Question 16181 — rurality

Summary

Mr. Philippe Schreck questions the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories and the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, responsible for local authorities and rurality, on the division of the France rural revitalization map (FRR), a system which replaces that of rural revitalization zones (ZRR). It appears that, in its application, this new device proves to be disconnected from the realities on the ground and the real needs of the municipalities and even arbitrary with regard to the disparities appearing in bordering areas between departments. This is the case of Var and more particularly of its 8th district which lists all of the 35 municipalities classified as ZRR until now, 4 of which are “in mountain areas continuing to benefit from the effects of the classification since 2017”. The latter, as well that around ten others will suddenly be removed from the system, while eight new municipalities will enter it. It is therefore not a question of small local developments, but of an upheaval for an entire territory. The incomprehension of the local elected officials concerned and those of neighboring municipalities, who are also indirectly impacted, is total. The announcements concerning Haut-Var create as much discomfort as insecurity legal and fiscal for voluntary mayors who make long-term projects and fight to carry them out, but see their efforts called into question by decisions concerning their municipality, but established on intermunicipal criteria of a statistical nature which ignore the qualitative questions of isolation, distance from public services, aging of the population, dynamism, medical deserts... Moreover, with regard to measures taken in the neighboring department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the announcements relating to the Var municipalities which are undergoing unjustified downgrading are received with all the more incomprehension as the difference in treatment is arbitrary and unjust and inequitable. Finally, the present situation perfectly illustrates the inadequacy between the policy of forced grouping of municipal skills carried out by the last successive governments, which we find in the decision to maintain the criteria of the rural revitalization system at the intermunicipal level while all the associations of mayors and rural mayors are calling for a return to the municipal level. He therefore asks her not to proceed with any downgrading of municipalities in the Var and questions her about the measures she intends to take to involve all local elected officials and nationals in discussions relating to France rurality revitalization concerning them and, more broadly, to the social and economic development impacting the territories of which they are the elected representatives.

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