in honor of:
City Secretary Ms. Bracha Sela
Secretary of the City Council Ms. Frieda Borer
Subject: Urgent motion to settle
"Hollylands" in Haifa? You can still stop!
I would like to give priority to the proposal for this arrangement, and to suspend my other proposals for another time.
I hope that in light of the Holyland affair, they will now take my claims more seriously
Similar cases in Haifa, which I mentioned at the time.
Unlike Holyland, these plans can still be stopped. Among them:
A. Ramat Habib: Inflating the construction rights similar to Holyland, and approving the plan with involvement
of the most senior officials in the municipality today and in the political dealings back then, will surely cause astonishment...
B. Carmel Heights: By Nahal Nadar, still rolling between the committees, instead of down the stairs,
In light of the involvement of senior municipal officials, with a conflict of interest, in the preliminary approval procedures,
third. City-Center: Granting kosher for an exception, changing the zoning of a hotel to residential like in Holyland, and benefits
Finances, in a project in which the highest officials of the municipality are involved in a business way.
D. Lev Carmel: The building was removed from the preservation list on the basis of a false representation, and from the Ministry of the Interior
He voted in favor of the plan in the conservation committee, despite his business ties with Yazmia.
ה. Megiddo Towers: Handing over the municipality's rights in the compound, as well as the demolition and rebuilding of a school
In another place, without tenders, with the approval of a former CEO to manage the business... of that developer!
and. Hilton Tower: Its establishment was presented to the city council as a necessary, fundamental, binding condition in the agreement
For the privatization of Matam. Hilton was not established, and no repayment of many millions of dollars was required from "Gev Yam".
G. Migdal Elisha: Another floor of 4 roof apartments was added without a permit, and a complete system
In the engineering administration and the local committee, the abnormal training was harnessed in cheating ways.
In the discussion I will of course go into more detail, I will present some of the documents in my possession, and I will call for the suspension of
Continuation of the promotion of programs A to H, until they are examined by an external party. Also put up for inspection
By him they bear 6, 7.
I hope that none of the members of the council will take responsibility for all that this implies,
oppose this discussion.
It goes without saying that other issues that I raised at the time were also found to be well-founded, and were required
drawing difficult conclusions.
Sincerely, Shmuel Galbhart
Architect and urban planner
Chairman of the Haifa Greens in the City Council
Copies:
Councilor and Auditor, Haifa Municipality
In charge of the district, Ministry of Interior Haifa
Adv
Attorney Harel Goldberg, Ministry of Justice
Adv. Yehuda Zimerat, Counselor to the Ministry of the Interior
Office of the State Comptroller, Y-M / Haifa
[quote="tashvet":no29pkpd]Dear Mr. Galbhart, thank you very much for bringing things to the public in detail.
Although corruption in the Haifa municipality is not a new matter, I was nevertheless shocked to read the scope of the phenomenon.
Was this letter forwarded to the state auditor and the police?
The material was forwarded to all the relevant audit bodies, at a national and local level
To my regret, because I was present at that council meeting and I must point out that the way these meetings are conducted is a shame and disgrace, the mayor runs them like a dictator who keeps his mouth shut and ignores the concrete statements of the members of the opposition
There is a feeling that these meetings are nothing more than paying lip service to the proper democratic procedure that the mayor found himself subject to, I would be happy if these meetings were filmed permanently and would be available for viewing by the residents, after all it is a monthly meeting lasting several hours and as we know (after the uploading of the Ipoh website in Hafu The municipality has the budgets and tools for a service like this for the well-being of the residents and for the transparency of the council's activities
Another thing that I would be happy about is a council meeting in cooperation with the residents, one that would allow the residents to raise issues that are important to them and that require the assistance of the municipality.
Dreams in aspemia I know, but still I would be happy if they come true
Continue Shabbat Shalom and a good week
Nivcha
All members of the city council, employees of the engineering director, members of the legal department and members of the various planning committees,
And including everyone who has some kind of touch and influence on urban planning issues
are called to undergo a polygraph test proving that they are not involved in non-kosher businesses.
