The District Court in Jerusalem today (Tuesday 27/12/22) accepted the petition of the residents of Dania in Haifa and annulled the decision of the district committee, which approved the "Green Dania" plan.
Today (Tuesday) in the District Court in Jerusalem, Judge Eli Abarbanel accepted the claim of the petitioners, according to which the "Green Dania" program could harm the safety of the residents of the neighborhood. Judge Abarbanel stated in the ruling that the district committee that approved the construction did not take into account the opinions expressed before it, regarding the possibility of a fire trap being created in the Dania neighborhood if a fire breaks out and the residents of the neighborhood are forced to evacuate quickly. The judge noted that today there are two exits from the Dania neighborhood that drain into one axis - Abba Khushi Street.
According to the judge, the district committee did not examine the expected traffic loads at the intersections connecting the neighborhood to the Abba Khushi axis during an emergency, nor the expected confrontation during it. The judge pointed out that the whole issue should be considered by a professional, in order to understand what the residents will be required to do during an emergency and if the new plan could increase the risk they will find themselves in.
Judge Abarbanel further noted that even the creation of buffer zones in the neighborhood would not be enough to prevent the spread of fire to the Dania neighborhood, even if the buffer zones would improve the situation to a certain extent, and even demanded to find a solution for access and escape routes during a fire beyond that, even before the "Green Dania" was approved. In addition, the judge rejected the solutions brought by the transportation consultant on behalf of the respondent and said that the district committee did not at all examine the possibility of evacuation by dedicated public transportation during a fire.
The judge also rejected the respondent's claim, according to which the amount of vehicles that will be added to the neighborhood as a result of the construction of 226 new housing units and a hotel is negligible, and added that it is clear that the residents of the neighborhood are very afraid of the addition of hundreds of vehicles to the area. The court also accepted the petitioners' argument that the risk of a large fire breaking out is not merely theoretical, but is a real threat to a large residential neighborhood.
"The committee's decision that it is possible to be satisfied with the existing traffic infrastructure for the escape of the residents of the neighborhood in an emergency is not based on a professional opinion regarding the assessment of the expected traffic loads on the neighborhood's roads and exit junctions during the evacuation of its residents and regarding the duration of the residents' departure from the neighborhoods under these conditions. Therefore, in the committee's decision and the plan that is the subject of the petition "There was a meeting that required their cancellation."
"The writing was on the wall, the plan could have led to disaster"
Attorney Helen Dorfman, chairman of the association 'Keeping Dania' said today: "We have accepted the decision of the District Court in Jerusalem, ordering the cancellation of the destructive plan, known, strangely, as "Green Dania" and the approval given to it by the district committee," said today the chairman of the Dania Defenders Association, attorney Helen Dorfman, "As part of its decision, the court stated that, as they claimed, with the support of the Haifa Municipality and the Haifa Green faction, the significance of the plan, considering the traffic congestion that already exists in the neighborhood today, was not properly examined by the district committee, including in the event that it would be necessary to evacuate the neighborhood .
Let us remind you that this is a plan that sought to put the residents of the neighborhood and its visitors in real danger, since it is clear to all of us that there is no possibility of dealing with fires in the Dania neighborhood, even today, in the event that we actually have to evacuate the neighborhood (again), as we saw in the previous fires - it simply will not be possible! The plan under which they wanted to build such a number of housing units, a public building, a hotel and a commercial center - is not applicable and could lead to disaster - the writing was on the wall, and I am glad that the court, too, saw the things and understood the importance of the matter.
"I am sorry that the district committee, under a thorough examination of the matter and despite the local committee's firm position on this matter, decided with a wave of the hand, as the court also determined, to approve the plan, without it providing an answer and without dealing with the concerns raised as part of the judgment given by The court, already in the previous petition submitted by us.
