Plan of setting of accessibility of public spaces (France)

The law on the chance and equal rights, the participation and the citizenship of the handicapped people, was promulgated on February 11th, 2005. Concerning the roadway system and public spaces, two decrees and a decree come to specify the application of it.

This law and these decrees redesign the obligations accessibility taking into account of all the types of handicap on continuity of displacements. Constraining rules and times relating to the programming and the realization of a true accessibility were fixed. The chain of accessible displacement becomes thus a reality impossible to circumvent.

For this purpose communes or public corporations of inter-commune co-operation (EPCI) to which one transferred this competence must establish a plan of setting of accessibility of the roadway system and fittings-out public before 2010 (more exactly before December 23rd, 2009, that is to say three years after the date of publication of the decree).

Object of the Plan

The plan of setting of accessibility has the aim of specifying the conditions and completion dates of the equipment and installations envisaged. It takes account of the provisions of the plan of urban displacements and the local plan of displacements, if they exist.

All the roadway system present on the territory of the commune is concerned with the plan of setting of accessibility of the roadway system and public spaces, that this roadway system is managed by the commune, the EPCI, the department (RD and CD) or State (RN).

A necessary dialog

The plan is the subject of a dialog with the competent authority for the organization of the urban transport. Representative associations handicapped people or with reduced mobility as well as associations representative of the tradesmen established on the communal territory, with their request, are associated with his development. The commune or the public corporation of inter-commune co-operation can decide to associate the architect of the Building industries of France with the development of the plan.

A broad publicity of the development of the plan

The common door its decision to work out a plan of setting of accessibility of the roadway system and fittings-out public with the knowledge of the public by posting in town hall for one month. When the plan is elaborate on the initiative of a public corporation of inter-commune co-operation, this posting is carried out with the seat of the public corporation and in the town halls of common the members of this establishment.

The commune or the public corporation of inter-commune co-operation informs of its decision the communal or inter-commune commission on accessibility with the handicapped people or, in the absence of such a commission, the president of the departmental advisory commission of safety and accessibility as well as the president of the advisory departmental council of the handicapped people.

Methods of development of a plan of setting of accessibility

To ensure accessibility in any urban project requires to take well into account upstream:

the natural constraints of which topography,
constraints due to the successive interventions of various trade associations,
and in the particular case of the projects of roadway systems, to integrate well upstream the establishment of urban furniture for example.

To work out a plan of setting of accessibility, the community will be able usefully to take as a starting point the Guide for the development of a plan of setting of accessibility of the roadway system, worked out by the Departmental management of the Equipment of Finistere.

A preliminary diagnosis of accessibility

The objectives of this diagnosis are:

to make an inventory of fixtures of the total operation of the territory,
to highlight the accessible/inaccessible zones using a cartographic representation,
to define priorities as regards accessibility like first outline of a communal plan of setting of accessibility.

To draw up this inventory of fixtures, the method proposes to characterize the districts in homogeneous zones while describing inter alia:

the frame,
pieces,
public spaces,
the roadway system,
green areas.

Each zone is then qualified in term of accessibility to characterize of it its total state of accessibility according to all the vehicles modes/public transport (TC)/bicycles/pedestrians:

existence of service road according to the various modes of displacement,
quality of accessibility by mode in term of use and safety.

The urban surface is thus defined in districts of constraints and/or homogeneous requirements in term for accessibility.

Definition of the plan of setting of accessibility

The guide proposes then:

to treat on a hierarchical basis priority areas according to criteria clean with the commune;
to define projects for the priority areas;
to establish programming of realization of work of setting of accessibility.

An opinion to be asked the manager of the way

When the project of plan of setting of accessibility of the roadway system and public fittings-out includes/understands provisions which apply to a way whose manager is not the competent authority to work out the plan, this one collects, before the adoption of the plan, the assent of the authority manager of the way. The administrative opinion of the authority is considered favorable in the absence of answer of its share within four month following its sasine.

Approval and evaluation of the plan

The plan of setting of accessibility of the roadway system and public fittings-out is approved by deliberation of the municipal council or the body deliberating on the public corporation of inter-commune co-operation. Its application is the evaluation object whose periodicity is fixed by the plan, which also envisages the periodicity and the methods of its revision.

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