After a show of hands, the municipal council decided, this Thursday, June 27, to maintain the open-air market where it currently is while downtown merchants are demanding its return to the heart of Bastide. Around thirty gathered to welcome the elected officials upon their arrival at the council. Another controversial issue mentioned, the Salvaza zone project for an opinion on an environmental authorization request while the administrative account was approved.
The open-air market on the boulevards
“We want the return of the market to the city center. There was a consultation with the population in May 2023 which resulted in 72% in favor of the return. But for more than a year nothing has been done. commercial flows have changed since the market moved to the boulevards, with the addition of parking spaces being taken. There is no longer anyone on rue de Verdun, nor rue Clemenceau, on Saturday morning. year, we pay the City’s tax taxes”, explained Céline Sanchez, the president of the city center merchants, this Thursday, June 27, in front of the entrance which leads to the René-Nelli room. Around thirty traders gathered there to welcome the elected officials upon their arrival at the municipal council whose agenda called for a vote on the future of the open-air market. “This city center is going to die, it’s your responsibility”they said when Mayor Gérard Larrat crossed, regretting, as he passed, “his lack of consideration”. It’s a failure for the return to the heart of the city. The municipal council chose to keep the market on the boulevards but with a reversal between the hawkers and the market gardeners on the Barbès and Roumens boulevards. Mayor Gérard Larrat will issue an order to this effect to make it official.
A show of hands was held to make this decision. 26 councilors from the majority opted for this. 10 votes, those of the Carcassonne citizen, ecological and social opposition, went to preserve the current market with an extension of the organic market towards Place Carnot. Two votes, Magali Bardou and David Bustos from the majority, chose the option of a return to the heart of Bastide around Place Carnot, rue de l’Aigle d’or, rue de Verdun, rue Tomey, rue Chartran, and Aimé-Ramond. Two voices, including that of elected RN Edgar Montagné, supported a return to the heart of the city around Place Carnot, rue de Verdun and rue Georges Clemenceau. Edgar Montagné who had put forward the idea of ”rehabilitate the market where it has been supposed to be for centuries, at least since the middle of the 18th centuryenamely at the Grain Hall which is no longer occupied by the media library and at the central hall which is mostly unoccupied most of the time.
During the municipal council meeting, it was Isabelle Chesa, the first deputy, who recalled the chronology of events since the renovation of Place Carnot three years ago led to the relocation of the market. Citizen consultation, two meetings of the non-sedentary trade advisory commission for markets. She stressed that several configurations had been studied, with the fear of seeing the market die if it was broken up according to the market gardeners. “I inquired and this was the case in other cities.” The copy was revised several times, without reaching consensus. “It’s a complex problem but it had to be resolved”concluded Gérard Larrat.
Favorable opinion for an environmental authorization request as part of the public inquiry into the development of the logistics zone in Salvaza
The public inquiry concerning the planning permit for the Salvaza logistics zone takes place until July 11 at Carcassonne town hall. In this context, the City had to issue an opinion on the environmental authorization request. The planning permit was submitted for consultation to the competent services by the City’s investigating department. Favorable opinions with observations were collected. The Department’s roads and mobility directorate, however, issued “the strongest reservations concerning this project and its very significant impact on the traffic conditions of the Carcassonne ring road”. Particularly because this project “will generate more than 2000 vehicles per day including 700 additional heavy goods vehicles on the surrounding traffic lanes”The municipal council gave a favorable opinion. “It’s just an opinion. I’m not fanatical about these companies. But if it creates jobs, I won’t be able to refuse them”, recalled Gérard Larrat. The Laisse concret Salvaza collective did not fail to come and make noise under the windows of the municipal council.
Administrative account 2023 approved
The essential indicators are evolving favorably, indicated Isabelle Chesa, the first deputy. With an operating result of €10.1 million, gross savings at €11.3 million, the gross savings rate at 15.1% and a debt repayment capacity of 4.6 years. Markers in progress compared to previous years despite “the implementation of the financial and fiscal pact, the resumption of inflation, the increase in energy, the increase in interest rates, and the increase in the index point”.