On a personal note, I would like to thank, first and foremost, the residents of Dania, who joined the struggle and put their trust in me and in the association "Keepers of Dania", to the dear members of the association and its volunteers, without whom none of this would have been possible. To the Green faction of Haifa led by Avihu Han, who supported us and accompanied us all along the way from its inception, to the Haifa Local Planning and Construction Committee, to the Municipality of Haifa and especially to the legal advisor of the Municipality of Haifa, attorney Keren Goldschmidt, for her dedicated work in safeguarding the lives of the residents of the neighborhood ."
"It was clear from the beginning that the plan was dangerous"
The chairman of the Green faction of Haifa, Avihu Han, who joined the petitioners, today expressed his satisfaction with the court's decision. "We welcome the important and just decision of the Honorable Judge Abarbanal. Fortunately, what the judge ruled today at the end of a long and complicated legal process, could have been known in advance, if only the Haifa Municipality had the watchful and cold eyes and ears that would have understood ahead of time the many dangers in the destructive construction plan and worked in advance to cancel it. Here we have seen again that the Haifa district committee fails in its function and decisions and is not open to objective criticism.
If there is a clear and unequivocal lesson from the great fire in Carmel in 2015, it is that escape routes are a prerequisite for the densification of neighborhoods in Carmel and that construction plans should not be allowed to create additional risks for residents. We call on the municipality of Haifa and Klish to re-examine the bad custom of approving in a panic TAMA 38 plans in the Carmel Ridge which do not offer escape route solutions for the residents."
Rabbi Einat Kalish Rotem welcomed the court's decision which adopted the position of the municipality, which acted in full cooperation with the "Guardians of Dania Association", according to which the expansion of the neighborhood should not be carried out without meeting the needs of the existing neighborhood and the safety of the residents in emergencies.
The Deputy Legal Advisor at the Haifa Municipality, attorney Keren Goldschmidt, who represented the municipality and the local committee in the petition: "The court accepted the position of the municipality, according to which the decision of the district committee to approve the plan did not provide an adequate response to the concern that the transportation system in the neighborhood would not withstand the load during an emergency, including It's a forest fire, and it will burden the residents of the neighborhood's ability to escape."
Eyal, how did you manage to mix us up? Residents of Denmark with a budget pension???? where do you live. When was the last time you saw a rich person from a budget pension. Prejudice and gratuitous hatred is bad
A few days ago you sent me a private message claiming that you are leading a decision in the council not to communicate with suppliers who will boycott customers based on gender, religion and sexual preference.
So first of all, gender is an invention.
Second, there is a law prohibiting discrimination in public and government services, and all the talk surrounding the issue in recent days concerns private businesses to which the law does not apply - I want to say a toast to the dead.
Third, in your life, don't send me a message to my private phone again.
Good Day.
Read the minutes of the discussion of the objections that some parties submitted to the district committee against this plan. You will find that the only person who raised this argument in writing and orally about a fire trap for the neighborhood and the lack of escape routes, as a reason for rejecting the application for a building permit, was me. This position of mine was accepted by all the courts and that's a good thing. I'm glad that in the continuation of the struggle the appellants were able to use the argument I put forward in the district committee and thanks to the committee's ignoring my words, it turned out to be a winning argument! In the vicinity of Dania towards Highway 4 and beautiful one hour earlier!
We are all proud of you for your generosity of spirit, have a nice day at the villa.
Yaron Hanan is proud of the denial of housing for young people with false claims that there are only 2 exits from Dania when we know that you have blocked the connection between Dania and the Carmel Castle. I hope that the Supreme Court will overturn the district's decision. The entire attempt to prevent the introduction of a middle-class population to Dania is all that is behind this idle organization. What is disturbing is that Dania will not have villas but also apartments
The next mayor should build two apartment towers for young people and rent above the commercial center in Dania. This will be a wonderful lesson for the elitists who are part of a city and not in the Mitzvah in the Galilee
Very strange!
First you have to cut down trees 100 meters from the houses.
Then make gains of 20 meters every 50 meters.
I know of 2 exits from Dania.
But why not do the western exit?
And regarding the traffic jams in the Carmel neighborhood, French and Printsek want to build
Skyscrapers an addition of almost 1000 units.
