The management of public affairs can only be conceived sustainably if urban spaces are well managed. The absence of a prospective vision and an urban space planning scheme is at the origin of the eternal problem of the illegal occupation of the public domain. The muscular raids by the police services, to which the inhabitants have become accustomed, have not had the expected effect and have not dissuaded street vendors, who are increasingly numerous, from occupying without fear various axes, spaces, and squares of the city. Even the squares in front of the mosques have been invested, sparking the discontent of the faithful and other traders in a regular situation. Will Mohammedia manage to solve this thorny problem which distorts the urban landscape and conveys a false image of a city yet always in search of a solution capable of safeguarding the interests and needs of this fragile category of people? Street vendors continue to display various food products and goods of dubious origin on the public highway, without any concern for hygiene or the problems of congestion and the inconvenience they cause. The multiple programmes for the relocation and integration of street vendors in the Mesbahiat, Saâda, Rachidia, and Hassania neighbourhoods have failed. The failure of the policy of fixing street vendors is due essentially to the unsuitable locations of the markets, located far from the built-up areas as well as the lack of support and follow-up for street vendors to help them carry out their projects. Beyond the problem of good management of economic and social affairs, particular attention must be paid to the social aspect of the city to fill the dysfunctions. In this context, it is essential to put in place the necessary means and provide practical solutions. The flow of street vendors could only be contained thanks to solutions favouring social measures and financing mechanisms to help street vendors to exercise and develop their activities legally. For this, the city council must think about moving the street vendors of Mohammedia to adapted markets, laid out and endowed with the required infrastructures.

It is also necessary to review the organisation of existing markets, in particular the so-called wholesale market of Mesbahiat which generates a multitude of hygiene and environmental problems. In the same vein, it is necessary to restructure commercial zones on the basis of a redevelopment plan for the zones invested by street vendors. Street commerce is not governed by any legislation. The worrying problem of the regulation and control of the activity of street vendors on public roads remains posed. "We are," specified Brahim Mohamed, an associative militant, "outraged by the negative effects of informal commerce." "It is time to think about an upgrade of this sector that takes into account a certain number of parameters to succeed in an adapted integration of street vendors. The solution requires the creation of markets supervised by local authorities and whose activity is limited to fixed hours," he added. For everyone, the phenomenon of street vendors in Mohammedia has grown and requires a global solution, notably the installation of street vendors in specific zones where street commerce would be tolerated, during certain days and at precise hours. Moreover, priority must be given to street vendors residing in Mohammedia.

The most appropriate solution today is to favour the approach of dialogue with this social category. The relocation programmes having not succeeded, it is necessary to reorganise street commerce, to guarantee street vendors the necessary income so that they can provide for their vital needs. Among the solutions, one could envisage developing the old wholesale market located at the level of the lower town, near the court of first instance.

This market has all the assets to welcome street vendors.