Neighbourhood municipal police 24/7

Increasing the number of municipal police officers and neighbourhood mediators (target: 4 officers per 1,000 residents).

Presence in neighbourhoods, officers known to residents, de-escalation and mediation approach.

Reclaiming public space: supporting without excluding

Faced with situations of public disturbance (such as at the square du Père-Bonnet in Figuerolles), the response must be both firm and humane: regular presence, support for people in precarious situations, ground-level mediation.

The goal is not to close off public space, but to make it liveable for everyone.

Prevention: tackling root causes

Public safety depends on social prevention: investing in youth, combating school drop-out, and supporting structures that help vulnerable people.

A city that takes care of its most vulnerable residents is a safer city for all.

Zero net artificialization: stop paving over land, prioritise the existing city

The city is suffocating: overheating, runoff, loss of nature. Continuing to artificialise land makes everything worse.

Measures:

• Clear objective: zero net artificialization over the mandate.
• Priority for renovation, conversion, and rehabilitation (brownfields, gap sites, vacant offices) rather than sprawl.
• Stop projects that destroy living soils and worsen the urban heat island.

Guarantees: less concrete, more land sobriety; a more resilient city in the face of heat waves and extreme rainfall.

Green and blue infrastructure: connecting parks, gardens, waterways, garrigue

Nature is fragmented: wildlife retreats, biodiversity collapses, the city loses its breathing spaces.

Measures:

• Build a continuous green-blue network: ecological corridors, tree alignments, riverbank rewilding.
• Protect small everyday nature spaces: squares, gardens, brownfields with high ecological value.
• Support community gardens and greening (living soils first).

Guarantees: more biodiversity, more coolness, more wellbeing; a more alive and breathable city.

Urban planning democracy: deciding with residents, not against them

Projects arrive "pre-made", distrust grows, and the city fractures.

Measures:

• Meaningful consultations: equipped neighbourhood councils, public workshops, clear reports, public schedule.
• Transparency: objectives, impacts, alternatives, commitments, follow-up.
• Citizen alert right on projects that threaten health, the climate, or quality of life.

Plan "Montpellier: cool city": trees, shade, de-waterproofing

Heat waves are becoming the norm: mineral neighbourhoods, little shade, impermeable surfaces, unliveable nights.

Measures:

• Canopy plan: mass planting where it is lacking (streets, squares, car parks, school surroundings).
• De-waterproofing: remove asphalt, restore living soil, swales, permeable surfaces.
• Multiply shade and cool islands (shading, water points, less heat-absorbing materials).

Guarantees: less overheating, more comfort in public space; less runoff, more infiltration.

Anti-speculation planning rules: build less but better

Too often, urban planning bends to developer logic: volumes, densities, prices — without respecting neighbourhoods, residents, or the climate.

Measures:

• Mandatory upstream consultation: from the first sketches, with local residents and directly affected associations.
• A demanding charter: architectural quality, summer comfort, full ground contact, green spaces, water management, cycle parking, social mix.
• Local-authority tools: pre-emption rights, land control, strict conditions on public land.

Rewilding schoolyards and their surroundings

Overheated, mineral schoolyards: a health risk, inequality, daily discomfort.

Measures:

• Transformed schoolyards: trees, permeable surfaces, shade, water points, more natural play.
• Calmed school surroundings: continuous pavements, safe crossings, more "breathable" public space.

Polycentric and networked city and metropolis

When everything is concentrated in one place, people depend on cars, lose time, and neighbourhood inequalities deepen.

Measures:

• A clear model: networked polycentrism at city + metropolis scale (multiple centres, linked together).
• Strengthen neighbourhood centres: health, schools, sport, culture, food, everyday services.
• Link centres together: fast and legible connections, not just "everything towards the centre".
• Upgrade major roads into calmed, shaded, safe urban boulevards.

Eradicating homelessness: "Zero people on the streets"

Sleeping rough is not inevitable: it is a collective failure. Families, single women, young people, and sick individuals cycle through precarious solutions or remain on the streets.

Measures:

• Municipal Housing First strategy: rapid access to stable housing + support.
• Reinforced outreach teams (social + health + mediation), regular presence and coordination.
• Development of permanent solutions: rental mediation, boarding houses, social residences, secure leases.
• Prevention of breakdowns (rent arrears, evictions, leaving care, hospitalisations, domestic violence).

Guarantees: absolute priority for the most vulnerable; durable exits from the streets, not emergency rotations; dignity, safety, effectiveness.

Emergency plan: "Zero children on the streets"

When emergency accommodation overflows, families are the first to suffer: nights outdoors, instability, children out of school.

