Urban planning:
The Municipality of Haifa announced that as part of its policy to encourage small businesses, planning is taking place that will regulate the guarantee of commercial uses on main urban routes. The municipality hopes that this program will solve a large part of the business licensing problems that exist today throughout the city for small businesses, in a comprehensive and systematic manner and will stop, in most cases, the old requirement to regulate a point-by-point tax on each and every business. This is a huge saving of time and money for the businesses, who will be able to apply their capital and energy to promote their business.
The challenge of municipal supervision:
A guarantee of uses is common in the largest cities in the world - small businesses and especially food businesses exist under residential buildings. Such planning requires a level of control and supervision, in order to prevent a situation where the businesses are a nuisance to the residential buildings. To this end, strong municipal supervision is required, along with planning when granting permits for business licensing, for example when kitchen hoods are installed in such a way that they do not expel the odors into a residential environment, or when activity on the street, which constitutes a noise nuisance, is permitted or prevented.
In New York, for example, a restaurant is required to invest an amount of over 100 dollars, in order to install a chimney that will evaporate odors above the head of a 45-story skyscraper.
in Paris Anne Hidalgo, Klish's friend, deals with the phenomenon of cigarette butts being thrown on the sidewalks, when crowds of smokers respect the law prohibiting smoking on public floors, leave the pubs, during the night, gather in a group to smoke on the street, throw the cigarette butts on the floor and return to hang out in the clean pub from smoking Parisians who wake up in the morning encounter sidewalks "decorated" with cigarette butts.
in the first level, the plan will rely on the roads designated as special urban streets in the 2000 outline plan and which were already approved at the beginning of 2019 (Sderot Ben Gurion, Trumpeldor, Achi Eilat, Sderot Moriah in part, Herzl, Halutz, Shabtai Levi, Herzliya).
In the second level, Content of a plan for additional central streets, and also in neighborhood centers, suitable to guarantee uses of businesses alongside residences. This phase will expand the boundaries of the urban streets beyond those that appear in the outline plan HF/2000. As part of this phase, they will also examine designated streets and stairways that can accommodate a mix of uses and the integration of cafes and small shops that support the creation of tourist hubs in the city.
As a transitional step, the businesses will receive temporary permits for the management of the business, in routes that will be announced as a broad use guarantee, until the final approval of the plans.
The mayor's intention is to regulate active and convenient streets as commercial and business axes in the urban space and even in designated places in some neighborhoods with the participation of the residents. Regulating the common life of residences, businesses and commerce in designated streets, will be done with strict coordination of operating hours and prevention of hazards and mutual interference, in contrast to the processes that happened until today that were not regulated. As a transitional step, the businesses will receive temporary permits for the management of the business, in routes that will be announced as a broad use guarantee, until the final approval of the plans.
This is an important project that brings life back to the streets and raises the quality of life in the neighborhoods and not just in the malls.
It is imperative to find a solution to the nuisance of smokers everywhere, especially in and around residential buildings.
This toxic and smelly nuisance always comes with the nuisance of litter, cigarette butts, often still lit, that are thrown everywhere.
For years, condominiums have been suffering from cafes under the houses, there is no enforcement, there is no inspector, the municipality turns a blind eye, and recently Yahav approved to operate until 3 am. All these plans are to turn a blind eye and silence the injustices.
A serious mistake. Shklish will enable the opening of a cafe in the building where she lives. I voted for her and regret it. And not only because of that.
Very nice. Professional approach
Catch 22. Time is short. The plans from the books and such will remain until the end of the term.