A site difficult because technical and complex

Will there be as therein, this year, a new map of sensitive urban zones (ZUS), the territory of the city policy intervention based Nothing is less sure. Fadela Amara, Secretary of State responsible for this case, in any case indicated yesterday to about 150 mayors association city and met in Paris as a suburb was little more time be given to the reflection on this subject. Two parliamentarians (Gérard Hamel and Pierre André) were appointed to collect the proposals of the various actors. At the same time, the current generation of urban contracts of cohesion social the USOC, successor to the old city contracts will be able to be extended until 2010. The time to put in place the new generation of a device that will be revisited and that will have to "rely primarily on the intermunicipal on revised ZUS", as had informed the prefects, a month ago, Fadela Amara.

An interdepartmental Committee on cities decided last January to the principle of prior consultation on the revision of the map. Either more than one year after the Act of 2008 Finance Act stipulated such a reform. In this the Government and the parliamentarians had then agreed to take into account the criticisms of the Court of Auditors on the juxtaposition of different territories of intervention of the policy of the city and its nature become almost unreadable since the adoption of the Pact of stimulus for the city in 1996.

Suburban mayors did not hid yesterday their relief that they could fear a reform to the roughly. Such Russian dolls, 751 ZUS on which sit some 2,500 USOC, obscure indeed other areas of intervention that are added over time: including 435 urban remotivation zones (ZRU) and 100 free urban areas (such) that respond to different priority criteria. The revision of the map looks anyway technically and politically complex.

Concentration on the DSU

With this sword of Damocles provisionally excluded, suburban mayors will be able to concentrate their meagre forces in future urban solidarity staffing (DSU), of which a first attempt to reform on the part of the Government had failed last year. The Minister of the Interior had then proposed exit 238 Commons in this competition distributed to 715 beneficiaries and revisit some of its criteria for the award. Finally, before the lifting of shields of all the associations of mayors, the DSU (EUR 1.07 billion) has been increased for 2009 of EUR 70 million, extension divided mainly between 150 poor Commons. It is only a respite. While barely begin preparations for the law of finance 2010, the Government's objective is to find the device will help focus the appropriations for this competition (included in the overall staffing of operating envelope) on Commons the poorest. "A site difficult because technical and complex.". "Will, in particular the question of threshold effects", noted Claude Dilain, Socialist Mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois and President of the association of mayors city and suburbs. "Should not substitution inter-municipal solidarity to the State", for its part warned Pierre Cardo, Mayor UMP of Chanteloup-les-Vignes, in referring to the Green Paper published in March by the inter-ministerial delegation to the policy of the city to clear the new geography.