Program of the 2006-2011 legislature
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The Municipality of Lausanne
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The metamorphosis of Lausanne
The past legislature made it possible to launch a definitive policy for sustainable development for the City of Lausanne, in the form of joint action with citizens and the economic centres. In the short term and during the coming months, the final pillars of this policy will be put in place with urban marketing, city management and the community policy.
The dynamic approach thus created must be maintained. It will benefit Lausanne, the region around the city and the Canton of Vaud. The process is part of the program to densify the urban area and will facilitate planning and the implementation of the transport and energy-economy policies.
The implementation of the various components of sustainable development, the general allocation plan and the new initiatives taken for the construction of the m2 Metro line open the way for a true metamorphosis of Lausanne, a process that will extend over two or three legislatures. This program is Lausanne's contribution to the Lausanne-Morges Metropolitan Project and will be the subject of close collaboration on a regional level.
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The topics
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The Municipality has undertaken a far-reaching, in-depth analysis of means to set up major facilities useful to Lausanne and to the region. This analysis focuses particularly on a project for a centre, located near the Bourdonnette m1 Metro stop, which will include a 15,000-seat football stadium, an Olympic swimming pool, a covered boules centre, an exchange parking lot and offices. It will create employment and, when completed, housing. A project of this kind is financially feasible only within the framework of a private/public partnership for the creation of a major commercial centre. The building of this centre will involve shutting down the Malley exchange parking lot, closer to the city centre. Housing will be built on the site.
Only the land, a part of the swimming pool and the boules centre will be financed by the city, which will also bear the cost of renovating the Pierre de Coubertin Stadium, so that it will be able to host activities such as "Athletissima". According to the policy provided for the project to cover the Bellerive pool, the Lausanne Region will be asked to co-finance the pool operation.
This large project also involves an area of approximately 50,000 m2 where an ecological community will be established around 2012, in place of the Pontaise Stadium and its surroundings. The Blécherette sports fields will be moved towards the Tuilière area, as will some of the Pontaise fields, which will make it possible to dedicate around 140,000 m2 to housing and community spaces.
The value of the 190,000 m2 made available exceeds CHF 100 million. The fees received for building leases on this land will cover an amount close to the amortisation by the city of the aforementioned projects.
When the "3.000 logements" ["3.000 Housing Units"] project (already approved in principle by the Municipal Council, leading to the issuing of numerous building leases) is put in place, the costs of the metamorphosis will be more than covered by the fees received. This project provides for two-thirds of the housing to be put on the open market and for one-third to be subsidised. Pontaise should be allocated primarily to the open market, while Blécherette should be a combination of open-market and subsidisation. Overall, more than 5.000 housing units and almost as many jobs should be created over a period of 10 years as all of the projects mentioned above are carried out. It should be pointed out that private and institutional investors are very interested in Lausanne. If the 3.000 housing units on municipal land planned by the Municipality were feasible in the field from the point of view of land rights, investors would immediately begin construction.
The municipal projects also assume that, in order to optimise the public-transport network and its rational use of energy, the city will commit to creating a light, East-West rapid-transit link and a funicular railway on the site between Riponne, Pontaise and Blécherette, thus ensuring an efficient Beaulieu line.
These various measures will make it possible to manage the urban territory in the best possible way, to provide the region with a quality sports infrastructure and to encourage the return of commerce and inhabitants to the city, in relation to the growth of the Vaud population, estimated by cantonal authorities to increase by nearly 10% over the next 15 years.
The Municipality will continue and reinforce its social commitment, with particular respect to integration. It will implement socialisation and basic training programs necessary to young people, in order to encourage them to start apprenticeships. It will create apprenticeships that are accessible to young men and women who are dependent on social assistance and, within the area of subsidised employment, it will develop active labour-market measures targeted at unqualified jobseekers
The far-reaching projects for the metamorphosis of Lausanne certainly do not prevent the Municipality from continuing to work towards a viable policy for sustainable development. While the economic factors and the public/private partnerships which make it possible for the "metamorphosis of Lausanne" to become a reality will be of particular importance, the social and environmental aspects of sustainable development will not be forgotten, as is demonstrated by the follow-up to the legislative program. As evidence of the Municipality's willingness to work as part of a team, the program will be presented according to theme [in alphabetical order of the French names] and not according to department.
