The green light comes more than a year after architects, community leaders, and businesses unveiled plans to turn the 1.2-mile stretch of road into an "extraordinary garden."

To achieve this garden, the plan is to reduce space for parking by half, convert roads into pedestrian spaces, plant tunnels of trees alongside the old elms planted in days long gone, which struggle to survive in the polluted air, and generally create more green spaces.

"The legendary avenue has lost its splendor during the last 30 years," said a statement from the Champs-Élysées committee in 2019. "The Champs-Élysées has more and more visitors and big-name businesses battle to be on it, but to French people it's looking worn out."