Ffor the fourth flower was green. Already holding the Villes et Villages Fleuris label award at the “3 Flowers” level since 2015, Bordeaux is now eligible to claim an additional award. This Thursday, July 4, four members of the national jury were able to discover the assessment grid, a demonstration of the city’s green developments: urban microforest, pedestrian streets…
Ffor the fourth flower was green. Already holding the Villes et Villages Fleuris label award at the “3 Flowers” level since 2015, Bordeaux is now eligible to claim an additional award. This Thursday, July 4, four members of the national jury were able to discover the assessment grid, a demonstration of the city’s green developments: urban microforest, pedestrianized streets, parks and gardens… In total, in one morning, at peak time, about fifteen representative locations were screened.
Independent label Cities and villages in flowers More than sixty years old (VVF), it rewards the commitment of communities to improve their living environment (plants in the development of public spaces, environmental protection, protection of natural resources and biodiversity, promotion of the French botanical heritage, etc.). ). More than 4,700 municipalities have been labeled in the area, and 278 of them have the “4 Flowers” level, including Lyon, Nantes and Nice among the major cities.
“Today is an evaluation time for Bordeaux. As in the undergraduate period, we will see if we are good students in our goal of convergence of VVF criteria and general policy. Bordeaux Life size » says Damien Butin from the natural heritage strategy and project management department in Bordeaux.
Happy ecology
Didier Jeanjean summarizes the City’s strategy in terms of green space development: “Sweat the gardens outside the gates”. “We are not a flower town in the old sense of the term. Perennials, gardens, late harvest areas, etc. we free up places for planting,” says the deputy for nature issues in the city and peaceful neighborhoods.
This label, this fourth flower, will represent for him and his teams a “validation of the work done”: “We carry a happy ecology and this should be appreciated. » The deputy knows that a city like Bordeaux can be scattered with environmental obstacles related to overcrowding or even damage to green areas. “It will be disappointing if we don’t get this flower, but it will be good to qualify anyway, we shouldn’t see it as a failure,” the elected official decides.
Sixty-eight criteria
“The route was varied and the trip was well prepared,” said judge Julien Faivre. “It remains very complicated to mention all the criteria for one city,” said the label’s national director and president of the jury. To achieve this fourth flower, the network’s 68 criteria must be confirmed – with some exceptions – and checked every three years during a control visit. “The real challenge is not getting the fourth flower, but keeping it,” he said. A flower in the ongoing tension and tension with the jury’s decision next September.