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To reconfigure the municipal territory in order to prepare for the "metamorphosis of Lausanne" |
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Urban and territorial planning
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To revise the municipal management plan, integrating in particular the “metamorphosis of Lausanne” projects.
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To reconfigure various public spaces, the Place du Tunnel in particular, in liaison with the across-the-system 08 network and the m2 Metro line.
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To take into consideration and act on sustainable-development criteria in planning and construction, particularly with respect to energy, to materials ecology and to habitat liveability and quality.
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To plan the construction of ecological communities.
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To develop numerous partial allocation plans of economic value: Beaulieu, the Vaud Lausanne University Hospital, the Hotel School, the Canton Exhibition Institute at Grangette, the Vennes Biomedical Technology Park, the renovation of the Post Office on Avenue d'Ouchy, etc.
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To develop partial allocation plans for public institutions such as the Steiner School at Bois Genoud, Rozavère, Eben-Hézer and the Municipal Theatre.
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To review the building rights for stallholder zones and to plan the development of the Vernand enclave in order to re-establish the balance between activities and habitation.
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To identify priority intervention sectors in the municipal territory that require restructuring (demolition-reconstruction-reallocation of buildings, the creation of a network of liveable public spaces).
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To support, to implement, to promote... but also, to renew. This will particularly be the case for the Lausanne Opera |
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Culture
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To support cultural institutions (the Opera, the Théâtre de Vidy, the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, the Chamber Orchestra) with a view to enhancing the city infrastructure, as well as independent artistic activities.
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To re-examine, jointly with the State, the financing of Lausanne cultural activities.
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To renovate the Opera building.
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To set in place a policy of access to culture aimed at young people, with emphasis on urban heritage and on the concept of the sustainable city.
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To develop performances for young audiences.
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To promote reading among young people by improving the opening hours of the Municipal Library.
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To draw attention to the value of the collection of comics housed in the Municipal Library by means of exhibitions and joint projects with other institutions.
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To increase water treatment by ultrafiltration, as here at the Lutry facility
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Water
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To increase water treatment by ultrafiltration in the collection facilities.
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To establish master plans for the development of the drinking water and wastewater systems.
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To plan and initiate renovation of the Vidy treatment plant in order to use ultrafiltration to reduce polluting loads from the water-treatment facility.
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To encourage the return of commerce to the city by the implementation of an urban marketing policy
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Economy
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To set in place an urban-marketing and city-management policy that encourages the return of commerce to the city.
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To emphasise the four pillars of urban marketing: culture, Olympic capital, centre of excellence in terms of training and sustainable development.
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To facilitate the establishment of enterprises of high fiscal value.
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To diversify and to adapt the Internet performance of the Industries Service in line with technological innovations, in order to ensure its long-term survival in a market subject to rapid evolution.
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To develop the television offer available on the television network by taking into consideration the innovations of terrestrial digital television.
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To offer a place for our young people. The urban art-studios are part of a process that promotes integration
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Education and childhood
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To enable children to find their place and to develop competencies within the urban context.
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To develop the quality of the child-care on offer by taking the Act on Day-Care Centres into consideration and by creating a family-support network in communities.
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To support socio-educational integration and action by reinforcing controlled duties and para-educational support, as well as day care-facilities during holiday periods.
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To set institution councils in place, as provided by the Act, by promoting a wide-reaching, participatory procedure.
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To modify the objective of a school in the mountains to that of receiving classes of children with learning difficulties.
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To proceed with the school-building clean-up program, particularly for Villamont.