As in many bodies related to state security, there are polygraph tests, so also in my subjects
Planning that these are sensitive issues that affect us all, the polygraph test should be instituted.
Is there a city council member who will lift the glove and put this on the agenda and vote as a municipal regulation?
Hadva Almog - you had the name of a decent and honest person.
Why did you, as the head of the engineering director, choose to vote against it?
Did you kneel down against capitalists?
Where is your public and personal honesty?
For the majority of the rest, it should not be surprising that they voted against. Their name goes before them.
But in this act you caused your name to want to hide behind you.
Don't lose your shame so you can continue to look people in the eye.
Dear Mr. Gelbart, Thank you very much for bringing things to the public in detail.
Although corruption in the Haifa municipality is not a new matter, I was nevertheless shocked to read the scope of the phenomenon.
Was this letter forwarded to the state auditor and the police?
To the honorable members of the Haifa City Council:
Haifa has known cases concerning planning and construction, which do not fall in severity from a case
"Holyland" in Jerusalem. I hoped that the public awareness that arose about my issues
Governmental corruption, and government capital ties, will make it possible to open issues for renewed discussion
which I have been warning about for years. I deliberately brought up topics that I haven't yet discussed
It is too late to correct the situation, regarding projects that have not yet been established in the field.
However, at the council meeting last night, you, as coalition members, refused to discuss them, your preference
just don't know.
Therefore, I am bringing the issues to your attention, even if only in a partial summary, to Bel
You too will be able to sleep in the future: we didn't know...
At the same time, the material will be transferred to other parties.
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"Hollylands" in Haifa? You can still stop!
A. Ramat Habib, the "Holyland of Haifa": the initiators, Jews from Brooklyn, served a prison sentence
in the USA for money laundering of drug lords from Colombia. In Haifa. Purchased 220 dunams
Down the sea road, with an approved plan to build 450 terraced units with red roofs.
The trend of their faces became clear when they founded a friendly company called "Ramat Habib", together with a contractor
My local, Jacob Engel, and hired the services of the one who was previously the director general of the municipality, in the future Mm
The mayor, and all the time secretary of the Labor Party in Haifa, Israel Savion. It was imposed on him
The task of inflating construction rights. Savion is not an architect, a lawyer, or an engineer, but at his disposal
A much more important asset than these titles, which are acquired through the hard work of years of study and specialization.
In those years his party is the governor in the municipal coalition and the planning committees. be it
It is human to imagine that its members will rise up and oppose a project that their party secretary is involved in,
If only they knew about it. And it became known... and indeed not a single case of their opposition to the plans was recorded
that he is involved or close to them, from Bat Galim to the Carmel Ridge.
This is how Ramat Habib grew, under his "care", from 450 to 1279 units, from 5 to 20 floors and more,
from approximately 50,000 square meters to 152,000 square meters, and from 8 to 20 units per dunam, without an environmental survey, while
A promise of an insurmountable scenic and transport traffic jam by sea, forget Freud's traffic jams...
And did you think that the founders thanked him for his impressive achievements? to earn his salary
and his commissions, he had to sue them in court (civil case 975/04) for an amount of
3.24 million shekels, and blame them - are you sitting? - In Oshek and in Mirama! Savion won
In the trial, and Haifa may win its own Holyland, unless a model mayor is established
Yael German for example, and will open all the files and moves that preceded the plan's approval and rejection
The hundreds of objections from residents and environmental organizations. Because this is the main and almost unique difference:
Holyland Jerusalem - this is a building, or crying, for generations. Ramat Habib can still be stopped.
on. Ramot Carmel, conflict of interest or combination of interests? There was and still is a company
Her construction is respectable, and her name in Haifa is "Sharviv". Because its owners, patriotic Haifaim, decided
To contribute to the development of tourism in Haifa, a worthy goal by all accounts, they purchased a large area of land
In the heart of an evergreen area on the outskirts of Carmel Park, near Nahal Nadar, in front of a neighborhood
Dania next to the ground. After that, they turned to the mayor of our city at the time, Amram Matzna, and asked for backup
To realize their vision - a hotel for visitors to the park. Mitzna, himself a great believer in development and construction,
But probably not under all conditions and at all costs, he hesitated this time, to give an experience like the rest of us at Miizami
Hotels that turned out to be real estate schemes. However, the promoters were really offended to be found on a bench
The suspects, and went out of their way to promise: only tourism, and only a hotel!
