"We continue to destroy the green landscape that characterizes the city of Haifa"
Just two days ago (17/1/22) Tu Bashvat, the holiday of tree planting and tree planting, was noted, but there are those who claim that in Haifa the hand is light on the trigger precisely as far as circumcisions are concerned...
Forestry official
What do you do when an urban renewal project is approved and there are trees in the area?
The answer: contact the forestry official. The role of the forest official is to determine which of the trees should be preserved despite the construction. If the forestry official ordered the preservation of certain trees, he will also decide on the manner of preservation. One option is to move the trees to another location, the other option is to instruct the contractor to carry out the construction in the area while taking into account the existing trees.
For the contractor, this means a "headache", in the vernacular. Most of the time, the efforts to consider the trees will be difficult for the construction, will be an obstacle in the use of the heavy tools and will greatly hinder the current work in the field.
Conflicting interests
From this we can conclude to what extent the role of the forestry official serves an acute function in preserving the green appearance of the city. There is a situation of conflicting interests here. For the residents of the city, the preservation of the trees, certainly the oldest ones, is of great importance. There is the ecological aspect, which is already known throughout the world to be of utmost importance. There is the air purification provided by the trees, and in Haifa this advantage even takes on a new effect in light of the extreme air pollution. The natural and green appearance, the ornamental and the shade, all of these constitute one of the well-known and beloved characteristics of the urban environment, and many will take this detail into account when choosing where to determine their residence. In addition, trees also have an acoustic benefit, when they can soften the noise of the urban environment, whether it is cars, buses, etc.
On the other side, there is the contractor, who is supposed to be interested in doing the work with minimal obstacles on the way and maximizing profits as much as possible. The trees, in his case, have something to disrupt the plans.
"Policy that facilitates the cutting down of trees and their destruction"
Council member Adv. Sharit Golan Steinberg says to Hai Fe:
"During the current term, we held a number of discussions in the Environmental Quality Committee regarding the lenient policy of cutting down trees and destroying them in the city. To date, we have not yet been presented with a systematic policy of the mayor, and what we will discover before our eyes is the continuation of the green scenic destruction that characterizes the city of Haifa. If in the past Haifa was characterized by walking in Green streets, after all, the pedestrian today meets gray concrete buildings. It was expected of a mayor who prides herself on her profession as a city planner and who signed the "Paris Agreement" (an international agreement established by the UN Climate Conference, which obliges the countries and cities that sign it to act to minimize climate damage), which Allow the granting of licenses for cutting down trees with a generous hand."
The house at 45 Yotam St
In recent months, a Facebook group called "Protecting the Carmel neighborhoods from the spread of real estate."", and is gaining impressive momentum. The group was opened in order to fight the massive construction in Carmel and urban renewal projects, which while in motion harm the health of the green areas in the city. In the last few days, the group announced the plan to move trees from the area at 45 Yotam Street to another address, to allow for renewed construction on the spot.
The manager of the group is Sara, who lives in West Carmel. Sarah tells Hai here:
"As a long-time resident of one of the Carmel neighborhoods, I see every day anew what is being done in the city and for me it is clear that water has reached the soul. The projects are multiplying, whether it is TMA 38 or other projects of a larger scale. Each such project means more ecological damage, more felling of vegetation and trees, more trampling of wild flower bulbs that are damaged with every building that is destroyed and with every piece of land that is dug up. In every building that is demolished and excavated, even without cutting down, the tubers and trees are damaged as a result of the work. Carmel is unique from so many aspects, these are neighborhoods where every house is unique, the amount of damage to nature and the city's appearance is a cry for generations and the erasure of heritage for future generations.
"A new planting is not a substitute"
The Carmel is a place that should be left without massive changes and preserve its unique and precious color. The works are being done on such a large scale and with aggressive means in all the neighborhoods in Carmel. There are entire streets that are simply unrecognizable without the trees and vegetation that were there and characterized them. New planting is not a replacement for what was there. That's why, about a year ago, I started a group on Facebook whose purpose is to tell the decision makers in this city: that's it! "Protecting the Carmel neighborhoods from the spread of real estate"! The goal is to bring to public awareness the damage that has been done here and is still in progress. Damage and fatal damage to the natural values and the appearance of intact and unique neighborhoods."