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To pursue the development of renewable energy
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Energy
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To maintain the quality of the Industries Service infrastructures and their use so as to supply high-level products and services.
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To prepare for the opening of the electricity market to legal, accounting and organisational levels in order to maintain, to the greatest extent possible, the current rate conditions for the distribution and supply of electricity.
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To prioritise the procurement of certified energy, to develop means to produce renewable, thermal and electric energy and, within this context:
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to encourage the use of wood as a source of energy
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to put into operation two or three large new wind-turbine farms
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to instigate the development of solar panels and photovoltaic cells
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to examine the city's participation in the Chavalon gas-fired plant project, while remaining open to the possibilities offered by any new, large-scale project.
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To set stringent energy requirements for the program to develop sports facilities and housing as part of the metamorphosis of Lausanne and, in this context:
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to develop district gas and heating by means of competitive rates compared to those applied to fuel oil and by offering complementary services to encourage wise consumption
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to promote the densification of gas and district-heating networks and to begin to replace cast-iron gas pipes
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to develop transport policy that makes it possible to reduce energy consumption
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to promote incentives to use bicycles and electric scooters as well as gas vehicles, particularly by developing new distribution stations
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to develop new services for overall energy and energy efficiency management
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To develop "green" tourism, such as at the Château Rochefort in Allaman
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Environment
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To develop action plans for environmental risks.
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To rehabilitate the Bourget Park by improving protection of its identity as a natural reserve and by creating a second, legislated biological reserve in the Jorat area.
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To intensify joint action in the Forest, Estates and Vineyard Service with external partners in three major projects: the peri-urban Jorat Natural Park, the Vaud Jurassic Park and the registering of Lavaux as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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To develop the "green" offer by regrouping and setting up a network of several city facilities and to valorise Lausanne's agricultural products.
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To participate in the search for alternative environmental strategies for waste by collaborating with the scientific community.
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To increase the recycling rate by improving the public network for the collection of recyclable waste and by setting up new facilities.
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To improve city cleanliness by reinforcing supervision and prevention, as well as by means of improved cooperation with events organisers.
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To examine municipal buildings with a risk of asbestos contamination and to clean out all critical cases.
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To achieve a balanced budget, a priority for the capital of the Canton of Vaud
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Finances
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To achieve a balanced budget - on the basis of major investments in public transport - and to stabilise, that is, to reduce, the debt.
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To reassess the city's financial assets, establishing their real value.
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To analyze the possibilities offered for investment through new financial instruments (such as leasing or the creation of municipal corporations for certain goods) and to use these instruments to reduce the interest-load paid by the city.
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To create approximately 5.000 housing units in 10 years. The Jardins de Prélaz share this goal
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Housing
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To create approximately 5.000 housing units in 10 years through the plurality of the “3.000 logements”, Pontaise and Blécherette plans, by planning and beginning construction on various municipal plots in Avenue de Provence, Vernand, Les Fiches, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, etc.
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To define the city's real-estate policy by setting a general basis and then taking specific action.
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By integrating Forest, Estates and Vineyard Service and housing/management services in order to ensure application of the principles of sustainable development when dealing with administrative assets (construction, building renovation and management), as well as during operations involving private partners.
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To extend and renew the city's emergency housing stock for families evicted from their housing or in conditions of severe insecurity.
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To optimise all of the processes for achieving economies of scale |
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Organisation of the administration
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To develop and implement a “social clause” for leases signed by the city relating to respect for the framework working conditions and to the payment of social charges.
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To set in place a cross-sector commercial organisation for the Industries Service that is efficient and flexible, in order to constantly adapt to the market and to customer expectations. Within this context, to develop specific services for enterprises.
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To coordinate, under the aegis of the Industries Service, the creation of a purchasing and service management contract commission, with possible application to the entire municipal administration, thus making it possible to centralise orders issued by the Industries Service General Stores.