With a somewhat trembling hand, which is not his custom, Mitzna signed the approval of a plan to build 10,000 square meters
Construction, only tourism and only a hotel, according to who but the promoters themselves.
A few seasons passed, chiefs and city engineers changed, and council members, and the agenda of
The local planning committee balked at the request of the "Sharbiv" company: to change the zoning
The hotel... you guessed it: residential! And the amount of apartments from zero... to 330! and height
The construction from 3 to... 15 floors! Of course not without a few dozen hotel rooms in memory of the vows
who vowed to Mitzna, and Nahal vowed to have Mirmas at the feet of their buildings.
This time Savion's share is deprived, thanks to the direct representation of the Sharabiv company in the council
The municipality itself, the end of "commissions" and brokerage fees! New council member Itzik Regev, directly
From the Shreviv management, making souls for the new program. God forbid he violates the law, and he is
Makes a point to stay away from votes like fire, but before them he woos committee members,
And I am among them, and for the sake of friendly relations I would like to support the program. Then he comes back
To circulate among those who gambled and resisted, and I am again among them, reproving them for their behavior
The non-collegiate. In a scandalous way, the director general of the municipality also intervened, and ordered an engineering team
The city changed its position and recommended the program positively!
The path of Regev and the CEO was successful, and in the previous term the program was approved by the institute,
What made it possible for the chairman of the committee this term, Hadva Almog, and most of its members, to support the plan,
and sob crocodile tears: we have no choice, we don't change previous decisions. Like the residence
themselves, do not change a previous decision for hotels. In the council hall, in front of the agitated crowd
of the neighbors from Dania, the city administration accepted it knee-jerk, and returned the plan to the committee
The sub, for "another thought". This is how the project rolls between the committees, instead of being kicked
Down the stairs, and we also have another thought: why do you see the residents of Dania only when
The bulldozer is approaching their villas, and not, for example, in the fight to save Stella Maris Park,
The much more important!
third. City-Center, another hotel that turned out to be a balloon: in Haifa, which yearns for tourism, every permit request
The hotel has extensive building rights. So is the City Center in the German colony, which was inaugurated
Festively as a hotel at least in part, and became a shopping center and offices entirely. And who settled in it
First, if not... the municipality's engineering administration! After 10 years of excessive use, he won again
And again to extend, I decided to put an end to the humiliation, only to find myself again in the minority against the majority
Council members and the mayor. Not surprising considering the owners of the property and those involved in it - CEO
The municipality of Shmuel Gantz, and the mayor of the municipality Israel Savion. The registered owner of the property is a company
"Haifa Quarries", located at 143 Sderot Zion. You will not find quarries there, but only
the company's offices, as well as the offices of the MKH company, better known as "Grand Canyon", in the management
Israel Savion, which also shares the same telephone and fax numbers with the Haifa quarries, and only in December
Last year he retired from its board of directors.
How unfortunate that even the legal advisor of the municipality, who in a previous term as a factional member was
Among the opponents of the illegal use, a way is now found to qualify it. And what is the way? offer
Designate hotel rooms in another building in Haifa, as a replacement for the hotel rooms in City Center, which is the location according to the claim
The owners and their representatives are not suitable for the hotel! Heyaman? Isn't it in the same breath that you really convince a head
The municipality and the CEO invited the entrepreneur Kobi Maimon to build a hotel right across the sidewalk opposite, and explain
If only it were the most suitable place in Haifa for a hotel!
