Stalled urban renewal
Residents of the city are organizing these days to go out and demonstrate against the municipal engineering director. The goal is to reach as many residents as possible in the city who, according to them, suffer from the same problem: the urban renewal plans have been stuck since Einat Kalish Rotem took office and dangerous buildings stand and endanger those who live in them.
The protest is gaining momentum on social networks in the city and anyone who comments on the post is asked, by the protest organizers, to join the demonstration, which is currently not clear whether it will be held in front of the city engineer's house or in front of the city hall.
Building permits are delayed and the crumbling houses endanger lives
According to the protest leaders, since Dr. Einat Kalish Rotem was elected mayor (October 2018), building permits are delayed, the residents suffer and the municipality does not receive income from the director of engineering.
The group of residents decided to take action and go to the street to demonstrate against the city engineer Ariel Waterman and not against the mayor of Kalish. The demonstration is planned to take place, apparently, in front of Waterman's house in Dania.
A senior member of the Haifa Municipality administration told Lahi Fe that a demonstration against a public servant is unfair and that complaints should be directed to Klish, who sets the policy and not to the public servants who follow her instructions.
Either way, the leaders of the protest are trying to reach as many participants as possible by posting on social networks and they claim that they are receiving support from the most surprising place - employees of the Haifa municipality's engineering directorate, some of whom are just as frustrated as the residents.
In Haifa there are many buildings, which were built in the 60s and 70s, with standards that are not resistant to earthquakes and missile attacks. Many old buildings do not have elevators and therefore do not meet accessibility standards. Many elderly people who bought apartments in the 70s and are now in a situation of mobility impairment, have reached a situation where they are locked in their apartments and have no ability to leave the apartment normally or in an emergency.
The protest intensifies against the policy of "blocking the projects of Haifa Municipality"
"We have been receiving more and more inquiries since we raised the issue on the networks, from people who say they are going through the same thing, in front of the municipal engineering manager. We simply do not understand whether the engineering manager is working for the residents or against the residents," says one of the organizing partners, who chose to remain anonymous. "We couldn't believe how far it would go. We received inquiries from employees in the engineering directorate itself, who strengthened us and told us to go all the way with our struggle. The employees in the engineering directorate are frustrated by the instructions coming from above. We are not ready to stand by and do nothing, when the director of engineering does not approve projects and the city is losing revenue. The city is me and you, if Haifa has no revenue, it cannot act for us residents and that is very serious. There are sick evils in this city, there is nothing to be done about them, here we have a chance to change."
"Klish Rotem has stalled the project - she is not ready to give our entrepreneur what he was promised at Yahav. The entrepreneur has disappeared"
One of the cases is that of a resident who for several years has been trying to promote an urban renewal project in the Romema neighborhood.
"During the Yahav period, I made quite a bit of progress with the evacuation of my building," he says, "I already found a developer and then on our building the contractor was supposed to get another two and a half floors on our building. The developer was satisfied and we were optimistic. Then the current mayor came and wiped our smile From the inside. First of all, when she took office, she stopped all approvals for a few months. We've been dealing with this for years, why should it be erased that a new mayor was elected? After these months, it became clear that Kelish Rotem is not ready to give our developer what he was promised at Yahav, two and a half stories , and he will receive only a floor and a half for the construction of a new building. Our entrepreneur heard this, did his calculations and came to the conclusion that it was not profitable for him and disappeared.
"We invested years in this, he says, we live in an old and neglected building, and we were already sure that we were on the verge of demolishing the building and building a new one. Kalish Rotem changed the rules of the game and at the same time completely destroyed it. Now there is no project, it promotes her agenda ? She said she was in favor of urban renewal, I still have at home the flyer she distributed before the elections. That's it. Now I live in my old apartment and I'm very, very disappointed and what's amazing is that I'm not alone. I have quite a few friends who thought they were on the way to a project and in reality everything is in the city This one is stuck."
"I'm trying to promote a construction project, I've been investing in it for several years, and I'm really discouraged. I talked to the people I work with, and they explained to me how central the city engineer is. They explained that the city engineer decides what goes up for approval and what doesn't. I mean, if the city engineer decides that he is not interested in your project, that's the end of it. I invested a lot in it, I talked to many members of the coalition council and the opposition, and no matter what I did, I was unable to advance the project. Since Klish Rotem became mayor, I feel that things are much more stuck than before. Not to mention that they want a conference A meeting of the sub-committee for planning and construction and 10 council members do not come and the committee does not take place.
