A public participation conference in the preparation of a comprehensive outline plan for the city of Nesher will be held at the beginning of February in Eshkol Pis in the presence of the mayor, Avi Binmo, the city engineer, Eng. Leon Gorodetsky, and the head of the planning team, architect Dorit Shapint. The director general of the municipality, Abigail Dolev, "The residents of the city are our eyes and ears. They will be full partners in the preparation of the new master plan."
The city of Nesher, a general landscape view. Photo: Raz Hodek
These days, the Ministry of the Interior, in cooperation with Nesher Municipality, is promoting a comprehensive outline plan for the city. The plan will create an overall framework for the development of the city for the coming years. Development needs will be defined in it, land designations and their extraction will be mapped, infrastructure issues including transportation will be answered, as well as environmental issues, employment and trade, public services, tourism and more. The existing outline plan of the city of Nesher dates from 1973. Therefore, the need arose to promote a new plan, which would respond to the expected increase in the city's population, which currently numbers 26 residents and which will number in 10 years about 50 residents. As part of the plan, the Planning Administration at the Ministry of the Interior and the Nesher Municipality decided to hold a residents' conference on February 3.2rd, the purpose of which is to expose the public to the preparation of a new outline plan for the Nesher. When the goal is to learn from the residents about the future needs and implement the comments within the overall planning.
The Mayor of Nesher, Avi Binmo: "Among the projects planned in the city: a connection to the railroad as part of the "Rabet Ha'emek" line, the construction of a metro line - "Metro-Nesher", a re-planning of the urban center (MAAR) with a visual improvement and the creation of a scenic promenade along Derech HaShalom Street, a project he is leading Prof. Gideon Sharig, large-scale residential construction, creation of open spaces because it is important to us that Nesher be a green city, planning the 'lakes park', establishing student dormitories, developing domestic tourism while exposing the citizens of Israel to Nesher's hidden treasures, developing sports, and more . There is already construction in the city of about 1,000 housing units, some of which will be occupied at the end of 2015. All of this requires us to be prepared and ready with appropriate transportation infrastructure and educational institutions."The director general of the municipality, Abigail Dolev, calls on the residents of the city to come to the conference and be full partners in the overall planning of the city. According to her: "The residents of the city are our eyes and ears. They will be full partners in the preparation of the new outline plan. The residents' comments and clarifications will be taken into account within the overall planning in order to ensure a balanced and correct plan that will serve the city."
The conference will take place on Tuesday 3.2.15 between the hours of 18:00-21:30 p.m., in Eshkol Pis, next to the middle school.