Architect Shmuel Galbhart, former deputy mayor of Haifa, surprises in an interview in the "Lens of Local" studio with the support he gave to mayor Einat Kalish regarding the high-rise building policy document in the city.
The interview is broadcast as part of a collaboration between "Edsa Local" and the "Hai Fe" website.
Building to height: Architect Shmuel Galbhart surprises in an interview at the "Lens Local" studio with the support he gave to Mayor Einat Kalish
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Architect Galbhart's words, carved in rock. Haifa has indeed exhausted its internal growth. Every building addition lowers the quality of life in the city.
The time has come for Haifa not to lag behind Tel Aviv and the center in innovation, progress and modernization.
True, to be equal to Tel Aviv and the center will take a generation,
Tel Aviv "stole" the hegemony for development, progress and innovation from Haifa whose natural and geographical conditions are superior to Tel Aviv.
So, they invested in building higher and demolished all the old buildings except for those of historical value in Haifa and especially in the lower city and in Hadar HaCarmel.
Also take care of a green environment and parking lots around the high-rise construction.
Successfully !!!!
The time has come for Haifa not to lag behind Tel Aviv and the center in innovation, progress and modernization.
True, to be equal to Tel Aviv and the center will take a generation,
Tel Aviv "stole" the hegemony for development, progress and innovation from Haifa whose natural and geographical conditions are superior to Tel Aviv.
So, they invested in building to a height and demolishing all the old buildings except those of historical value in Haifa and especially in the lower city and in Hadar HaCarmel.
Also take care of a green environment and parking lots around the high-rise construction.
Successfully !!!!
Tel Aviv has different geographic data than the city of Haifa, so there is no room for comparison.
It is possible to make 100 policy documents. As soon as it is written in them that discretion is left to the city engineer's office, then every contractor will come and get what he wants from the city engineer. What policy document leaves such an opening to act as opposed to write in it? Mr. Gelabhart, did you read the document all the way through? Because I do and it's perforated like Swiss cheese and on purpose.
It is possible to limit to 6 floors and immediately after that write that in the circumstances of the lot and the need to make a profit, exceptions will be allowed. If you allow endless exceptions, what is a policy worth? To say there is? For the money??
Where are 30 floors being built right now - David's building. In small and crowded streets that drain to the President's level and all of this drains to one axis of the Sea Road. What do you expect to happen? That today's traffic jams will be 4 or 5 times higher on the sea route, so will they remember that the infrastructure in Neve David does not support the addition of thousands of vehicles?
This whole city is run like a circus and the main person responsible for incessant omissions, when you only have to say "Dear Reich" and everyone already understands what level of omissions can be reached without prior planning, is Mr. Ariel Waterman. The amount of mistakes and omissions passed under him can correspond to 10 city engineers.