I truly believe Ariel Wetterman should go home. His role is very significant and a new city engineer needs to arrive and start fixing what is happening in this city. I look at other cities, some of whose income comes from construction, and Haifa does not. The consequences for this are dangerous, there is talk of the fact that due to the lack of income in the end it will be impossible to pay all the municipality's employees. We want to see a municipality that has a budget for infrastructure and education like we see in other cities and in our city this is not happening.
Waterman also signed big failures from the Yahav era. The most prominent in my opinion is Habiva Reich Street. It screams to the sky this default. No less serious in my eyes is the Naot Peres neighborhood, in the southern entrances of the city. You can look at the southern neighborhoods of the Carmel Castle and see that it is possible to build beautifully, some high-rises. I would never live in a neighborhood that looks like Navot Peres. Half high and half low neighborhood, buildings hide the view from each other. Not to mention the 1,100 units at the price per inhabitant in the second Prize constructions, which are not being carried out. Why is there no problem to build around Haifa, but inside Haifa it is impossible? Neither does Nesher, nor the Carmel Castle, not to mention the Kiryats. Everyone is building except in Haifa. Who is responsible For that, you have to go home and one hour earlier. I really hope we go out on the street and demonstrate against Waterman, it doesn't matter to me in front of his house, in front of the municipality, in front of the director of engineering."
A small look at the WhatsApp group of the architects in Haifa
עAnd a group that is very dissatisfied with the conduct of the director of engineering and the policies of the mayor and MMM is a group of architects in Haifa.
A little peek into their WhatsApp group reveals a lot of criticism and lack of understanding of how the city is run. The main criticism of the group is the huge gap that exists, according to them, between the meetings with Waterman, the director of the licensing department, Waterman's deputy, Michi Alper, and the good intentions revealed in these meetings and between the progress of the projects in the field (intentions are separate and actions are separate).
The architects also complain about a severe lack of manpower in the licensing department. Regarding the city planning department, one of the architects complains in the WhatsApp group that the entrepreneur he works with brought a project to the department, "that the municipality should have jumped on", according to him, and for a year and a half nothing has happened with it. Everything is stuck.
Some of the architects also work outside of Haifa, and they compare the way the engineering manager in Haifa conducts himself with other cities, and this only increases the frustration.
Another complaint raised by the architects is that there is no agenda for the sub-committee for planning and construction, which determines which projects will be approved and which will not. One of the architects clearly writes that there is only one solution for Haifa - a well-read committee one hour earlier. He then suggests re-staffing the engineering director and then the city might have a chance.
Correspondence in the group of architects - architects and residents in Haifa are discouraged by the performance of the engineering director and are planning a demonstration 
Correspondence in the group of architects - architects and residents in Haifa are discouraged by the performance of the engineering director and are planning a demonstration 
Correspondence in the group of architects - architects and residents in Haifa are discouraged by the performance of the engineering director and are planning a demonstration
Jacob Feingold Lahi Fe: The result of the municipality's policy is a decrease in the standard of living of the residents of Haifa
Council member and developer Jacob Feingold agrees with the claims of the architects and residents against the engineering director. "I am strengthening the hands of the residents, who are working against the dysfunction of the director of engineering, which mainly depends on the policies of Mayor Einat Kalish Rotem. The result of the dysfunction is both negative immigration to the city and a decrease in the standard of living of the residents, who remain to live in the city."
His father Han Lahi Fe: "The engineering director is not functioning"
Deputy mayor and chairman of the Green faction Avihu Han agrees with these words. "The director of engineering is not functioning. Applications for balconies and terraces sometimes take between one and two years and even more. Unacceptable, illogical, very serious.
The main preoccupation of the manager with TMA 38 plans. This is not the way to develop a city!
The development of a city is not implemented through TMA 38, but through the processes of urban renewal: the demolition of the old railway buildings and the planning of new neighborhoods while creating a mix of uses, the development of public buildings and the development of required infrastructures.
Sending warning letters to tenants in new neighborhoods about a dangerous building while threatening to pay thousands of NIS in fines will not bring the desired result. The Israeli government and the Ministry of Housing must be mobilized as soon as possible and budgets for the evacuation of buildings and the replacement of the old buildings with new buildings must be promoted!
Unfortunately, during the term of Kalish, Alper and Nachshon Tzuk as the chairman of the local committee for planning and construction, we are in a significant retreat in the ability to develop the city with the required urban architecture.
It does not surprise me that the residents of the city, the developers and the contractors suffer and are disappointed.
It is necessary to make a deep change in the way the engineering manager functions and quickly."
Peace
The mayor of Haifa
The building I live in Bil Ada Kiryat Eliezer
The city engineer arrived and determined that it needed to be repaired
The big crack that opened up was repaired by the tenants
A lot of money to fix.