Measures:

• Municipal housing emergency unit (coordination between associations / CCAS / landlords).
• Immediate and dignified shelter when needed, with solutions adapted to families.
• Pathway "shelter → stabilisation → housing": no return to the streets.

Stop to unaffordable rents: rent controls + local observatory

Rents are skyrocketing, incomes are not keeping up: people give up, move away, go into debt.

Measures:

• Implement rent controls (where legally possible) and a local observatory of actual rents.
• Support for tenants: information, mediation, appeals.

Tourist rentals: protecting permanent housing

When housing shifts to tourist letting, the year-round rental supply shrinks and prices rise.

Measures:

• Strict rules, registration, inspections, and effective penalties for fraud.
• Limits on converting homes into tourist rentals where permanent housing is under pressure.

Energy renovation: priority for energy-inefficient homes and struggling co-ownerships

Energy-inefficient homes drain households financially and make housing unbearable in summer.

Measures:

• Creation of a "Thermal Renovation" unit within the public energy authority: diagnosis, grants, file management, end-to-end support.
• Priority for low-income households and struggling co-ownerships.
• Anti-overheating works: solar shading, ventilation, shade planting.
• Target: 10,000 files processed per year.

Rental licences + combating substandard housing

Unsanitary conditions, dangerous housing, excessive rents: a social and public-health scandal.

Measures:

• Rental licences in affected areas.
• Strengthened inspections, fast-track procedures, penalty charges, and sanctions.
• Support and rehousing for households when necessary.

Producing genuinely affordable housing: social, very social, social home ownership

We build, but too often not for those who actually live and work here.

Measures:

• Priority for social and very-social housing in planning programmes.
• Mobilising public land and anti-speculation tools for social home ownership (e.g. land-building dissociation).
• Conversion where relevant (offices → housing), rather than urban sprawl.

Readable participatory institutions

Making public decision-making understandable, accessible, and accountable.

Measures:

• Neighbourhood parliaments (elected representatives).
• Local referendums (advisory / binding depending on thresholds).
• Independent monitoring committee.
• Citizen petition to add an item to the Municipal Council agenda (threshold to be debated, e.g. 1,500 signatures).

Guarantees: public sessions, readable minutes, reasoned responses from the City, implementation schedule.

Digital platform for continuous democracy

Facilitating the back-and-forth between residents ↔ City ↔ neighbourhood parliaments.

Measures:

• Direct exchanges with elected representatives, services, and neighbourhood parliaments.
• Tracking number for each request; real-time progress status.
• Online consultations and votes.

Guarantees: accessibility (plain language, low-connection mode, in-person mediation), open data, public archiving.

Power to the neighbourhoods

Bringing decision-making closer to where people live, giving real legitimacy to neighbourhood bodies.

Measures:

• Consultation to move from 8 to 22–23 readable neighbourhoods.
• Participatory budgets proportional to each neighbourhood's needs.
• Citizen observatory of local action.

Guarantees: anti-capture rules, parity / diversity, annual report "what was done / adjustments".

Places to bring local democracy to life

Every neighbourhood should have an identified venue for meeting, informing, and participating.

Relying on existing spaces or citizenship houses, with legible opening hours, display of ongoing projects, and regular feedback to residents.

Thematic citizens' assemblies

Informed decision-making on structural issues.

Measures:

• 50% volunteers / 50% randomly selected.
• 1 topic = 1 assembly.
• Report-back, debate, and decision by Municipal Council or local referendum.

Guarantees: contradictory and accessible expertise, publication of analyses, dated commitments.

Demanding co-construction

From shared diagnosis to a decision validated by the population.

Measures:

• Neighbourhood parliaments (elected) + citizen assemblies.
• Referendums before Municipal Council votes.

Guarantees: transparency on costs / impacts / alternatives, shared post-hoc evaluation.

A truly accessible culture

Culture must not be a privilege. This requires ambitious pricing policies, local facilities, and programming that reflects the city's diversity.

Libraries: genuine free access, no tokenism

Free access to libraries is a good measure. It moves towards equality. But a real cultural policy is not limited to removing membership fees: it also requires adapted opening hours, renewed collections, enough cultural workers, and a presence in all neighbourhoods.

Local culture and support for local artists

• Support for local cultural spaces (associations, performance venues, artists' studios).
• Programming that showcases Montpellier artists and the world cultures present in the city.
• Accessible creative spaces in every neighbourhood.

The green prescription: a free organic basket per week for pregnant women

During pregnancy, expectant mothers and their unborn children are still too often exposed to endocrine disruptors found in food, packaging, and indoor air.