This is what Wolf wrote in one of the posts in the group:
"The small and pastoral house at 45 Yotam St. corner of Shimshon St. in Carmel in the late Haifa.
And now they will start building a tall concrete building, and what will happen to the surrounding cypress trees?
No response was received from Haifa Municipality.
What does murder have to do with trees?
We got a little confused.
Then they wonder why there is violence in the street.
A tree is very important even more than what was mentioned in the article but the person is more important.
Tama 38 - The lots are completely shaved for parking lots. Parking lots to sell apartments to people who will get stuck with these hundreds of additional vehicles when leaving the neighborhoods. So we need more "emergency" exits (that's the excuses) at the expense of Uadit, which means thousands more trees will be cut down. This is how Haifa is destroying itself from the inside, as if the external economic forces that negatively affect its position are not enough.
The sane 3-4 story construction with a garden and a green buffer between buildings is replaced by ugly 7-8 story buildings, next to each other, window to window, density and acoustic noise, zero space for trees in the lots, zero trees on the sidewalks - so you have to walk in the sun (see Wedg Street 'Wood - disaster) then the public is no longer on the streets and the city is deserted. Basically what is produced is a wasteland of concrete and concrete.
And a method that simply destroys the climate and urban nature that distinguish Haifa. Sad but it happens every day, Tama 38 does not leave
Even one bush in the lots for parking lots... the results are very difficult. Streets that were pleasant to walk and spend time in were emptied. Only traffic jams morning and evening due to the excessive load of the addition of hundreds of units in neighborhoods that were not designed for this.
Haifa municipality must recognize its failure. The mayor must go home.
Isn't it a pity for the trees? The plan for the southern entrances B - the area that separates the Carmel Castle and the Sami Ofer Stadium and Neot Peres A - includes 173 amazing olive trees, some with thick trunks that are hundreds of years old - they are all destined to be removed from Haifa. Why? Since they will create a plan that is destructive to nature, the environment and people - the southern entrances plan B - 5,072 apartments before the easements, about 6,500 apartments in practice - while eliminating Nahal Amiram and Nahal Ovadia (after Nahal Achoza was eliminated in Naot Peres A) - putting the streams into expensive piping under the roads Hoping that there won't be a rainstorm that will bring down the entire (expensive and unnecessary) infrastructure in borrowed grief. The planning cancels the 100 dunam urban park - the same urban park that was supposed to save Nahal Amiram - and which was approved as part of the 2000 plan - the comprehensive plan for the city of Haifa - coming into effect in March 2019. Thus, unique olive trees that have no equal in the city of Haifa are being destroyed. And this along with many other trees, this is how streams are eliminated and nature is unnecessarily turned upside down, until we get another flood - nature is simply expected to punish its destroyers - this is the way of the Haifa municipality and it is still possible to stop and fix it - the hearing in the Supreme Court is very close - p.a. M 6730/19 Bornstein v. The District Committee and the Municipality of Haifa - and no one moves a finger to help us - we are standing at the front - in the face of all the expected destruction and no one is complaining and beeping - this way it is not possible to fight the destruction of nature - 050-7288177
At Shunamit Street 13, as part of the TAMA project, an old carob tree that gave fruit and shade was uprooted, only because the contractor lacked 2 meters for a parking space. This made me very angry.
Behind the building were primroses and all winter the lot was filled with beautiful primroses. Last winter, before they started digging, I took out all the cyclamen bulbs and planted them in my beds and enjoyed what cyclamen do every winter.
There will be a shadow! We won't see the sun from many high-rise buildings!
The crime around the trees and the extortion of the money! There is simply no law and no justice!
The harmful pine trees were planted to preserve the land for Jewish construction and today also Arab! These are not trees for conservation, they are just stealing from us!!!
It's time for the Moshmush municipality to start planting trees on the sidewalks!!!!
And don't build on the trees in the private areas, we're tired of this invasion of privacy!!!
Look at the building on Kaspari Street, where they took down about 600 healthy and beautiful pine trees, look at the construction below Vardia, where they took down an entire side of a mountain where we picked mushrooms as children, in my opinion this is an ongoing crime
We knew and unfortunately we also saw that pine trees are very dangerous in urban areas,
Planting them in the first place was a very stupid move.