You will take responsibility Ms. Klish if the building collapses
This will be your responsibility.
Kalisz is one of the biggest failures that Haifa has ever known.
Haifa needs an executive!! A performer who gets things moving and not flightless braggarts who just look at papers and waste time in discussions.
Beyond that, the municipality is paralyzed, no one counts it.
Good public transportation within Haifa between neighborhoods and employment centers and transportation between the neighborhoods and themselves
It is the basis for the restoration of this city and the demand to live in it.
If there is better public transportation in a small town in Kiryat to the Haifa metro station than between a neighborhood in Haifa to the metro station, then it is important for the researcher to understand what is the economic factor and what is happening infrastructurally in this situation
Wait, don't you pay property tax anymore? Only Jews or friars continue to pay?
How come there is no money in the municipality?
What is the fault of the engineering administration. There is someone who leads and determines!!!
Besides, it is good that projects are stalled (at least in the Carmel Ridge), and these stalls that have turned our lives into a nightmare will multiply.
The right protest should be against the approval of one-off projects, against the abnormal construction and against the many deviations!!
Indeed, you absolutely need to tidy up!!!
The planning committee was, before the change council, in the hands of contractors/entrepreneurs who came to make money on us. And they now want to increase the coffers and continue looting public assets.
It also explains why the Greens, the only ones who care about the city, left the Change Council.
and most importantly!!!! - Any construction anomalies and any deviation should be stopped. build only according to the approved plan of the city!!!!!!!
What is the fault of the engineering administration. There is someone who leads and determines!!!
Besides, it is good that projects are stalled (at least in the Carmel Ridge), and these stalls that have turned our lives into a nightmare will multiply.
The right protest should be against the approval of one-off projects, against the abnormal construction and against the many deviations!!
Indeed, you absolutely need to tidy up!!!
The planning committee was, before the change council, in the hands of contractors/entrepreneurs who came to make money on us. And they now want to increase the coffers and teach them how to rob public assets.
It also explains why the Greens, the only ones who care about the city, left the Change Council.
and most importantly!!!! - Any construction anomalies and any deviation should be stopped. build only according to the approved plan of the city!!!!!!!
The policy in the city of Haifa is to bury the rights of the landowners, trample on their dignity and property and in this way continue to destroy the city. The construction freeze for the 11,000 apartments in the Carmel Range in the complexes intended for residential construction is only the tip of the iceberg of greed and corruption. The planned terror applied to everyone who is not close to the ruling plate and to those who do not hire the oppressors is the characteristic of a crumbling environment. The scoundrel with the beard who hasn't taken his nose out of the bunker in Lebanon for years has come across a cobweb. The problem is that there are no cobwebs here, for the innocent and honest citizen it is much worse than cobwebs, this is the disintegration of the Jewish state, this is the essence of the dream of the New Israel Fund (under its correct name, which is disguised as the New Israel Fund). There is no doubt that the fund's emissaries were successful - the country is facing total dissolution - the real estate market is about to collapse - and the associates have already smuggled a lot of money and property abroad. The question that is asked is who is the last to turn off the light at Ben Gurion Airport, everything else is trifles, so building permits for 11,000 apartments are being prevented, who cares anyway, after all, we are not talking about insiders...
I know businessmen who have lost all their money in this city, run away like fire guys, I'm really not kidding
The municipality should support urban renewal and prepare it.
For example, to replace sewer infrastructures and widen sidewalks and squares in neighborhoods that will undergo evacuation and construction.
For example, build new schools from community centers and parks and facilities that will be ready to receive the thousands of new students.
For example, to appoint a deputy mayor who will hold the urban renewal portfolio and take care of increased public transportation for these neighborhoods.
For example, a basket of benefits for new businesses that will enter the same neighborhoods for commercial floors in new buildings.
There are like this 50 things that the municipality can do to promote the neighborhoods.
But there is one problem that prevents everything and also prevented everything at Yahav: the money only goes to roads and interchanges and bypasses of Yaffe Nof.
This company robbed the future of Haifa and buried it with huge deficits in what it carried out and created a crooked order of priorities in which
The money goes to asphalt and not to real urban development in the old neighborhoods that are dying for development.
This situation is known to everyone. That's how we lost 15,000 Haifaites who went to Gali Carmel, Kordani, Givat Harkafot, Atlit and much more
Instead of building a future for them in Haifa, we let other cities build them apartments at a price per resident and attract them from Haifa.