Now all that is left is to find an alternative site for the hotel. And the site is found! Wasn't it just a year ago that he led
Savion, in his other hat as chairman of the education committee, a unanimous decision, his own mouth without a vote, to close
The Ma'ale Carmel school. The protests of the parents, teachers and students were in vain - the school was closed!
Now our CEO, as I remember he is also a partner in City Center, is putting the building up for sale in a tender...
For hotels only! And I wish the very publication of the things would interrupt this move. We won't be surprised, we'll even be happy
to read angry denials, provided that the City Center returns to its original purpose as a hotel.
From its first day, the City Center has been pampered with exceptional rights. While the businesses on Jaffa Street, the survivors
Hardly, we pay property tax all year long, the City Center for the brand stores and the lawyers' offices
where he pays property tax B. Supposedly, the calculation is according to Ben-Gurion Ave. The taxpayers are also liable for property tax B.
However, the tax ordinance states, without discretion: a corner building must pay according to the higher classification
of the streets it borders. Probably not if the city officials are involved. The matter was discussed in committee
a special committee established to correct the distortions of the property tax, and the CEO was the one who strongly opposed the amendment. In response
To the claims of hard-working business owners on Jaffa St., who pay property tax A., there was an invitation-advice in his mouth:
That they close their businesses and move to shopping malls, which he himself is a partner in one of them!
d. Lev HaCarmel, a building for preservation in the conservation compound, under threat of demolition: Lev HaCarmel compound,
On the two lanes of Haina Street and the buildings on its sides, it was announced back in Mitzna's time and with his blessing,
As a conservation complex, the best to represent the green qualities and the human scale of the Carmel
the veteran In its center stands a typical structure of the international style. Its uses and owners have changed over time
the years, while gnawing away at his vision, and neglecting his surroundings. In recent years, the building was purchased by
Two founders, Dr. Giora Winterstein, director of Elisha Medical Center, and Mr. Yitzhak Ariel in the past
Director of the MKH company and involved in the establishment of the Nergad Mall. They intend to change the purpose of the building again,
for sheltered housing at a high level, to restore its appearance, and also to exhaust the construction rights that have not yet been used, and more
To add thousands of meters to them, as "compensation" for the "enormous" expenses they claim they will have, in the works
Conservation and restoration.
The plans they submitted, in different alternatives, seemed problematic. Whether to the residents of the neighborhood, whether to the preservationists,
If for the local committee, and if for everyone together. Among the proposals, a plan for the demolition of the existing building was also submitted,
with the aim of building a building in its place, new indeed, but in a style that represents the characteristics of the previous building.
A very problematic proposal from the preservation aspect, but it was presented to us as if it had been prepared by architect Amnon Braor,
According to many, he is the number one expert in Israel for architectural preservation. Most of the members of the conservation committee, and I am among them,
were impressed by the recommendation of an expert like Braur, and the proposal was approved by a majority of votes, despite the opposition of
The preservationists on the committee include Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi, also a historian and preservation expert. meaning
The decision, among other things, was also to remove the building from the conservation list. And here comes an angry letter
From architect Bar-Or: he disavows any connection to the plan, we were misled, strongly opposes the demolition
the building, and is considering a lawsuit against us for damage to his reputation for using his name as a supporter of the demolition.
The promoters, and their friend committee member Rami Dotan, hastened to explain: Braor is indeed behind the plan,
It was prepared in his office, he knows every detail of it, but what? Because of his status as an expert and lecturer
For preservation, we had to take out the letter. I did not hesitate to inquire directly with him about the truth of their version. he
He sat down and denied it with rage and blunt words.
At this point, the promoters decided to try to establish a fact... and destroy the building! After all, it has already been issued
from the conservation list. I was required to add my signature to the demolition permit already signed by everyone who needs it, only
My signature is missing. I refused to sign despite heavy pressure from a committee member close to the initiators.
They have now submitted a plan that includes partial preservation of the existing building, demolition of part of it, and additions
extremely unusual constructions that they claim are necessary to cover conservation expenses, and even then "it costs too much for them".
