The independent status of the Haifa Local Planning and Construction Committee has been restored to it for the next two years.
As a reminder, in November 2022, the Haifa Local Planning and Construction Committee lost the powers of an independent committee. Several months before, the Green faction in Haifa appealed to the Ministry of the Interior in order to warn about deficiencies in the functioning of the local committee for planning and construction. At the same time, it was published that the chairman of the Haifa local appeals committee, attorney Michal Halberstam, wrote in an internal questionnaire of the Ministry of the Interior that there is a sense of disorder in the local committee in the city.
Avihu Han, the chairman of the Green faction in Haifa, claimed that decisions are made in the committee, which are not legal. Another claim was that many plans, which are not approved by the committee, go to the appeals committee where they are approved.
Member of the Subcommittee for Planning and Construction Avihu Han: The limited activity of the committee hurt the city
Chairman of the Green faction and member of the subcommittee for planning and construction Avihu Han believes that it is necessary to understand why the powers were taken from the committee:
"It is good that the powers of the local committee for planning and construction have returned to it after more than half a year that the powers were taken from it. The very loss of half a year of the committee's activity with limited powers has caused severe damage to the city and it is a shame that we have come to such a reality.
I suggest to the mayor and her deputy, Nachshon Tzuk, to start looking at the few months they still have left, to examine the activities of the director of engineering in order to prevent the harsh reality of harming the commission's powers and to analyze in retrospect why the powers were taken away.
It is clear to me that the failures in the day-to-day activities of the engineering director, the lack of municipal enforcement against construction delinquency, the lack of promotion of building plans and requests for permits according to schedules, the lack of compliance with the regulations of the Planning and Construction Law and many other failures are the main reasons why the powers were taken away. My hope is that we will not repeat this reality in the country's third largest city ever in the future."
The local committee will be able to approve plans that conform to the master plan approved during the Yona Yahav period - 2000
As mentioned, Interior Minister Moshe Arbel on Monday of this week (31/07/23) restored to the local committee for planning and construction its status as an independent committee for two years, after receiving recommendations from the legal adviser to the government and the director of the planning administration at the Ministry of the Interior and the chairman of the district committee for the Haifa district.
This means that the local committee will be able to approve plans that are compatible with the approved master plan of Haifa 2000.
The District Committee for Planning and Construction is a planning body that deals with national outline plans, district outline plans, supervision of district committees and the implementation of the instructions of the National Council for Planning and Construction. The local committee for planning and construction is responsible for a local planning area and is responsible for issuing building permits. In recent years, the powers of the local committee have expanded.
Attorney and architect Lior Detz: Returning authority to the local committee is a scandal
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Attorney and architect Lior Detz, founder of the Shumori Hasef association, is very upset that the powers are returning to the local committee:
"Over the years, from the 90s, the perception was that it was necessary to delegate powers for approving environmental protection plans to the district committee, and the local committee only had authority in matters of building permits. From the 90s, powers began to be delegated to the local committee.
In recent years there have been special committees that have to meet certain criteria, and they are called accreditation committees. They get powers over the city's outline plans or urban renewal plans."
"The municipality of Haifa received this certification, but because the local committee conducted itself in an improper manner, following the fact that the mayor was convicted of crimes and because of a petition by the gatekeepers against the Attorney General, which was accepted by consent, the powers of the local committee for planning and construction were revoked.
During the negation, many urban renewal plans and plans that correspond to the master plan got stuck. The district committee refused to hold the discussions on these plans mainly because of workload."
"In addition, in the field of urban renewal, the damage is greater - once again the Ministry of the Interior acts against the national interest and prefers other considerations, when it approved the Haifa local committee only limited authority to approve urban renewal plans.
The authority, as can be seen, was given for limited approval to plans that conform to the outline plan Haifa 2000, a plan that does not address the needs of the State of Israel and the city of Haifa to double the population and increase the density. This is a plan that was approved a decade ago, which according to all experts even when it was approved it was a very bad plan, which is one of the reasons for the deterioration of the city of Haifa in the last decade."