The architects' protest? In "ha" the news?? And maybe most architects are protesting the opposite, against the wild construction projects that are destroying the urban fabric? If the "presenter" of the protest is Yaakov Feingold, the developer of the fiery tower in Kiryat Safar square, that already explains everything... It's only strange that Cha-Fa did not express himself, as is customary in the press , also to the representatives of the opposite opinion, which is probably the opinion of the majority.
Bibi's leftovers.
All the elected officials during Bibi's time are not functioning
were inspired by Bibi's work and function.
The failed, degenerate left will further blame "Bibi" who rescued the country 3 times from recession and the destruction of the Oslo disaster and the victims of peace created in the leftist governments. Fortunately, Bennett took power, but he is surrounded by a policy of extravagance and bribery to extort 10 times the amount given to the ultra-Orthodox under Netanyahu, and the results of legislation such as connecting electricity to houses without permits will lead to a security criminal jungle combined with unemployment that will collapse society and the economy here. Today we see the results of the criminal rampage due to the castration of the police by Barak and Ben Ami, after the report of the Or committee to hide the terror of the October riots and directly to the lynchings of 2021.
Jerusalem studies, Tel Aviv dances and Haifa works for the residents! In Haifa, which suffers from a huge backlog and freezes to save itself, at the fault of the mayors who are subordinate to the bureaucrats who do as they please, with huge salaries. I propose to declare a strike on property tax payments to hit the fat pockets of the senior officials and to call for the removal of the useless city council members, led by the mayor who is driven by personal whims and arrogance. that humiliates its inhabitants! I propose to stop the property tax payments as early as next month.
Enough talking nonsense. Klish is not one of the Likud candidates, she is the leftist opposite of Mar'etz. Enough to blame, so we go, just not Bibi. hey The municipality must change, everything is not functioning because if the budget is not transferred and there is nothing to do with new projects, then there is nothing. As for Klish's decisions, she needs to approve a budget for new employees for all departments. Because there is a real lack of personnel in all the departments just because they retired and it was not the outrageous entry. . The municipality was shrunk only to throw laundry workers out of the municipality. Let it fly!!!!!!
Please pay respect to the lovely paratrooper Rike!!! (and not Reich).
The main person responsible is a dairy farmer from Kfar Galim Hadva Almog who worked in the construction field during the days of Yona Yahav, and the unfortunate and unfortunate Habiva Reik Street, under her personal responsibility!!!
The municipal workers are right.
What is urgently needed is a called committee or elections.
The public is eager to replace the current failure.
We can't wait two years. The elections are in October 2023 and until there is a functioning coalition it is 2024.
Haifa needs new leadership now and immediately.
We must appeal to the High Court in front of the Minister of the Interior to compel her to order elections in the absence of a coalition and in the absence of a budget and in the disintegration of the functioning of the mayor and the municipality which is falling and failing day by day and if we wait until 2024 it will be much more difficult to fix
I tried to respond, according to all the instructions and the asterisks. Didn't work, even though details are kept with you.
why not? Indeed, things are moving in an exceptional way. Shabbos Shalom
To the criminal Odeh Blehino? We whitened…
The engineering administration is a symptom of the entire municipality.
The scope of construction in recent years in Haifa justifies work for only one architectural firm. Let the architects decide among themselves who stays here. It is also possible every year like the cooks.
Haifa is a stuck city with no vision and no development as long as Klish and Rothman control the development of the city nothing will move.
Good luck guys, I've already passed
Indeed, the programs that were almost closed during Yona Yahav's time were stopped and frozen by Klish!!!! This is Olive Street in Kiryat Eliezer!!! There were meetings with everyone involved in the process including with Yona Yahav and if all the residents, it is a life-threatening situation and all the reasons mentioned in the article and in the comments - Klish stopped everything! All over the country mayors have set up and run construction evacuation processes because they understand the importance of the matter - cliché, wake up! Wake up the engineering manager and the entire division concerned - get out of the bubble!
The default neighborhoods of the Engineering Administration:
Givat Zemar - a low construction that shaved off the entire Huadi with huge retaining walls instead of concentrating on the height near the Hankin axis
Vardia Slopes - Shaving an entire wadi for an unnecessary road with 5 buildings and the creation of a huge quarry when it was possible to exchange land for the developer Banaot Peres
Neot Peres - one third of the neighborhood are apartments without a view in housing buildings, instead of building a space for height like in Gali Carmel. Instead of closed complexes cut off from the stadium, we got a main road that needs to be blocked at every game. Kindergartens on the most dangerous intersection in the neighborhood.