The conservation committee met again, with its new composition, when in my place Yahav appointed his deputy and an expert
The well-known conservationist Israel Savion, who of course votes in favor, without being moved by the fact that he has, for many years,
Working relationships and business interests with the two entrepreneurs. This time the Conservation Council did not go into the struggle of
Really, maybe because it is headed today in Haifa by Eli Elad, an activist of the mayor's list and a candidate
On her behalf in the last elections to the city council!
God. The Megiddo and Oranim towers dwarf Holyland: in the most sensitive location in Haifa from an urban point of view,
Scenic and transportation, an unprecedented combination was woven even in Haifa:
- The municipality of Haifa will transfer its rights in the David Yelin school complex to the entrepreneur Gad Zaevi, without a tender.
- Zeevi will destroy the school, and build a new school in its place on a green field in Ramat Hadar, also without a tender.
- In its place will be built 3 towers of 40 floors, 800 units, 1008 percent construction, with a density 10 times the existing one,
While expanding roads and interchanges, and destroying systems in the entire region.
The local committee approved the architectural plan, and the combinatorial deal, even though they
Breaking every possible boundary: the district and local outline plans, the nature of the environment in Carmel, the skyline
which characterizes it, and basic procedures of proper public administration.
It is necessary to mention again Israel Savion's senior positions in Gad Zeevi's companies, his status
Public as secretary of the Labor Party in Haifa, and the status of his party members in the planning committees? the mother
Did anyone seriously expect that they would vote against a plan that their party secretary is related to Lezemia?
Adv. Haifai, a legal advisor to planning institutions, checked the transaction at my request, and found it to be invalid
From the ground up, and alerted the mayor of the city, Adv. Rosenberg, about it. The Speaker contemptuously rejected the claims,
In a cynical and arrogant letter. Later the councilor retired from the municipality, and moved to manage the business of... Gad Zeevi,
Including... the Megiddo project! After a "cooling off" period between his roles that lasted about 15 minutes, he
The time it takes for a private car to make the way from the city hall to the Zeevi corporate offices.
When I assumed my position as deputy rabbi and in charge of engineering administration, we formulated a document under my guidance
A policy that effectively eliminated the combinators in the center of Carmel, and limited the percentage of construction, the density,
And the height of the building to only 9 floors. "On this occasion" the initiative-plot to build a tower was also stopped
100 units and 25 floors in the Oranim complex, which was also "improved" by Savion, and approved by the committee
The local of the party... Sorry, Haifa Municipality. The Histadrut auditor found that Savion's commissions
Generous percentages were determined according to the percentage of construction that he would be able to "fix".
The Megiddo towers are now facing their fate in the district committee. 15 floors already appear in the plan,
And in the city, the dust is accumulating on the policy document approved during my time, with only 9 floors.
and. Hilton Tower, a reminder to the mayor: at the end of the previous millennium, the conspiracy was hatched
To the "privatization" of the Ministry of Defense, so to speak. Its details could hold an entire textbook entitled: How not
from items. The Geb-Yam company under the management of Hanan Nitzan, purchased from the economic company under the management of Hanan Nitzan
In the past, the control of Matam, the economic flagship of Haifa. The money in return, about 300
A million shekels, remains... in the agreement, under the control of Gev Yam!
A professor of economics from the Technion concluded: Gev-Yam bought Matam, and paid for itself.
And added an economics lecturer at the university: this is the so-called "Indonesian privatization"...
The unbelievable deal was led by 4 people: the chairman of the economic company Yahav
(today the mayor of the municipality), chairman of its finance committee Shmuel Gantz (today the CEO of the municipality), CEO
The economic company Avi Goldenberg (later appointed by Yahav as CEO of the municipality, and dismissed and convicted for
forgery of an academic degree), and attorney Malkov, the advisor of the Economic Society, who left Haifa
Powerless in front of the so-called "partner" and the actual controlling owner, Gev Yam.
