The 700 ha masterplan for the area around Tours Val de Loire Airport on an inter-communal site surrounding the airport - which serves as a passenger hub and until 2021 also as a military base - follows the transfer of aeronautical activities from the base and the return of 200 ha of military land to the community. This land offers Tours Métropole the opportunity to rethink the entire airport area, and to include it in the urban renewal process underway in the north-east of the city. The masterplan addresses a number of issues currently affecting the area. It proposes forms of urban development that accommodate a more natural use of land, aims to transform monofunctional industrial sites, wants to shed new light on mobility at the edges of the urban fabric, and looks to enhance the ecological continuity and biodiversity.