"Now the Ministry of the Interior has returned the authority. The return of authority to the local committee for planning and construction helps some entrepreneurs, whose plans were stuck in the planning institutions, but it is a scandal and an opening for corruption, because the local committee for planning and construction in Haifa, which is functioning today, does not deserve the powers given to it. This is a committee , who is not making professional considerations but political ones, and this will only expand during the election period. Populism will be celebrated, so that the public and national interest will be harmed. I am sorry that the Ministry of the Interior, due to non-business considerations related to the workload of the district committee, once again abandoned the city of Haifa and its residents to political businessmen and politicization during an election period. We will all pay About that".
Everything is clear, the Ministry of the Interior is in the hands of the Shas, a captive cliché of the ultra-Orthodox. So the ultra-Orthodox give it independent status despite dozens of serious omissions and the complete dysfunction of the city engineer and the director of engineering.
This is the depth of corruption in the country, Combineland
His father Han
All the best to you, my friend Eliyahu Han. Haifa City Council member. Have a good week everyone
The impression created that only Arabs can and receive building permits!
And the meaning is that if an Arab entrepreneur takes the Stella project, he will do what he wants
Name ! It is true that by the time he finishes, all the money will be taken from him with demands for development
also around.
You can also see who builds immediately and who will never build, especially in construction additions.
Unfortunately, Rabbi Detz is very right, this is what is happening in the engineering director because the director city engineer is not functioning properly. Only thanks to Michi and city planning was the certification returned otherwise it would not have been returned.
The Chairman of the Appeals Committee of the Haifa District, Adv. Michal Halberstam, is required to investigate the authorities for the enforcement of the law regarding numerous approvals for the granting of building permits for requests under TMA 38. Demolition and construction in complete violation of TMA Law 38, in complete violation of the Planning and Construction Law, in complete violation of the standard Earthquakes, all while irresponsibly risking human life in buildings bordering the TMA projects due to the deep excavations being carried out in violation of the law and construction standards near and adjacent to existing buildings. The chairman of the appeals committee knowingly ignores the provisions of the aforementioned law.
The Chairman of the Appeals Committee acts in its decisions to artificially inflate the buildings by virtue of TMA 38 according to an imaginary formula approved by the Chairman of the Appeals Committee, Adv. Halberstam.
The chairman of the appeal committee signs the destruction of the unique texture of the Carmel.
You'd better put down the keys and move out.
Before her appointment, Michal Halberstam Dagani worked in a law firm that represented mainly entrepreneurs/privileged contractors. Previously, the owner of the firm was in the public sector and made illusory decisions against non-privileged private owners. For example, buyers of agricultural land with the potential to change zoning for hundreds of thousands of shekels per dunam, will not be compensated due to injury A plan that takes away their potential. The owner of the office closed it and returned to the public sector. Thus, the employees remained without work. It should be noted that the owner of the office today discusses and decides the cases of his former clients in the office. He does not see this as any offense nor cheating and breach of trust, all apparently of course. It is not clear how The former employees drive.
one of the people,
Do you mean the chairman of the Tel Aviv Appeals Committee in the past and currently the chairman of the Tel Aviv District Committee, known for his preferences for entrepreneurs and expanding the basket of rights under TAMA 38?
So the apple didn't fall far from the tree. The chairman of the Haifa appeals committee approves building permits under TMA 38 contrary to the law, building permits based on fake calculations and false statements by the municipal engineer, all while flouting the law.
Ahad Ha'am, you are invited to join all the residents of the Carmel Ridge who are fighting to get rid of the lawbreaker.
As long as Michi is the chairman of the committee and the Ministry of the Interior is under the control of Shas and Torah Judaism, what kind of investigation do you expect them to conduct?
All the officials who are supposed to investigate something have been replaced by people of peace and doers of our word on behalf of the ultra-Orthodox.
The whole field of planning is already completely rotten, they are planning here like in the 50's in the USA cities for cars..