(live here in the bay) - Another and significant step towards the realization of the 'Gateway to the Bay' vision - the development of the northern metropolis • The Editorial Committee for Haifa Bay approved the plan for the development of Haifa Bay submitted by the Israel Land Authority. The importance of the plan is that it is a statutory plan that presents a real alternative to the Gulf. Even if you delay, she will eventually arrive, that is what is expected in Haifa and the cities of the Kiryats.
The Planning Administration and the Israel Land Authority informed Lahi Pa:
The committee of editors for the Haifa Bay decided on the alternative detailing what the bay will include the day after the factories are evacuated.
The Editorial Committee for the Development of Haifa Bay, headed by the Deputy Director of the Planning Administration, Liat Peled, approved today (Thursday, September 8.9.22, 75) the alternative to the Outline Plan for the Promotion and Development of the Haifa Bay Area (TMA XNUMX), which was formulated and prepared by the Israel Lands Authority. This is a significant step in promoting the Haifa Bay plan.
Residence, employment, commerce and open spaces
As part of the committee's deliberations, the planning team of the Israel Land Authority presented several alternatives and examined the future land designations for the complexes built within the area of the factories and their surroundings. Also, the layout of the residential, employment and industrial areas and their scope was examined as well as the layout of the metropolitan park area and other open areas in the area.
The detailed plans that will be advanced in accordance with the outline plan could include estimated volumes of: 130,000 housing units, 5,500,000 square meters for employment areas, 4,400,000 for public buildings, 3,000,000 for commercial areas, 14,000 square meters for hotels and a metropolitan park on an area of 5,300 dunams.
Changing the future of Haifa Bay
The chosen alternative outlines the changing face of the future in Haifa Bay while creating a continuous urban connection between the Kiryat and the city of Haifa and links to employment centers in the area, with the aim of strengthening the Haifa metropolis and balancing residential areas, employment and industry, while reducing the use of private vehicles and accessibility of the area's residents to the open spaces. In addition, the alternative proposes the future land designations for residences and employment in the area of the factories and guarantees the existence of a high-quality metropolitan park, with an extent of 5,300 dunams, which will rest on the Kishon stream and will then connect to the park downstream of the Kishon.
Gulf Gate
The "Gate of the Gulf" plan (TMA 75) is an outline plan for the development of the area which is the basis for the detailed planning and the main purpose of which is to establish a set of land designations, including residential (with the scope of 100,000-140,000 housing units), employment, commerce, industry, logistics, open spaces and infrastructure and establishing instructions and guidelines for preparing detailed plans.
Quality of life for the residents of the Gulf
The plan focuses on improving the quality of life of the residents of the Gulf, through economic, planning and environmental levers that will change the demographic and socio-economic trends that exist today in the Gulf, which should lead to significant urban development, which has the potential to change the character of the entire area, from an area that is mainly heavy industry to an area that combines residences, Employment, clean industry and green spaces.
CEO of the Israel Land Authority, Yankee Quint:
"I see a significant achievement and great importance in the editorial committee's decision, since it is a step after which the plan documents will be prepared and submitted for discussion in the national planning institutions, with the aim of laying the foundation for the long-term change of the surface of the bay and bringing about an improvement in the quality of the environment and the lives of the residents of the area and the entire metropolis."
Director General of the Planning Administration, Rafi Elmaleh:
"The approval of the alternative today is a significant step towards realizing the vision of the Gulf Gate in accordance with the government's decision to evacuate the petrochemical industry from the heart of the Haifa Bay, which will lead to an improvement in the quality of life of the residents of the Haifa metropolis in general and the city of Haifa in particular. The chosen alternative strikes the proper balance between residential development, employment and open spaces, including a significant expansion of the metropolitan park".
Dr. Yuval Arbel, VP at the "Tzulul" association, presents reservations to the plan presented by Rami:
An alternative that pushes most of the metropolitan park to the southeast corner is wrong.
