This is the last big text of the quinquennium. Parliament definitively adopted, on Wednesday February 9, a decentralization bill, which intends to “oil in the wheels” of the institutional landscape. Criticized as a text “tote” or insufficient to constitute a new stage of decentralization, the bill was adopted after a final vote of the Senate with a right-wing majority, with 301 votes in favor, 32 against and 10 abstentions.
Supposed to give a legislative response to the aspirations that arose of the great debate after the crisis of “yellow vests”the so-called “3DS” bill includes measures to decentralize, deconcentrate, differentiate and simplify local action.
In terms of transport, thehe text allows the transfer of the management of national roads and motorways to the departments and metropolises. He authorizes thelocal authorities to set up automatic speed cameras and, as part of the transfer of the management of small railway lines to the regions, to install services such as stations.
For housing, the text perpetuates the SRU law which sets a minimum percentage of social housing for certain municipalities. The 2025 deadline for compliance jumps and it becomes possible to pool SRU objectives at the intermunicipal level. In addition, the communities wishing to do so will recover the power to sanction landlords who do not respect the rent control mechanism, a provision in particular demanded by Parisian elected officials.
In response to a request from the Seine-Saint-Denis departmental council, a five-year experiment in voluntary territories has been launched to recentralize the active solidarity income (RSA), which will no longer be the responsibility of the departments but of the State.
At the center of a bitter political debate between the Senate and the Assembly, between the majority and the right, the installation of new wind turbines was the subject of a compromise solution. It will now be framed in the local urban plans. The communes bordering on an installation project will be consulted upstream of the project.
More locally, the reform of the governance of Aix-Marseille, wanted by Emmanuel Macron, sees the light of day in this text. It makes it possible to abolish the territorial councils and to clarify several points, such as the transfer of skills from the metropolis to the municipalities and the representativeness of Marseille in the governance of the metropolis.
A state of exceptional natural disaster overseas is created on an experimental basis, for a period of five years. It will have the effect of presuming urgency or force majeure for the application of any regulations by the public authorities in order to respond to the crisis.