One of the components of the deal was the Hilton Hotel, which Geb-Yam Ltd. undertook to build near a center
the congresses. The mayor of Mitzna, who was tricked into supporting the deal, defined the hotel as a main condition,
binding, for the transaction to take place. In his words - the hotel is a hump on the deal, without it we would have accepted
More! To strengthen the impression of his words, a festive launch event was held, and robes were already distributed to its participants
Luxurious bathrooms with Hilton logo embroidery...
At that time, I was still the only one who understood the conspiracy and opposed it, in front of the originator of the idea and the executor
To practice, Yahav. The debate between us appeared in the Haifa locale, and its summary:
Yahav: I am the one who made the deal, and I inform you that there is a binding contract for the work plan,
And the entrepreneur cannot escape it a millimeter. All projects will be built until the last one.
Galbhart: And if not?
Yahav: No if not! There is no such thing. As soon as "Gev-Yam" are not built, the mayor and the council must
Sue them for violating a key clause in the contract.
Galbhart: Most of the work plan, including Hilton, will not be carried out. Hilton was not established, and no refund was required
Many millions of dollars from "Gev-Yam".
Today Yahav is the mayor, and Gantz is the CEO, and the Hilton was not established, is not established, and will not be established.
In the spirit of Yahav's own words: why aren't they now initiating a lawsuit against Gev-Yam?!
G. Migdal Elisha, a cladding-covering project: this is a prestigious project for sheltered housing, which
Its roof floor was approved and set up as a solarium, for the enjoyment of the building's residents. One day the fax machine went off
In my private office, an anonymous report, from the engineering administration, about the construction of 4 roof apartments at the site
The solarium. I asked for an explanation of this from the Engineering Administration, and immediately the whole system was called to issue a permit
In retrospect, the apartments that were added have nothing to do with it. Why "from where"? Because the construction percentages have already been fully utilized, and there is no
A legal way to qualify the 4 apartments.
Fortunately, the Licensing and Inspection Division of the Engineering Administration was blessed with great creativity, and restraints
few. For the purpose of the impromptu permit, several hundred new meters were created out of nowhere.
First, in the measurement of the lot, an error was "discovered" to the detriment of the contractor! Probably for the first time in history
The real estate industry in Israel... the "corrected" measurement added about half of the missing square footage. The rest
Complete from the thickness of the walls, and this must be explained: the law allows the thickness to be deducted from the main area
Walls over 25 cm. It was "discovered" that the thickness of the walls is 28 cm. The extra 3 cm beyond
For 25, the entire perimeter of the building, multiplied by the number of floors, gives exactly the missing square footage.
After rejections and evasions, I managed to get my hands on the building plans, and what turns out? thickness
The walls are actually... 20 cm! Which did not prevent the local committee from approving the roof apartments
the others. Perhaps we should have mentioned earlier that this project also belongs to the Zeevi group, which
Savion among its managers, in addition to his position as secretary of the Labor Party in Haifa, whose members sit
in the same local committee that approved the apartments. Probably for this reason the event hall was used in the building
Also for Labor Party events, even though the building's legal designation does not allow it.
Later, as the deputy mayor of the municipality and in charge of engineering administration, I asked to complete the investigation
The issue is according to the law, and measure the lot and the building as they really are, and as the municipality treats me
Any resident who erected a roof or extended a balcony without a permit. Director of the building Dr. Giora Winterstein
I immediately called out to the Rabbi, who turned to me with his mitzvot: Why should we bother with this? The city is full of crimes
histories, do you want to unlock everything now? Is that what we were chosen for? We turned to the future, not the past...
These issues are all detailed in the proposal for an order that I submitted to the city council on May 4.5.2010, XNUMX, and it was rejected
As stated by the mayor and the coalition.
Sincerely, Shmuel Galbhart
Architect and urban planner
Chairman of the Haifa Greens in the City Council
Copies: CEO and Auditor, Haifa Municipality
In charge of the district, Ministry of Interior Haifa
Adv. Melchiel Blas, Conflict of Interest Officer, Ministry of Justice
Adv. Yehuda Zimerat, Counselor to the Ministry of the Interior
Office of the State Comptroller, Y-M / Haifa
[quote="Galbhart":1xecwt0y][quote="guest":1xecwt0y]You mentioned in the past that when you were on the planning committee you sat on issues concerning your clients in the past.