Measures:

• Every pregnant woman will be able to receive a free weekly basket of organic, locally grown vegetables — no income conditions — on prescription or with a pregnancy certificate.

Guarantees: reduced exposure to endocrine disruptors; healthy, local, unprocessed food; protection for pregnant women and their babies.

Municipal cost-price grocery shops

Many families cannot afford quality food. The result: junk food, deprivation, inequality.

Measures:

• Creation of a municipal purchasing centre + 10 "zero-margin" grocery shops distributed across different neighbourhoods.
• Local, regional, and organic products, purchased directly from farmers, sold at cost price.
• Social pricing for low-income households.

Why: make good food accessible, support producers, reduce food budgets, encourage short supply chains.

Supporting short supply chains and the social economy

Measures:

• Support for food pantries, AMAPs, farmers' shops, local markets, canneries, and social-economy workshops.
• Strengthening the distribution circuit of the Common Food Fund.

Metropolitan Agricultural Agency + 100% organic/local canteens

Today only 30% of school meals are organic/local.

Objective: move towards 100% organic and/or local products in school canteens.

Why: protect children's health, develop short supply chains, support sustainable farming.

End plastic in canteens

The EGAlim law has banned plastic since 2025 — but it is still used in Montpellier. Heat + plastic = microparticles in food, cancer risk, diabetes, heart disease.

Measures:

• Full replacement with stainless steel (or ceramic): durable, safe, compliant with the law.

Food education from after-school care

Children are exposed to junk food from the earliest age.

Measures:

• Sensory discovery workshops, seasonality, nutritional balance.
• "No-soda" challenges.

No-soda day

Raising awareness of the dangers of sugar, mobilising schools, after-school care, neighbourhoods, and associations.

Proposed alternatives: flavoured waters, fresh juices, herbal teas, tap water.

Youth citizenship pathway

A continuous civic pathway from adolescence to early adulthood, focusing on rights and civic participation.

Leisure and activity centres for 11–17 year-olds

Existing facilities poorly serve secondary-school students. Dedicated spaces with adapted programmes are needed.

Measures:

• Ages 11–14: educational and leisure activities.
• Ages 15–17: programmes on themes chosen by the young people themselves (travel, music, sport, projects…).
• Leisure centres open to teenagers, especially in summer.

Employment and work experience

• Municipal internship bank for Year 10 and Year 11 students: reducing inequalities linked to family networks.
• Apprenticeship agency in partnership with local employment actors.
• Civic service for 15–17 year-olds: solidarity and environmental engagement missions.
• Free BAFA (childcare qualification) with municipal placement.
• Seasonal jobs within municipal services, accessible and educational.

Extended after-school care

• Extended hours from 7am to 7pm for after-school care facilities.
• Free school meals.

4 boulevards: "petal" traffic flow + reopening of avenue Albert Dubout

Through-traffic crosses entire neighbourhoods: noise, pollution, danger, severed and unliveable streets.

Measures:

• Reopen avenue Albert Dubout and reorganise traffic in a "petal" pattern: local access yes, cut-through traffic no.
• Calm speeds, make crossings safer, give space back to pedestrians and cyclists.

Guarantees: less through-traffic in adjacent neighbourhoods; less noise and pollution, more safety and quality of life.

A truly secure cycling network + safe parking + bike support for under-25s

Piecemeal infrastructure and dangerous junctions: cycling remains reserved for the most confident.

Measures:

• Build a continuous, legible, protected cycling network (not isolated segments).
• Make "black spots" safe and roll out secure cycle parking (stations, campuses, facilities, shops).
• Introduce a bike loan / subsidy for under-25s.

Guarantees: fewer accidents, more everyday cycling trips (including children and seniors); cycling becomes a real option.

Public transport: free fares are not enough → more services, better network

Without frequency, reliability, and span, people keep their cars out of necessity.

Measures:

• Increase supply: more trams and buses, more drivers, higher frequency.
• Extend operating hours (evenings / nights) and improve reliability (waiting times, connections).
• Build a network linking "neighbourhoods ↔ jobs ↔ universities ↔ stations" — not just periphery → centre.

Guarantees: less waiting, more trips possible without a car; genuinely useful mobility for those who work early / late.

At city entrances: multimodal park-and-ride, safe and free

Without a simple alternative at the city entrance, people endure jams and saturate dense neighbourhoods.

Measures:

• Create multimodal park-and-ride facilities (car → tram / bus / bike), safe and free.
• Organise legible routes: leave the car and continue easily.