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To initiate integration of the Industries Service General Stores with the “Spontis multifluides” platform, which will facilitate the technical preparation of projects, optimise stock management and goods ordering and achieve economies of scale.
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To maintain the quality of public access and to personalise working conditions
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Municipal personnel
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To personalise working conditions while maintaining the quality of accessibility to the public.
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To significantly increase the number of apprentices.
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To maintain and develop the ethical processes, particularly within the police force and the Industries Service.
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To design the policy for partial recapitalisation of the pension fund (Municipality of Lausanne Pension Fund) and to implement that policy to the extent that the MLPS could be acquired at an acceptable cost.
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To develop community life, using the "Immeubles en Fête" initiative as a model
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Communities
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To develop community life through urban and city management studies (facilitation), as well as through community centres.
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To transform certain social-cultural centres into community centres.
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In Sallaz, to create a public square that is a community centre and interface with public transport.
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To make games courts available to young people and adolescents.
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It is always better to prevent rather than to cure...
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Health
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To initiate obesity and addiction prevention programs and to develop suicide prevention in schools and facilities supported by the Municipality.
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To develop early prevention through joint action with paediatricians.
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To affirm and realise the right of all children to dental health.
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To make the administration a smoke-free environment.
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To reinforce urban security by improving teamwork among all partners
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Security
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To improve urban security through cooperative efforts with all of the partners involved in the fight against the feeling of insecurity.
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To guarantee the proficiency of the city's security measures while achieving the desired flexibility and effectiveness.
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To participate in discussions on coordination with regional and cantonal politicians in order to contribute to a cantonal policy on security.
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To implement the prevention projects presented in the “Security and Feeling of Insecurity” Report.
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To implement socialisation programs in order to enable certain young people to find their way
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Social and integrative
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To implement socialisation and basic training programs necessary to young people, in order to encourage them to start apprenticeships.
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To make apprenticeships accessible to young people dependent on social assistance.
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In the area of subsidised employment, to develop active labour-market measures targeted at unqualified jobseekers.
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To allow young handicapped people access to the services of the Youth and Recreation Department.
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To increase the number of inspections of working-conditions in establishments open on weekends and during the evening.
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To launch a long-term campaign with the objective of facilitating naturalisation and to implement the requirements of the European Coalition of Cities against Racism.
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To improve coordination between the Municipal Social Service and social institutions subsidised by the city.
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To renovate sports facilities and create new ones
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Sports
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Within the framework of the “metamorphosis of Lausanne”, to build a new football stadium, an Olympic pool and covered boules centre and to restructure the Coubertin Stadium.
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To renovate and modernise Bellerive-Plage and the velodrome site.
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To continue to support sports clubs as part of the youth-training program.
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To promote the hospitality initiatives of Lausanne sports associations and federations and to support organised sports events throughout the local area, nationally and internationally for both elite and popular sports.
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The challenge of on-line administration is to provide 24-hour access to many of the services provided by the municipal administration
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Information system
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To develop the on-line administration in order to provide access, outside of office hours, to some of the services offered by the municipal administration, in particular inhabitant control (change of address) and the Industries Service.
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By profiting from the experience gained with the Works Directorate (Goéland), to develop electronic document management throughout the municipal administration.
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To finalise the official measurements of the entire Municipality and to make geodata of general interest available on the city's Internet site.
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To reduce traffic loads by developing the public-transport network
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Transport
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To strengthen the modal split in favour of public transport.
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To design and implement a public-transport fare policy as an incentive to young people and families in particular.
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To construct a parking-relay at Vennes and another, connected to the new football stadium, in southwest Lausanne, closing down the Malley parking exchange.
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To restructure the Berne road in the Chalet-à-Gobet area in order to moderate traffic entering the city and to create efficient interfaces with public traffic and area activity.
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To design a traffic plan with the goal of reducing traffic load in the area near the station and avoiding carryover into other communities.
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To promote sustainable mobility for commuting and work-related journeys by municipal employees through implementing an enterprise-mobility plan.
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