CEO of "Green Dania", Gilad Kugelman: "Preserving the character of the neighborhood will help position the position of the Dania neighborhood."
Chairman of the association "Keeping Dania" attorney Helen Dorfman: Dania neighborhood is not a kibbutz. There is no room for the sale of apartments for continuing boys.
At the end of the week, a plan by the "Green Dania" company was submitted to the Haifa District Planning and Construction Committee, for the expansion of the old Dania neighborhood, with 222 detached luxury houses, towards the Carmel Park. The promoters started pre-registration for the program, for Dania residents only. In the "Keepers of Dania" association, which represents hundreds of residents of the neighborhood, they see the move by the entrepreneurs as a move and an attempt to hijack the Haifa District Committee, which they are determined to eradicate.
According to the association, the new plan covers a green area of approximately 107 dunams and will include a change in the zoning of an area without detailed planning to an area for residences, commerce, hotels, public areas, buildings and public institutions. According to the new submitted plan, the building of 226 housing units on 58 residential lots and a significant increase in the area of the hotel are requested to be approved.
Attorney Helen Dorfman, chairman of the struggle headquarters of the "Keeping Dania" association:
Last Thursday we were informed at an unusual time, close to the holidays, about the deposit of the program. The submitted plan is disconnected from reality and the entire environment. There is disdain for the lives of the residents here without a strategic planning vision. The association "Keepers of Dania" on behalf of hundreds of families from the Dania neighborhood will submit its objections to the district committee. These objections are of great importance to the city of Haifa and its urban fabric.
The submitted plan is a massive and destructive construction plan, which will change the appearance of the Dania neighborhood and Mount Carmel. As I recall, the first plan presented in 2017 by the developer included only 133 housing units and was approved by the local committee, but rejected by the district committee, while demanding the district committee to increase the density of construction in the Dania neighborhood, in a manner that is fundamentally different from the character of the neighborhood. The developers announced Because they opened pre-registration in the form of a free sale for boys to continue in the Dania neighborhood. We ask to stop misleading everyone. We are talking about an unapproved building plan and Dania is not a kibbutz and it is not a plan to build cottages as the developers claim. The time has come to reveal the interests and what is behind the scenes of purchasing and promoting the Green Dania program.
It's time to admit, concludes Attorney Dorfman, that the program will not improve the housing market in Haifa and is not intended for housing developers and young couples. In the current price range, it is a mistake to present Dania Green as a residential neighborhood for housing developers or houses for rent.
These days, the headquarters of the struggle has renewed its informational activity and soon there will be an emergency meeting of the residents of the neighborhood, and for this purpose the residents have hired legal and media consultants.
The Green Dania company is owned by Gilad Kugelman, Alex Hoffman, Menachem Carmel and Dodo John. The new plan will expand the neighborhood to the south and lead to the construction of 222 luxury units, attached to the ground, on an area of about 107 dunams, on the slopes of Carmel, towards the Carmel Park.
The plan includes 50 percent of green areas, a neighborhood commercial building, a public building, which will be transferred to the Haifa municipality, a 50-room boutique hotel designed by architect Rani Ziss, and walking and bicycle paths that will connect the neighborhood with one of the most beautiful nature reserves in Israel. The project enjoys a view to the south of the Carmel Park and a view to the west of the sea and due to its construction on the cliff it will not hide the view from the existing neighborhood houses and all the housing units in it will also enjoy an open view.
CEO of "Green Dania", Gilad Kugelman, said this week:
The program is intended first and foremost for the continuing boys of the old Dania neighborhood, and this is the reason why today we opened pre-registration for Dania residents only. Dozens of the neighborhood's residents are interested in houses for the next generation, and maintaining the character of the neighborhood and the fabric of its residents, alongside its renewal with a young and high-quality population, will contribute to its establishment at the top of the most high-quality and prestigious residential neighborhoods in Israel.
As a condition for the approval of the plan, the opening of the exit road from the neighborhood also to the west, a road that will prevent large loads on the Horev axis, which is still busy today, must be required.
It is not possible to pass the Dania junction in the morning. Why not add a road to the west before the plan?
Haredim want to destroy a park in a city with negative immigration and empty houses to make a profit. It would have been better to give them money just like they do with Hamas.
Beyond referring to the plan itself, its quality, etc., which I hope is in line with the outline plan, the policy documents for high-rise building and urban renewal. But beyond all that, I am completely shocked by the idea of a sale cow for boys to continue. One of the amazing principles in the city is the principle of opportunity. the options. In the interpretation, there is no place to define a neighborhood as a seat... Regarding the connection to the reserve and bicycle paths - is this coordinated with what is happening in the reserve? The paper absorbs everything and the images always look wonderful...