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The localized district plan (PLQ) of Cherpines still presents too much gaps and unknown, according to a collective of citizen associations and political parties. He launched a referendum against the favorable notice voted by the City Council of Confignon (GE). Warning period of signatures on June 16.
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08 May 2025 – 15:49
(Keystone-ATS) The municipal council agreed to the project on April 15 to a short majority (9 for, 8 against and 1 abstention). He has associated fifteen conditions there, demonstrating great concern on the part of elected officials towards the project, deplores the collective Thursday in a press release.
-However, these conditions are unfortunately in no way binding for the State, continue the referees. The associations are part of Cherpines differently, Association safeguard of Confignon et Squares (ASC), Geneva safeguard, supported by the Nature and Heritage Association of the Val d’Aire and the Association Qualité de Vie Bernex and Confignon, as well as the PLR parties-Les Liberals-Radicals de Confignon and Tomorrow Confignon.
Financial abyss
After fourteen years of study, this PLQ, the first of its kind, is not successful, deplores the collective. Too many questions still remain concerning funding, density, the environment and mobility.
The Cherpines project will more than double the current population of Confignon, with a density index equivalent to the Hypercentre in Geneva. He will indebted the town unreasonably with a high probability of increasing the additional central, fear the referees, scalded by the example of the Cressy district.
Opposing is today a necessity in order to obtain an eco -neighborhood in accordance with the cantonal voting for a 2011 zone modification, respecting the environment of the area and with insured funding does not include Confignon for decades. “In summary, this referendum is necessary not to sign a white check for the future,” concludes the collective, which has until June 16 to collect 381 signatures.
2400 homes
Second largest urban development behind that of the PAV (Praille Acacias Vernet), the Cherpines project includes the construction of around 2,700 dwellings on an area of 58 hectares straddling the municipalities of Plan-les-Ouates and Confignon. The latter commune, which is the subject of the referendum, should accommodate 2,400 dwellings, or about 6,000 inhabitants, while it has 4,500 currently.
