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The participatory budget of the city of Clermont-Ferrand is a public policy that responds to a threefold democratic crisis (affecting political and scientific authority, democratic participation, and public deliberation). Of the thirty-two projects voted for by citizens, a quarter have an environmental focus. As a result, the deliberative public micro-spaces launched by the initiative were marked by fragmentation. First, there was a tendency to produce exchanges regulated by an “instituted” vision of sustainable development that did very little to question our model of urban development. Second, we witnessed the emergence of a strong lack of communication and the marginalization of project leaders with transformative visions (in favor of degrowth or resilience).