experimentation of the recentralization of the income of active solidarity (RSA) for the requesting departments (the request was made by the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis) or education. The government thus establishes a “functional authority” of the departments and regions over the managers of colleges and high schools.
Finally, the reform of the governance of Aix-Marseille wanted by Emmanuel Macron in the framework of the “Marseille en grand” plan has been adopted. It makes it possible to abolish the territorial councils and clarify several positions, such as the transfer of powers from the metropolis to the municipalities, the representativeness of Marseille in the governance of the metropolis or the way of financing the collectivity and municipalities.
