Letter of the day: our families need a park

GenderFri, December 27

Beyond Saint-Jean and Charmilles, before the Butin bridge, around avenue d’Aïre, life becomes denser. Neighborhoods were built: Eidguenots, Concorde, Michée-Chauderon. One thousand two hundred and fifty new housing units. It will make a lot of people; and there are already people around here. The small park of Promeneur-Solitaire in summer, it is difficult to squeeze in, to spread out our blanket, to get some fresh air with our little ones, with friends or young people. The natural spaces on the banks of the Rhône, still wild not so long ago, are overflowing with people today. It’s hot in the neighborhood, getting hotter and hotter, at the rate of densification.

And there, where the aptly named Masset countryside is located, we could have a park. The City Council voted for the purchase by a majority. And now the right is launching a referendum against the vote of the Municipal Council, an electoral maneuver which will sanction the families of the neighborhood. The families in the neighborhood need to breathe. This park will be magnificent, a bit of a botanical garden, plenty of shade offered by the large trees, vital biodiversity, access to the public path that runs along the Rhône, enchanting picnics, a thousand shades of green accessible to all. and to everyone. No comparison with the old football stadium converted into a playground.

Not far from there, the Cayla Cycle. A monument of minerality, it must expand and trim the last square meters of grass. We, the residents of the neighborhood, observe how the small villas and workers’ houses give way to buildings over the course of the PLQ. Isn’t it normal that such developments are accompanied by the creation of a park for the population?

This is the third time, after the end of the 1970s and that of the 1980s, that the question of the purchase of this countryside by the City has been raised. The third time must be the right one, the opportunity is there, our generation will be able to pass on to the next one a park to breathe. Let’s welcome densification with the green spaces necessary to ensure quality of life in the city. This quality which is the signature of Geneva.

We, the residents of the neighborhood, are mobilizing with all our heart so that the Masset campaign benefits everyone.

Martin Gonzenbach, resident of the Saint-Jean district

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