The municipality stopped work in the Shambor neighborhood in Haifa in light of the residents' demand
The municipality's intention is to create a buffer for the neighborhood to stop future fires. The residents support the creation of the buffer, but claim that the municipality is carrying out the operation without proper plans and the damage will be greater than the benefit.
Today (Tuesday 10/8/21) the Haifa Municipality stopped the works to create a wall in the Shambor neighborhood (below Margalit St. in the extension above Wadi Azov). Apparently in light of the residents' demand. The residents sent a letter from a lawyer, with a demand to stop the works immediately.
A resident of the Shambor neighborhood Bnei Eitan says that the works stopped today at 12 noon. "Our lawyer Ziv Lotan sent a letter to the municipality this morning and a few hours after that the work was stopped. We are not clear what this means. Will they correct what they have already done? How soon will the work be resumed? We have received no answers about all of this. What we know It is that there is going to be a meeting in the field between the representatives of the residents, representatives of the city engineer and representatives of the gardens department."
"We have an architectural landscape in the neighborhood and according to her, they didn't work properly. As soon as you make a path and don't maintain it, nature takes over the exposed parts again. Once a year you have to re-expose. If you don't maintain the buffer zone every year, you absurdly increase the risk in the event of a fire.
I spoke to both one of the workers and one of the people in charge from the Gardens and Landscape Department and both explained that they let the workers enter the area and find a route that matches the instructions of the fire department. What is important is that the slope will suit the tractor and a minimum amount of trees will be cut. I checked what is happening in other cities and it turns out that this is not how it should be done. When it is done properly, the fire buffer is done in an orderly manner with prior planning. There is a plan for every tree, whether they cut it down or not."
Eitan also claims that he does not understand how work can be started in the neighborhood without informing the residents. "Neither one nor two residents approached me to ask what works were being done, because I am active in the neighborhood, and I had no idea. I don't understand how works are done and they don't put up a sign, so that the resident knows what is being done near his house."
Eitan believes that the chance that the work on the buffer will be carried out to the satisfaction of the residents is not high, but he hopes that residents from other neighborhoods in the city will benefit from their experience and for them the buffer will be carried out properly.
The Haifa Municipality informed Haifa:
"Buffer zones" are carried out on the basis of the conclusions of a professional committee that was established following the fire in Carmel, with the participation of the government ministries, the parks department of the Haifa municipality and the fire authority, which directed ways of treating the grove in the spirit of the committee's conclusions. The works in the said area were stopped at the request of the residents until the investigation of their claims is complete.
Irit Halam, with us in Bordia they created a buffer against fires, but Irit is expensive
Such a path should also be maintained
The vegetation under my house literally enters my garden. This is a wadi that was cut by a path that the vegetation covered a long time ago, (not to mention the danger of snakes and other reptiles).
I would love it if something that could do something came back to me.
Haifa masochism. The residents want to determine where the fire prevention path will go. During a fire, God forbid, they will argue why it was not prevented.
Eyal is right
The tractor operator even knows which land is privately owned and which is municipally owned. He is as talented as his mayor.
No no you don't understand. Haifa is such a smart and sophisticated city under the current leadership that it does not need organized plans.
We do it with the innovative technology of "the tractor will decide for itself". The tractor operator enters the vehicle and gives the tractor
Do "Vish" and cut down some trees in some place where the tractor is going. This is innovation!! It's technology!!!
That's how a human hand doesn't need to plan, a human brain doesn't need to think a moment in advance, and doesn't need landscape architects and an examination of a regime of spirits
And is the buffer at all effective and where should it be performed that will do minimal damage.
All of this is unnecessary, some young man gets into a tractor, starts it, and destroys a forest with the amount of fire even before the fire. of genius.
Three in good condition….
It's in Israel:
Two lawyers - three opinions