It will be a “Nice eco-district” with high landscape quality, featuring a proposal for a vast urban leisure park of nearly 3 hectares on land spanning 6.5 hectares. It will harmoniously combine a quality housing offer with the creation of quality public facilities and parking, particularly sports-related, as claimed by the Mayor of Nice…
… or is it a “raccoon” project with a “mini (very mini)” green space and nearly half of the freed land handed over to property developers for the construction of housing, shops, and private parking?” as warned by councilor Dominique Boy-Mottard (PRG) who has been following this issue for five years (and who refuses to endorse it)?
At this stage, it is known that the pre-project, presented and voted on during last Friday’s City Council session, foresees a public investment of 12.5 million euros covered by land revenues (30 million) and its private investments amounting to around 65 million euros through the works.
A call for tenders to developers and landscape firms will be launched soon to arrive at a conclusion before the end of the year. Will there be any possible modifications? Just marginally, because the master plan has effectively been established and certainly approved; how could one think otherwise? Among the potentially involved economic actors, there will undoubtedly be some well-known names.
Moreover, those who sign the checks have their say when it comes to their interests, do they not? We await with curiosity to learn their names… The commercial operation of the Grand Stade (Nice One) has once again shown that where there’s cheese, rats always appear.
Will there be another consultation of the local population? Normally no, since — according to the Mayor of Nice — consultations have been done in the past with more than 2000 feedbacks received. This allows him to assert that it is “a shared project,” contrary to Dominique Boy-Mottard’s opinion, who defines them as “informational-debate meetings that do not correspond to an official and regulatory consultation, even though they were not uninteresting in themselves.”
A procedural battle in view?
In any case, Christian Estrosi’s stated will is to move forward with the determination he is known for.
In light of this, will the opposition be able to exist on the ground? Because in the institutional framework (city council), they will not be able to go much beyond a simple testimony.
