504 persons is a housing policy supported

The city of Dijon attracts. With 1.882 additional inhabitants over the last decade, it is the Strasbourg side one of the two regional capitals of the Grand is a gain. This increase of the municipal population (151.504 persons) is a housing policy supported. Initiated in 2001 with the election of Socialist François Rebsamen, Senator and President of the agglomeration community of greater Dijon which comprises 22 communes and over 250,000 inhabitants, it passes to top speed. The local habitat program provides for the next six years a Community objective of 1,700 new housing units per year, including 600 social. This development, focused on Dijon, with 1,000 annual units, favours the urban ecology. "I want to make Dijon a national or even European reference in this field", assured the Senator-Mayor.

Several eco-districts will see the day. To achieve them, Dijon relies on two structures: the semi-public company of development of the Dijon agglomeration (Semaad), which takes place on the 116 communes of the SCOT, and a public local Development Corporation (SPLA) dedicated to large operations in a dozen of common shareholders, including Dijon. "With the eco-pleased, in the phase of adoption, the requirements of the plan of action for the sustainable development of greater Dijon, the existence of a land Pass to social accession, and the delegation of the aid to stone, communities, societies of HLM and developers have an arsenal of effective", explains Thierry Lajoie, Director General of the Semaad and the SPLA.

Respect for the environment

First eco-neighbourhoods unborn: Heudelet 26. On a 5 hectare, conceded to the Semaad near downtown, 280 collective dwellings will be built by 2012. The municipality requires that at least 65 meet moderate rents or within social accession. "Diversity is part of my priorities that we're working on an index of specific rebalancing neighbourhood by neighbourhood," said François Rebsamen. "Heudelet 26, we will go further away, the experimenting for the first time on bearings of building to promote mixing of the population", adds an elected official. The arrival of the tramway, current 2013, will contribute to the creation of other eco-districts to three of the four cardinal points. Just to the North, the tertiary activity Park of Valmy could allow housing.

To the East, the site of former slaughterhouses, in land acquisition, should give way to a vast garden-city, in the phase of studies. The most important urban planning operations will take place in the South of the city. On an area of 26 hectares, consisting mainly of military wasteland and the premises of the old CHU, seven microquartiers will be been created. This work, led over ten years in the Dijon SPLA will build 2,000 housing, including 30. Here, the planners will decide the future life in detail. More question to see the first inhabitants moved into a permanent site. Public spaces and housing will be delivered at the same time. No housing will be more than two or three minutes on foot to a parking lot, a parking or a transit stop. Collective and individual housing will integrate all landscape treatment where all traffic flow will be determined by businesses and public facilities. Buildings and housing estates will respect the environment. "It is time that a sustainable urban flows the rest," punctuates Thierry Lajoie.