Unprecedented consultation

A collective preparatory process extending well beyond legal requirements.

Within the new legal context, following the evaluation of the 1994 SDRIF , the Île-de-France Region is piloting the revision of the Regional Outline Development Plan for the first time, which it must prepare in association with the State, pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 141-1 of the Urban Planning Code, and in partnership with certain public authorities (cf. Article L141-1 of the Urban Planning Code, paragraphs 6 and 7).

Apart from its legal obligations, the Region has engaged in the most open dialogue possible in order to construct the Draft  SDRIF in a collective fashion. It is thus conducting an unprecedented partner consultation process with local elected officials, economic, socio-professional and non-profit actors and spatial planning experts and professionals. It is also organising citizen participation in the process.

Between the Opening Conference of the revision on 21 October 2004 and the SDRIF General Assembly on 29 November 2006, 12 thematic workshops, 26 territorial workshops, 2 summary forums, an Intercommunal Conference and an Interregional Conference have provided the opportunity for a rich and ongoing debate involving exchanges, expected results, questions, clashes of ideas with regard to the challenges at stake and the main approaches employed by the SDRIF , and covering various issues, problems, local projects, etc.

The Region gave the inhabitants of Île-de-France the opportunity to express their views by means of a survey carried out in July 2006 and a Citizens’ Conference in October 2006, the conclusions of which were made public at the SDRIF , General Assembly held at the Parc Floral de Paris.

At the same time, the work carried out by the expert groups fed into the debate and made it possible to gradually design the overall shape and content of the first documents contained in the Preliminary Version.

The major themes of the V1, the Preliminary Version, and in particular the outline of the regional spatial project, were presented to the General Assembly. There followed a series of exchanges, whereby the Region recorded and processed requests for modifications and amendments via successive versions of the document up until the plenary session of the Regional Council, which approved the Draft SDRIF on 15 February 2007.