When today there are already 20-minute traffic jams at the beginning of the activity
of the schools and kindergartens.
True because that is the reason. .
You didn't want an exit road towards the Carmel Castle
and not an extension of the neighborhood
And everyone knows why.
It is another proof that the residents of Dania know how to take care of their interests better than the residents of other neighborhoods.
In Habiva they approved 9-10 floors without parking
Look at what is happening in Carmel, hundreds of destructive monsters
How many matches are there in Hadar Hoof? 0
Because pig contractors are not interested in regeneration or quality of life
only money
Einat stopped smoothly but not satisfactorily
The entire program needs to be recalculated
They take care of the city's rich and close friends, they play music on exits from Dania.. gossip. There was a plan to open a road west of Daniya... I don't understand how the judge didn't throw them back. Habiva Reich was turned into a horrible neighborhood... Trapped, with no infrastructure, no parking and horribly crowded... during a fire it will be difficult to escape from there... But apparently only the rich care
Bordia also has no means of escape. all of us together.
What is the fault of the owners of the empty lots in the neighborhood who would like to build and now cannot. Also, increasing existing apartments to an area of over 120 square meters, which would require additional parking, would become impossible. It is clear that the plan for dividing apartments also fell through. Victory of Pyrrhus.
When will Yasho also come to us in Hadar? We have evicted a building. Why are we only putting a news neighborhood in Dania? It's not fair. Our houses have been sleeping in Hadar for 70 years. What is happening to the town of Haifa?
In my personal opinion, only after they manage to get the residents to flee and the property prices fall further, so that interested parties can purchase most of the areas.
Look at what we are doing in Kiryat Eliezer.
If the municipality of Haifa defined the railway buildings from the housing era in Silver "a Brutalist masterpiece for preservation" Katonati.
In Hibova Reich that this is a small alley to add thousands of apartments in a wild wasteland. This is not a danger..
A neighborhood that is half the area of Haifa is dangerous
Habiva Reich, this is what happens when contractors are allowed everything they want, as they allowed Yahav and Hadva Almog
The result is a catastrophe of overcrowding and a real harm to the quality of life
In Dania you can add 500 units and there will be no overcrowding. This is the least crowded neighborhood in Haifa.
They also fought against 4-story buildings, you understand - when all of Tama 38 produces 7-story buildings in the rest of the ridge's neighborhoods
The country of all ten. Very simple. Many retirees in Dania with budget pensions and millions to finance endless appeals.
The residents of Dania are afraid of the addition of 226 vehicles to the apartments while they are dividing their houses and renting separate units, which of course adds hundreds of vehicles to the neighborhood. The neighborhood has two exits to the Abba Khushi axis just like all the neighborhoods of the Carmel Ridge where there is TMA 38 which adds much more than 200 apartments to each neighborhood.
The hypocrisy and where and where cries out to heaven. Neve David is crammed to death with thousands of new apartments on two existing exits without any infrastructure improvements. It's okay, it's not a fire trap and not a hit...
It seems that the rich in Israel will have a quality of life without the "disturbance" of overcrowding, building to height, Tama 38, additional units in their neighborhoods.
While the rest of the neighborhoods where there is no one to fight - will be destroyed and trampled so that the city officials can receive more levies and fees from contractors...
Very sad, but this ruling perpetuates extreme inequality between the neighborhoods of Haifa and in Israel in general between the rich who can fight and the lower class neighborhoods that are trampled with the addition of not 200 but 2000 apartments in dense towers with huge traffic jams that are expected in them.
To a large extent, it is the residents of Dania who are opposed to connecting the neighborhood to the west towards the Carmel Castle and the judge should have wheeled them off all the stairs and sent them to look for solutions to connect the neighborhood to the west with the municipality while approving the construction of a negligible addition of 226 apartments, roughly one apartment tower in Neve David.
(while we are all being told that pigs are helpless and we need to relax) -
but also with the judge.
I wish them a complex of skyscrapers without parking permits and without any new lane in the neighborhood, from the bottom of my heart.