100 families who will live in the area that will be developed for housing will need the open space next to the new neighborhoods within walking distance and not near the Yagur interchange.
Also, the plan was damaged due to Hani's takeover of the area down the Kishon. The logistics complex of Hani down the Kishon should be canceled or reduced, the park there should be expanded.
It is quite strange that there is no slide explaining the centrality of the Gulf region in relation to the city of Haifa and the metropolis
Also, in order to illustrate the centrality of the Gulf, there is a lack of a slide explaining the public transportation system, the centrality of the Gulf, road 75 connection to road 6, tunnels, etc.
In my opinion, it is very clear that the head of the team is not an architect!
I have an answer Yaron and it lies in a small story. In 2003, Transport Minister Ephraim Senna defined the airport in Haifa as an essential national project and David Butzer, vice president of the Technion, was appointed to head the project which was supposed to extend runways into the sea, 2400 m. There were even decisions and they wanted an international entity to build and manage Israel's second airport.
That was 20 years ago, we all know the end of it. In the middle there was a twist that Mofaz canceled the airport in Haifa and agreed to build the airport at the Megiddo airport, which will only be called the Haifa International Airport with a train between the city and the airport. We all know how it ends too.
In those years, as an optimistic student, a Technion professor (whose name I will not say, but he influences state planning to this day and into the future) said that there was no chance that a decision on an airport would come to fruition, and everything that was approved was to take the pressure off the ministers and for reasons of media propaganda without implementation. And he added: The same method will be applied to the polluting industry in Haifa Bay. Decisions will be made, alternatives will be examined, one alternative will be moved there, another alternative here. Optimistic headlines, here the polluting industry is being replaced in a new city. He literally predicted the current media circus. Then he said: And you will notice, among all the statements and just like an airport, that they always don't talk about the implementation. Where will it go? how to clean the ground Who will bear the costs? In which alternative location will the industry move. How will the airport affect the Haifa port's sea drying development plan (this was before the Gulf port when everything was still in the blueprints at Hani).
And how right he was. And how sad it is that this story of how to communicate the national project of an airport in the north of the country repeats itself in almost exact lines in these committees that discuss plans and outlines for Haifa Bay without giving clear timetables, alternative sites, determining the responsibility for cleaning the land, determining clear deadlines and milestones for implementation. He just read this prank correctly on both the aviation issue and the gulf polluters issue. They are working on us with their eyes, a show that is all temporary election propaganda and not a transition.
A few more years will come, like with the airport in Haifa, and they will cancel the decisions (some excuse will be found already).
The indifference of the residents of Haifa and the Kerios is the basis of the success of these fraudulent presentations, again and again.
Please allow the presentation to be downloaded to the computer. At the moment it is not possible to view the presentation at all?!
Why in this article does no one ask, neither in the planning administration, nor in the RMI, nor in the newspapers, who will clean up the land of the petrochemical and refinery plants??? This is land that has been polluted for decades in a human way... Will they also give the tycoons a "haircut" and fire them here? Is it obligatory to return the compound with clean land that allows life and residence??
I ask: where will the budget for cleaning the area come from? Shalom and blessed Sabbath.
The politicians will pass it on in a combine to their friends so they can cut another coupon ♂️ ??
Before they make a legal evacuation plan or issue an evacuation and cleanup order.
Dreams in asphyxia.
Talk like sand. . .
Let's be optimistic.. maybe our grandchildren will enjoy it
And where will the money for cleaning the area come from? Just for comparison - land is much more expensive - Arsuf, perhaps the most expensive land in the country, has been desolate for thirty years because there is no money to clean up the remains of the IDF plant that exploded there. So as long as there is no investment by the state, in the order of ten billion NIS, in cleaning The pollution, nothing will happen in the compound in Zan. It's a shame that it is so.
130,000 apartments is a city the size of Tel Aviv with half a million inhabitants.
Just understand the indirect damage caused by the polluting industry.