Holyland or Disneyland?
Invalidating own imperfection invalidates
Although they were clients of mine in the past, I did not hesitate to oppose their plans!
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Who is we?
Following the publication of the mega-corruption in Jerusalem in the Holyland project,
And in light of the great sensitivity of the decision-making system of the city council members
and the people of the planning department and the great significance of their decisions and votes,
We propose to promote in Haifa a municipal law that obligates everyone who is involved in the field
The planning, from both the elected officials and the municipal employees, to agree to move
a polygraph test to ensure that he is not involved in corruption of one kind or another,
who is never involved in public funds and who has no personal interest
from the project he points to
[quote="guest":3o2xnhim]You mentioned in the past that when you were on the planning committee you sat on issues concerning your clients in the past.
Holyland or Disneyland?
Invalidating own imperfection invalidates
Although they were clients of mine in the past, I did not hesitate to oppose their plans!
[quote="Yehuda":qeaxd0un]Mr. Galbhart, you again ignored the Givat Zemar program!
Isn't turning a green hill into a saturated construction project a sign of some kind of corruption?
You made a mistake! The plan is bad, I objected. I didn't ignore it
You mentioned in the past that when you were on the planning committee you sat on issues concerning your clients in the past.
Holyland or Disneyland?
Invalidating own imperfection invalidates
I don't intend to defend anyone, but not every plan to turn an undeveloped area into a built one is immediately corrupt, otherwise you have just stopped construction in the country.
There is nothing to do in the whole country, agricultural areas and empty areas within the cities are turning into residential neighborhoods. The question is how much will he build, how will he build and where will he build.
I don't know what the history of Givat Zemer is, people wrote here in the past that it was long ago intended for residential use. If the open spaces within the city go
And we are running out, it is not possible to turn them all into residential neighborhoods. You have to decide: if an area near Stella Maris becomes a neighborhood, leave Givat Zemer green.
If all of Lincoln Hills turns into a huge neighborhood, leave Nahal Nadar. Maybe the other way around, I don't know. But when you try to build in all places together at once
What is left for future generations? And why not amend the plans that were previously approved to build in all the hills in Carmel if now we know that we also need to leave space
Green and possible instead of approving the addition of floors and the construction evacuation of thousands of old and dangerous railway housing in Haifa and Kiryat. If all this is known today we should do
Order: how much to build, how to build and where to build.
At the moment it is: build everything, build in a waste of space, and build everywhere without calculation.
Haifa's new master plan does not solve this issue. There everything is for construction!
Mr. Galbhart, you once again ignored the Givat Zemar program!
Isn't turning a green hill into a saturated construction project a sign of some kind of corruption?
A committee of professionals should be established, which will establish criteria for relatively high construction. It seems that now everything is hacked and influenced mainly by considerations of money and politics.
The whole mess in planning and construction begins and ends with 3 issues:
A. Only members of the city council sit and decide in the local committees, and there is no balance of professional parties in the votes.
B. There is no real participation of representatives from the public around the plan in the planning process
third. There is no external auditor mechanism whose role is to review the committee's decisions and point out voting failures
As soon as these three things are introduced into the planning mechanism, the process will also be shortened, there will be no room for corruption and the plans themselves will also improve.
It's a shame that in Israel they don't understand this in many places in the world, it's already a norm and they follow the tip of the iceberg and still manage to approve programs
Better in terms of contribution to the city and faster than ours and also prevent public struggles.
Mr. Galbhart, congratulations and thank you very much!
I hope that the Hollinland story, which raised public awareness of the spirit of perversion, lawlessness and corruption involved in monstrous construction - I hope that all of this will also lead our municipality to become mentally weak, to come to its senses, and to return from promiscuous and bad decisions, which is not too late in this matter. I wish!