Ain. Expected for 2025, the Dinopédia park faces a new setback

The conclusions and reasoned opinions of the investigating commissioner Pierre Degez, relating to the creation and restoration of ponds as part of the biodiversity half-marathon (Dombes Saône Vallée community of communes), available on the prefecture's website, are clear: the two development projects carried out at Dinopédia do not fit together.

Written on June 30, Pierre Degez's conclusion states that while he is "in favor of the project to create and restore ponds in the Dombes Saône Vallée community of communes as part of the biodiversity half-marathon presented for public inquiry before the Declaration of General Interest," it is "subject to the withdrawal of the project to create two ponds in Trévoux on the Dinopédia site."

This decision echoes the thorny Dinopédia park project, located in Trévoux, where its developer, Philippe Lopez, has already carried out major works whose legitimacy and repercussions on biodiversity are being questioned by various environmental protection associations. In a reaction posted on August ¹ on social media, Thomas Iglésis, a member of the Ain National Tree Monitoring Group (GNSA), commented: "We are asking the Dombes Saône Vallée Community of Communes and the City of Trévoux for transparency and compliance with the rules in this matter," concluding: "It would also be desirable to draw a definitive line under this project, which continues to get bogged down."

For his part, Marc Péchoux, mayor of Trévoux and president of the Dombes Saône Vallée Community of Communes, declared to Le Progrès last April that "like the developer, he remains determined to restart work and inaugurate the park as quickly as possible," hoping for a planning permit for an opening by the end of 2025."