Guarantees: fewer cars in the centre and dense neighbourhoods; time saved, less pollution.

School streets + pedestrian/PMR plan

Around schools, car pressure puts children at risk. In many neighbourhoods, walking is hard (narrow, broken pavements, obstacles).

Measures:

• Roll out school streets: restricted traffic at key times, safer crossings, wider pedestrian space.
• Pedestrian/PMR plan: continuous, lowered kerbs, protected crossings, benches, shade.

Guarantees: more children walking/cycling, less stress, more safety; a more accessible city for seniors and people with reduced mobility.

A municipal public health service: neighbourhood health centres

Thousands of people forgo care: doctor shortages, delays, cost, lack of follow-up. Territorial inequalities are widening.

Measures:

• Create / strengthen municipal health centres (general practice, nurses, midwives as needed, prevention) with third-party payment and no extra charges.
• Priority for under-served neighbourhoods and those most likely to forgo care.
• Adapted opening hours (evenings / Saturdays where relevant) + coordination with hospital and private practitioners.

Prevent rather than repair: municipal prevention plan

We arrive too late: diabetes, hypertension, dental health, screenings. Prevention is lacking, especially where life is hardest.

Measures:

• Outreach screening and prevention campaigns: markets, neighbourhoods, events, community spaces.
• Prevention pathways in municipal centres: screenings, vaccination, dental health, addiction support (referral), nutrition, sexual health.
• Outreach: identification and follow-up for people without a GP.

Mental health: a municipal priority, especially for young people

Anxiety, depression, isolation: waiting times are exploding, families are at a loss, young people are falling through the cracks.

Measures:

• Local listening and support points (young people, parents, students), with rapid referral.
• Strengthen access to consultations (psychologists / mental health nurses linked to existing structures).
• Anti-isolation actions: resource spaces, prevention in schools and associations.

Support Human Santé and sustain these structures

Health centres like Human Santé meet a vital need but their model is weakened by precarious funding.

Measures:

• Support Human Santé and durably embed funding for these centres in the LFSS.
• Build a municipal alliance: administrative support, agreements, networking (CCAS, prevention, mental health, rights access).
• Develop this type of structure across the city: multidisciplinary centres, mediation, outreach prevention.

Combating addictions: harm reduction + health bus

Addictions (drugs, alcohol, medication) are a major public health issue. The response cannot be purely punitive: we must treat, protect, and support.

Measures:

• A care and harm-reduction bus: a mobile unit going to people with health and social professionals to prevent risks, identify and refer to care, and support pathways out of dependency.
• Networking with the hospital, addiction services, associations, and CCAS.

Access to rights and care: one-stop shop + health mediation

Even when services exist, many people get lost: misunderstood rights, complex procedures, isolation, language barriers, broken care pathways.

Measures:

• A municipal "rights & health" one-stop shop (CCAS / associations / CPAM / ARS): rights activation, appointments, referral.
• Health mediation: support for people in extreme poverty, isolated seniors, young people without follow-up.
• Interpretation when needed, so that health does not depend on French language proficiency.

Environmental health: air, heat, noise, housing

Air pollution, heat waves, noise, substandard housing: health is also shaped by urban planning, housing, and public space.

Measures:

• An environmental health plan: protecting schools and crèches, fighting urban heat islands, reducing noise, monitoring exposures.
• Direct link to housing: identification of damp / mould / unsanitary conditions, support and interventions.
• Strengthened "heat wave" scheme: identifying vulnerable people, accessible cool spaces, visits and calls.

Women's health: real access to care and prevention

Delayed diagnoses, lack of follow-up, unequal access (gynaecology, screenings), period poverty, violence.

Measures:

• Dedicated pathways: prevention, screenings, support in municipal centres.
• Fighting period poverty: free access in municipal facilities.
• Strengthened and confidential referral for victims of violence, with support.

No to the plastics incinerator in Montpellier!

A plastics waste incinerator is planned in the Croix d'Argent neighbourhood, set to burn 30,000 to 45,000 tonnes of plastics per year. This would be a first in France — and a public-health time bomb.

Burning plastic releases toxic substances into the air we breathe every day: furans, dioxins, heavy metals (arsenic, mercury, lead), PFAS forever chemicals. Residents within a two-kilometre radius — GaroSud, Prés d'Arènes, Les Grisettes, Les Sabines, Ovalie, Croix d'Argent, Maurin, and Lattes — will be directly exposed.

Position: immediate abandonment of this project and adoption of an ambitious local plan for waste reduction and recovery, based on reduction, sorting, reuse, and the circular economy.