Opérations d’aménagement

Abstract

The town and country planning law has been subjected to important changes in 2000. One of the most important parts of the Urban Solidarity and Renewal (SRU) Act deals with town and country planning and especially with the procedures concerning buildings already existing.The aim of the Act is to settle a right to « urban renewal ».The novelty lies in the priority given to interventions concerning building which are already existing and the promotion of global interventions in this area.The Act has set up a complex system to attain this goal. It relies mainly on the reform of urban planning which aims at giving it a new content, which would allow a better management of the “already built areas”, even by raising the urban zones density if necessary, with prority given to the zones where public transports are efficient. It relies as well on the new layout intended to refrain urban spreading. It finally concerns the intervention procedures for ancient buildings.At the same time, the 12-13-2000 Act carries out several changes concerning the ordinary town and country planning law. The most fundamental modification deals with the so-called « ZAC » (zones of concerted development), whose articulation with the new « PLU » (local urban plan) is completely modified. The other changes concern housing plots.