Carmel Ridge - Tama 38 Feroah. From a 2-story addition, it became 3 and also 3 and a half stories. There are no parking solutions. Huge traffic jams from the addition of hundreds of vehicles on streets that were not designed for the addition and neighborhoods that are already congested without any exit roads. The necessary 100 meter connection between Ramat Begin and Freud Road has not been completed for two decades.
Habiva Reich - an absolute jungle of condensation in huge multipliers, demolition and rebuilding and additions without normal planning, hoadi destruction, buildings peering into other buildings. Instead of a constructive evacuation, there is a concentration of torture.
Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Housing - in the city center there are 11 buildings that are housing, most of the apartments have no view. There is no underground parking lot to spare for entrepreneurs, and instead of a square and a commercial floor there are huge parking lots and a tiny garden in the center of the parking lots.
The base evacuation neighborhood in Stella Maris - a strange design of only 400 apartments instead of 800 apartments, a construction wall dense to the cliff, without a wide boardwalk and without spaces between the buildings, with a very low density and one suspects that these are improper interests.
Kabir Carmelia Shambor and Derech Hayam Tetza 38 - puzzling approval for a number of developers to exceed the permitted heights in Tama 38. Construction of 8.5 stories instead of 6 and a half.
Varda Lieberman is a land redeemer - she saved land in Dania that could not be built on and even took care of the utilization of a nearby urban area.
If the public would only read the State Comptroller's reports on the failures of the city engineer in Haifa. The bridge maintenance failure in which it turned out that the municipality does not even know how many bridges there are because there is no proper registration. The failure of the illegal buildings of the developer Mizrahi and Sons in Ramat Dania. Failure to report falsely without expropriation to try to move the 22-story tower in Safar square.
The lack of enforcement on illegal construction in the Arab and ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods (everything disappeared at Yahav's in the drawers and now at Kalish's in the drawers. When there is already enforcement, then they let it age in the drawers and then whiten it). Failure to follow up on illegal construction additions in all Haifa Bay factories!!! Black on white in the State Comptroller's report, that the Haifa city engineer's answers are evasive and there has been a failure for many years in monitoring construction in factories in the Haifa Bay, including the storage of hazardous materials!!!
Habiva Reich and Neot Peres failed in a horrible plan. Instead of neighborhoods with a view in closed complexes, a neighborhood in the middle of which is a main road with low-rise housing. The construction failure at Kiryat Eliezer Stadium. Instead of an urban center with a commercial floor and a square - housing estates around a parking lot and a tiny playground, 80 percent of the apartments have no view. In Naot Peres, a third of the apartments do not have a view unless reality dictates. Why is our son so short?
Habiva Reich's omission instead of new construction to the height of the destruction of an entire Wadi with huge density multipliers contrary to the entire original plan created a mess.
Everything is going wrong. Support for destructive plans for the future of Haifa such as the bitumen plant in the new Gulf port. The permission to build a bridge to connect the Gulf port that blocks activity in Kishon.. If only the public knew...
To the criminal Odeh Blehino? We whitened…
Indeed, the director of engineering failed miserably in his function, there is no disputing that and there is not a single defender of his conduct.
A particularly impressive "success" will be attributed to the director of engineering, and it lies in the issuance of defective building permits and in violation of the law for entrepreneurs who specialized in destroying streets and neighborhoods within the framework of TMA 38, such as Habiva Street in Ramot Ramez, the Shambor neighborhood in West Carmel and the entire Carmel Ridge.
Instead of engaging in evacuation-construction plans in the complex of the many dangerous buildings in the coastal neighborhoods, Kiryat Eliezer and Maginim Street and planning entire neighborhoods within the framework of modern urban renewal, including advanced urban infrastructure, schools, kindergartens, well-kept playgrounds, streets designed for fast and efficient traffic flow with adequate parking and transportation Adequate public, the engineering director, together with the construction licensing department, is busy with illegal TMA 38 projects for the benefit of the developers and for the benefit of greedy tenants who want to upgrade their apartments at the expense of the neighbors' quality of life, while changing the color of the area, erecting ugly concrete blocks instead of ancient trees and existing green lungs and putting entire streets into noisy and dusty construction sites and blocking streets for many years.
It will be said here in the most clear and responsible way that any connection between the buildings being destroyed in the Carmel Ridge under the auspices of TAMA 38 and the strengthening of the existing buildings to withstand earthquakes is extremely coincidental!! There is an industry of deception and cheating on a scale that cannot be described by the Haifa municipality through the failed engineering manager.
It is assumed that all the residents of the Carmel Ridge along with the residents of the really dangerous buildings, from which urban renewal is prevented, will come to account on the day of the mayoral elections, although that day is still far away and until then the top of the engineering director will continue the total destruction of the city.