The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced a host of changes in the French capital this year, including a plan to ban gas-fueled cars. While that won't happen until 2030, City Hall's most recent project will have a more immediate effect. Paris will no longer host its annual Christmas Market on the Champs-Elysées, and the mayor wants to pull down the big ferris wheel that stands nearby at the Place de la Concorde.

The plan to cancel the market was first announced in June, but Hildago's addendum to close the wheel was announced this week. According to the Local, the decision to cancel the market stems from a desire to improve the quality of what's offered. A representative from City Hall, Jean-François Martins, argued that the longstanding market "wasn't good enough for Paris" and that most of the items on sale aren't authentic to French culture—in fact, many of them are made in China.

The big wheel, or the Roue de Paris, has gone up every November at the Place de la Concorde since 2000. It typically stays up for a few months before being taken down until the next year. Similar to her decision to cancel the markets, Hildago feels that the attraction is out of place in Paris and doesn't belong in the historic square. She reportedly wants Place de la Concorde to rediscover "the character of its heritage," which evidently does not include a temporary ferris wheel.

Though the wheel will go up this year, there will be a vote later this month to determine if 2017 will be its last year at the Place de la Concorde. There are discussions to erect it in another less historic part of the city, just not at the site where the royal family was executed during the French Revolution.