Keystone-SDA
Friborg deputies have narrowly voted a socialist motion asking that the stone and gravel gardens can no longer be counted as a green surface. The left benefited from the support of a few voices from the center and the PLR.
(Keystone-ATS) The motion passed the ramp on Tuesday by 37 votes against 34 and an abstention, at the very end of the session, against the advice of the Council of State which indicated that they cannot act on an index which is an intercantonal agreement. She emanated from deputies Alexander Schroeter and Elias Moussa, also a municipal councilor in Friborg.
The fact remains that the cantonal executive, by the voice of its president Jean-François Steierte, in charge of the environment, was not opposed to the substance. “Stone gardens stifle the soil, strengthen the heat islands and speed up the runoff of the surfaces,” according to a recent confederation report.
In its response, the Council of State, however, advocated to stick to the measures already taken to raise awareness among the owners, while recalling that the municipalities already had skills to prohibit the popular, popular gardens in Switzerland, in their regulations. Biodiversity awarded at the end of the debates.
