Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration – Wikipedia

Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration (M2A) ^{[ first ]} is a community of agglomeration of the European community of Alsace. It has 273,767 inhabitants since the first ^is January 2018 And is the second most populous intercommunality in Alsace, behind the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg and the third of the Grand Est after the Grand Reims (292,951 inhabitants in the 2014 census) ^{[ 2 ]} But in front of the Metropolis of Grand Nancy. It is part of the Metropolitan Pole of Alsace which federates the great Alsatian intercommunalities. Its current president is Fabian Jordan.
Like all agglomerations of more than 150,000 inhabitants, Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration is legally constrained to set up a low -emission zone (ZFE) before December 31, 2024. This implementation is compulsory for the territory of 20 municipalities of the ‘agglomeration ^{[ 3 ]} . However, the project has not yet been presented to the inhabitants. M2A still remains currently organized under the status of agglomeration community although it meets all the criteria allowing it to access the status of urban community or metropolis.

This geographic territory is between 200 meters above sea level, on the banks of the Rhine, and 403 meters above sea level on the last hills of the Jura in the Sundgau. The most distant town from the city center, Chalampé, is less than twenty kilometers, a boundary distance which is only about five kilometers to the southwest.

The center of the agglomeration, a border town type, is 13 kilometers from Germany and 24 kilometers from Switzerland.

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She has been created ^{[ 5 ]} officially by prefectural decree of December 16, 2009 , by merger of the three former inter -municipalities and attachment of four municipalities which have not belonged to any intermunicipal association so far.
The 32 municipalities totaling just over 262,000 inhabitants (out of the 262,000 of the Mulhouse region) integrate this agglomeration community: the sixteen communes of the old community of Agglomeration Mulhouse Sud-Alsace, the six municipalities of the old community of communes of Napoleon Island (which has since become first ^is January 2010 Syndicate of communes of Ile Napoleon – Scin-), the six municipalities of the old community of communes of the Hills and the municipalities of Illzach, PFASTATT, Galfingue and Heimsbrunn ^{[ 6 ]} .

The community of Porte de France Rhin Sud communes and the municipality of Wittelsheim are the only communities in the Mulhouse region which were not part of the agglomeration community of the Mulhouse Alsace region in 2010.

The non-integration of the community of municipalities Porte de France Rhin Sud was not unanimous within it, the municipalities of Chalampé and Petit-Landau were favorable to it ^{[ 7 ]} .

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The municipality of Wittelsheim had, in 2004, chose not to join the community of Agglomeration Mulhouse Sud-Alsace during the dissolution of the community of communes of the Potassium basin, it did not wish to be attached to Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration In 2010. It is the only city in the suburbs of Mulhouse to be in this case. But by decision of the prefect of Haut-Rhin at the end of 2011, the municipality was finally obliged to integrate intercommunality in 2012 ^{[ 8 ] , [ 9 ]} . The decision is challenged by the municipality, which in 2012 files an appeal to the Strasbourg administrative court ^{[ ten ]} . Moreover, in the date of October 2013 , the official M2A website did not yet mention the city of Wittelsheim among its member municipalities ^{[ 11 ]} . Finally, a prefectural decree of May 23, 2013 formalizes the attachment of Wittelsheim to the M2A, and after the last appeals rejected by the Administrative Court of Strasbourg in December 2013 ^{[ twelfth ]} , the municipality officially integrates intercommunality from the first ^is January 2014 ^{[ 13 ]} .

Steinbrunn-le-Bas, on the other hand, joined Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration first ^is January 2013 ^{[ 14 ]} .

Following the application of the Notre law, the municipalities of the community of Porte de France Rhin Sud communes join M2A at first ^is January 2017 . CES Comunts SonTuchen, Chalamampé, HomBrampé, Norbul, Ottmarhim It’s Petit Country ^{[ 15 ] , [ 16 ]} .

Perspectives [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration fulfills the criteria allowing it to access the status of urban community and by decree to the status of metropolis.

Transformation into an urban community [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

M2A exceeds the threshold of 250,000 inhabitants which now allows him to obtain, automatically, the status of urban community ^{[ 17 ]} .

Transformation into metropolitan France [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The Mulhouse employment area has 433,338 inhabitants ^{[ 18 ]} and therefore exceeds the threshold of 400,000 inhabitants ^{[ 19 ]} , which now allows the EPCI to make a request in order to obtain the status of metropolis by decree. The metropolis is the most integrated form of intercommunality in France.

Geography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Public establishments for neighboring inter -municipal cooperation [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration within the Grand Est.

Composition [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The agglomeration community is made up of 39 municipalities following:

Demography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Seat [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The seat of the agglomeration community is located in Mulhouse ^{[ 21 ]} .

The elected [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The Community Council of the Agglomeration Community consists of 104 advisers ^{[ 22 ]} , representing each of the member and elected municipalities for a period of six years.

They are distributed as follows ^{[ 22 ]} :

Presidency [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

During the community council of July 11, 2020 , Fabian Jordan, mayor of Berrwiller, was re-elected president of the agglomeration community, as well as 15 vice-presidents and 41 delegated advisers ^{[ 23 ]} .

SKILLS [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Compulsory skills [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Economic development
• Planning of community space
• Organization of urban transport and trips
• Habitat
• City politics

Optional skills [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Construction, development, maintenance and management of cultural, sports and tourist equipment of community interest
• Protection and development of the environment and the living environment
• Social actions of community interest

Optional skills [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Higher education support
• Tourism
• Living environment and sustainable development
• Rixheim-Habsheim and autoport aerodrome
• Bibliobus

Tax regime and budget [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The tax regime of the agglomeration community is the single professional taxation (FPU) ^{[ 21 ]} .

Low emission zone (ZFE) [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

ZFE de Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration. In green, the minimum mandatory perimeter.

The low -emission zone project is awaiting presentation to the inhabitants. The “Climate and Resilience” law adopted definitively in 2021 provides for the establishment of ZFE-M in all agglomerations of more than 150,000 inhabitants at the latest on December 31, 2024 ^{[ 25 ]} , or 45 zfe-m. The Mulhouse agglomeration exceeds this threshold and is therefore included in this device.

Energy and climatic impact [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Waste [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The Sausheim incineration plant produces electricity ^{[ 29 ]} , as well as heat ^{[ 30 ]} , used by a stationery that makes recycled cardboard.

Solid recovery fuels (CSR) are produced in PFASTATT ^{[ thirty first ]} .

Energy and climate [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

As part of the regional plan for development, sustainable development and territorial equality (SRADDET) of the Grand Est, Atmo Grand Est keeps energy statistics update ^{[ 32 ]} of public inter -municipal cooperation establishments of the European community of Alsace in the form of a flow diagram ^{[ 28 ]} .

Annual final energy, consumed in 2020, is expressed in Gigawatts-hour ^{[ Note 2 ] , [ Note 3 ]} .

The energy produced in 2020 is also expressed in Gigawatts-hour.

Greenhouse gases are expressed in equivalent CO kilotons _{2 .}

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