Needs of a livable City
Excerpt in short form from our election program for the next 6 years
Urban development
- Start today and plan what infrastructures will be needed in 20 years time
- Special focus on the City Centre with pedestrian zone
- Adaptation of the transport concept through simplification (‘parking résidentiel’) and new infrastructures
- City marketing concept / expansion of service and retail offerings / pop-up shops / co-working spaces (Zentrum and Potaschberg)
- Market design as a matter of urgency
- Design ‘Schweinsmoart’ and bus station
- New home for the city’s technical services
- Cycle path network with connection to the interior of the country
- Finish the Moselle promenade (section playground – outdoor pool)
- Thinking about tourism in the long term
- Discussions with neighboring municipalities in order to create synergies and to achieve weight in the region. Referendum if interested.
- Creation of a forest cemetery
School and Maison Relais
- Planning to expand school infrastructures in the medium term
- Inclusion: Creating a supportive framework for teachers and school children
- Enlarging Maison Relais and exploiting synergies with schools
- Support for the state construction of a swimming pool: Improvement of the offer of swimming courses for school children
- Ensuring a safe way to school: on foot and by bus
Housing
- Making approval procedures in residential construction more efficient
- Give preference to families and households from their ownmunicipality when selling and renting council housing
- Furnished studios at affordable rents for young people on their way to self-employment
- In addition to the ‘Pietert’ project, we are also pushing ahead with the ‘op Flohr’ urbanization project
- Enable alternative forms of housing, such as shared flats, multi-generational houses or tiny houses
- Assisted living and social housing deserves community support
Togetherness
- Support for the associations, especially in youth work. Provide access to digital tools for administrative work. Provide furniture and materials needed for the organization of events.
- Reward for volunteer work
- Platform for people of all nationalities to come together across generations. Joint initiatives in the various municipal commissions, together with CRIAJ, CIPA, ‘Maacher Lycée’
- Multi-Sport facilities
- Youth council: young people should be able to participate in discussions and decision-making
- Promoting the (re)integration of the unemployed into the world of work CIGR-Est
Sustainability
- Involvement of a climate citizens’ assembly in the interest of environmental protection and nature conservation, in cooperation with the Environment Commission
- Improving energy efficiency, promoting renewable energies
- Enabling sustainable construction in the old town center as well
- Taking sustainability criteria into account in public tenders, e.g. through environmentally friendly building materials
- Gradually convert the municipality’s vehicle fleet to CO2-neutral vehicles
- Adapting charging stations for electric vehicles to meet requirements
- Supporting green buildings and roofs
- ‘Anti-gaspi’ and food-sharing as measures to counteract food waste
- Connect all households to the regional sewage treatment plant, improve the quality of the streams
- Municipality-owned springs ‘Geyershof’: Optimizing drinking water quality through better protected and reconstituted springs. The work should be given priority.