The Coalition for Urban Nature and Sane Construction against cutting down trees in the Carmelia neighborhood
The Coalition for Urban Nature and Sane Construction issued a harsh letter to the municipality, in which it calls on it to act against the cutting of trees in the project on Lotos Street 23 in the Carmelia neighborhood. According to the coalition, cutting down the trees in the project is disproportionate to the construction on the site.
"At 23 Lotus Street, the execution of the TMA 38 demolition and construction project began," the coalition wrote, "the project turned a modest building with a green facade into a gray facade. In the process of preparing the land, we believe that a number of serious failures were committed in preserving the trees, which are an important pillar in the public space of Lotus Street."
keep the remaining trees
From the coalition for urban nature and sane construction, in a letter addressed to the director of the inspection department in the engineering directorate, Nir Levy, and the forestry planning and licensing supervisor, Avi Nebo, the steps the municipality should take from their point of view. The first step that the coalition demands is the preservation of the two trees that still remain in the lot. In order for the trees to be able to last in the lot, a minimum area of land and retaining walls must be returned to their surroundings. The second step is to check the developer's intentions regarding the ficus tree in the adjacent building, at Lotos Street 21. According to the coalition, the developer also intends to take down the old tree in the adjacent lot.
Publish the tree survey report
The coalition asks the municipality to publish the full tree survey report of the lot, and also to involve the municipal inspection, in order to check whether all the fellings were carried out in accordance with proper procedure. The building portfolio accessible to the public on the Engineering Administration website. This took place partially in the past and has not taken place at all for several months now. This is required in order to allow the residents to know which trees are intended for preservation/copying/cutting and for what reasons, as befits a proper administrator," it says. In addition, the coalition requests to present felling licenses in an accessible and clear manner, including an explanation/reason as well as the dates and validity of each permit.
Extensive felling of trees in the demolition and construction project at 2 Lotus Street - the letter sent to the Haifa Municipality:
What is happening at the construction sites?
It should be noted that residents who live near a construction site cannot always follow the cutting of trees there. Many cannot notice or notice what is happening or recognize if the cutting of the trees that is being carried out is according to the plan and the permits. The Coalition for Urban Nature is a body that can be contacted in order to examine what is being done in lots and sites where construction is taking place.
The municipality informed Lahi Fe in response that the residents' appeal had not been received by the municipality until this hour. If a request is received, it will be answered as accepted.
Lotus Street was green and pleasing to the eye. Becomes a very crowded street, the buildings are huge with no spaces for neighbors. becomes very gray and very stuffy.
In short, the standard of living is going down and the residents who used to have 4-6 tenants today 12-20 think that they have gained something, they don't realize that they have lost big, both the environment and the shared rights in the lot have been robbed from them. Add to that the lack of greenery and the hiding of the view, noise, air and light of most of the buildings and an ever-increasing crowding that in this case is also increasingly blocking the entrance artery to an entire neighborhood (Carmelia).
Soon we will get an index as less Tama 38 is expected on the street and does not inflate above and beyond its carrying capacity, this way it will become more and more prestigious because people will look for quiet, ample parking and not hiding an open view. Already today, realtors are busy checking what will be built around an apartment for sale because that's all the buyers' questions and deals fall on a building surrounded by Tama 38, even one that will pass by itself.. People are starting to understand that Tama 38 is the elimination of their quality of life around the building and on the entire street.
The city is on the way to artificial vegetation or poor gardening:
Every felling of a tree is net damage to the city and its soul! This is an injury to the neighborhoods, the streets and to each and every house in the city - an injury to the atmosphere, to the green appearance, to the essential shading for our very hot country. This is the destruction of old trees, which grow completely naturally, without watering, without care or maintenance. Nature gave them to us for free, what a shame we don't know how to appreciate it.
And the substitutes offered by the contractors, the ones that are boring and destructive, are a joke and a mockery of the city and the residents.
Say you idiots. In Haifa there is only destruction and no protest will help. Don't you understand yet?
Leaving trees near houses is like leaving gasoline barrels near houses.
Protection strips must be created around houses.
The best shutdown is prevention.
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