Dataset Direct Download Service (WFS): Sensitive Urban Zones (ZUS) in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône

Act No. 95-115 of 4 February 1995 on guidance for spatial planning and development (3 of Article 42, as amended by Article 2 of Law No 96-987 of 14 November 1996) defines sensitive urban areas. They are defined as areas “characterised by the presence of large settlements or degraded habitat quarters and by an increased imbalance between housing and employment.” The selection of the ZUS was made on qualitative criteria (“big ensembles”, “unbalanced employment/habitat”) and on a joint analysis of elected officials and the state. Decree No. 96-1156 of 26 December 1996 (Official Gazette of 28 December 1996) sets out in its annex the list of 750 neighbourhoods classified as sensitive urban areas (ZUS). This list was amended for the first time by Decree No. 2000-796 of 24 August 2000 incorporating the district “New Mons” (Commune de Mons-en-Baroeul) into the list of ZUS and bringing the total number of ZUS to 751. A second decree (n°2001-707) of 31 July 2001 changed the perimeter of the ZUS de Grigny (91). A new priority geography of the city’s policy came into effect on 1 January 2015. Sensitive urban areas and neighbourhoods with urban contracts for social cohesion have been replaced by the priority areas of city policy.