There is a neighbor here on Machaniim Street (opposite the auditorium) who renovated the building. and took down some 20 trees himself. No, without talking to anyone.
so? does anyone care
We were in Mrs. Klish's home circles.
She and her faction spoke about the protection of Haifa's unique nature.
For fostering unity and maintaining a sane construction.
She handed out leaflets full of promises and ideas
Where is all this…
Where are the promises...
Where is the preservation of the character of Carmel...
It is not enough to stand and promise, you have to fulfill. Read the leaflet that she handed out in the 2018 elections, some speeches about the special nature and the preservation of Huadith
Where are all the talks and the people who promised and promised...
Michal and to all the residents of Haifa, for your information, the mayor of Haifa, Dr. Einat Kalish-Rotem, continues to work day and night for all the residents of Haifa of all denominations and nations in the city of Haifa, with honesty, loyalty, devotion and unusual modesty. A pleasant evening. Haifa has never had a head A city like Dr. Einat Kalish Rotem. Therefore, please stop slandering her. I know that it bothers you that a brave woman is the mayor of a city.
Ofra is right, Shimshon Street, for those who know the street from the fifties and sixties of the last century, it was the camp lot. An area without buildings when between the trees lived the one who was the dancer of Haifa Bentzi who built a hut and lived in it with his family the whole area is planted with pine trees. He did not allow anything to be planted around the pine trees and they cause a lot of dirt. And worst of all, if, God forbid, a fire breaks out on Shimshon Street, they will damage as many as dozens of houses. What then will all the ultra-Orthodox say about the peace of the trees?
I am on the house committee at Sderot Hanasi 119-121. Several years ago the Haifa municipality decided to renovate the Carmel center. In front of our house was an area that belonged to a building and the Haifa municipality expropriated it for landscaping. There was a nice garden here and decades-old trees, which isolated the building from the noise of the street. In our building there are about 60 residential apartments and a business floor below.
We met with the representatives of the municipality and expressed our desire not to damage the landscaping in front of the building. It was the period of Yona Yahav's reign. Neither he nor his representatives listened to us. They cut down beautiful trees here. When I raised a shout and called the municipality I was told that the trees were cut down because they were sick. This is of course a lie. I am a biologist by profession and can testify that the trees were perfectly healthy.
The result, the garden was destroyed. Instead, they paved the area and built an amphitheater here that is used for jumping on skateboards and bicycles of Bnei Tishhorot. Downstairs they stuck a piano for us (in front of a residence). This piano is mostly used for banging on by bored cleaning workers and kids passing by. They destroyed the quality of life for the residents of the building.
Her appeal to the current mayor was not answered. She ignored us.
On the other hand, many pine trees in Carmel cause a lot of tirade, the falling needles are also dirty and nothing could grow on the ground either. The glue stains and damages the paint of the cars parked next to the trees, and a pine nut that fell on my granddaughter's head caused an injury that required sewing up the cut. In addition, it is a very flammable tree, so it is better to cut down the pine trees and plant more environmentally friendly trees in their place. There are many varieties that can be a substitute. Old houses should be renovated or demolished and new ones built in their place, and if there is no choice, trees should also be cut down. Residents should also be given the opportunity to improve their living conditions,
Ofra is right, Shimshon Street, for those who know the street from the fifties and sixties of the last century, it was the camp lot. An area without buildings when between the trees lived the one who was the dancer of Haifa Bentzi who built a hut and lived in it with his family the whole area is planted with pine trees. He did not allow anything to be planted around the pine trees and they cause a lot of dirt. And worst of all, if, God forbid, a fire breaks out on Shimshon Street, they will damage as many as dozens of houses. What then will all the ultra-Orthodox say about the peace of the trees?
Yes. Undoubtedly, the hand is very light on the trigger. And the results are well reflected in the Carmel neighborhoods. Every new construction site looks like a clearing after many trees have been cut down.
(By the way, the landscaping of the brand new buildings is not a substitute for the trees that were cut down, some of them are not taken in and/or fail to develop because the ground beneath them is thin soil and usually hides a large amount of acidic construction waste underneath).
It's murder for everything, just shocking.