
Thursday January 9, during the greeting ceremony, the mayor Pascale Loiseleur announced a legal recourse against the designer of parking of Thoré-Montmorency courtyard. She says parking “doesn’t satisfy her at all.” She wants to obtain “technical as well as financial repairs”.
On site, between the Cerf roundabout and the judicial district, nets and barriers show that work is still in progress…
In the royal city, this work arouses anger and incomprehension. Launched with the aim of facilitating parking in the city center, with thirty additional spaces, the project has attracted criticism.
A design called into question
For Franklin Lepage, close to former mayor Jean-Christophe Canter, the problem is obvious. “This project was poorly designed. Elected officials should have anticipated events like the funfair. If the rides park on the parking lots and their borders, with the weight of these structures, these rides will damage the parking lot surfaces. It will therefore be necessary, every year, to redo part of these car parks. We are incompetent.”
Environmental concerns
But the criticism goes beyond the small world of political figures. “The signage is poorly done, we are losing places,” says Mathieu Voisin, a town merchant. Worse, according to him, the opposite effect is occurring: “I have the impression that there are fewer places than before.” According to other Senlis residents, this parking lot, in addition to not being functional, is unsanitary. “It’s even dirtier than before,” explains Guillemette de la Touche, mother of children going to the Notre-Dame de Sacré-Cœur school located just opposite the parking lot. With the strips of earth catching the rain, the children jump into the slush every other morning.”
Environmental concerns
The ecological aspect of the project is also discussed. The renovation of this parking lot required the uprooting of 200 trees, 87 of which were however replanted. “The other trees will be re-established on the site or elsewhere in town,” assures the town hall. This response hardly convinces all local residents, particularly on the notion of replanting. “Why did you move them? Is it because of the funfair? If this is the case, how will it happen in the following years?”, asks Joséphine on the municipality’s Facebook site.
Today, only 98 places are available out of the 258 planned. But the city’s technical services manager assures that “the work will be finished in time for the next funfair.” For the moment, the town hall recommends the Brunehaut car park where the first hour is free…