Hunting is open in several French cities against this object that swarms in public space.
We cannot put what we want in public space. Municipal agents are withdrawn this object posed by owners, but which has become illegal. A decree was published on January 24, prohibiting its presence in public space and the first withdrawals began this Thursday, February 13. The persons concerned were warned by a labeling stuck on the latter and had a period of 15 days to remove it. After the latter, the object was considered “abandoned”.
These are key boxes, which are used for tourists to recover the keys to the accommodation they have rented without the owner having to move. There City of Paris a prohibited all “key boxes, instructions of instructions with padlocking grip and any other device, receptacle or object intended to contain a personal effect on urban furniture implanted on the public domain”. The first withdrawn were often hung on bicycle ties or grids, present in the street. They can be recovered by their owners from the town hall. The police will continue to label the unwanted key boxes and the inhabitants are called upon to report their presence by the application in Marue.
This aims to protect urban furniture, but not only. This action is mainly aimed at fighting short -term rentals: “Stop renting your illegal tourist furnishings, stop as soon as possible, otherwise you will pay millions of euros fine because many of these owners have more than ten housing, “denounced Jacques Baudrier, assistant to the town hall of Paris in charge of housing, with Bfmtv.
The hunt for key boxes is a first step in this fight to “reconquer the 25,000 illegal tourist furniture” in Paris, of which they are clear clues. Since January 1, the maximum rental duration has already been reduced from 120 to 90 days per year in the capital to revalue long -term rentals.
These dwellings are often rented on the Airbnb platform, which defends itself, in a press release, of having “no tolerance for the illegal practice of affixing boxes in public space”. Paris is not the only French city to track down these objects in the street. This is also the case of other large municipalities such as Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Lille, Annecy or Rennes.
Regarding the other locations of key boxes, on houses, they cannot be removed, while DIn the condominiums, the rules are complicated. If a key box is present in the common areas, it must have been reported and authorized during a general meeting. The settlement of the condominium may also directly prohibit short -term rental activities.