After several months of negotiations, the community advisers of the two community of communes of Pornic and Cœur Pays de Retz decided to merge them on 13 June 2016 within an urban community called "Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz".[2]
The agglomeration community was created on 1 January 2017 by prefectural decree of 9 November 2016.[3][4]
On 5 January 2017, during its inaugural meeting, the community council elected the mayor of Pornic, Jean-Michel Brard, as president of the agglomeration community.[5]
Located in the southwestern department of Loire-Atlantique , Pornic intercommunal Agglo Retz includes 15 towns and has an area of 522.1 km2 (201.6 sq mi).[7]
Map of the intercommunalité Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz on 1 January 2019.
Composition
Map of population densities (2016 vintage) of the municipalities of the intercommunality Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz. Composition in municipalities on 1 January 2019.[notes 1].
The agglomeration community includes 15 municipalities:[4][8]
Historical population of Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1968
29,501
—
1975
30,511
+0.48%
1982
33,409
+1.30%
1990
35,964
+0.93%
1999
41,676
+1.65%
2009
54,855
+2.79%
2014
59,747
+1.72%
2020
66,241
+1.73%
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The data mentioned above are established on a constant geographical scope, in the geography in force at 1 January 2023. Source: INSEE 2023[1]
Administration
Seat
The headquarters of the urban community is in Pornic, 2 rue du Docteur Ange Guépin.[4]
The 42 permanent advisers are thus distributed according to common law as follows:
Number of delegates
Communes
11
Pornic
5
Chaumes-en-Retz
4
Sainte-Pazanne
3
La Plaine-sur-Mer, Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef, Villeneuve-en-Retz
2
Chauvé, La Bernerie-en-Retz, Port-Saint-Père, Rouans
1
Cheix-en-Retz, Les Moutiers-en-Retz, Préfailles, Saint-Hilaire-de-Chaléons, Vue
Elections
The agglomeration community is administered by its community council made up in 2020 of 42 community councillors, who are municipal councillors representing each of the member municipalities.
Following the 2020 municipal elections in Loire-Atlantique, the community council of 9 July 2020 re-elected its president, Jean-Michel Brard, mayor of Pornic, as well as its 9 vice-presidents. As of this date, the list of vice-presidents is as follows:
The intercommunality exercises the powers which have been transferred to it by the member municipalities, under the conditions defined by the general code of local authorities .
Tax regime and budget
The agglomeration community is a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system.
In order to finance the exercise of its powers, the intercommunality collects the single professional tax [ 3 ] (FPU) - which succeeded the single professional tax (TPU) - and ensures an equalization of resources between the residential municipalities and those with of activity zones.
Workforce
In order to implement its obligations, the inter-municipal association employs 200 agents.
Notes
^The population densities are calculated automatically in a Geographic information system (GIS) using the geometric surface of the municipality, with a level of precision of the contour of 5 m as it emerges from the export of the division administrative at municipal level (outlines of municipalities) from OpenStreetMap, and not the cadastral area defined by INSEE, which is purely administrative data. Class differences may thus possibly appear for municipalities that are at the limit of crossing the class threshold.
